Common name:Hamelm Fountain Grass
Botanical name:Pennisetum alopecuroides 'Hameln'

Hameln fountain grass is a dark green, fine textured grass, slightly more compact then Moudry. It forms a tight, compact mound 1-1/2 to 2 feet in height, and has creamy tan flowers that emerge early to mid summer. Flower plumes are creamy white against green grass-like foliage growing 2 to 3 ft. tall. Very effective when planted in mass.

Common name:Ivory Halo Dogwood
Botanical name:Cornus alba 'Bailhalo'

Ivory Halo is a smaller version of variegated dogwood, growing about 5 to 6 feet tall and wide, wide a compact rounded habit. Leaves are light green and white, and red in the fall. Bark is red and provides wonderful winter interest, especially when planted infront of evergreens or solid fences. It produces white flowers in late spring, which are followed by blue-white berries. Use in the shrub or foundation border, and combines effectively cotoneaster, hydrangea, spirea, viburnum, and wiegala.

Common name:Dawyck European Beech
Botanical name:Fagus sylvatica 'Dawyck'

This European beech grows up to 45 feet tall but only 15 feet wide, making it well suited to smaller urban settings and as an architectural feature. As with other beeches, it has dark green leaves with wavy margins. Leaves turn golden yellow in the fall.

Common name:English Boxwood
Botanical name:Buxus sempervirens

This group of boxwood is comprised of many cultivars that vary in size and somewhat in form. Those most commonly available here in clude 'Grahm Blandy' (columnar to 8 feet), 'Suffruticosa' (rounded form to 3 feet), and 'Inglis' (pyramidal to 7 feet). All are evergreen, with medium to dark green foliage and are generally very cold hardy.

Common name:Smoketree
Botanical name:Cotinus coggygria

Smoketree is a deciduous shrub with a multi-stemmed, upright habit, growing about 10 to 15 feet tall and wide. Can be pruned to be a small tree. Its common name is not from the tiny, insignificant, yellowish spring flowers, but from the billowy hairs (attached to elongated stalks on the spent flower clusters) which turn a smokey pink to purplish pink in summer, covering the tree with fluffy, hazy, smoke-like puffs. Bluish-green leaves are rounded. Several attractive purple-leaved cultivars of this species are available and are generally more popular landscape plants than the species. Fall color is highly variable, but at its best produces very attractive shades of yellow, orange, red and purplish-red.