This week's Wayside Gardens Plant of the Week is Wisteria 'Amethyst Falls'! 'Amethyst Falls' is a noninvasive, native cultivar that offers many benefits over other Wisteria. This award-winning plant is disease resistant, drought tolerant, deer resistant, and it attracts butterflies and other pollinators into your garden! This Wisteria is sure to put on a beautiful [...]
Passiflora 'Sherry' is the first in the Darkhorse series of heavy-blooming Passionflowers to be introduced to the U.S. This beautiful deep, red passionflower is grown especially for containers.The vines of this compact variety will never reach more than 4-6 feet, making it a perfect, interesting addition to your container garden. This tropical perennial is hardy [...]
Black Bamboo, Phyllostachys nigra, is very popular in China and Japan and has become a huge favorite in western gardens. This elegant plant is a customer favorite year after year – it is proving to be a mainstay of the Wayside Gardens selection. The bamboo shoots darken to a deep, glossy black as they mature, [...]
Happy Valentine's Day! What would Valentine's Day be without roses? Wayside has plenty of the most popular roses in the country, including the beautiful Mr. Lincoln (Above). Everybody knows that certain rose mean different things, and you don't want to send the wrong message. I will try to sum it up really quickly: Red – [...]
If you get our Wayside Newsletter, you've seen the new highlighted Plant of the Week Sorbaria 'Sem' – these POWs are chosen based on popularity and uniqueness, and this week's plant is both. I really love plants that have interesting foliage – they really add a new level of depth and beauty to simple flower [...]
The evergreen foliage of Helleborus will add interesting texture to your shade garden, the perfect contrast to those spring and summer blooming perennials. Hellebores bloom in the heart of winter, providing year-round interest, filling in those drab flower beds in the down months. Caring for them is simple, Helleborus/Lenten Roses are very hardy plants: They [...]
Poppies are very popular this year, and Wayside Gardens is carrying a few of the most beautiful, sought-after poppies on the market this year. My personal favorites, Papaver 'Manhattan' and Papaver 'Patty's Plum' are as interesting and beautiful as poppies should be, and they have both been very popular this year. Poppies are considered wildflowers, [...]