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Alan Summers - EzineArticles.com Expert Author
Alan Summers, president of Carroll Gardens, Inc., has over 30 years experience in gardening and landscape design. He has made Carroll Gardens one of America’s preeminent nurseries, having introduced more than 20 new perennials and woody shrubs over the years and reintroduced numerous “lost” cultivars back to American gardeners.
Carroll Gardens publishes a weekly online newsletter written by Alan. It contains valuable gardening advice and tips and answers to customer questions.
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- Bletilla Striata Alba
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Bletillas are the easiest of all orchids to grow. Bletilla striata Alba features sprays of about a dozen lightly fragrant, pure white flowers that appear for about 6 weeks in late spring. The blossoms resemble miniature cattleyas, but with unusual pleated tongues. Its ribbed, palm-like arching leaves flutter in the slightest breeze and make an excellent backdrop for the white blooms.
- Hydrangea Arborescens 'Ryan Gainey'
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] White, snow-ball shaped flowers literally cover 'Ryan Gainey' starting in late May and lasting almost two months. These blooms make excellent cut flowers and can also be dried to enjoy in arrangements year round. 'Ryan Gainey' blooms on current year's growth allowing it to bloom year after year, even after severe pruning or extremely cold winters.
- Climbing Rose Night Owl (PPAF)
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Prodigious, vigorous grower - up to 14 feet. Ideal for fences or large trellises. On fences, we suggest planting on every other, or possibly every 3rd fence post. Picture 'Night Owl' on a trellis against white or soft pastel-colored siding.
- Camellia Japonica 'Spring's Promise'
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] The vivid single rose red blooms are two and a half inches wide with the petals radiating out from the center of golden yellow stamens - a real eye catcher. Shiny foliage is dark green. The plant matures with a spreading habit of six to eight feet by six to eight feet.
- 'Double Fantasy' Christmas Rose
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Through the years a variety of plants have come to be called "Christmas Rose" - they are all steeped in a legend that dates back centuries. Most frequently, the plant Americans associate with the Christmas Rose legend is the hellebore.
- Holly 'Red Beauty'
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Dr. Orton set out to develop a new compact growing holly that could withstand east coast conditions, be low-maintenance, have a nice pyramid shape and have dense, dark green foliage with bright red berries. This does not sound like an easy task - and it wasn't! It took Dr. Orton 22 years of hybridizing and thorough testing to develop a holly that was everything he wanted. This week we are please to feature the holly that Dr. Orton developed.
- The Best of the Yellow-Blooming Magnolias
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] For about 50 years researchers have been crossing two really good magnolias - the Cucumber Magnolia and the Yulan Magnolia - in an attempt to develop a yellow - blooming magnolia. This is the product of that work.
- Callicarpa dichotoma 'Early Amethyst'
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] One of our favorite plants for fall interest is the Callicarpa. What puts these hardy deciduous shrubs at the top of our list is the profusion of lavender purple berries that are borne in autumn, adding distinctive color to the garden. Callicarpa is actually Greek for beautiful fruit, and these shrubs are commonly called Beauty Berries. This week we are featuring the Callicarpa with the showiest fruit display, 'Early Amethyst.'
- Staghorn Sumac "Tiger Eyes"
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] This Medium-sized shrub provides brilliant color with an oriental feel with a wildly refined with its colors over a season starting green, turning a bright yellow, and fading to scarlet.
- Aucuba Japonica 'Gold Dust'
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] With handsome leaves and the optioin of keeping it a compact shrub, the native Japanese Aucuba japonica makes a respectable addition to any garden
- Fragrant Spring-Blooming Bulb Collection
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] A collection of the most fragrant blooming flower bulbs.
- Azalea 'Lemon Lights'
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] This hybrid is a result of breeders, over the years, amplifying the blooming potential of their plant until they reached this: the pinnacle. A plant that blooms twice a year with vibrant color even though, here in zone 6, we haven't had much luck with other fall blooming Azaleas, this is one you can set your watch by.
- Holly (Ilex) 'Little Rascal' (Plant Pat. 9999)
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] This neat holly with no berries makes a handsome drive liner or hedge for a home.
- Winterberry Holly 'Red Sprite'
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Description and planting and care instructions for Winterberry Holly 'Red Sprite'- the most compact and popular holly.
- Hibiscus Syriacus 'Helene' and 'Diana'
[Arts-and-Entertainment] Description and planting and care instructions for Hibiscus syriacus 'Helene' and 'Diana'- the two best Rose-of-Sharon in exisitance.
- Crape Myrtle 'Dynamite' (PP 10296)
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Description and planting and care instructions for Crape Myrtle 'Dynamite'- the only Crape Myrtle with true red blooms.
- Planting Guide for Wisteria
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Wisteria planting guide from the Carroll Gardens website.
- Planting Guide for Hydrangea
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Hydrangea planting guide from the Carroll Gardens website.
- Planting Guide for Hosta
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Hosta planting guide from the Carroll Gardens website.
- Planting Guide for Chrysanthemum
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Chrysanthemum Planting guide from the Carroll Gardens website.
- Planting and Care for Buddleia (Butterfly Bushes)
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Buddleia (Butterfly Bush) Planting Guide from the Carroll Gardens website.
- Planting Guide for Astilbe
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Astilbe Planting Guide from Carroll Garden.
- Caryopteris 'First Choice' and 'Sunshine Blue'
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Description and planting and care instructions for Caryopteris 'First Choice' and 'Sunshine Blue'- A great addition to any garden.
- Crape Myrtle 'Hopi'
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Description and planting and care instructions for Crape Myrtle 'Hopi'- The most winter hardy Crape Myrtle of all.
- Viburnum Summer Snowflake
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Description and planting and care instructions for Viburnum Summer Snowflake- A Repeat Blooming Doublefile Viburnum
- A New Elderberry with Exquisite Black Foliage
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Description and planting and care instructions for 'Black Lace'- a new age elderberry.
- Dictamnus Purpureus - A Pink Gas Plant
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Description and planting and care instructions for Dictamnus Fraxinella Purpureus - Pink Gas Plant...
- A Smoke Bush Unlike Any Other
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Description and planting and care instructions for Smoke Bush 'Young Lady'- the most prolific and easy to grow smoke bush
- Rosa Glauca (Rubrifolia)
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Description and planting and care instructions for a Rosa Glauca (rubrifolia) - a shade tolerant shrub rose
- A Shade-Loving Vine with Pink Blooms
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Description and planting and care instructions for Schizophragma Hydrangeoides 'Roseum' - a beautiful non-climbing hydrangea vine.
- Two New Beautiful, Non-Invasive Bamboos
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Description and planting and care instructions for - Green Screen and Green Panda bamboo plants.
- Kolkwitzia Amabilis 'Pink Cloud'
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Description and planting and care instructions for Pink Cloud - A variation of the Beauty Bush.
- A Great Hybrid Rose for Any Garden
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Description and planting and care instructions for the Memorial Day Hybrid Tea Rose- An All American Rose Selection winner in 2004
- A Choice New Hydrangea With Variegated Foliage
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Description and planting and care instructions for Light O' Day Hydrangea - a new hydrangea with variegated foliage.
- Quickly Grow a Natural Privacy Screen or Sound Barrier
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Description and planting and care instructions for Thuja 'Steeplechase' - a fast-gorwing evergreen that provides the perfect privacy screen or sound barrier.
- Dwarf Korean Lilac
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Description and planting and care instructions for the Dwaf Korean Lilac.
- Rugosa Roses - Fragrant, Tough and Handsome Shrub Roses
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Description of Rugosa Roses and the most disease resistant Rugosa of them all - a rose with single, pastel pink blooms on a neat compact plant - Fru Dagmar Hastrup.
- Planting Roses (Bare Root or Semi Bare Root)
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Instructions for planting roses, either bare root or semi bare root.
- Clematis Care
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Learn the proper way to care for Clematis.
- Spring Rose Care - The Easy Way
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Tips for easy spring rose care.
- Harry Lauder's Walking Stick
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Description and planting and care instructions for Harry Lauder's Walking Stick - one of the most unique plants that we have seen.
- Add Color and Fragrance to Your Garden with the Korean Spice Viburnum
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Description and planting and care instructions for the Korean Spice Viburnum - a beautiful shrub that will add both color and fragrance to your spring garden.
- Azalea 'My Mary'
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Description and planting and care instructions for Azalea 'My Mary.'
- Daylily "Red Hot Returns"
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Description and planting and care instructions for daylily 'Red Hot Returns,' the first full size repeat-blooming red daylily that is hardy in the north.
- 'Sir Cedric Morris' Hardy Geranium
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Description and planting and care instructions for 'Sir Cedric Morris' Hardy Geranium - an especially large flowered variety.
- Butterfly Bush (Buddleia) 'White Ball'
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Description and planting and care instructions for Buddleia 'White Ball' - a new, super-compact, white-flowering Buddleia davidii variety that vastly increases the number of places you can grow a butterfly bush.
- Corylopsis (Winterhazel) - Spicata
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Description and planting and care instructions for Corylopsis (Winterhazel) - spicata - a medium-sized shrubs with a profusion of pastel yellow, fragrant blooms that will brighten up your garden as winter turns to spring.
- Peonies 'Krinkled White' and 'Vivid Rose'
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Descrption and planting and care instructions for Peonies 'Krinkled White' and 'Vivid Rose' - two old-fashioned peonies that we love!
- William Baffin Climbing Rose
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Description and planting and care instructions for William Baffin Climbing Rose - the most reliable of all the medium to deep pink climbers.
- Cornus Mas 'Golden Glory'
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Description and planting and care instructions for Cornus mas 'Golden Glory' - a beautiful, early spring flowering tree or shrub that brightens the last days of winter and announces the arrival of spring.
- Viburnum Dilatatum 'Cardinal Candy'
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Description and planting and care instructions for Viburnum dilatatum 'Cardinal Candy.' This shrub will bring beauty and interest to your garden for all four seasons year after year.
- Nepeta Faassenii 'Kit Kat'
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Description and planting and care instructions for Nepeta faassenii 'Kit Kat'.
- 'Blushing Bride' Hydrangea (PPAF)
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Description and planting and care instructions for the 'Blushing Bride' Hydrangea.
- Add Color to Your Garden Throughout the Winter Months with Winterberry Holly 'Winter Red'
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Description and planting and care instructions for the Winterberry Holly 'Winter Red' - a very hardy and beautiful deciduous shrub.
- Aperitif Hybrid Tea Rose
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Description and planting and care instructions for the Aperitif Hybrid Tea Rose.
- Forever & Ever Double Pink Hydrangea
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Description and planting and care instructions for the Forever & Ever Double Pink Hydrangea - a beautiful new introduction for 2006 that comes from a Japanese breeder and is very floriferous and long-blooming.
- 'Brite Eyes' Climbing Rose
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Description and planting and care instructions for the 'Brite Eyes' Climbing Rose.
- 'Northern Encore' Tree Rose
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Description and planting and care instructions for the Northern Encore Tree Rose – The first winter hardy tree rose.
- Hydrangea Forever & Ever Red
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Description and planting and care instructions for Hydrangea Forever & Ever – a new 2006 introduction that is the first red hydrangea to bloom on both new and old wood.
- Floribunda Rose 'Julia Child'
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Description and planting and care instructions for ‘Julia Child’ Floribunda Rose – a 2006 AARS Winner that is named for the famous chef.
- Daylily Just Plum Happy
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Description and planting and care instruction for the Daylily ‘Just Plum Happy’ – a new repeat blooming daylily.
- Daylily 'When My Sweetheart Returns'
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Description and planting and care instructions for 'When My Sweetheart Returns' – a new repeat blooming daylily introduced by Dr. Darrel Apps, who is also known for other popular repeat-blooming daylilies including 'Rosy Returns', 'Happy Returns' and 'Big Time Happy.'
- Japanese Plum Yew - Cephalotaxus Harringtonia 'Prostrata'
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Description and planting and care instructions for the Japanese Plum Yew - Cephalotaxus harringtonia 'Prostrata' – a deer-resistant evergreen.
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