Clethra time means that summer is definitely upon us. Clethra (summersweet) is a delightfully fragrant shrub that comes in 4 varieties (species, ’Hummingbird’, ‘16 Candles’,and ‘Ruby Spice’. They are June bloomers and are delightfully fragrant, attracting many different pollinators

Many plants are intheir prime such as anise hyssop, Rudbeckia, St. Johnswort, pipevine, dogwoods, and American beautyberry. Elderberries and sourwoods, butterflyweed, poke, and swamp milkweed are ready to plant.

Mountain mints, bee balms, lobelias and Joe Pye weeds will soon be in bloom and their flowers will grace the summer breezes. We have a nice assortment of native rhododendrons, maples, oaks, red and bottlebrush buckeyes, and other plants ready for planting. Spikenard, Monarda, thoroughwort, asters, ferns, blue lobelia, cardinal flower, Helianthus, goatsbeard aruncus, and other wildflowers are ready for your garden, meadow or woodland!  Winterberry holly, Itea, Viburnum nudum, black and red chokeberry and inkberry holly (compacta) are all looking nice!

Maidenhair, royal,ostrich, and cinnamon ferns, American elms (2 hardy varieties), ironwood, musclewood, oaks, redbuds (3 varieties), junior giant, emerald green, and elegant arbor vitae, bald cypress and hydrangeas (3 varieties) are available.

When colonists first arrived here, they were met with a dazzling array of new plant species. Since then, many of those species have disappeared or precipitously declined, and with them, the birds, insects and other animals that had depended upon them. Worldwide, we are witnessing a significant decline in plants, birds, insects and other species. All however, is not lost. You can be part of the solution by integrating some of those native plant species into your home landscape.

We have many botanic delights from which to choose! Come by to see, learn and enjoy. Ideally, you might like to plant a succession of blooms and plant forms to provide visual beauty, as well as nectar, seeds and fruits for those species which are dependent upon them through each season.  Our website is a nice guide for most of the plants that we have available, but we have some species that are not on it.

Native wildflowers, trees and shrubs are in serious decline, but you can help them to recolonize our environment by integrating them into your landscape.

Our address is 5200 West Heaps Road, Pylesville, MD 21132. (410) 836-0500.

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