New Product – Hydrangea Trees, Crepe Myrtle, & Angelonia

We got fresh trucks coming in and got another big one coming in today, everything’s looking good. Last week we got in the load that we actually tagged the week before, so we have hydrangea trees by the truck load, literally.

We were able to get some smaller sizes that normally aren’t available, but because we went up in person and did some hand tagging, the grower let me get some of these smaller ones. So we’ve got hydrangea tree form starting as low as $69.

Most of the time any of the tree forms start at a hundred and go up from there, so really nice whole blooms on some of the smaller ones. Just the same tree as the older ones, just younger. It’s more cost-effective that way, but I got close to 80 to 100 really nice hydrangea trees to choose from.

They come in a lot of different varieties, we’ve got them where their blooms are pink, where the blooms are white and stay white, where the blooms are white but then turn red. So there are lots of options there, and they make a really great tree. 

They flower for about three months, so the bloom time is pretty much here, starting about right now all the way through September. It adds a lot of color to the landscape and they’re very very low maintenance. You trim them once a year, fertilize with the all season in the spring, and you’re pretty much done with those guys.

One of the other unique plants that’s come in is a little raspberry colored bloom that is called Crepe Myrtle. Now most varieties of Crepe Myrtle will not live here in Ohio.

There’s a variety called Cherry Delight, another one we have is called Bellini Grape. Those varieties are zone 5, so I would still recommend putting them where they’re a little protected from the winter wind. They are going to live and grow here. 

Crepe myrtle is really popular down in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee. They’re just beautiful plants but up here we just can’t hold them up, most of those varieties don’t live. So this is breeding. The growers have created a variety that is hardy. It doesn’t get big, it stays fairly small, but it does come back here every year.

We also have a tall pink annual flower called Angelonia. That is really good for a little bit of height in a sun pot, in a sun planter. A lot of people like to use the green spikes, grassy looking things. I think this is a better alternative because they do get tall, they give you some height, but it’s just a really pretty flower and it’s got a really nice scent to it. The hummingbirds like it, and it is a good full sun annual.

I played with that one a little bit in the aquatics department, and if you plant it will work if just the bottom of the system is in the water. It will work as a marginal, adding color to the pond throughout the summer and fall.

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