Covered with a profusion of dark velvety mauve flowers, with a deeper reddish flush along the midrib with greenish-cream anthers. The 4-petaled blossoms are held wide open and measure 5 in. across. Flowers are followed by silky seed heads. Attracts bees, butterflies and hummingbirds

Balls of clustered flowers in a mix of red, blue, lavender, lilac and white. Prefers woodlands.

Clusters of very fragrant, pale pink flowers through spring on a nicely rounded shrub that has good fall color.

Fragrant, early spring-blooming shrub with blush-white forsythia-like flowers.

In early spring pink flushed white flowers emerge along the stems of this Forsythia lookalike. Blooming when most other shrubs are still sleeping off the winter making it an important pollen source for early foraging insects.

A miniature spreader with short light green needles.

An attractive silver-blue selection with a traditional pyramidal form.

A variety of balsam fir from the mountains of Virginia with an attractive pyramidal habit and dark green foliage banded silver beneath.  Tolerant of wet soils.

A new selection with no info to be found online! We’ll let you know when we know 🙂

Slow-growing dwarf with a conical habit and dense, soft, silver-blue needles.

A semi-weeping form with a strong main leader.  Powder-blue, medium-sized needles.

This is probably one of the bluest conifers. Needles are very big and powder-blue. Form is upright and irregular.

A very compact, pyramidal form with good blue color.

A very slow-growing form with lovely soft blue needles and globose habit. Becomes more pyramidal with age.

With soft, silvery-blue needles and a tight pyramidal form this white fir will make an elegant addition to the landscape.

A broadly pyramidal form with soft butter yellow foliage in winter.

Compact and globe shaped with blue needles. Very cold tolerant.

Long, very blue needles and a perfect pyramidal shape. 10-year size is considered a borderline dwarf.

Dark green foliage with silver undersides, contrasting white buds and a slow-growing habit — what else could you want from a conifer!  Forms a flattened globe eventually becoming more spreading.

A beautiful gold foliage form with a more compact habit than the species.Form is upright, but irregular.

Compact and a nice pyramidal form with shiny green needles and attractive purple cones.

A tidy, dwarf form with small green needles. Broad, conical, upright form.

A slender columnar form with deep green needles that produces a prolific amount of upright purple-blue cones. Semi-dwarf. Clay/wind tolerant.

A low spreading cultivar with chartreuse-yellow needles and an irregular habit.

A low, spreading cultivar with rich green foliage. It forms a tidy, flattened mound.

Needles are twisted to show silver undersides. Unique! Forms a compact pyramid.

A dwarf, narrow, upright form with open branch structure silver-blue-green foliage. Its seed cones are purple-blue in color and uniquely persistent, with new growth needles emerging from the cone itself- most curious!

Needles are an attractive blue-gray. Bark is very light colored. Upright, compact habit- even more compact than ‘Glauca’, reaching only about 5 feet in 10 years.

A narrow, weeping form with silvery blue foliage.

A slow-growing blue cultivar — descriptions vary but forms a miniature to dwarf pyramid. Syn. with ‘Glacier Blue’.

A very slow-growing blue-needled form with an upright habit.

A low spreader with bright golden yellow foliage. Appreciates some shade.

A mini fir that grows to only 4″ tall & 12″ wide. Bright green new growth of soft needles.

Slow growing narrow form with cream colored variegation.

A low-growing conifer with soft, silvery blue needles.  Though only growing to 2 feet tall, it can reach 6’ feet wide making it a lovely evergreen groundcover.  Make sure to cut out any vertical leaders to maintain its prostrate form.

Upright grower with peach colored bells and a red calyx.

Trumpet-shaped bright yellow flowers.

An upright grower with soft, dangling double pink bell flowers over maple-like foliage.

Yellow bells with bright orange veining.

Large deep burgundy flowers.

Spikes of white flowers backed with dark red bracts in the summer.  Impressive, deeply cut, dark green, thistle-like foliage.  Makes a great architectural accent.  Needs excellent drainage in the winter.

Beautiful, exfoliating cinnamon bark and good fall color. Needs a protected site in Vermont. Adaptable to different soils and clay tolerant.

Vigorous hybrid with a rounded canopy and striking cinnamon-colored flaking bark. Trifoliate leaves turn beautiful shades of red and orange in the fall.

Unique monkshood-like leaves with beautiful seed pods in spring and wonderful reddish purple foliage in fall.  Forms a small, spreading tree.

Very finely cut green leaves. A graceful and weeping habit forms a mound with brilliant fall foliage.

Unique monkshood-like leaves on a low wide-spreading tree.

Large orbicular leaves turn fantastic flaming shades in the fall.  Forms a broad-crowned upright tree.

A cultivar with lobed, grape-leaf -like foliage that emerges bronze, matures to green and turns back to beautiful sunset shades in the fall.

Pink to amber spring foliage is highlighted by darker veins.  The leaves mature to deeper amber then turn fiery red and gold in the fall.  A Buchholz Nursery intro.