Hot shrubs

These beauties will take your landscape from ho-hum to WOW!  Try them this year and you won't be sorry.

 
Oakleaf Hydrangea 'Alice'
     This large, coarsely textured shrub will grow to 8-10' tall.  It blooms in early summer and the panicles can be up to a foot long!  The foliage turns a deep burgundy in the fall.  Plant in partial sun.

Crape Myrtle
     Traditionally thought of as a southern plant (sometimes tree down South), many varieties of this genera do quite well here in the St. Louis area.  We stock several varieties in both the standard and the dwarf forms.  Look for Crape flowers in mid- to late-summer.  They perform best when planted in full sun.