Nursery Hours:
2011 Hours are Fridays: 9-6.

 

Or visit with us at the Watauga County Farmers Market every Saturday morning May-October.

• Specializing in Shade plants, Natives & Perennials
• All Locally Grown Plants, Using Organic Methods
• A Unique shopping experience
• Organic gardening advice
• Landscape Plugs for an inexpensive way to plant large areas with wildflowers or groundcovers

New Echinacea Twilight

Blue Japanese Iris

Shrubs for Spring 2011

• Clethra 'Vanilla Spice' = Summer sweet, limited Clethra 'Hummingbird'
• Symphoricarpos 'Amethyst'™ - Pink Snowberry, limited white
• Lilac 'Red Wine' - late blooming purple-red lilac
• Hydrangea 'Incrediball'™ & 'Incrediball Spirit'™ - a new pink Hydrangea
• Hydrangea 'Limelight' & 'Little Lamb' (P.G. type with much better blooms)
• Itoh Peony 'Bartzella -extraordinary 3'x3' double yellow peony
• 'Winter Red' winterberry holly and male 'Southern Gentleman'
• Viburnum trilobum 'Redwing'- American Cranberry Viburnum
• Red Rugosa Rose - seed grown, 2 year plants - most are red
• Caryopteris 'Grand Bleu'™
• Common Purple Lilac, and Hungarian Lilac

Perennial Plants for 2011:

• Aruncus 'Misty Lace' dwarf
• Asclepias tuberosa - Orange Butterflyweed-needs light or dry soil year around
• Echinacea 'Summer Sun'
• Echinops 'Blue Glow' = Globe Thistle
• Leucanthemum = Shasta Daisy 'Becky' - tall & 'Snowcap'- dwarf
• Chrysanthemum = Mum 'Rhumba' large plant 3x3' with single salmon/orange flowers
• Centaurea macroclephla yellow basket flower
• Chelone 'Hot Lips' = Pink Turtlehead
• Chelone oblique var. alba - white
• Clematis 'Sweet Autumn' - white late summer bloom, fragrant
• Clematis 'Vyvyan Pennell' - violet-blue
• Daylily-'Crimson Shadows', 'Plum Perfect', 'Star Dream', 'Double Ethel', 'Swirling Waters', 'Emperor's Butterfly', 'Winsome Lady'
• Caryopteris ' Snow Fairy'
• Geranium 'Biokovo' & 'Wargrave Pink' (both great ground covers for part shade)
• Geranium 'Sweet Heidi' blue with white throat -long bloom period
• Hay-scented Fern
• Helianthus x multiflorus 'Capenoch Star' -perennial sunflower
• Heucherella 'Stoplight'
• Heuchera 'Lime Ricky'
• Hypericum 'Jaqueline' red berries
• Red Penstemon 'Jingle Bells- 'Iron Maiden'
• Physostegia 'Crystal Peak White' - Obedient plant
• Phlox paniculata 'Blue Paradise', 'Laura', white 'David' & double white 'Tiara'
• Peony 'Sarah Bernhardt' the perfect medium double pink peony
• Peony 'Shawnee Chief' & 'Karl Rosenfield'- red
• Rosemary 'Arp'
• Lavender 'Grosso' and 'Purple Ellagance'
• Lamium 'Pink Pewter'
• Astilbe 'Sister Teresa'
• Baptisia 'Twlight Prairie Blues''™, 'Solar Flare'
• Rudbeckia 'Goldstrum'
• Rudbeckia 'Henry Eilers'
• Thermopsis chinensis 'Sophia'
• Scabiosa 'Butterfly Blue'
• Sedum floriferum 'Weihenstphaner Gold'
• Strawberry 'Allstar' 1 year full size- great for a basket or container
• Veronica spicata alba - white
• Yarrow new 'Strawberry Seduction' - deep red with a longer bloom period


Coreopsis 'Brown Eyes'

We offer strong healthy plants grown with only Organic sprays and biological controls such as beneficial insects and 'good' bacteria'. Please ask us about organic gardening techniques you can use or check out Susan's gardening articles on our blog www.shady-grove-gardens.blogspot.com. You can also visit with us at the Watauga County Farmers Market, May through October on Saturday mornings at the Horn-in the West, in Boone, NC.

Directions to the Nursery in Zionville, NC:

Just 10 Miles from Boone.
To get to the nursery take Hwy. 421 NW from Boone 9 miles, to Will Isaacs Road, take Will Isaacs Rd. 1 mile uphill, then, turn left at the dead end onto our gravel driveway. For more information call 828-297-4098.

DAYLILY COLLECTION SALE:

We're once again offering our daylilies in a collection of freshly dug daylilies 20 Reds or Orange/yellow blend $50. All labeled, named varieties. These are clumps of fans not just a fan or 2. All should bloom well for you this year. The orange daylilies are not the common 'ditch lily' these are very nice hot orange for those of you that love orange. You know who you are. Just call to place an order and schedule a pickup time.

PERENNIAL PLANT SPECIALS -THROUGHOUT THE SEASON

We will have several Bare-root specials throughout the summer. These are plants from our field and garden we are dividing and moving about. Bare-root plants are much bigger than the standard gallon pot. With alittle care they will take off any part of the growing season. Please watch our blog http://shady-grove-gardens.blogspot.com/ or Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/pages/Shady-Grove-Gardens-Nursery/69732574790 for these specials. We'll post photos and availability dates with prices.