The Catawba Grape (Redish), Vitis labrusca \’Catawba\’ , is a grape that is commonly used for wines, champagnes, jams/jellies and juice. The Catawba Grape has a very sweet taste that makes it perfect to serve fresh on the table. Grapes are faily high maintenance plants but easily worth the additional time to care for the plant.
Mystic Pink Supertunia Petunia
The Petunia Supertunia r Mystic Pink, \’Petunia hybrids\’, are brilliant in color and are very low maintenance. The Mystic Pink has beautiful pink flowers. Supertunias are a vigorously trailing species of an everblooming, long-living petunia from Australia. They will provide long-term color in full sun areas throughout the season, and can grow nearly an inch a day. They do not need to have their dead flower heads removed to continue flowering and they are not leggy. For zones 9-11, this plant can also be a perennial.
The Swamp Chestnut Oak tree, Quercus michauxii, is known also as a basket oak for the baskets made from its wood, and cow oak because cows eat the acorns. One of the important timber trees of the South, it grows on moist and wet loamy soils of bottom lands, along streams and borders of swamps.Swamp chestnut oak trees are deciduous and have leaves that vary from four to eight inches in length, are downy beneath and turn a rich crimson in the fall. A good shade tree.
The Gaillardia Goblin, \’Gaillardia grandiflora\’, is commonly called Blanket Flower. The Goblin is a dwarf Gaillardia that is easy to grow and blooms continuously. This compact plant is perfect for the front of the border. The semi-double flowers are 3 inches wide and are a deep red with wide gold edges. Plant in the spring as soon as the soil can be worked or in the summer/early fall, or at least 2 months before first fall frost. Goblins are used in low borders, rock gardens and in hot dry locations.
Purple Prince Single Early Tulip
The Tulip \’Purple Prince\’, \’Tulipa single early\’, a fall planted bulb, produces a purple colored flower. The purple bloom color will make a nice contrast with Tulip Apricot Beauty. The word single implies that cultivars in this class have only one flower with six petals. Single Early Tulips bloom in early spring and are good for rock gardens, beds, and borders. These tulips are the oldest group of Tulips in cultivation. Single early tulips are hardy and bloom on sturdy 10- to 12-inch stems.
The Water Oak tree, Quercus nigra, is also known as a spotted oak or possum oak. Water Oak trees are a conical to round-topped tree. It is a popular tree in the South as a shade and street tree. This deciduous tree is fast growing and it starts producing acorns before its 10th year. The Water Oak is found along streams and low ground. Water oak acorns provide food for many animals such as squirrels, white-tailed deer, and wild turkey.
The Heuchera `Plum Pudding\’, Heuchera x `Plum Pudding\’, also known as a Coral Bell and Alumroot, has unique pewter gray and silver foliage with undercurrents of deep purple. In the spring time, small green and maroon flowers appear that last into the summer, however, Coral Bells are not known for their flowers, but their foliage. `Plum Pudding\’ looks especially good around the edge of borders, near variegated plants, woodland edges, rock gardens, perennial borders, or in mass to form an attractive ground cover.
