Plant of The Week

Buxus is the most popular hedge shrub in the US – it's deep-green foliage and dense habit makes it perfect for the trimmest formal
hedges. Borders, fences, topiaries, or knot gardens can be grown to
architectural perfection with the right pruning and training, giving
your garden impressive structure and depth.

This week's Plant of the Week is an especially attractive boxwood,
Buxus 'Green Velvet'. As the name suggests, this variety of boxwood
boasts beautiful deep green foliage, while maintaining an easy to
prune, dense, compact habit. Green Velvet tolerates full sun, cold
winters, and severe pruning. This is the perfect tough little topiary
shrub.

This week's Wayside
Gardens Plant of the Week is Wisteria 'Amethyst Falls'!

'Amethyst Falls' is a noninvasive, native cultivar that offers many benefits over other Wisteria. This award-winning plant is disease resistant, drought tolerant, deer resistant, and it attracts butterflies and other pollinators into your garden!

This Wisteria is sure to put on a beautiful show from spring to fall with some of the most beautifully fragant blooms of any Wisteria on the market. Being a native cultivar also has the benefit of being a more subtle addition to your landscape. Where other Wisteria tend to spill over into the rest of your garden, 'Amethyst Falls' likes to keep to itself.

It is also very easy to care for:

• Plant in full sun to part shade.
• Plant in moist, well-drained soil.
• Prune in the late winter before the plant starts to bud.

If you get our Wayside Newsletter, you've seen the new highlighted Plant of the Week Sorbaria 'Sem' – these POWs are chosen based on popularity and uniqueness, and this week's plant is both. I really love plants that have interesting foliage – they really add a new level of depth and beauty to simple flower gardens. Sorbaria 'Sem' offers beautiful bright foliage from spring until frost.

Sorbaria 'Sem' is a more compact variety of this popular genus. It is loved for its uniquely dense, pinkish-red spring foliage and great branching.  'Sem' is easy-to-grow, and it will add wonderful foliage texture and color variety to your garden garden.

Caring for your Sorbaria:
This cute little shrub is durable and fast-growing – it is also fairly low-maintenance.

Sunlight – 'Sem' thrives in full sun or part shade.

Soil – Provide moist, well-drained soil.

Pruning – Prune to the ground in late winter or early spring. Remove older, dying stalks as needed.