Presenting new introductions from Plant Select for 2023

Here are the new introductions that you can purchase for your gardens in 2023. These are the plants that did well during their trial period and were chosen to be a Plant Select Plant.

Ultra Violet salvia is more cold hardy and more compact than most Salvia greggii. It has iridescent, deep purple flowers that bloom in late summer. This is a plant suited for dry conditions that establishes easily in the garden. It is rabbit and deer resistant. Better Homes and Gardens magazine lists it as a top perennial for dry sites. 

Tidy littleleaf peashrub grows to be a large shrub or small tree, depending on how you prune it. It has airy, bright green, fern-like foliage. In the spring, it produces showy yellow flowers. Like other peashrubs this one also takes the heat well, cold well, poor soils and dry conditions. It can be used in a windbreak, for bird habitat, or to add to the landscape design. If you chose to grow it as a tree, it was selected because of its reduced suckering.

Shimmer is native plant for Kansas and Nebraska. It is a great pollinator plant and groundcover. It attracts bees, sphinx moths and butterflies. It has cheerful, large, lemon-yellow flowers that bloom profusely in late spring and re-bloom in the summer and fall, filling the evening air with a beautiful scent.

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