The Nursery Blog
Below are articles highlighting many of our favorite plants, trees, shrubs, and more here at the nursery—along with other gardening and landscaping topics—categorized for ease of finding the information you want. Enjoy!
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Blackberry ‘Triple Crown’
‘Triple Crown’ Blackberry
‘Triple Crown’ Thornless Blackberry will surprise you with its vigor, the size of its berries, and the length of its harvest season.
Blackberries are one of the easier ber…
Dwarf and Compact Conifers
A Selection of Dwarf and Compact Conifers
We get a lot of requests for dwarf (under 6′ tall) and compact (6′ to 20′ tall) conifers, and this is a great time of year to find a good selection of them…
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Asters
Fall is Aster season and here at Shooting Star Nursery we love these bright, cheery perennials!
As a group, Asters (which have now mostly been categorized as the genus Symphyotrichon, for all you …
Eupatorium ‘Little Joe’
A diminutive (if 3-4’ tall can be considered diminutive) cultivar of a prairie native perennial, ‘Little Joe’ Eupatorium might just steal your heart!
This uncommon garden perennial features rosy-…
Achillea ‘Little Moonshine’
A New Compact Yarrow for your Garden!
Achillea ‘Little Moonshine’ is the yarrow you didn’t know that you needed – but once you see it you’ll immediately start thinking about where you can use it i…
Teucrium
Germander
Teucriums – also known as Germanders – often get overlooked when folks are planning their gardens, and here at Shooting Star Nursery we’re on a mission to change that!
If you’re not yet f…
Phlomis fruticosa
Jerusalem Sage is a very striking and unusual plant to add to your drought tolerant or deer resistant garden. The fuzzy gray-green leaves seem to be unpalatable to deer, and being a Mediterranean n…
Veronica pectinata
Wooly Speedwell
Wooly Speedwell (Veronica pectinta) is a charming evergreen groundcover that forms a thick, vivid carpet of bright blue when it bursts into bloom in mid-spring.
This sturdy, undeman…