Lagerstroemia indica & hybrids
High summer is the season of Crape Myrtles. While many perennials have begun to fade; and blooming shrubs and trees are few and far between, Crape Myrtles are just hitting their stride. From July thr…
Rosa rugosa
Rugosa Rose
These amazingly tough roses provide us with intoxicatingly fragrant flowers; long lasting, vitamin-rich rose hips; interesting leaf texture – as well as drought tolerance, disease resista…
Arctostaphylos ‘John Dourley’
‘John Dourley’ Manzanita
Here at Shooting Star Nursery, we love our manzanitas!
Manzanitas are native, evergreen, drought tolerant, low maintenance – and really, really pretty. They’re also an import…
Ribes odoratum ‘Crandall’
Here is a stellar plant that is beautiful, fragrant, and delicious – as well as being good for the birds!
‘Crandall’ Blackcurrant is woefully under-utilized, perhaps people haven’t eaten a curr…
Baptisia australis
Blue False Indigo
Baptisia or Blue False Indigo may not be all that familiar but it should be for it’s striking purple flower stalks and refreshing blue-green foliage. It has what we always lo…
Prunus dulcis
There are many varieties of late blooming almonds if you were thinking our springs are too cold to grow these wonderful nuts. Nuts are a beneficial addition to the home orchard because they ha…
Hydrangea quercifolia
Oakleaf Hydrangea
Oakleaf hydrangea offers a lot more four-season interest than its showier mophead cousins, and can be considered deer resistant due to its courser leaves. In its native habitat as…
Viburnum trilobum and V. plicatum var. tomentosum
There are a lot of Viburnum species out there and these are two of our favorites. Simply elegant and easy, the Cranberry Viburnum (trilobum, photo at bottom) and Doublefile Viburnum (plicatum…