Hello from Sunlight Gardens, your premiermail order source for wildflowers, ferns, vines, perennials, and shrubs of eastern North America. We grow hardy, robust plants that will beautify your gardens and support a diversity of wildlife. We can help you succeed in this by providing you with solid information, a great selection, and high quality plants. Our plants grow! And rest assured that all our plants are entirely nursery propagated and are grown with sustainability in mind. Our web site is secure. You can order on-line or if you prefer, you can print an order form or use the one in our price list, and send us your order via snail mail. You can download our 2010 Price List (ready soon) or request that we mail one to you. Or you can download a pdf version of the last color descriptive catalog we printed in 2007 which has nice photos, lengthy descriptions, and landscape ideas for all our plants. Please read and enjoy! December The holiday season is upon us. Doubtless, your gardens are cleaned up and ready for winter. We’re all busy planning, doing, and fixing up things indoors. But the garden and critters outside are also busy either foraging to stay warm or resting peacefully for the winter. And the latter is exactly what our featured plant this month does so well in December and January. Winter Red Holly is a deciduous holly that is heavily laden now with buxom clusters of brilliant red berries along its branches. They look like Christmas ornaments. This shrub is easy to grow and with seemingly no effort or attention (other than being exposed to a suitable pollinator like Apollo Holly), it explodes into fruit in late fall, and then just stays beautiful, peacefully, until birds eat off the berries in late winter. Easy, low maintenance gardening with a tremendous reward! And if you are struggling with Christmas gift ideas, it is safe to say than all gardeners would love a gift certificate. Let us send a Sunlight Gardens Gift Certificate and 2010 price list and then they can pick the perfect plants for their situation. You can order one here and include a special message for them. We need to receive your request by December 18. Easy and thoughtful. (Our office is closed from Dec. 19 through Dec. 29). Scroll down to the bottom of this page to see the link to gift certificates. |
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Winter Red Holly 'Winter Red' is a compact, very heavily berried selection of the wide ranging Winterberry, a deciduous holly. Upright, rounded shrubs grow 10 feet tall and not quite as wide, and have rich green leaves that turn bronze then yellow before falling off in the fall. Dense clusters of red berries are clustered along the stems from late summer into winter. Repeated freezes and thaws make the berries palatable to birds later on. All 'Winter Red' plants are females and therefore need a male pollinator. Ours berry heavily using either Ilex x 'Apollo' or wild Ilex opaca. Give this easy shrub full sun or light shade and average to moist, good soil. The berry laden stems are also very nice as cut stems. click here |
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| Good Companions for Winter Berry | |
| Ilex 'Apollo' | Apollo Holly |
| Illicium floridanum | Florida Anise-Tree |
| Calycanthus floridus | Sweetshrub |
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| Native Plants | Showy Berries & Fruits |
| Good Fragrance | Evergreen |
| Good Fall Color | Semi-Evergreen |
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Our 2010 Price List will be mailed soon Request a Price List by mail or download a .pdf Price List (2.8 megs) Our 2007 catalog is available as a .pdf. Catalog: SunlightGardens2007.pdf (7.9 megs) Order Form: SunlightGardensForm.pdf (80 k) Browse our catalog alphabetically by either the latin or the common name. Match plants with your conditions of soil, light, water and more click here to search All our plant descriptions include the temperature zones in which each will thrive. Look at our Hardiness Zone map to determine which zone number matches your location.
Are deer a problem? These plants are generally not tasty to deer. Drought Tolerant Just getting started? Try something easy to grow. Got a green thumb? Want a challenge? Try something difficult or tricky. Or try something not too hard. |
