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Abelia Glossy
Lacy and compact with graceful arching branches. Bears small lilac pink flowers with orange throats. Leaves are simple, opposite, ovate, glossy, 1/2 - 1 1/2" long, 1/2" wide. Turning bronze in autumn. Useful as a shrub border, divider, or informal...

Apache Plume
Native to the Southwestern U.S. and Northern Mexico. An upright, semi-evergreen, multi-branched shrub. Leaves are dark green above, rust color beneath, 1/4 to 3/4" long, pinnately compound 3-7 oblong lobes. Small white flowers in spring, followed by...

Artemisia 'Powis Castle'
A vigorous, spreading, dense mounding shrub. Leaves are silvery-gray, finely textured and aromatic. Contrast very well with bright colors of other blooms in spring and summer. Flowers are insignificant.

Bamboo Golden
An evergreen clump-forming bamboo with yellow-green foliage. Leaves are alternate, palmately compound, lanceolate, 3 1/2 to 4" long, 1/4 to 1/2" wide. Erect, grooved stems have cup-shaped swellings beneath most nodes. Drought tolerant but does...

Barberry Crimson Pygmy
A dwarf, densely branched, spiny shrub. Leaves are deep crimson, alternate, simple, obovate to oblong, 1/2 to 1 1/4" long, 1/4 to 1/2" wide. Color is best with full sun. Makes a good small hedge or can be used as a specimen. Slow growth...

Barberry Rose Glow
Densley covered with roundish 1/2 - 1 1/2" long, alternate, obovate to oblong leaves. New foliage is a deep rose-red over mottled white and green, turning bronze with age. For best color needs full to partial sun. Red berries in autumn and winter....

Barberry William Penn
A dwarf, spreading, evergreen with arching, spiney branches. Leaves are dark green, alternate, simple, obovate to oblong, 1/2 to 1 1/4" long, 1/4 to 1/2" wide. Profusion of yellow blooms in summer, followed by bronze-red foliage color in...

Bird of Paradise Mexican
Native to tropical West Indies. This very popular shrub has stricking color from mid-summer through autumn. It's leaves are compound, dark green, lush, ferlike, with many small leaflets 3/4" long. Blooms are clusters of bright orange and red...

Bird of Paradise Yellow
Native to Argentina and Uruguay. This shrub or small tree has an open and irregular growth habit. Leaves are compound, dark green, with many small leaflets 3/4 - 1" long. It bears short racemes of yellow flowers with long red stamens. Followed...

Bird of Paridise Red
Native to tropical West Indies. This very popular shrub has stricking color from mid-summer through autumn. It's leaves are compound, dark green, lush, ferlike, with many small leaflets 3/4" long. Blooms are clusters of bright orange and red...

Blue Mist Spirea
Native to Asia. An attractive, compact, rounded, deciduous shrub. Leaves are simple, opposite, ovate to lanceolate, gray-green, aromatic, 1 1/2 to 3" long, 1/2" wide. Bears dense stalked clusters of small, deep blue, nectar-rich flowers from...

Bottlebrush
Native to Australia. Very showy shrub or small tree with masses of red bottlebrush shaped blooms. Leaves are simple, lanceolate, coppery when new, turning to a rich green, 3" long, 1/2" wide, with a lemon scent. Flowers are dense spikes of long,...

Boxwood Japanese
An excellent, densley branched, evergreen shrub widely used for hedges. Leaves are bright green, round-tipped, turning brown or bronze in winter, 1/2 - 3/4" long. In addition to hedges, often shaped into globes, tiers, and pyramids for containers. If...

Boxwood Wintergem
One of the hardiest boxwoods. Dark green leaves are elliptical to obovate, 1/4 - 1/2" long, round-tipped. Retains its color throughout winter. Can be used as a hedge or shaped for container plantings. Slow growth rate.

Brittlebush
Native to southwestern U.S. and Mexico. A rounded, compact, stiff branched shrub. Leaves are broadly ovate-lanceolate, whitened and densely covered with short, crooked hairs, 3 1/2" long. Stalks of flower clusters arise from leafy part of the plant. A very...

Bush Morning Glory
Small evergreen shrub with silky-smooth, silvery-gray leaves. Blooms late spring through summer with white or pink-tinted morning glories.
 

Bush Turpentine
An Evergreen shrub having a rounded, compact shape and reaching a height and width of 2-3'.

Butterfly Bush 'Black Knight'
Native to China, Japan. Leaves are dark green on top, silver underneath, simple, opposite, lanceolate, 2-6" long. Dark purple, fragrent flowers are in dense, arching, spikelike, slender clusters 4-12" long. Freezes to ground in...

Butterfly Bush Honeycomb
A hybrid between B. davidii and B. globosa. Leaves are dark green on top, silver underneath, lanceolate, simple, opposite, 2-6" long. Yellow, fragrant flowers are in dense, arching, spikelike, slender clusters 6-8" long. Freezes to the...

Butterfly Bush Nanho Purple
Native to China, Japan. Leaves are dark green on top, silver underneath, lanceolate, simple, lanceolate, 2-6" long. Fragrant purple flowers in dense, arching, spikelike, slender clusters 4-12" long. Freezes to the ground in winter, but...