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Encore^® Azalea Autumn Moonstruck™

Hailed among Garden Gate Magazine’s Best New Plants of 2024, the latest introduction from the world’s best-selling reblooming azalea brand is breaking new ground as the first Encore Azalea variety with variegated foliage. The new Autumn Moonstruck offers three seasons of ethereal white semi-double blooms and stable eye-catching chartreuse and emerald variegated foliage. A unique upright habit makes this sun-loving offering an ideal pick for blooming hedges and privacy screenings.

Reaching 5 feet high by 4 feet wide when mature, Autumn Moonstruck is hardy to USDA Zones 7-10. Adding Encore Azalea to the production plan positions growers to take advantage of the brand’s significant annual marketing investment.

BetterBoxwood^® Skylight™

A National Garden Bureau 2024 Green Thumb Award winner, the new Better Boxwood^® Collection represents a significant advancement in plant breeding, scientifically bred to resist boxwood blight. With its speedy growth and dense green foliage, the debut Skylight^™ variety stands as the perfect option for gardeners seeking an attractive, resilient accent, ball, or hedge for Zone 5 to 9 gardens. Size at maturity is 6 – 8 feet tall by 3 – 4 feet wide.

BetterBoxwood^®, the first collection of scientifically bred blight-resistant boxwood, is the result of two decades of revolutionary breeding and plant trialing in Europe by the leaders in the fight against Boxwood blight. The four new Better Boxwood varieties each deliver a unique size and form to fill any Boxwood need.

Butterfly Candy^™ Lil’ Raspberry^™

Lauded as a KVBC Award winner, Lil Raspberry^™ is an exceptionally compact and heat-tolerant butterfly bush that attracts abundant pollinators with ruby-hued blooms that rebloom from spring through fall. Ideal as an accent, container, mass planting, or perennial border in Zones 5 – 10, Lil’ Raspberry matures to a convenient 2 – 3 feet tall and wide.

The new Butterfly Candy™ Buddleia series a collection of five floriferous and compact growing new varieties of butterfly bush. From their cheerfully color-coordinated pots to playful names like Lil’ Coconut^™ and Lil’ Raspberry^™, Butterfly Candy offers a celebration of color with imaginative branding and easy care, enticing to home gardeners and to pollinators alike.

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