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| Thom Morgan |
Each year the big nurseries offer up new plants that they think
will be the next big thing in the landscaping industry, and each year I get
excited to try all of their new specimens.
For 2015, those that are considered “new” have actually been
around for a few years as trial plants in places like North Carolina State
University’s JC Raulston Arboretum. There, staffers graded the trial plants on whether
they performed as promised, and if the plants were marketable. If a plant made
the grade, it became available to you and me.
This year, we have a group of more compact and disease-resistant
forms of our old favorites.
Here is a list of the various growers that contributed and
their new specimens:
