Plants for Profit

Angel Face

The Angel Face rose has a beautiful and well balanced Old Rose scent, the quintessential rose fragrance. It was an AARS winner in 1969. Angel Face roses have ruffled lavender pink blossoms and beautiful buds . It has a strong, old fashioned fragrance, very pleasant as a cut flower. The plant doesn't grow very tall; it averages around 2-3' tall.

Blaze

The Blaze rose is a low maintenance rose that has pure red flowers. Blaze roses provide continuous bloom through fall. It has a mild fragrance with an average diameter 3". The Blaze climbing rose repeats its bloom again later in the season.

Bonica

The Bonica rose was voted the World's Favorite Rose in 1997 by the World Federation of Rose Societies, and an All America Winner in 1987. The Bonica deserves the acclaim. Bonica roses are easy to grow , and are very colorful and disease resistant. This landscape rose can be planted as a hedge, specimen, or focal point.

Carefree Delight

The Carefree Delight rose is a delightful shrub rose that is very free flowering with vivid pink blooms. It has deep green, glossy leaves with a rich maroon fall color and lots of rose hips in the fall. Carefree Delight roses are one of the most popular and widely grown landscape shrub roses. It has a rugged Minnesota hardiness. AARS winner 1996.

Carefree Beauty

The Carefree Beauty rose has an open bloom and is light Rose Bengal color which ages lighter. The pleasant fragrant flowers are followed by round-ovoid orange hips. the plant is vigorous, bushy, well-clothed with large, leathery dark green foliage. Carefree Beauty roses can be used wherever a small ever-blooming shrub is required or it lends itself for use as a bedding plant of for use in combination with other plants as herbaceous perennials or bedding plants. The plants are winter-hardy. It is a Dr Buck rose.

Knock Out

The Knock Out rose is a glowing example of disease resistance at its best. The cycle of bloom and growth provides a continuous show of color from spring until late fall. This maintenance free, flowering shrub thrives in all climates with a petal count of 5 to 7. The deep, almost fluorescent cherry red blooms give off a light tea rose fragrance. Clusters of 3 to 15 flowers bloom alongside glossy foliage tinged in eggplant purple with a swirl of burgundy. It is an AARS winner.

Lagerfeld

The Lagerfeld rose is a great exhibition rose with high centered silver/lavender buds. The large flowers expand to 4 to 5 inches and are produced in sprays of 5-15 flowers. Lagerfeld roses have an intense fragrance. Thier unique beauty makes this a favorite of many rose lovers.

Seafoam

The Seafoam rose is great as a mounding ground cover or small climber. It is very winter hardy, and has good disease tolerance. Seafoam roses have small glossy foliage and white blooms that will add a nice contrast in any landscape.

Chuckles

The Chuckles rose is a hardy Canadian-bred shrub that can be grown as a small climber or pruned as a bush. Chuckles roses bloom in clusters. The double fuchsia blooms are 2½" across and quite fragrant. It will grow 5' to 6' tall, with yellow-green foliage. It will repeat its bloom again later in the season.

Day Breaker

The Day Breaker rose is a floribunda rose and AARS Winner for 2004. The large buds are offset by dark green glossy foliage and are good for cutting. The blending colors of white, apricot, and peach will remind you of a summer dawn sky all summer long. Day Breaker roses are an upright, bushy floribunda with bright, multi-shade blooms. The blooms are nestled among dark, glossy green foliage on a plant that reaches a medium height. Day Breaker is an awakening of the senses, not only for its exquisite beauty, but also for its sharp moderate tea fragrance and continuous bloom.

Double Delight

The Double Delight Rose is a very popular rose with a spicy perfume and big creamy white blooms that are brushed with hot red. This easy to grow, bi-colored Hybrid tea is one that you should include in your garden collection. The World Federation of Rose Societies Hall inducted this Hall of Famer in 1985. Double Delight roses were also an AARS winner in 1977.

Gertrude Jekyll

The Gertrude Jekyll rose has flowers that start as perfect little scrolled buds and soon open into the most beautiful, large, rosette-shaped flowers of rich glowing pink. The growth is upright and vigorous and in every way reliable. Gertrude Jekyll roses have a strong fragrance. It repeats its bloom again later in the season. It is a David Austin rose.

Henry Hudson

The Henry Hudson rose is a rugosa hybrid shrub rose that is a very neat and tidy bush that does not overtake it's welcome in the garden bed. The Henry Hudson blooms repeatedly with large clusters of white semi-double blooms. The prominent yellow centers are a lovely contrast to the deep pink buds and white blossoms. Henry Hudson roses have a great rugosa fragrance. Henry Hudson is very hardy to zone 2 and very disease resistant. It will make a great low hedge.

Henry Kelsey CL

The Henry Kelsey rose has a trailing and spreading growth habit which is the highlight of this winter hardy rose. The blooms are a medium red color and come in clusters of 9 to 13. Henry Kelsey roses have a nice spicy fragrance, which makes this a wonderful addition in a Northern garden. The red flowers bloom in early summer and repeat in late summer.

Honey Perfume

The Honey Perfume rose has a classic floribunda form and upright habit. The lovely blooms of Honey Perfume roses have earned a place in your garden. It was voted as an AARS Winner for 2004. This rose has proved to be a success through the country. It blooms in clusters spring to autumn.

Iceburg

The Iceberg rose has plenty of long, cool-white buds that open as large, double roses on this Floribunda. The light green glossy foliage makes a perfect backdrop for these clean white blooms. For forty years Iceberg has been the standard against which many roses are measured. That's because the plant produces masses of icy white high-centered blossoms continuously from frost to frost, Iceberg roses are a World Federation of Rose Societies Hall of Famer inducted 1983.

Ingrid Bergman

The Ingrid Berman rose is a luscious red Hybrid. This tea rose has full, double blooms with a soft velvety texture. Ingrid Berman roses are favorites among gardeners for it's deep red blooms and dark green foliage. The World Federation of Rose Societies voted the Ingrid Bergman rose into the Hall of Fame in 2000.

Intrigue

The Intrigue rose has a scent of lemon that will fill your garden air with this Floribunda. This colorful plum rose is pretty and showy, with attractive glossy green leaves. Intrigue roses have 20 petals and are repeat flowering. They like the sun. It is an AARS winner.

John Franklin

The John Franklin rose is a compact, bushy shrub with deep red, semi-double flowers that are cupped, fringed and displayed in very large clusters. This is a non-stop bloomer from summer through frost. John Franklin roses are disease resistant and exhibit a dark green foliage. This rose is in the Explorer series.

Just Joey

The Just Joey rose has a fruity frangrance which wafts from large ruffled apricot blooms. Thsi superstar rose is from England. Just Joey roses were inducted into the Hall of Fame by the World Federation of Rose Societies in 1994. A delightful rose for many placements.

Memorial Day

The Memorial Day rose has long stems, big blooms, and good vase life which has earned this hybrid tea rose a place of fame as an AARS winner for 2004. The rose is vigorous and easy to grow. Upright and bushy, this variety features very large, full, spiraled blooms with more than 50 petals per flower. Memorial Day roses have clear pink flowers are accented with a lavender wash and grow to up to 5 inches in diameter. Memorial Day is highly disease resistant and especially loves hot weather. It makes a great, easy-to-grow addition to any garden. Just one bloom will fill an entire room with the sweet fragrance of a Damask Rose.

Nearly Wild

The Hearty Wild rose is a hybrid. It is beautiful and tough. Hearty Wild roses have are a bushy, hardy, and highly attractive shrub that grows 2' to 3' tall. The large, single-form pink flowers bloom recurrently through the season. The flowers are sweetly fragrant.

New Dawn

The New Dawn rose is a strong grower and is unusually hardy and disease resistant. 'New Dawn' has long been a favorite climber. New Dawn roses have double pink, fragrant flowers that fade to soft pink are carried over a long season. It has healthy, dark green disease resistant foliage and is a rose with few faults and a long flowering season, even carrying a few blooms in the winter. It blooms spring and repeats in the summer. The New Dawn was a World Fereration of Rose Society Hall of Fame inductee in 1997.

Paradise

The Paradise rose has unique lavender blooms splashed with magenta. The blooms are perfectly complimented by large, glossy foliage. Its engaging color will enhance the colors in your rose garden. Paradise roses are very attractive,and when the mauve color which ages, it turns to red on the outer edges of the petals. It was as AARS winner 1979.

Peace

The Peace rose is the world's most famous rose. The brilliant yellow and pink flowering rose was first introduced to the U. S. over fifty years ago. Peace roses are more popular today than when it was first introduced. Your rose garden should not be without one. This World Federation of Rose Societies Hall of Famer was inducted 1976. AARS winner 1946.

Playboy

The Playboy rose has glossy green foliage, which offsets the large, orange-scarlet semi-double blooms. Playboy roses bloom very profusely and are widely grown. It was a Gold Medal winner in 1989. The Playboy is an an inetesting addition to any rose garden.

Rambling Red

The Rambling Red rose is a fully double rose with rich medium-red blooms borne in clusters on a vigorous, disease-resistant plant. It is a winter hardy climber/rambler with strong pliable canes. Rambling Red roses are an outstanding addition to the ranks of winter hardy climbers. It is hardy in zones 3-9.

Rose of Sharon - Aphrodite

The Aphrodite Rose of Sharon, Hibiscus syriacus, is an upright, deciduous shrub that is a vigorous, erect, multi-stemmed shrub that typically grows 8-12' tall. This shrub may also be trained as a single trunk tree or espalier. Leaves are diamond-shaped, dark green, slightly palmate and toothed. 'Aphrodite' bears dark hollyhock-like rosy-pink flowers with deeper red eyes from late summer until mid-fall. This plant really requires no pruning, unless you need to remove a dead or damaged branch. It has a long, early summer to fall bloom period. This cultivar is a sterile triploid that produces very few if any seed pods. It is an excellent flowering shrub that may be massed, planted in groups, or used as a specimen. The plant is very tolerant of summer heat and humidity. Larger flowers may be obtained by pruning back hard to 2-3 buds in early spring. Otherwise, prune to shape.

Rose of Sharon - Ardens

The Ardens Rose of Sharon, Hibiscus syriacus Ardens, is an upright, deciduous shrub is that is vigorous, erect, multi-stemmed shrub that typically grows 8-12' tall. This shrub may also be trained as a single trunk tree or espalier. Leaves are diamond-shaped, dark green, slightly palmate and toothed. 'Ardens' bears blue flowers from late summer until mid-fall. This plant really requires no pruning, unless you need to remove a dead or damaged branch. It has a long, early summer to fall bloom period. This cultivar is a sterile triploid that produces very few if any seed pods. It is an excellent flowering shrub that may be massed, planted in groups, or used as a specimen. The plant is very tolerant of summer heat and humidity. Larger flowers may be obtained by pruning back hard to 2-3 buds in early spring. Otherwise, prune to shape.

Rose of Sharon - Diana

The Diana Rose of Sharon, Hibiscus syriacus Diana, is an upright, deciduous shrub that is a vigorous, erect, multi-stemmed shrub that typically grows 8-12' tall. This shrub may also be trained as a single trunk tree or espalier. Leaves are diamond-shaped, dark green, slightly palmate and toothed. 'Diana' bears whiteflowers with yellow stems from late summer until mid-fall. This plant really requires no pruning, unless you need to remove a dead or damaged branch. Long, early-summer to fall bloom period. This cultivar is a sterile triploid that produces very few if any seed pods. Excellent flowering shrub that may be massed, planted in groups or used as a specimen. Very tolerant of summer heat and humidity. Larger flowers may be obtained by pruning back hard to 2-3 buds in early spring. Otherwise, prune to shape.

Rose of Sharon - Lucy

The Lucy Rose of Sharon, Hibiscus syriacus Lucy, is an upright, deciduous shrub that is a vigorous, erect, multi-stemmed shrub that typically grows 8-12' tall. This shrub may also be trained as a single trunk tree or espalier. Leaves are diamond-shaped, dark green, slightly palmate and toothed. 'Lucy' bears double red-pink flowers from late summer until mid-fall. This plant really requires no pruning, unless you need to remove a dead or damaged branch. It has a long, early summer to fall bloom period. This cultivar is a sterile triploid that produces very few if any seed pods. It is an excellent flowering shrub that may be massed, planted in groups, or used as a specimen. The plant is very tolerant of summer heat and humidity. Larger flowers may be obtained by pruning back hard to 2-3 buds in early spring. Otherwise, prune to shape.

Rose of Sharon-Jeanne DArc

The Jeanne D'Arc Rose of Sharon, Hibiscus syriacus Jeanne D'Arc, is an upright, deciduous shrub that is vigorous, erect, multi-stemmed shrub that typically grows 8-12' tall. This shrub may also be trained as a single trunk tree or espalier. Leaves are diamond-shaped, dark green, slightly palmate and toothed. 'Jeanne D'Arc' bears double white flowers from late summer until mid-fall. This plant really requires no pruning, unless you need to remove a dead or damaged branch. Long, early-summer to fall bloom period. This cultivar is a sterile triploid that produces very few if any seed pods. Excellent flowering shrub that may be massed, planted in groups or used as a specimen. Very tolerant of summer heat and humidity. Larger flowers may be obtained by pruning back hard to 2-3 buds in early spring. Otherwise, prune to shape.

Rose of Sharon-Morning Star

The Morning Star Rose of Sharon, Hibiscus syriacus Morning Star, is an upright, deciduous shrub that is a vigorous, erect, multi-stemmed shrub that typically grows 8-12' tall. This shrub may also be trained as a single trunk tree or espalier. Leaves are diamond-shaped, dark green, slightly palmate and toothed. 'Morning Star' bears grayish blue flowers with pinkish white eyes from late summer until mid-fall. This plant really requires no pruning, unless you need to remove a dead or damaged branch. It has a long, early summer to fall bloom period. This cultivar is a sterile triploid that produces very few if any seed pods. It is an excellent flowering shrub that may be massed, planted in groups, or used as a specimen. The plant is very tolerant of summer heat and humidity. Larger flowers may be obtained by pruning back hard to 2-3 buds in early spring. Otherwise, prune to shape.

Rose of Sharon-Paeonyflorus

The Paeonyflorus Rose of Sharon, Hibiscus syriacus Paeonyflorus, is an upright, deciduous shrub that is a vigorous, erect, multi-stemmed shrub that typically grows 8-12' tall. This shrub may also be trained as a single trunk tree or espalier. Leaves are diamond-shaped, dark green, slightly palmate and toothed. 'Paeonyflorus' bears double flowers in pink to wine color from late summer until mid-fall. This plant really requires no pruning, unless you need to remove a dead or damaged branch. It has a long, early summer to fall bloom period. This cultivar is a sterile triploid that produces very few if any seed pods. It is an excellent flowering shrub that may be massed, planted in groups, or used as a specimen. The plant is very tolerant of summer heat and humidity. Larger flowers may be obtained by pruning back hard to 2-3 buds in early spring. Otherwise, prune to shape.

Silver Star

The Silver Star rose is a strong growing lavender Grandiflora with good disease resistance. Silver Star roses have good plant vigor and disease resistance which set this plant apart from most lavender roses. It displays a good, non-fading colour, with a fragrance so powerful that a few of them will scent a room.

The Dark Lady

The Dark Lady rose has large, loose roses of deep red. Dark Lady roses are strongly fragrant and bloom on plants that have a spreading habit. It has Mid-green foliage and is free flowering. It is a David Austin rose.

The Fairy

The Fairy rose has hundreds of shell pink blooms that appear on a virtually foolproof shrub. It has been popular since 1932. Fariy roses have spreading pyramidal clusters of blooms and have fern like leaves that are disease proof. The great shrub qualities and appealing blooms give The Fairy rose a special magic.

Weigela - Pink

The Pink Weigela, Weigela florida, is a deciduous shrub that is prized for its showy bell-shaped flowers and spreading, arching growth habit. Leaves are dark green, oval and tapered, to 2. 5 inches long. Dark pink flowers with pale pink-white interiors, to 1 1/4 inches long are produced in corymbs on short lateral twigs on previous years growth in late spring to early summer. Flowers are attractive to hummingbirds. Native to China. Very nice in a mixed shrub border.

William Baffin

The William Baffin rose is a Canadian Explorer rose with glossy light green foliage, blooming from early to mid July until frost. It is an unsented rose which can grow to a height of 7 ft. William Baffin roses are vigorous and disease-resistant. It is one of the hardiest and most useful roses for northern gardens.

WWII Memorial Rose

The World War II rose dispalys a distinctive collaboration of soft white with grey and a tinge of lavender. Worl War II roses have a beautiful exhibition style high centered bud. The flowers have a wonderful sweet fragrance. This rose is a lovely addition to any lavender rose collection.

Zephirine Drouhin

The Zephirine Drouhin rose has a fragrance which fills the air with each large bloom. It prospers in alkaline soil, pollution, and shade. It's also a beautiful rose, opening large, sweetly fragrant, deep rose flowers (on nearly thornless stems) throughout the season. Zephirine Drouhin roses are perfect for covering a wall or climbing over an arch. The coppery-purple new growth is a vivid contrast. l

Hollyhock - Chaters Mix

The Hollyhock 'Chater's Mix', Alcea rosea, has a wide array of flower colors including pink, red and yellow. The Hollyhock family is made up of a rather large group that exhibits tall stature (4-6') and being biennial in nature. Although Hollyhocks are short lived, they reseed themselves. The large blooms of 'Chater's Mix Hollyhock' flower in the summer months. Alcea is a wonderful plant near the back of the border, working great along walls or fences. They are best planted in full sun in a well-drained area.

Verbena Patio Temari - Rose

The Verbena Patio Temari - (Rose) is well suited for container plantings because of their bushier, upright growth habit. Patio Rose will reward you with a bountiful show of bright velvety rose blooms on top of dark green, lush, fern-like foliage. This Verbena is a vigorous grower and will quickly fill your containers to brighten up those empty corners of the patio. Also great for use as borders in the landscape. You don't need an expensive continaer to get a high-priced look. Temari's bushy and upright habit makes for masses of richly colored flowers that cascade over the edges of pots and window boxes. Y

Coreopsis - American Dream

The Coreopsis ‘American Dream’, Coreopsis rosea, has a rosy pink daisy-like flower with a yellow center. In the Tickseed family, the dark green fernlike, thin and delicate foliage makes a great contrast to any garden. Blooming from June to October, ‘American Dream’ stands at 15” tall and a plant spread of 18-24”. ‘American Dream’ should be planted in full sun. It is drought-tolerant and tough but does need well-drained soil. It should be cut backing early and late summer to extend the bloom period. Coreopsis ‘American Dream’ looks great with any type of grass, in borders or mass plantings in sunny gardens. It is very effective in naturalized areas, rock and cottage gardens, ground cover or wild gardens. No garden should be without it.

Coreopsis - Pink

The Coreopsis 'Pink', Coreopsis rosea, is the first pink, with a yellow center, flowering variety of the Coreopsis family. In the Tickseed family, the daisy like blooms flower from June through October with a plant height of 10-12” and a spread of 14-18”. The dark green fernlike foliage makes a great contrast with the flower color. ‘Pink’ Coreopsis should be planted in full sun. Pink Coreopsis is drought-tolerant and tough but does need well-drained soil. It should be cut backing early and late summer to extend the bloom period. ‘Pink’ Coreopsis looks great with any type of grass, in borders or mass plantings in sunny gardens.