October 2016 - Page 2 of 5 - Blue Heron Nursery Archive | Blue Heron Nursery

Monthly Archives: October 2016

Quercus bicolor

[gallery ids="11022"] A rounded, open tree with lustrous, dark green leaves with wavy edges. It does well in wet, poorly drained soils, and it also has excellent drought tolerance. It transplants readily. The fall color is rusty red to yellow brown. Use as a specimen tree, large parkways, and in parks....
Read more

Prunus X ‘Okame’

[gallery ids="8719,8718"] An upright, arching, vase shaped tree with single, rosy pink blooms in the spring. It is a hybrid of Prunus incisa and Prunus campanulta. The summer color is a dark green, the fall color is bronzy red to bright orange. The overall texture of this flowering cherry is delicate....
Read more

Potentilla fruticosa ‘McKay’s White’

A compact, rounded shrub with bright white flowers from late spring until frost. It has fine textured, bluish grey foliage. It's form is upright and mounded. It is adaptable to all but wet soils. Use in mass plantings, foundation plantings, or in a mixed border....
Read more