|
Forsythia - Northern Gold
Its beautiful dark green summer foliage creates an outstanding plant that is reliably hardy in the North. Prune after flowering to maintain a better form and shape. Place them in the landscape where they will command attention with their golden flowers. So you in the northern zones can now have these harbingers of spring grace your landscapes! Northern Gold requires full sun, decent soil and lots of room to grow. It grows 6 to 8 feet and have a width of 5 to 7 feet. Northern Gold Forsythia, Forsythia 'Northern Gold', is an upright growing shrub that produces its showy golden yellow flowers in early spring with spectacular flower color and bud hardiness. They can be successfully used as solitary accents, in groups of three, or massed together as a tall hedge or barrier. ... additional info
Adams Needle Yucca filamentosa makes dense clumps of stiff leaves 30 inches or so long and edged with fine curly hairs. This variety has a white edge. The Adams Needle bush, Yucca filamentosa, has stiff evergreen rosettes and are part of the scene in hot dry Central and North American scrublands. Otherwise they are handsome architectural foliage plants for dry, sunny borders. The remarkable flower-spikes, 6' or more high, appear when plants are five or more years old. Yuccas are hardier than they appear, and only fail in cold exposed inland positions, where they are better grown as container plants. |
