SAVAGE PLANTS & LANDSCAPE

Currently blooming here at the nursery, the versatile Camellia sasanqua ‘Bonanza’ has an abundant array of striking, scarlet peony shaped blooms. Bonanza grows well in shade or partial sun, as well as in wet or dry conditions, making it an easy addition to many gardens. It’s spreading habit offers more versatility than the erect, shrub form camellias, and works well manicured or left wild. Plant as a low hedge, espalier, tall ground cover, or a nice evergreen addition to a perennial bed.

Sometimes referred to as Christmas Camellias, the sasanqua varieties of Camellia are native to the evergreen, coastal forests of southern Japan. It was introduced by Dutch traders into Europe in 1869. Bonanza is a seedling of ‘Crimson Bride’.

This stunning, evergreen Euphorbia has brightly variegated foliage with wide, cream-colored margins and dark blue-green centers.  Early spring flower bracts emerge white and cream and continue to look striking, well into summer.  Whether in bloom or not, ‘Tasmanian Tiger’ makes an excellent specimen plant for container gardens, rockeries, perennial beds, and much more.  

• Size: 24-30″ tall and wide
• Exposure: Sun-Part Shade
• Bloom time: Feb.-May
• USDA Zone: 7

 Cercis canadensis “Covey” PP No. 10328

In 1991 Miss. Connie Covey of Westfield, N.Y., asked her local garden center to help her reproduce a small tree that had been given to her by her mother some 30 years before. Knowing that Northeast Ohio is a world famous center for quality nurseries and plants, they asked a Madison, Ohio nurseryman for advice. What they were all surprised to learn, was that they had a never before recorded new tree! 

Named in honor of its discoverer, Covey Eastern Redbud is the first hardy weeping redbud ever marketed, and was granted a U.S. Patent because of this uniqueness. Always growing as a low spreading, mounding plant, it has lovely lavender colored flowers in early spring, followed by dense leaves that give the plant the appearance of being shingled. First shown to the general public by The Holden Arboretum in 1998, this plant is now appearing in local nurseries & garden stores, including Savage Plants and Landscape.