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Designing for Shade

Reliable Plant Selections for Landscapes

Shady areas in the landscape can be challenging to work with. But with the right plants, low-light areas can become treasured spaces for high style and creative design. At Loma Vista Nursery, we grow a range of plants for shade that offer long-term performance, interesting texture and seasonal color. Consider the following plants design tools…

Ground-Level Greatness

Eye-Catching, Low-Growing Perennials

In every well-balanced garden, there is a secret layer that brings harmony, function and unexpected beauty. Groundcovers and other low-growing perennials are unsung garden heroes that often go unnoticed, yet they are the connective tissue beneath shrubs, trees and taller perennials.  These hardy plants are resilient. Many thrive in USDA Hardiness Zones 3 through 9.…

Bloom Power

Shrubs that Define Summer

Flowering shrubs take center stage in summer – and for good reason. While painting the garden with bold color and irresistible fragrance, they serve as living architecture in the landscape and strong allies in sustainable gardening.  A food source for nature’s pollinators, and shelter for birds and wildlife, flowering shrubs anchor garden beds and soften…

Species Highlight

Peonies: Queens of the Garden

With inspiring flowers, rich colors and captivating fragrances, peonies have long been a springtime staple in perennial gardens and landscape designs. But these ‘Queens of the Garden’ aren’t just pretty faces. Once established, peonies are hardy, long-lived and surprisingly low maintenance. Peonies belong to the plant genus Paeonia and are members of the Paeoniaceae family.…

Beautiful Bloomers

Hardy Varieties Lend Color & Style

Whether flowering perennials or shrubs, hardy varieties lend color, fragrance and style to landscapes and gardens – especially following a long, cold winter. We’re kicking off the growing season by highlighting a few of our favorite repeat bloomers at Loma Vista Nursery.   National Beauty Azalea (Rhododendron x ‘National Beauty’) National Beauty Azalea Attracts: Butterflies, hummingbirds…

Species Highlight

Foliage Favorites Illuminate Shade

Shady spots need not be ho-hum when there’s heuchera to brighten the space. With tall spikes of tiny coral bells and distinctive mounded foliage, heuchera illuminates low-light areas with splashes of vibrant color and unique texture. With an average height of 6 inches to 1½ feet and spread of 1- to 2½ feet, heuchera produce…

What’s New?

Look What We Have Growing On

A fresh growing season always begs the question, “so what’s new?” Every year, breeders launch hundreds of new plants, including in the perennial and shrub categories that we grow. While some, but not all, of the following plants may have seen a season or two already, all of these are new for the growing season…

“Tough” Choices

Hardy Plants Make Their Seasonal Comeback

Hardy plants are “tough” choices for landscape designs because they stand up to a variety of environmental stresses and bounce back year after year with reliable color and form. From extreme temperatures and poor soils to drought, flooding, high winds and tricky light conditions, hardy plants are garden workhorses.  Their ability to withstand environmental anxieties…

Standout Standups

Upright Junipers and Columnar Arborvitae

Upright evergreen trees are prized in the landscape for their reliability and stand-up coolness. Taylor Juniper (Juniperus virginiana ‘Taylor’) Like squirrels stock up on nuts for winter sustenance, upright juniper and arborvitae store water and nutrients in their roots. This enables them to slow their growth when the ground is frozen but not go dormant.…

Plant Species Highlight

Ornamental Grasses - the Stars of Fall

Long may they wave! Big on textures, colors, varieties and styles, ornamental grasses bring bold personality to landscapes large and small. And just when other plants begin to lose their summer appeal, grasses get going, unfurling their foliage and sending up creamy plumes, adding mystique to late-year seasons. Flame Grass (Miscanthus sinensis ‘Purpurascens’) – At…