Our 2013 Fruit Tree Selection from Stark Brothers

Exciting is the only way to describe the new varieties we will be growing.

Stark Bro’s has added new varieties of Peach, Cherries and Nectarines.

Look for added resistant varieties of Apple, Peach, and Pears.

These varieties are helpful for the new gardener as well as the experienced grower.

We hope you enjoy our 2013 Fruit Tree Selection Guide:

Camelias

With the most beautiful blooms, camellias are available in many shapes, sizes and colors. There are even fragrant varieties. Easy to grow outdoors in zone 7 to 10, they form decorative displays anywhere in your garden or patio.

Yuletide offers an abundance of brilliant crimson and a bright yellow center. Even when not in bloom, its glossy dark green foliage adds to the landscape quality in any garden.

Camellias are excellent in containers too. For your smaller spaces, Hot Flash is a low growing spreader with glossy, deep green foliage and bright, rose-red flowers, growing only to 4 to 5 feet tall and wide. 

• Lisa Beasley (Spring)
• Yuletide (Fall)
• Formal Double Pink
• April Tryst (Spring)
• April Remembered
• Hot Flash

Camellias are generally planted in the late fall through the early spring although they may be set out any month of the year if properly cared for.

How to Cut Back a Crape Myrtle

Crape Myrtle is a beautiful flowering tree that blooms on new wood. 

For more flowers, as well as a stronger plant, prune it in late winter to early spring. If you don't prune at all, the photo on the bottom left shows how last year's seed pods remain on the plant aftyer it leafs out.

Trace back from the tip of a stem to where it meets a branch, and make a cut about 6 inches above this intersection. New branches will emerge just below the cut, set buds and bloom. If it's an established tree, remove suckers from the base. Done each spring, the tree will produce lots beautiful blooms and maintain an attractive shape.

Without pruning, old seed pods detract from the new foliage and flowers	Pruning crape myrtle creates  stronger branches and more flowers

PROVEN WINNERS 2012

New Hydrangeas for Mothers Day from Proven Winners’

We will feature the CityLine and the Let’s Dance Hydrangea Series:

CityLine Paris is a small plant 1’-3’,with intense red flowers. Blooms are large and showy on strong stems, mildew resistant.

CityLine Venice is a small plant 1’-3’. With big, bright, long lasting fuchsia blooms.

CityLine Vienna is the smallest in the series. Blooms are large and showy. In dark pink or dark blue, flowers emerge with cream colored throats.

Let’s Dance Moonlight is a strong rebloomer with large, pink or blue (soil ph determines color). Mophead flowers, on strong stems, has good foliage with bronze red fall color.

Let’s Dance Starlight is a hardy and dependable lace-cap with massive pink or blue blooms, 2’-3’with strong stems. ‘Starlight’ is the first new wood hydrangea of its kind.

Proven Winners’ has lots of new varieties for 2012. We will have these items on the lot in spring 2012:

Abelia ‘Pinky Bells’ is a new compact plant with large pendulous, lavender/pink blooms. ‘Pinky Bells’ is 2’-3’ tall x 3’-4’ wide and blooms from mid summer to fall. Makes a good container plant.

Looking for new varieties?  Check out these new Barberry choices from Proven Winners’

‘Sunjoy Cinnamon’ has dark orange foliage with compact branching. ‘Sunjoy Cinnamon’ is low maintenance, 4’-5’ shrub and makes a good hedge or foundation planting.

Barberry ‘Sunjoy Mini Saffron’ has golden yellow foliage with good burn resistance, is dwarf mounding, and fast growing. ‘Sunjoy Mini Saffron’ is 18”-24” tall x 24”-30” and presents orange red foliage in the fall
(Available fall 2012)

Barberry ‘Sunjoy Citrus’ has bright yellow, burn resistant foliage.  ‘Sunjoy Citrus’ has a neat mounded ball shape, is 2’- 3’tall & wide, and works great in containers. (Available fall 2012)

Barberry ‘Sunjoy Mini Salsa’ has vivid dark red foliage, is 18”-24” tall & wide makes this dwarf good in containers.
(Available Fall 2012)

Calycanthus Sweetshrub ‘Aphrodite’ is a new improved hybrid. ‘Aphrodite’ has large, fragrant, bright red magnolia-like flowers. This plant has glossy leaves and is a rebloomer.

A new variety for us is Exochorda Pearl-Bush ‘Snow Day Surprise. This 4’ shrub offers a flood of spring white flowers, with a compact and upright growth habit.

Forsythia ‘Show Off’ has large golden flowers and dark green foliage.  This 5’-6’ compact, rounded plant with abundant flowers.

Forsythia ‘Show Off Sugar Baby’ is a miniature (18-30” tall & wide), upright habit that really provides great spring color.

Proven Winners’ is offering new this year the Bobo Hydrangea. This new dwarf offers early large blooms, in a dwarf plant. Bobo is 30-36” tall and 36-48” wide

Proven Winners’ has added pink to their Chiffon Series.  This true pink bloom carries all the beauty and habits from the tried and true Chiffon Series of Althea ‘hibiscus’.  Pink Chiffon is a beautiful clear pink flower, with the lacy petals, that the Chiffon Series is known for.

Proven Winners’ presents a reblooming Azalea this year. The Bloom-A-Thon is a heavy flowering in part sun to dappled shade. Bloom-A-Thon is a heavy bloomer and can provide blooms for twenty weeks.

We will offer the Bloom-A-Thon Red azalea, a bright crimson red that starts blooming in April. Red is a 3-5’ tall and wide plant. 

The Bloom-A-Thon Pink Double has bright pink double bloom, beginning in April & May.  Pink is a 3-5’ tall and wide plant.

Bloom-A-Thon White has large single white flowers with sprinkles of green in the bloom. White is a 2-2.5’ tall and 3’ wide plant.

We will have the Bollywood Azalea this year.  Bollywood has bright neon red-pink flowers, with vivid, glossy, silver and dark green variegated foliage during the summer. This compact plant is 1 ½ - 2’ tall and wide.

These are just a few of the items we will have in late spring and summer.