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Name: Eleagnus Botanical: Eleagnus 'Fruitlandi' Size: 8-10' H x 8-10' W Exposure: Full Sun or Part Shade Foliage Color: Dark green dusted with silver Bloom Time: None Water Needs: Low Features: A densley branched, fast growing evergreen shrub excellent to create a quick screen, hedge, or background. Dark green foliage has attractive silver scale. Companions: Loropetalums, Junipers, Carissa Holly, Barberries, Ornamental Grasses, and many more.

Name: Euonymus 'Golden' Botanical: Euonymus japonica 'Aurea' Size: 4-5' H x 3-4' W Exposure: Full Sun or Part Shade Foliage Color: Bright Yellow Bloom Time: None Water Needs: Low Features: The variegated green and yellow foliage is outstanding. Useful as a hedge or specimen. A good accent plant in foundation plantings. Very showy. Companions: The foliage of this plant contrasts well with too many plants to name. Soft Touch Holly, Barberries, Loropetalums, and Junipers to name a few.

Name: Forsythia 'Yellow Bell's' Botanical: Forsythia 'Lynwood Gold' Size: 5-6' H x 5-6' W Exposure: Full Sun or Part Shade Bloom Color: Bright Yellow Bloom Time: Early Spring Water Needs: Low Features: In Spring the branches of this old time favorite flowering shrub are literally covered in bright yellow blooms! Useful in a flowering shrub border, islands, foundation plantings, around decks, or as a hedge or screen. Companions: Combine with Quince, Reeves Spirea, and Flowering Almond for a stunning combination of early Spring color!

Name: Fothergilla 'Mt. Airy' Botanical: Fothergilla Size: 4-5' H x 4-5' W Exposure: Sun or Partial Shade Bloom Color: White Bloom Time: Spring Water Needs: Moderate to Damp Features: Very unique bottlebrush-like blooms cover this native shrub in Spring before the attractive blue-green foliage emerges. Excellent in sunny woodland borders, along creek banks, around garden ponds or other bodies of water. Companions: Redbud Trees, Dogwoods, Soft Touch Holly, Native Azaleas, to name a few.

Name: Gardenia 'August Beauty' Botanical: Gardenia Size: 5-6' H x 4-5' W Exposure: Full Sun or Partial Shade Bloom Color: White - Highly Fragrant Bloom Time: Late Spring Water Needs: Low Features: Very sweetly fragrant double white blooms stand out nicely against the deep blue-green glossy foliage of this attractive evergreen shrub. Excellent near sitting areas such as decks and patieos. Companions: Soft Touch Holly, Junipers, Abelias, Dwarf nandinas, Dwf Spireas, Snow Indian Hawthorne, and others.

Name: Gardenia 'Daisy' Botanical: Gardenia Size: 3' H x 3' W Exposure: Full Sun or Part Shade Bloom Color: White, single, highly fragrant flowers Bloom Time: Spring Water Needs: Low Features: Sweetly fragrant, single white flowers cover the dark blue-green foliage in Spring. Upright, mounding growth habit. Plant near sitting areas where fragrance can best be enjoyed. Companions: Low growing Junipers, Little Richard Abelia, low growing perennials, and many of the ornamental groundcovers such as Variegated Liriope or Blue Rug Juniper.

Name: Gardenia 'Creeping' Botanical: Gardenia radicans Size: 2' H x 3-4' W Exposure: Full Sun or Partial Shade Bloom Color: White, highly fragrant Bloom Time: Spring Water Needs: Low Features: Sweetly fragrant, double white flowers on this low growing, spreading Gardenia. Plant near sitting areas such as patios, decks, swings, and benches where the fragrance can be enjoyed. Companions: Dwarf Yaupon, Dwarf Abelias, Azaleas, low growing Junipers, Dianthus and many other groundcovers.

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