Hot Picks of the Week!
Sales Valid July 7-11!
Every week during spring, summer, and into fall, we select our Hot Picks of the Week with our customers in mind. Each featured plant comes with helpful growing tips and insider tricks—and for that week only, they’re 20% off!
Weekly plant favorites with tips, tricks, and exclusive savings.
Hosta Hot Pick of the Week
hardy, low-maintenance perennials known for their lush foliage and shade-loving nature
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Brother Stephan — puckered, gold-centered leaves with blue-green edges. A true showstopper for the shade garden!
A standout choice for the shade garden, Brother Stefan Hosta is a striking, heavily textured perennial known for its dramatic foliage and impressive size. It forms a large, upright mound that serves as an excellent focal point.
Photo Credit: Walter Gardens
Shrub Hot Pick of the Week
hardy, low-maintenance, and thrive in a variety of soils and sun conditions
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Smokebush — including Winecraft Black and Golden Spirit! Stunning foliage color and those dreamy, smoky summer plumes.
Winecraft Black™ Cotinus is a semi-dwarf powerhouse that kicks off spring with rich purple leaves, deepens to a dramatic near-black by summer, and ignites into brilliant orange come fall. In early summer, wispy red flowers transform into the hazy, violet "smoke" that gives this plant its iconic name. Perfectly compact, rounded, and ready to make a statement.
Photo Credit: Bailey Nurseries
Add a vibrant pop of color to your landscape with Golden Spirit Smokebush! This stunning variety brings a completely unique, luminous yellow hue to your garden borders. The show begins in spring as new foliage emerges with a delicate touch of red, followed by smoky yellow summer blooms in June and July. Come autumn, watch a dramatic transformation as the leaves turn a fiery orange-red from the bottom up.
Photo Credit: Bailey Nurseries
Tree Hot Pick of the Week
hardy, resilient, and adapted to the region’s diverse seasons and soil types
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Redmond Linden — a gorgeous shade tree with a classic pyramidal shape and fragrant summer blooms the pollinators love!
The Redmond Linden, this stately shade tree has a tidy pyramidal shape, big heart-shaped leaves, and fragrant early-summer blooms the bees can't resist. Tough, adaptable, and gorgeous year-round — it even glows golden yellow in fall! A perfect lawn or street tree.
Photo Credit: Bailey Nurseries
Native Hot Pick of the Week
Beautiful, resilient plants that thrive naturally in Wisconsin
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Blue Fortune Hyssop — a pollinator magnet with soft blue flower spikes. The bees and butterflies will thank you!
Bring on the butterflies! 🦋✨ 'Blue Fortune' Anise Hyssop is an award-winning, effortless perennial that produces massive waves of lavender-blue, bottlebrush flowers from midsummer straight into early fall. Perfect for filling those late-season color gaps when other plants are finished blooming, its strong, upright stems stand tall without flopping. Plus, the foliage smells just like black licorice when crushed!
Photo Credit: Walters Gardens
Perennial Hot Pick of the Week
Bring lasting color back year after year
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Heliopsis (False Sunflower) — including Bit of Honey, Burning Hearts, Bleeding Hearts, and Touch of Blush. Cheerful, long-blooming color that keeps going all summer!
Bright yellow petals, dramatic dark red centers, and deep purple foliage that stands out all season long—Burning Hearts False Sunflower is a true garden showstopper! This large, native perennial is as tough as it is beautiful. It’s extremely hardy, easy to grow, and both deer and rabbit resistant. If you're looking to add bold, dynamic contrast to your borders, this is the one!
Photo Credit: Bailey Nurseries
This isn't your average perennial. Long before the flowers even arrive, you'll love the striking, unique foliage—bright white leaves etched with deep green veining on a perfectly compact, dense plant. Then, from midsummer all the way into early fall, it bursts into a show of extra-large (3 to 3.5 inches!), vibrant golden-yellow, semi-double blooms.
Photo Credit: Walters Gardens
Say goodbye to basic yellow and hello to the fiery tones of 'Bleeding Hearts' Heliopsis! This unique native cultivar blooms non-stop from July all the way until frost. Intense orange-red buds open to a rich golden-orange, perfectly framed by dark bronze-tinted foliage and striking black stems. Standing on the taller side, it’s the ultimate backdrop for the middle or back of your garden borders.
Photo Credit: Walters Gardens
Meet 'Touch of Blush' Heliopsis!
This gorgeous False Sunflower gets its name from the soft pink tones that dust the new foliage in spring. It adds a beautiful, subtle "blush" to the bright white and dark green variegated leaves, keeping your garden looking interesting long before the flowers arrive!
Photo Credit: Walters Gardens