Perennials and Roses: Color, Shape and Fragrance, Year After Year Here at Mettowee our goal is to help you create a garden that will vibrate with color from spring through fall for years to come. With over 700 varieties, including new ones, we will help you design an ever-blooming, eye-catching garden. When you stop in ask a perennial sales associate to assist you with design, selection and troubleshooting. We are ready to share our knowledge and experience to help you get the most out of your perennial gardens. Mettowee Favorites Be sure to check out, Our Favorite Perennials. These are the tried and true perennials we use in our own designs. Over the years we have found certain perennials stand above the others in both beauty and resilience, and we are happy to share these to provide you with the garden of your dreams. Come meet our staff members! Come in and meet our returning and new perennial staff!  •Darren Godette ,  Begining this spring, customers can find him in the perennial retail area.  With Darren's plant knowledge, years of experience and energy our large Perennial Department is ready for a busy season ahead. • Winsome Moran as always excited to see a new season come.  She is so eager to see what new varieties we have this year. •Ann Riker has been potting plants and getting ready to share her perennial ideas with customers.

	Our ‘Living in the Garden’ literature will help make your gardening experience a successful one. Why limit yourself to just one plant when you can have a completely designed garden? When you visit, look for our eye-catching picket fence -- there you will find ideas and information to help you create today's popular specialty gardens. Help yourself to the free information sheets packed with gardening guidance, plant lists and garden plans.
	Jeepers Creepers Down low and fun to grow! Go ahead, walk on these resilient perennials! They are tough, easy-to-grow plants that endure light to moderate foot traffic, making them ideal for your pathways and borders. These vigorous perennials will spread rapidly and fill in the nooks and crannies around steppingstones and along pathways. Don’t forget to ask us about them!
	Garden Work is Never Done Click here to view the perennial maintenance guide. This guide offers great success for beautiful, healthy gardens.

Some of the New Perennials for 2008 at Mettowee Mill Nursery

• Achillea 'Limerock Summer Light'
• Amsonia 'Ice Blue'
• Astible ’Vision in Pink'
• Baptisia 'White Flase Indigo'   native plant
• Centaurea 'Amethyst in Snow'                                                                                                                                   
• DIcentra 'Candy Heart'
• Delphinium 'Blue Lace'
• Delphinium 'Green Twist'                                                                                                                   
• Echinacea 'Fancy Frills'
• Echinacea ' Hope'
• Geum 'Prairie Smoke'   native plant
• Euphorbia 'Lacy'
• Euphorbia 'First Blush'
• Euphorbia 'Big Sky Sunset' and 'Big Sky Sunrise'
• Geranium ’Midnight Reiter'
• Geum 'Flames & Passion'
• Heliopsis ' Ox Eye Sunflower'   native plant
• Heliopsis 'Summer Night'
• Hemerocallis ' Pruple D'Oro'
• Hemerocallis 'Bella Lugos'
• Heuchera 'Lime Rickey'
• Hosta 'Hope'
• Hosta a dwarf collection
• Hosta 'Woolly Mammoth'
• Liatris 'Meadow Blazing Star'   native plant
• Parthenium 'Wild Quinine'   native plant
• Papaver orientale 'Little'
• Phlox ' Delilah'
• Pholx 'stolonifera 'Blue Ridge'
• Pensteman 'Mexican Pikes Peak Purple'
• Primula 'Ruth Louise'
• Sidalcea 'Candygirl'
• Silene 'Fire Pink'   native plant
• Silphium 'Compass Plant   native plant
• Sedum 'Sunkissed'
• Sedum ’Cloud Walker ’
• Verbena 'Hoary Vervain'   Native plant

Roses
Roses are an essential part of any landscape. These versatile plants can be used in containers, to climb up a wall or trellis or to create a hedge. They are a wonderful accent in a perennial border.  Every year, new varieties are introduced that are hardier than roses of the past. It is our goal to provide our customers with the best roses for our climate.  In addition to our favorite Explorer series climbers and David Austin English roses, we recommend the Knockout series.  These resilient shrub roses bloom profusely and their hardiness makes them a good choice for our unperdictable winters.

The following roses are new varieties that we are proud to offer:

Easy Elegance Roses

These new roses were created from the Bailey Nursery rose breeding program.  They are grown on their own root (not grafted) to ensure hardiness. 

Their disease resistance and ever blooming quality makes them a great choice for any garden.  We are offering three series of these roses this year:

Garden Art Series (combines the bloom of a hybrid Tea with the hardiness of the Easy Elegance)

• Centennial - apricot pink
• Grandma's Blessing - medium pink
• Kiss Me - pink blend
• Macy's Parade - white

Garden Bench Series (smaller, low growing plants for use in small spaces or along walkways)

• Sunrise Sunset - pink blend

Garden Wall Series  (hardy climbing roses)

• Tahitian Moon - light yellow

Courtyard Roses

These climbing roses are known for their hardiness and disease resistance.  The plants are profuse bloomers that form buds from the ground up.

• Boogie-Woogie - medium pink
• Flashdance - deep yellow
• That's Jazz - velvet-red

Renaissance Roses

A new class of Poulsen roses that combines fragrance, double repeat blooms, and disease resistance.

• Bonita - orange
• Clair - soft peachy - apricot
• Isabel - deep red
• Nadia - pink
• Sophia - amber

Other New Climbers

• Lemon Meringue - yellow
• Autumn Sunset - apricot gold
• Valentine's Day - red

Groundcover Roses

• Red Ribbons - crimson
• Yellow Ribbons - bright yellow
• Roseberry Blanket - fuchsia    

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