Plants To Give Your Garden A New Look (NAPSA)—There’s good news for those looking for new plants to spruce up a yard. Here are five “must have” plants that can enhance the beauty of a garden. e Hydrangea Forever & Ever New breeding has created hydrangeas that bloom on new growth each spring, ensuring blooms every year and making inconsistent blooming a thing of the past. Forever & Ever Red has rosy- red mop-headflowers on top of red stems. Late in the year, these large blooms fade to a beautiful shade of purple. Forever & Ever Double Pink is a small plant with large six-inch bloom clusters of fully double rich pink flowers. These flowers become a billowy mass of clear blue if grown in appropriately high soil acidity. The original Forever & Ever has large mop-head flowers that are pink or blue, depending on soil (fmm: RaeSanedaraero)ies) eae a ji New breeding has created hy- drangeas that bloom on new growth each spring, ensuring blooms every year. Flower Carpet Scarlet Rose The Scarlet Rose is loaded with double-scarlet blooms throughout the summer and is the newest of the Flower Carpet family of dis- ease-resistant roses. This stun- ning and truly easy-care rose blooms in abundance and growsto about 36 inches high and wide. e My Monet Weigela acidity. These three varieties were created to provide a constant show of color through the summer. Learn My Monetis a dwarf variegated Weigela with pink-tinged, cream- at www.foreverhydrangea.com. Frosty Pearl Euonymus inches tall and is hardy to zone5. more about how to care for them Frosty Pearl can be planted as a mounding shrub or can be trained into a climbing vine. The foliage is a forest green color with a creamy white edge. In the summer, the plant produces pearl-size, frosted-looking berries that change to a brilliant red in the fall. Hardy to zone 4, this plant is a standout in a shade garden. edged leaves. It is a new introduc- tion from Proven Winners Color Choice that grows to about 24 Rainbow Knock Out Rose This shrub rose produces sprays of blooms in huesof pink, coral and yellow. This beauty is a descendant of Knock Out, known for its resistance to black spot rose disease. These top-five performers can be a great addition to a yard and garden, and are among the “must have,” top-performing plants for this year.
