The Best Window All Year

Peonies produce enormous fragrant late-spring blooms on a plant that can outlive the gardener, returning larger every year with almost no care.Zone 8a is the warm edge of peony country: they need real winter chill to set buds, so in Clay County choose early-blooming...

Persimmons hand you honey-sweet fruit in October after everything else is done, on a tree that needs almost no spraying and glows orange in fall.Asian persimmons are the ones to plant for eating fresh: non-astringent 'Fuyu' and 'Jiro' can be eaten crisp like an...

A plum tree offers fragrant spring flowers and baskets of sweet, juicy summer fruit on an easy-care, compact frame.Plum Tree Sapling is nursery-grown by Wade Greens in Lineville, Alabama, cared for by hand and shipped healthy and ready to thrive. Offered in 4" and...

Pomegranates handle heat, drought, and poor soil, then repay you with flame-orange summer flowers and leathery red fruit in fall.Pomegranates are well suited to zone 8a heat, though our humidity and late-season rain can cause fruit splitting and less than perfect skins - flavor...

Purple Coneflower is a native prairie perennial whose bold, long-lasting blooms feed pollinators and finches - tough, reliable, and beautiful.Purple Coneflower Bare-Root is nursery-grown by Wade Greens in Lineville, Alabama, cared for by hand and shipped healthy and ready to thrive. Available in Bare-Root...

Ranunculus produce impossibly full, rose-like blooms in radiant colors - a florist favorite that's a dream for cutting.Ranunculus Bulbs is nursery-grown by Wade Greens in Lineville, Alabama, cared for by hand and shipped healthy and ready to thrive. Sold in pack of 10 and...

Raspberries deliver a delicate, aromatic berry you rarely find fresh in stores, on compact canes that fit a small sunny corner.Be realistic about raspberries in central Alabama: they evolved for cool summers, and our July heat and humidity bring root rot, spider mites, and...

Autumn Blaze maple grows a broad shade canopy in just a few years and turns brilliant orange-red every fall, right on schedule.Autumn Blaze is a hybrid of red and silver maple that combines fast growth with the dependable scarlet fall color and stronger branching...

The fast-growing River Birch is prized for its beautiful peeling, cinnamon-toned bark and excellent tolerance of wet sites.The river birch (Betula nigra) is a fast-growing native shade tree with striking peeling, cinnamon-colored bark. Adaptable and tough, it handles wet soils well and adds year-round...

Rose of Sharon delivers big tropical-looking hibiscus flowers from midsummer to frost, exactly when most flowering shrubs have quit for the year.Rose of Sharon is an upright deciduous shrub that blooms through the hottest part of the season in white, pink, lavender, or blue,...

Airy silver-blue spires that shrug off heat and drought - a pollinator favorite that blooms for months.Russian Sage (Perovskia) is a tough, aromatic perennial with clouds of lavender-blue bloom from summer into fall. Deer-proof and heat-loving. Nursery-grown by Wade Greens and sold grower-direct -...

Nectar-rich flower spikes that hum with bees and hummingbirds from summer into fall.Garden Salvia sends up dense spikes of blue, purple, or red bloom on aromatic foliage - a pollinator magnet that's deer-resistant and long-flowering. Offered in 4" Pot and 1-Gallon Pot, shipped well-rooted...

Satsumas are the one citrus that genuinely fruits outdoors in central Alabama - seedless, zipper-skinned mandarins ripening right before Thanksgiving.A mature satsuma on trifoliate rootstock is the hardiest edible citrus available to us, taking brief dips to roughly 18-20F once established, but it still...

The Saucer Magnolia opens enormous, goblet-shaped pink-and-white blooms in early spring before its leaves emerge - an unforgettable show.The saucer magnolia is a showstopping small tree that opens huge, goblet-shaped pink-and-white blooms in early spring. Compact and elegant, it's a spring focal point for...

Scilla carpets the early-spring garden in drifts of intense sapphire-blue, naturalizing beautifully under trees.Scilla Bulbs is nursery-grown by Wade Greens in Lineville, Alabama, cared for by hand and shipped healthy and ready to thrive. Offered in 4" and 6" pots, shipped well-rooted from our...

The Serviceberry offers a four-season show - spring blossoms, sweet summer berries for you and the birds, and fiery fall color.Serviceberry (Amelanchier) is a native multi-season tree with spring flowers, sweet summer berries, and fiery fall color. It feeds pollinators and birds and stays...

Shasta daisies bring crisp white-and-gold blooms to summer borders and cut beautifully, lasting a week or more in a vase.This clumping perennial is a border classic that keeps flowering for weeks if you deadhead regularly, with compact varieties like 'Becky' standing up to Alabama...

Nodding white teardrops on gray-green leaves push straight through cold January ground, the first flower of the year in most Alabama gardens.Wade Greens supplies Galanthus elwesii, the Giant Snowdrop, because it is the only snowdrop with a real chance in zone 8a - it...

'Little Gem' brings full-size fragrant magnolia flowers to a compact tree that fits a courtyard and blooms from spring into fall.'Little Gem' is a dwarf Southern magnolia with the same glossy dark leaves and bronze felted undersides as the full-size species, on a narrow...

Spires of waxy blue, pink or white bells rise through spring shade, turning the ground beneath hardwoods into a soft flowering haze.Spanish Bluebell is one of the few classic spring bulbs that genuinely thrives in the Deep South - it needs no winter chill,...