Are you reminded of your grandmother when you see a bridal wreath blooming? They are blooming all around La Crosse presently. If you want to be reminded of years ago or just have a comforting feeling, get one now while they are in stock. This is an old-fashioned shrub that is becoming more and more popular.
Sapphire Clematis
If you like clematis, this is one you should try. It is a unique clematis that has long lasting dark purple blooms that fade to deep blue with dark purple to black anthers. On top of that, it is a continuous bloomer, blooming from June through September. It can be trained as a climber, grown as a shrubby ground cover with no support, or container-grown to a height of 4′. It also can be grown in partial shade. Some gardeners claim it blooms wave after waves, and love it as a ground cover
Dreaming of Annuals
Are you dreaming of planting a flower bed, window box, hanging basket or a planter with annuals? Then stop at Trees Today Nursery. We have ordered over 180 varieties of annuals. To help with questions, we have a chart for these annuals that gives you information about height, bloom time, sun or shade, pollinators, etc. Just Click Here for this chart.
Look at What Has Arrived!
Wow, we got some beautiful plants in this week. The PJM rhododendrons are amazing, and so are the purple gem and pink treasure rhododendrons. To top that off, the ivory prince lenten roses we just got in have lots of buds and blooms. Never before has this plant arrived so beautiful as this year. Then there are magnolia shrubs, blue ribbons bush clematis that have buds, coral bells and others. Following are images of some of the plants.
White Star Magnolia
Various rhododendrons
Purple Gem Rhododendron
Bud of Pink Treasure Rhododendron
Ivory Prince Lenten Rose
Some of our many plants
Forsythia
Nothing says spring is here like pussy willows and forsythias. The Northern Gold Forsythia was introduced way back in 1979 in Canada. This shrub grows 6-8 ft high and has a spread of around 5-7 ft. It is very hardy, Zone 3-8. This shrub has outstanding flower color and bud hardiness. If you are looking for a smaller forsythia, we have Gold Tide Forsythia, which only gets about 2-3 ft. tall and 3-4 ft. wide. This shrub is hardy in zone 4-8. Forsythias look amazing if you plant them as a large, sprawling screen. If size is a concern, then you should prune the larger ones back to about 2 feet right after flowering. Plant these shrubs as they will put a smile on your face in spring when they bloom.
Photo Courtesy of Baileys Nursery – Northern Gold Forsythia
Photo Courtesy of Baileys Nursery – Gold Tide
New – Nubia Boulevard Red Clematis
An exciting reblooming, gorgeous “red” clematis. These dark red flowers are 5″ across and bloom from June to September. The vine grows about 5′ high and will grow in full sun to part shade. It would look great in a large planter by your entryway. Since it blooms from both the leaf axils and stems, there are flowers from the ground up. This is a Zone 4 clematis. We also have other beautiful clematis’. So stop in when they arrive to get your selection early before they are gone.
Photo by Baileys Nursery.
Photo Courtesy of Donahues Clematis Specialists
New – Lo Scape® Mound Chokeberry
Landscape shrub of the year by Proven Winners. This shrub is for you if you are looking for a small shrub with low-maintenance, has brilliant fall color, and provides fruit for the birds. In spring there are loads of white flowers, glossy green foliage in summer followed by black fruit, and then an intense red foliage in autumn. Lo-Scape is a tough, tolerant tidy little mound of glossy green foliage. It grows to about 12-24 inches tall and 18-26 inches wide. Grows in part sun to sun and hardy in Zones 3-9, in wet soils or dry soils. If you wish to prune this shrub, do so immediately after blooming. Native
Photo by Proven Winners
Photo by Baileys Nursery
New – Black Tower Elderberry
We are excited to be carrying this new variety of the Elderberry (sambucus). Black Tower has stunning,purple burgundy foliage which will give you that much needed color among your green shrubs. In late spring it produces beautiful pink flowers followed by blackish red berries in fall that will be appreciated by wildlife. Black Tower grows to about 6-8′ tall and about 3-4′ wide. This shrub attracts birds and butterflies. It grows well in full sun to partial sun. Zones 4-8. Photo by Monrovia.
New – Winecraft Smoke Bush
This is no “green” shrub. It starts the season with rich purple foliage, becoming deeper in color until it is nearly black, and then in fall it turns a brilliant orange.. This semi-dwarf dark-leaf smokebush is a Proven Winners, therefore you know it is special. Early summer brings wispy redflowers that become the beautiful, hazy-violet “smoke” that gives this plant its name. It has a rounded, semi-dwarf habit.
Height: 4-6′ 
Spread: 4-6′
Foliage: Summer – purple black
Fall – brilliant orange
Exposure: Part sun
Zone: 4-8
Information courtesy of Baileys Nurseries
Photo courtesy of © 2017 Proven Winners, LLC.
New – Grace N’Grit Pink BiColor Shrub
We think you will love this new shrub rose we are carrying. Some of us employees can’t wait to get it planted in our gardens. It gets about 5′ high and 4′ wide. It will bloom summer through fall. These are roses you can pick for a bouquet of pink and white bicolor roses on a fuss-free shrub. This rose will endure the trials of a long, hot summer with an unwavering blooming zeal. An outstanding, disease-resistant, own-root, self-cleaning rose that thrives coast to coast in humidity and heat as well as in dry, hot summers. Makes a dynamic hedge barrier or accent plant. Zone 4.
Information and Photo from Monrovia®
New Lilac – Declaration
This Declaration, an outstanding cultivar from the U.S. National Arboretum has large, dramatic clusters of deep reddish purple, fragrant flowers and blooms 7 to 10 days earlier than common lilacs. Useful as a flowering informal screen, background shrub or specimen. A nice cut flower for a fragrant bouquet. Deciduous.
Height:
6-8′ 
Spread:
5-6
Exposure:
Full Sun
Bloom:
Early spring, fragrant
Zone:
4-7
Information and Photo from Monrovia®
New Tree – Snowdance Japanese Tree Lilac
Although the species tend to flower biannually, Snowdance™ flowers well annually and begins flowering at an earlier age than the species. It has exceptionally heavy bloom with large, fragrant, creamy white flower clusters in June. Lustrous dark green foliage is slightly larger and darker than the species. Snowdance grows as wide as it is tall with attractive, shelved branching. A pest- and disease-free lilac tree, it is ideal for residential and park use and is equally attractive as a specimen as it is in group plantings. Selected by Rod Bailey for its remarkably heavy bloom.
Height:
18′
Spread:
20′
Exposure:
Full Sun
Zone:
3-7
Information and Photo from Bailey Nurseries®
