2017 Winter Supplement

Winter 2017 Wholesale Product Guide Supplement

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NEW COLLECTION | Helleborus Winter Magic™ After ten years of selecting and collecting seed, Thierry and Anneke Van Paemel, along with their children Tom and Tineke, are happy to be finally offering the Winter Magic™ strain of hand selected Helleborus orientalis to growers all over the world. Not only are these strains true to their descriptions, but they germinate and fill a 72 cell liner in less than one year, making production much shorter and sales more economical than other seed strains currently on the market.

The goal at Het Wilgenbroek, their retail garden center in Belgium, is to further expand the hybridizing range of interspecific hellebores and to offer a true seed strain by color and type of their Helleborus orientalis selections. Along with his staff, Thierry has been working for the past ten years to select seedlings and group them into type and color ranges. Each year they rogue out plants that do not fit the selected type and collect seed from plants that do, strengthening their seed strain lines.

We're thrilled to have the Van Paemel's Winter Magic™ hellebores included in our product mix.

Available Autumn 2017!

Helleborus orientalis 1. White Spotted, 2. Double Aubergine, 3. Double Slaty Blue, 4. Double White, 5. Single Peach, 6. Single Red, 7. Single Pink Spotted, 8. Single Yellow, 9. Double Yellow Spotted Helleborus orientalis Winter Magic™ Single Mixed Colors also available!

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Testimonial It is a pleasure to turn to North Creek as our perennial supplier. Their friendly customer service team makes doing business fun. The relationship and communication they have between departments keeps customers informed of the status of the plant material. They make every effort to ensure we are receiving requested plant material at the desired time. If something changes they are quick to let us know. They have an extensive and accurate availability which simplifies our ordering process.

Being a sustainable business ourselves, we are very pleased with North Creek's approach of using beneficial insects and alternative methods of disease and insect control when possible. Being in the green industry, we believe it is important to be in the front line of this approach and mentality; we are excited to buy from a supplier that is doing the same.

North Creek Nurseries trial gardens, catalog, website, and facility tours are a fantastic way to learn from their experiences. They enjoy sharing their knowledge with customers which makes them an excellent company with whom to partner.

Daryl Kobesky, Production Manager Pleasant Run Nursery 9

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NEW INTRODUCTIONS We’ve expanded our tickseed collection with 3 new standout selections: Coreopsis ‘Gilded Lace’, C. palustris ‘Summer Sunshine’, and C. tripteris ‘Gold Standard’. In addition to performing beautifully in our trial gardens, each of these varieties was ranked a top performer at the Mt. Cuba Center Coreopsis Evaluation. ‘Gold Standard’, slightly shorter than Coreopsis tripteris, is a Mt. Cuba Center introduction.

Represented by Plants Nouveau, ‘Gilded Lace’ had undeniable flower power with blooms from mid-June through September. Coreopsis ‘Summer Sunshine’ proved to be one of the most disease resistant of the entire trial with the highest overall rating of 4.9/5.0!

Anemone × hybrida Wild Swan™ PP23132 A perennial border is not complete without the everlasting beauty and bloom of Wild Swan™. Gently nodding white inflorescences hover above medium green foliage. The noted charm of this selection is the lovely lavenderblue accent coating the sepal exterior.

Flowers from mid-summer into autumn.

18” │ Z 5-8 │ 50

Caryopteris × clandonensis Blue Empire™ PPAF According to our friends at Plantipp, the motto of this stunning, new Caryopteris is big, blue & beautiful! We found that to be 100% true in our own trial gardens.

Long flower wands have extra-large blooms and last weeks on end. Superior low growing habit; excellent landscape and cut flower appeal.

30-40” │ Z 5-8 │ LP32

Coreopsis palustris 'Summer Sunshine' Awarded 5 stars from Mt. Cuba Center Coreopsis trial as one of the MOST disease resistant tickseeds. Vigorous mounds of foliage reach up to a sturdy 30” in height with a bright and sunny end of summer bloom that lasts a full 6 weeks. C. palustris is slower to spread and can tolerate wet roots for extended periods.

3-4’ │ Z 6-9 │ 72 + LP50

Geranium 'Azure Rush' PP22684 'Azure Rush' is low, tidy and gently fills an area with its fragrant foliage. ‘Azure Rush’ is generously covered with light blue 2.5 inch blooms. Everything that you have come to love and anticipate from ‘Rozanne’ is true + improved by her lighter blue daughter.

14-16” │ Z 5-8 │ 50

Monarda punctata spotted beebalm We adore the genus Monarda for so many of its wonderful properties including fragrance, ease of growing, willingness to naturalize an area reliably and all of the wonderful things that it can do for beneficial insects and pollinators.

Excellent for meadows and naturalistic plantings.

24-30” │ Z 3-9 │ LP50

For comprehensive information on all species evaluated in their trial, you can download The Coreopsis Research Report at http://mtcubacenter.org/.

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Athyrium otophorum eared lady fern The new foliage presents in a limeypastel and adds drama to the overall appearance of this fern. The fronds mature to a medium green creating a unique two-toned appearance through out the season. A fresh new look for shade that we think you’ll enjoy just as much as we do!

15-24” │ Z 5-10 │ LP32

Coreopsis 'Gilded Lace' Another knockout as seen in the Mt. Cuba trials, the entire plant is covered in blooms from end to end during late summer through fall. Unique lacey, fernlike foliage is mildew resistant. Prefers moist, well-drained soils in full sun. A Peter Heus selection brought to market

by Plants Nouveau.

4-5’ │ Z 5-9 │ 72 + LP50

Coreopsis tripteris 'Gold Standard' North Creek is thrilled to introduce this fabulous Mt. Cuba Center selection!

'Gold Standard' shows better garden performance than the straight species, and is approximately 1’ shorter and blooms for an additional six weeks. Flowers borne on shorter, secondary growth distribute the floral display throughout the entire habit.

5-6’ │ Z 3-8 │ LP32

Hydrangea arborescens 'Haas’ Halo' PP24783 Since incorporation into our trial gardens, this Rick Ray selection has been drawing attention from customers and pollinators alike! Deep, bluish-green, leathery foliage and 14” wide, pure white lace cap blooms make for a stunning combination in any setting. Simply put, it’s a show-stopper!

3-5’ │ Z 3-9 │ LP32

Testimonial North Creek’s availability makes them our first stop when looking for quality native plant material for our designs.

We’ve come to find both their website and Landscape Plug Manual trusted and invaluable resources for us as designers. We get great use out of the species section chart in the Manual - it helps us determine exactly which plants will thrive in our designs. If we find ourselves getting stuck and need to find substitutions, their ecological sales team is always ready to provide a solution.

Much of our work involves the use of native plants, and we’re proud to put their plugs to work in our designs.

Recently a section of turf adjacent to the LaSalle University Student Union was transformed into a beautiful garden with the help of North Creek’s Landscape Plug product line. Looking back, I remember their team going the extra mile to get what we needed on a very short turnaround from design to installation.

In addition to being knowledgeable, we enjoy doing business with North Creek because they’re FUN!

Tricyrtis formosana 'Gilt Edge' An eye-catching combination of foliage and flower, 'Gilt Edge' was selected for superior vigor and aptly named for the attractive gold margin outlining the dark green foliage. Unique, lilylike flowers are dotted in dark purple accents and appear in quantity later summer into fall.

18-24” │ Z 5-8 │ 50

Where Horticulture Meets Ecology

Tavis Dockwiller, Landscape Architect Suzanna Fabry, Director of Design ​​Viridian Landscape Studio

TRIAL + DEMONSTRATION GARDENS New Plant Principles Our plants are excellent garden and/or landscape performers in the mid-Atlantic region Our plants are not invasive or aggressive Once established in an appropriate site, our plants require no material input to maintain their ornamental value or garden worthiness

Spread across 3+ acres, our plant trialing program features extensive habitat and experimental plantings.

By evaluating species and cultivated varieties in a variety of environments, we are able not only to educate our staff, but also make the best recommendations for your ecological plantings. It is from this living laboratory that North Creek has become the industry leader in developing reliable plant solutions that thrive in a variety of site conditions.

From wet to dry, shade to sun, salt tolerance to erosion control– we’ve got the plant community your project needs to succeed!

NEONICOTINOID-FREE IPM We utilize natural and biological control agents to keep our plants disease and pest free in the greenhouses and safe for pollinators in the landscape. The North Creek way is rooted in the triple bottom line–people, planet, profit. We grow plants that provide nectar, nutrition and habitat for pollinators. Our use of beneficial insects is a frontline preventative and always the first step in our Integrated Pest Management (IPM) growing practices. ✓ Setting Action Thresholds ✓ Scouting + Identification ✓ Prevention + Control

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I look to North Creek for awesome varieties that aren’t yet mainstream, and I look to North Creek for great quality plants and consistently reliable service.

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I look to North Creek because over the years I’ve come to realize that they are my kind of people and it’s nice to like the people you do business with. I like their (presumably unspoken) “do no harm” motto. I like that they stick to their convictions even when it costs more than the easier path. I like that they evaluate potentially awesome plants long enough to discover if they truly are as awesome as they first appeared, rather than just hawk me some beautiful perennial you know I’ll fall for if you take the picture at just the right time and in just the right light.

If North Creek was a person, they would be that awesome friend I wish I got together with more often to talk about plants and birds and music and other random fun stuff over drinks.

North Creek is that rare company that stuck to what they believed in – even when it cost them more to do so – and in the process became an exceptional company filled with great people.

Paul Westervelt Annual & Perennial Production Manager Saunders Brothers, Inc.

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