Mill Creek Plant Nursery - Landscape Design - plant retailers, gardeners, Wadsworth, Illinois

SHADE TREES
Autumn Blaze FreemanMaple * Norway Maple-in several forms * Red Sunset Red Maple * Green Mountain Sugar Maple * Autumn Purple White Ash * Kentucky Coffeetree Sterling Silver Linden Redmond American Linden Hackberry Shademaster Honeylocust	Cimarron Green Ash * Patmore Green Ash Summit Green Ash Bur Oak Swamp White Oak Swamp White x Bur Oak hybr. River Birch Whitespire Birch Hedge Maple * Skyline Honeylocust

While generally lesser in overall visual mass, height, and mature growth size than most shade trees, ornamental trees add a special flavor to a landscape and are every bit as important as their “big brothers.”

They may do this with the flowers they provide, the unique or interesting growth shape they may exhibit, or perhaps the attractive fruit they bear which provides both summer and winter interest. Some are available as single-stem trees, while others have been grown in a multi-stem or clump form. Mill Creek’s offerings in this category will include:

ORNAMENTAL TREES
Chanticleer ornamental Pear * Thornless Cockspur Hawthorne * Washington Hawthorne * Autumn Brilliance Serviceberry * Fastigiate English Oak Japanese Tree Lilac	Prairiefire ornamental Crabapple Tina sargent ornamental Crabapple Robinson ornamental Crabapple Sugartyme ornamental Crabapple Spring Snow ornamental Crabapple Leprechaun Dwarf Green Ash

* These trees exhibit varying degrees of fall foliage color, ranging from nice to excellent.

This group of trees carries year-round interest. During the summer they serve as a nice green backdrop for our bright flowerbeds. In the fall they provide a solid green setting to accent the color of the changing leaves on trees around them. Throughout the winter they are very picturesque to look at, especially just after they receive a fresh, clean, white coat of snow. No yard is complete without several of them!

Our evergreen tree offerings for 2004 will range anywhere in size from 8 foot to 14 foot tall, and will be available starting in late April. Come early for best selection! Some of the varieties will include:

EVERGREEN TREES
Norway Spruce Serbian Spruce Scotch Pine	Blue Colorado Spruce Green Colorado Spruce Austrian Pine

Like their taller relatives mentioned above, evergreen shrubs serve their multi-season purpose as a nice green accent to other plants around them. Based on the form of evergreen you choose, you can add a formal accent with some Boxwood, a nice hedge effect with some Arborvitae, or plant some low-growing Junipers on either side of the front walk and intersperse them with some flowering shrubs and perennials - they’ll always make a planting area look better, just by being there!

EVERGREEN SHRUBS
Green Velvet Boxwood Mission Arborvitae Kallay Compact Juniper Japanese Dwf. Garden Juniper Emerald Green Euonymus Hicks upright Yew	Spreading Yew Dark Green, or Nigra Arborvitae Sea Green Juniper Blue Rug Juniper Euonymus Sarcoxie Goldstar Chinese Juniper

Having fun so far? Now comes my favorite class of woody plants: the ornamental shrubs! Aside from plants in the perennial category, this group of plants offers the greatest diversity of features, of all the remaining plant classes!

There are shrubs that bloom with the most exquisite fragrances, shrubs that offer superb fall foliage color, shrubs that will tolerate quite a bit of shade and still look great, shrubs that bloom early in the season, and shrubs that bloom late in the season! The list goes on and on, because there are so many to choose from!

Typically, these are deciduous plants, although some may have some degree of leaf or foliage retention during the winter. Here’s just a preview of some of this season’s coming attractions at Mill Creek:

EARLY SPRING INTEREST SHRUBS
Forsythia Bronxensis (low growing) Grefsheim Spirea Dwarf Korean Lilac	Minn. Snowflake MockorangeDark Sensation Lilac Dwarf Fothergilla *

LATE SPRING / EARLY SUMMER INTEREST SHRUBS
Henry’s Garnet Virginia Sweetspire * Autumn Jazz Arrowwood Viburnum * Compact European Cranberry Viburnum * Dwarf Arctic Blueleaf Willow Magic Carpet Japanese Spirea * Birchleaf Spirea * Corkscrew Willow Red Regal Arrowwood Viburnum * Wine & Roses Weigela Minuet Weigela Red Sprite Winterberry Holly Wentworth American Cranberry Viburnum * Brilliantissima Red Chokeberry *	Cardinal Red Twig Dogwood Nanking Cherry Carolina Allspice * Ural False Spirea * Sunday Chinese Lilac Hakuro Nishiki Dappled Willow Knockout Shrub Rose Nearly Wild Shrub Rose Carefree Sunshine Shrub Rose Van Houtte Spirea Grow Low Sumac * Purpleleaf Sandcherry *

MID-SUMMER INTEREST SHRUBS
First Choice Caryopteris Oak Leaf Hydrangea * Summersweet Clethra * Nikko Blue Hydrangea Purple Buddleia	Diabolo Eastern Ninebark * Oregon Grapeholly Annabelle Smooth Hydrangea Roseum Common Snowball Viburnum * Dark Blue Buddleia

LATE SUMMER INTEREST SHRUBS

Rose of Sharon - 3 different flower colors!
Pink Diamonds Panicle Hydrangea
Endless Summer Panicle Hydrangea
Shrubby St. Johnswort

* These shrubs exhibit varying degrees of fall foliage color, ranging from average to superb!

The majority of our shrubs are being grown in 3 or 5-gallon containers, or pots. Some of our shrubs are grown out in our fields and will be available in a balled & burlapped (B&B) format. With such a broad assortment to select from, you will have no problem finding several different shrubs that will look just fantastic in your yard!

When you come out to visit us, make sure to talk to our knowledgeable staff regarding the many wonderful attributes of these shrubs and how your yard can benefit from their multi-season appeal!

This group of shrubs is made up of plants that may require a little more handholding and attention to detail, than some of the shrubs mentioned above. But what they can offer in return in enhancing your yard’s appeal, they’re worth it! The specialty shrubs that Mill Creek will be offering this spring will encompass the following:

SPECIALTY SHRUBS
PJM Elite Rhododendron April Rose Rhododendron Aglo Rhododendron Japanese Red Maple var. Bloodgood Japanese Red Maple var. Dissectum	Weston’s Pink Diamonds Rhododen Madison Snow Rhododendron April Dawn Rhododendron Carol Mackii Daphne

Our perennial selection planned for this year is going to be outstanding, and a wider selection than we’ve ever offered before! When chosen carefully, perennials can provide color in your yard throughout the entire summer.

Sometimes it’s not the flowers on a plant that provides drama and impact in your planting beds, but rather the foliage. Hostas’ are the perfect example of this concept. Mixing and matching blooming times, foliage color and texture, plant growth habit - these are all variables that can make for a very innovative and uniquely designed perennial planting!

There is insufficient space here to list all the perennials we are growing this year (you have to come out and visit us to do that!), but let us “tempt your taste buds” with these considerations:

PERENNIALS

Hot Lips Turtlehead
Lucifer Crocosmia
Heavenly Habit Jacob’s Ladder
Raspberry Ice Coral Bells
Golden Fleece Solidago
Blue Hill Salvia
Can Can Coral Bells
Verbena bonariensis
Sweet Woodruff
Blue select Lobelia
Corsican Pearlwort
Red Dragon Persicaria
Little Spire Russian Sage
Becky Shasta Daisies
Wedding Bells Campanula
Wooly Creeping Thyme
Summer Sorbet Verbascum
Karl Rosenfield Peonies
Duchesse de Nemours Peonies
Blue Angel Hosta
Ligularia Othello
Baptisia
Mariesi Blue Balloonflower
Elegans varig. Porcelainberry Vine

Royal Heritage Helleborus/Lenten Rose
Prinz Heinrich fall blooming Anemone
Bertram Anderson Pulmonaria
Chocolate Ruffles Coral Bells
Jack Frost Bugloss Siberian Forget-me-nots
Pamina fall blooming Anemone
Miyazaki Gold Japanese Toadlily
Plumbago
Queen Victoria Lobelia
Mandrake Mayapple
John Profitt Delosperma
Yellow Flowering Missouri Primrose
Longin Russian Sage
Crazy Daisy Shasta Daisies
Blue Butterfly Delphinium
Amber Waves Coral Bells
Royal Candles Veronica
Sarah Bernhardt Peonies
Krossa Regal Hosta
Albo-Marginata var. Hosta
Ligularia przewalskii
Party Girl Sidalcea
Shell Pink Balloonflower
Auslese Lady’s Mantle

ORNAMENTAL GRASSES
Autumn Flame Jap. Moudry Black Fountain Grass Papyrus Grass (for ponds) Prairie Switch Grass	Hameln Dwarf Fountain Grass Moudry Shenandoah Prairie Switch Grass Gracillimus Japanese Maiden Grass Strictus Feather Reed Grass

Let us show you the secret that can bring paradise right into your own back yard! As a new feature this year, Mill Creek Nursery & Garden Center will begin to carry aquatic plants to plant in and around your pool, or water features. These will be made available in late April to early May, based upon the weather at that time. Call the Garden Center at 847 - 838 - 0501 to find out what varieties will be available at that time!

Come out this year to review the 50 acres of Nursery fields, and enjoy walking thru our ever-changing Garden Center! Let your imagination be your guide. With so many different plants to choose from, in so many different categories, shapes and sizes, you can’t help but find something that will look just right in your home landscape!