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| New landscape rating system released
| Sustainable Sites Initiative issues call for pilot projects.
| | Get Growing | Last week a partnership of the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA), the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center at The University of Texas at Austin and the U.S. Botanic Garden released the nation's first rating system for the design, construction and maintenance of sustainable landscapes, with or without buildings. |
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| Color: TigerEye Rudbeckia
| | Get Growing | | As an F1 hybrid, TigerEye offers branching, abundant and large blooms, long-lasting garden performance and reduced sensitivity to Powdery Mildew. |
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| Tree: Thuja Green Giant
| | Get Growing | | Green Giant is a fast growing, pyramid-shaped evergreen that has no serious pest or disease problems. |
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| Color: Storm series Agapanthus
| | Get Growing | | Snowstorm blooms up to three weeks earlier and longer than most Agapanthus, flowering on average 70 days per season. |
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| Color: Snow Princess Lobularia
| | Get Growing | | This sterile alyssum blooms throughout the summer, delivering fragrant white flowers in containers and landscape plantings. |
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| Tree: Baby Grand Magnolia
| | Get Growing | | A discovery from Anthony Tesselaar International in Australia, this dwarf evergreen Magnolia has a very rounded form, making it well-suited to smaller landscapes. |
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