ShyMoose Garden

The Garden

A living catalog of everything growing here. Pick a plant to dig into its story, quirks, and what keeps it happy.

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Upright clumps of fleshy, toothed green leaves topped with branched clusters of small yellow star-shaped flowers.

Aizoon Stonecrop

Phedimus aizoon

A non-creeping, clump-forming stonecrop with fleshy leaves and branched clusters of yellow flowers in early summer.

Tall spike of large red and white bicolor bell-shaped penstemon flowers.

Arabesque Red Penstemon

Penstemon hartwegii Arabesque® Red

An award-winning penstemon covered all summer in large, bell-shaped red-and-white blooms that hummingbirds adore.

Tall, slender spires of fluffy creamy-white black cohosh flowers rising against a blue sky.

Black Cohosh

Actaea racemosa

An upright native woodland perennial that sends tall, candle-like spires of fluffy white flowers high above attractive ferny foliage.

Bright orange double-flowered calendula bloom with densely packed petals.

Calendula

Calendula officinalis 'Geisha Girl'

A cheerful, easy-to-grow annual with edible gold, orange, and red flowerheads that bloom from spring into summer.

Tomatoes ripening on the vine on a leafy plant (representative photo).

Carbon Tomato

Solanum lycopersicum 'Carbon'

A richly flavored black heirloom beefsteak with meaty texture and dark, olive-shouldered fruit that resists cracking.

Bright pink-purple Rhododendron dauricum flowers blooming on bare stems in a sunlit pine forest.

Dahurian Rhododendron

Rhododendron dauricum

A hardy, early-blooming deciduous rhododendron that covers its bare twigs in bright rosy-purple flowers in late winter to early spring, before the leaves appear.

Eastern redbud tree covered in rosy pink-purple flowers against a clear blue sky in early spring.

Eastern Redbud

Cercis canadensis

A small native understory tree that erupts in clouds of rosy pink-purple flowers along its bare branches in early spring, followed by heart-shaped leaves.

A tall, dense, conical emerald arborvitae growing in a park.

Emerald Arborvitae

Thuja occidentalis 'Emerald'

A narrow, conical evergreen prized as a low-maintenance hedge, screen, or specimen with dense, year-round green foliage.

Arching green stems of giant Solomon's seal lined with broad leaves and dangling white bell-shaped flowers.

Giant Solomon's Seal

Polygonatum biflorum var. commutatum

A bold native woodland perennial with tall, arching stems lined with broad leaves and rows of dangling, greenish-white bell-shaped flowers.

Close-up of dense silvery-blue needles of a dwarf globe blue spruce.

Globe Blue Spruce

Picea pungens 'Glauca Globosa'

A slow-growing dwarf conifer that forms a tidy mound of intensely silvery-blue needles, bringing year-round color and structure to small gardens and rockeries.

A whole mounded dwarf false cypress shrub with bright golden, thread-like weeping foliage.

Golden Mop False Cypress

Chamaecyparis pisifera 'Golden Mop'

A slow-growing dwarf conifer with bright golden, thread-like foliage that mounds into a soft, mop-like shape.

Corsican hellebore with leathery, toothed evergreen leaves and clusters of pale yellow-green cup-shaped flowers.

Green Hellebore

Helleborus argutifolius

An evergreen hellebore with leathery, toothed foliage and pale yellow-green cups that nod through the bleakest part of winter.

Glossy small-leaved Ilex crenata foliage studded with shiny black berries.

Japanese Holly

Ilex crenata

A dense, fine-textured evergreen shrub with small glossy leaves and black berries — an easygoing, shearable boxwood alternative for hedges and foundation plantings.

Drooping chains of waxy, white urn-shaped Japanese pieris flowers against glossy evergreen leaves.

Japanese Pieris

Pieris japonica

A broadleaf evergreen shrub prized for coppery-red new growth and drooping chains of fragrant, white urn-shaped flowers in spring.

A whole Japanese Snowball shrub covered in round, white pom-pom flower clusters in spring.

Japanese Snowball

Viburnum plicatum

A large deciduous shrub famous for the showy, white pom-pom flowers that line its branches each spring.

Flat-topped cluster of small rosy-pink Spiraea japonica flowers in summer.

Japanese Spiraea

Spiraea japonica

A tough, compact deciduous shrub smothered in flat-topped clusters of rosy-pink flowers through summer, beloved by butterflies and easy to grow almost anywhere.

A single orange-yellow Ligularia dentata daisy flower with a dark purple bud below it.

Leopard Plant

Ligularia dentata

A bold, moisture-loving shade perennial grown for big rounded leaves and clusters of orange-yellow daisy flowers on dark stems in late summer.

Upright spikes of tubular pink obedient plant flowers opening from the bottom up.

Obedient Plant

Physostegia virginiana

A native perennial with showy spikes of pink, purple, or white flowers — each bloom can be nudged into place and stays put.

A full clump of upright orpine stems with fleshy green leaves in a garden bed.

Orpine

Hylotelephium telephium

An upright succulent perennial whose fleshy stems are crowned in late summer with dense clusters of pink to ruby flowers.

Cluster of dusky purple cherry tomatoes with metallic green striping on the vine.

Purple Bumble Bee Tomato

Solanum lycopersicum 'Bumble Bee Purple'

A striking cherry tomato in dusky purple with metallic green stripes — sweet, meaty, and high-yielding.

A leafy rose of Sharon shrub in a garden covered with blue-lavender flowers.

Rose of Sharon

Hibiscus syriacus 'Notwoodthree'

A deciduous shrub with large, tropical-looking blue blooms — sold as Blue Chiffon® — that flower from spring into summer.

A sprawling cucumber plant in a garden bed with a long, slender green cucumber on the vine.

Shintokiwa Cucumber

Cucumis sativus 'Shintokiwa'

A vigorous Japanese cucumber with long, slender, thin-skinned fruit that stays sweet, crisp, and bitter-free even when large.

Mound of fleshy blue-green succulent leaves, the plant that produces flat pink flower heads in fall.

Showy Stonecrop

Hylotelephium spectabile

A drought-tough succulent whose flat heads of pink, star-shaped flowers light up the late-summer garden and feed pollinators.

A clump of dense, upright spikes of small blue-purple speedwell flowers.

Spiked Speedwell

Veronica spicata

An upright, clump-forming perennial topped with dense spikes of star-shaped blue flowers that bees and butterflies love.

A truss of small yellow-orange cherry tomatoes ripening on the vine.

Sunrise Bumble Bee Tomato

Solanum lycopersicum 'Bumble Bee Sunrise'

A high-vigor cherry tomato with sweet, yellow-and-red bicolor fruit — one of the sweetest in the Artisan collection.

A long, slender, ribbed Suyo Long cucumber hanging on the vine among green leaves.

Suyo Long Cucumber

Cucumis sativus 'Suyo Long'

An heirloom Chinese cucumber with long, ribbed, sweet, bitter-free fruit that thrives in hot weather — about 61 days.

Fruit developing on a tomato plant, with green tomatoes and flowers on the vine (representative photo).

Ukrainian Purple Tomato

Solanum lycopersicum 'Ukrainian Purple'

A sweet, savory heirloom plum tomato in purply-black, with meaty, crack-resistant fruit that's excellent for sauce.

Two long, glossy, dark green Unagi cucumbers hanging from the vine in a greenhouse.

Unagi Cucumber

Cucumis sativus 'Unagi'

A glossy, spineless, seedless slicing cucumber that produces crisp, straight fruit in abundance — ready in about 55 days.

Tall, narrow weeping blue spruce with cascading silvery-blue branches in a parkland setting.

Weeping Blue Spruce

Picea pungens 'Pendula'

A dramatic, sculptural conifer with silvery-blue needles and branches that cascade downward, taking whatever shape it is trained to — narrow and upright or low and sprawling.

Dense stand of Salvia nemorosa with upright spikes of violet-blue flowers.

Woodland Sage

Salvia nemorosa

A clump-forming hardy perennial sending up dense spikes of violet-blue flowers in early summer — a magnet for bees that reblooms readily when deadheaded.

A wide bed of threadleaf tickseed covered in masses of small golden-yellow daisy-like flowers above airy green foliage.

Zagreb Tickseed

Anacis verticillata 'Zagreb'

A compact threadleaf tickseed that forms airy mounds of fine foliage topped with cheerful gold, daisy-like flowers all summer.