Fast Growing Plants

This hardy evergreen shrub has long-blooming white flowers and responds well to pruning.

In the early spring it leafs out with a lush bright green. The fall color of 'Seiryu' encompasses shades of light to deep scarlet red. 

This hybrid maple is an excellent choice for a street or shade tree. Brilliant red, orange fall color.

A distinctly upright and fast growing shade tree.  An excellent choice for a narrow area.  Yellow to orange yellow fall color.

Great for training on a fence, arbor or walls, but also good as ground cover in shady woodland gardens.

Vigorous, highly adaptable vine with large orange showy flowers.

Dark purple flowers accent a background of green foliage on this large, flowering plant. Will bloom continuously through the summer if spent flowers are removed.

Dark lavender flowers on a moderate growing Butterfly Bush with finer-textured foliage. A good choice for summer long interest in the landscape.

A versatile ornamental grass with purplish plumes and deep green foliage. 

This is the largest and fastest growing evergreens used for screening and can be used where an 'instant' screen is needed.

Large white double flowers with heart shaped petals. Vigorous, upright grower provides an excellent vertical accent.

This showy sedge is a great accent for partly shady gardens, and deer will leave it alone.

This bright and lively, clumping sedge does well in the shade.

White flowering clematis.

This purple flowering clematis produces many flowers.

White blooming native dogwood.

Beautiful silver blue foliage, more finely textured than Blue Ice.  Prefers it hot and dry.

This hardy plant makes a great screen, somewhat irregular in appearance but becomes an impenetrable hedge in time. Silver gray foliage and fragrant flowers are a plus for this screen plant.

An excellent choice for a border or mass planting, the bright show of yellows flowers in mass are breathtaking.    

This evergreen vine blooms heavily in the spring and in the fall with sporadic yellow flowers during the summer.  Grows slightly slower than Carolina Jasmine.

Wonderful yellow leaves with a wide green margin.

This shrub will provide loads of flowers to dress up the landscape and the table.

Tough, tall evergreen ideal for the shrub border or as hedge. Heat and drought tolerant. 

The Eastern Red Cedar is a great choice when a simple evergreen tree is needed in the landscape.

Beautiful vase-shaped and spreading habit.

A nice size for a hedge or screen.

Large shrub or tree perfect for mass planting or as a specimen.

A large shrub or tree with loads of character.

Crinkly white flower clusters are produced on nearly every branch tip.

This hardy Lantana has a multicolor flower head with yellow, orange, and pink petals.

Easy-to-grow shrub and very versatile.

Adds form, adaptability and color contrast to the landscape.

A truly remarkable Sweetgum that stays columnar in form, typically spreading no wider than 6'.

Fast-growing tree adding about 2' per year.

Vigorous ground cover with lavender flowers followed by black berries. 

Use trained on a support or allow to trail on the ground.

Lush, purple foliage is the darkest of all and retains color all season.

Excellent shade tree for the large yard with pyramidal habit.

Trunk is bigger at the base much like an elephant foot and the bark is attractive, sometimes shaggy, but interesting at best.

A year-round feature for the landscape.

The scent of the foliage is most evident in the spring.

Fragrant tea olive with orange flowers.

This fast growing evergreen shrub is ideal for hedges and screens. The new growth glows a bright red.

Prefers moist, well-drained soils.

Fruits heavily in alternate years.

Great tree for naturalizing in clay soils that do not drain so well.