Family grown perennials and annuals at Roberta's Unique Gardens

Groundcovering plants may play the most important role in the gardenscape. Acting like a living mulch, they help conserve water, reduce weeds, and blanket the soil, all the while creating a very finished look in the garden. This collection of Golden Angelina, Tricolor, (variegated foliage) and Red Dragon Stonecrop brings the top performers not only do all that, but they do so in style bring large swathes of color all year long. Plant along walkways, at the front of borders, in rock gardens, at the base of other sun loving perennials or in containers. Evergreen, winter hardy, drought tolerant, deer resistant.  

Flowers as big as a polar bear?! Almost! This brand new panicle Hydrangea is taking the world by storm, producing the largest flowers ever seen on a Hydrangea, beating all the current, popular Hydrangeas out there. Huge, football sized conical blooms begin to flower in mid summer as a lime green before transitioning to a polar bear white and finally a light pink. Plants are a medium sized 4-6’ tall and wide. Add to the back of the bed, shrub borders, specimen plant, or grow a few into a flowering hedge. Very winter hardy.

Bring the look and taste of the Mediterranean to your home by growing the Arbequina Olive Tree. This low maintenance plant will live for decades creating an essential accent to your home décor. Its elegant branching and silvery evergreen foliage has a striking look anywhere it’s growing. And once your plants are fully established they’ll start to produce your very own tasty, buttery olives! Best grown outside in the summer and indoors in the winter, welcome this lovely container plant to your home and family! Drought, heat & pest resistant.

The most fun lavender collection yet! Each pot contains both ‘Big Time Blue’ & ‘Big Time White’ Lavender planted together. Beloved for their very compact lavender only growing 1-2’ tall and wide. While it is a small growing lavender, it produces some of the thickest, biggest blooms of any lavender we’ve ever grown, typically blooming a month before other Lavenders. Enjoy both rich indigo blue and creamy white with the iconic fragrance we all love. This English lavender is winter hardy and drought tolerant. Perfect for edges, borders, walkways and containers. 

The cutest flower in the garden just got cuter! Brand new Cheeky Series Gerber Daisies bring compact WINTER HARDY gerbers with cheeky mini flowers that bloom from late spring to frost! Expect many more flowers on your plants than you’ve ever had on a gerber before. Jewel like colors are non-fading and will drive the pollinators crazy with the sheer quantity of blooms. Tough performers resist disease and do great in the garden or in containers. Four colors: Magenta, Hot Pink, Red, Yellow. Roberta’s is first to bring them to USA.

Perfecto Mundo is a BRAND NEW Pink Double Petaled richly colored Azalea that doesn’t just bloom in the spring and hibernate the rest of the year. After its spring flowers, they take a rest before blooming again from summer to frost! One of the longest bloomers on the market! And they’re very resistant to pesky lacebugs and other common Azalea pests. This dense 3-4’ shrub grows well in sun or part shade. A true joy to incorporate in every landscape.

Form, function, beauty and edibility all rolled into one! When gardeners grow sweet potato vines they often do so year after year because they’re such strong performers filling out beds and mixed containers quickly and beautifully. But this collection brings 2 brand new sweet potato vines that don’t just produce awesome heart shaped foliage, at the end of the growing season there will be tasty, edible sweet potatoes hidden like treasure for you to find! Includes Manihi with deep purple leaves and Makatea with chartreuse foliage.

There are so many reasons to be excited about the new Rise Up™ series of climbing roses from Proven Winners ColorChoice Shrubs. These lovely roses referred to as "mini climbers" have a short yet tidy habit that's easily controlled in the garden. Rather than a true, over powering climbing rose, they're more tidy and compact and much more manageable in the garden.  Expect nothing less than vigorous growth, disease-resistant foliage, and sheer flower power from this new series. The exceptionally fragrant flowers of the Rise Up climbing rose are hard to miss in the landscape!  This Emberays™ orange climbing rose produces glowing orange and yellow multi-colored blossoms continuously throughout summertime. It is a long bloomer with a pleasant fragrance and it's deer resistant.

WOW! Every garden needs groundcovers, and no groundcover produces the color or flower power like the WOW Series Ice Plant. This succulent winter hardy groundcover begins blooming large, jewel-like flowers in three hot colors in early summer and continues till frost! They're drought and heat tolerant and can go weeks without water and they’ll be fine. Plant along walkways, amongst perennials, in rock gardens, slopes or gravel patches. Included in the Wheels of Wonder Ice plant collection are the colors of Hot Pink, Hot Orange, and Limoncello and they're planted in an easy cut and plant cocofiber tray. 

Cannas transport any gardener to an exotic locale with their lush growth and tropical flower spikes. Roberta's Durban Canna produces the most colorful foliage of any cannas we've seen! It produces vibrant striping of burgundy, green, and orange all up and down the foliage with shoots of bright orange flower spikes in mid-summer. It's exceptionally pretty when the sun is glowing through the foliage. Durban is an incredible specimen that will illuminate your garden wherever you put it. Next is canna 'Pretoria' also known as Bengal Tiger or canna 'Striata' and this one really lives up to its name! It has striped foliage or alternating rows of green and cream with large, bright orange flowres atop purplish-red stems. The Royal Horticultural Society named this spectacular canna the Award of Garden Merit in 2002! Cannas look stunning in the garden as a focal point or simply massed up along walls or hedges! They're also fantastic on the patio or gathering areas as they're well suited for container growing as well. This collection includes 1 each in live plants of Durban and Bengal Tiger. 

Sungro® Organic potting mix is made from the finest ingredients and is an all purpose mix recommended for gardens, containers and raised beds while ensuring good aeration! It's recommended for use on annuals, perennials, bedding plants, hanging baskets and windowboxes, houseplants, indoor containers, outdoor containers, raised beds and vegetables and herbs. 

Imagine having a Lilac that blooms in the spring and fall! That's exactly what the Bloomerang reblooming lilac from Proven Winners® will bring to your garden producing its iconic, fragrant dark purple blooms repeatedly! It's also a dwarf Lilac meaning it will only grow to about 4-6' tall, making it accessible for more gardens than ever before. Easily considered the most floriferous reblooming Lilac on the market! Very winter hardy and deer resistant too! The Bloomerang series of reblooming lilacs has come a long way since the originals, and there's no better evidence of that than Bloomerang Ballet® lilac. It's one of the strongest and most prolific rebloomers yet! It takes a brief rest then comes roaring back with a heavy set of pinkish-purple flowers in late summer through fall. It's shorter than the dark purple variety as it grows upwards of 3-4' tall and wide. 

Transport yourself to a tropical beach with this ‘PassionFruit’ Lantana. Not only do the colors of the blooms look like a tropical fruit salad, but the flowers smell like a fresh passion fruit! You’ll have to grow to believe. Flowers bloom in multiple colors such a pinks, oranges, and yellows and begin in early summer and continue till the first frost. Its natural trailing habit makes it a winner in hanging baskets.

The Sombrero® series of echinacea is a terrific hybrid coneflower which is extremely popular for its heavy flowering traits and wonderful growth characteristics! This series is more compact, well-branched, with strong, sturdy stems and no flopping, while blooming early with improved flower color even when they begin to fade. These coneflowers are tidy, well organized, filling out quicky and they provide fantastic color all summer long even in the first season! This set includes 1 each of Sombrero® Hot coral, Baja Burgundy, and Adobe Orange.  

Tres Amigos Echinacea produces multi-colored flowers on well-branched compact growth. The blossoms emerges peach, then turn to magenta and finishes off in rich burgundy making for very colorful display throughout summertime! The Sombrero® series of echinacea is a terrific hybrid coneflower which is extremely popular for its heavy flowering traits and wonderful growth characteristics! The Tres This series is more compact, well-branched, with strong, sturdy stems and no flopping, while blooming early with improved flower color even when they begin to fade. These coneflowers are tidy, well organized, filling out quicky and they provide fantastic color all summer long even in the first season!