The Proven Winners® plant brand has introduced some of the best, most unique, and high performing plants since 1992. Their plants are well-known for flowering, growth habit, disease resistance, and garden performance. The Proven Winners® ColorChoice® series is one of the most recognized brands in flowering shrubs and produces many of our personal favorites. Come in and check out our awesome selection of ColorChoice® shrubs, available now. You’ll find many beautiful varieties of butterfly bush, hydrangeas, roses, spirea, and many more. Here are a few great options to consider:
Beyond Midnight® Bluebeard Caryopteris
Caryopteris x clandonensis
Beyond Midnight® features extremely dark, glossy foliage, a compact habit, and deep blue flowers. It adds much-needed color to the late summer landscape and makes a handsome companion with perennial flowers. This plant is long blooming, heat and drought tolerant, and does not require deadheading. Beyond Midnight® is a favorite with pollinators of all types and you’ll love it too!
- Height: 2’ – 2.5’
- Spread: 2’ – 2.5’
- Hardiness Zones: 5-9
- Flower Color: Rich blue
- Foliage Color: Dark glossy green
- Sunlight: Full Sun (6+ hours)
Lemony Lace® Elderberry
Sambucus racemosa
A bright and stylish plant with an easy-going nature, Lemony Lace® offers finely dissected foliage but in a cheery gold color to really light up your landscape. This North American native produces big clusters of white flowers in early spring before the foliage emerges, then bright yellow leaves take over, edged in red. As the foliage ages, it turns an attractive chartreuse. Though it is a large plant, it can be pruned to stay smaller if you’d like. Lemony Lace was a People’s Choice Award winner at the 2014 Farwest Horticulture Trade Show, Lemony Lace Sambucus also won a Green Thumb Award from the Direct Gardening Association.
- Height: 4’ – 7’
- Spread: 4’ – 7’
- Hardiness Zones: 3-7
- Flower Color: White
- Foliage Color: Golden with red new growth
- Sunlight: Full Sun (6+ hours), Part Sun (4-6 hours)
‘Miss Molly’ Butterfly Bush
Buddleia x
With its intensely colored blooms and refined habit, ‘Miss Molly’ is the queen of the summer garden. Its fragrant flowers are the closest to red of any butterfly bush and appear for months every summer without deadheading. Unlike older varieties of butterfly bush, ‘Miss Molly’ reaches just 4-5′ tall, so it’s easy to work into any sunny landscape. This non-invasive variety thrives in hot climates. Butterflies and hummingbirds will find it as irresistible as you do!
- Height: 4’ – 5’
- Spread: 4’ – 5’
- Hardiness Zones: 5-9
- Flower Color: Ruby red-pink
- Foliage Color: Green
- Sunlight: Full Sun (6+ hours)
Double Play® Candy Corn® Spirea
Spiraea japonica
Meet the newest and most colorful Proven Winners spirea, Double Play® Candy Corn®. The show starts in early spring when the new growth emerges bright candy apple red. As it matures, it turns pineapple yellow, and the new growth continues to emerge bright orange all season. Top it off with dark purple flowers in late spring/early summer, and you’ve got a display you really have to see to believe.
- Height: 1.5’ – 2’
- Spread: 1.5’ – 2.5’
- Hardiness Zones: 4-8
- Flower Color: Purple
- Foliage Color: Orange, Red, Yellow
- Sunlight: Part Sun to Sun (4-6 hours)
Double Play® Doozie® Spirea
Spiraea x
Double Play® Doozie® is a ground-breaking spirea that is seedless, non-invasive and a non-stop bloomer. Its foliage emerges in deep red in early spring. By late spring, the flowers begin to emerge, a bright, glowing purple-red that truly sings in the landscape. And as summer comes on, the show doesn’t stop: it just keeps flowering, and flowering, and flowering. Because it produces no seeds, it puts all of its energy into flowering! It does it all with the same good looks, drought tolerance, and deer resistance that you expect from spirea, too.
- Height: 2’ – 3’
- Spread: 2’ – 3’
- Hardiness Zones: 3-8
- Flower Color: Red
- Foliage Color: Green
- Sunlight: Part Sun to Sun (4-6 hours)
Double Play ® Blue Kazoo® Spirea
Spiraea media
Flowers, foliage, and easy care – Double Play® Blue Kazoo® spirea has it all! Its cool blue foliage emerges in a range of shifting hues through the season: red, pink, purple, and green. In early summer, very large white flower clusters appear. Like other spireas, you can count on Double Play® Blue Kazoo® to look great while needing minimal care. It grows well in lightly shaded conditions (four-six hours of sun or filtered light all day), and is generally unbothered by deer. Not fussy about soil or watering.
- Height: 2’ – 3’
- Spread: 2’ – 3’
- Hardiness Zones: 3-8
- Flower Color: White
- Foliage Color: Blue, Green, Red
- Sunlight: Part Sun to Sun (4-6 hours)
Double Play® Dolly™ Spirea
Spiraea x
Embrace a bold aesthetic with Double Play® Dolly™ spirea! The big color arrives early in spring as the new foliage fills in, lighting the small shrub up with blazing orange-red color. Foliage matures to a dazzling chartreuse color and in late spring, equally dazzling electric purple blooms arrive to make a truly eye-popping color combo. Its compact size fits nicely at the front of the border as edging or low hedging.
- Height: 1.5’ – 2.5’
- Spread: 1.5’ – 2.5’
- Hardiness Zones: 3-8
- Flower Color: Purple
- Foliage Color: Yellow
- Sunlight: Part Sun to Sun (4-6 hours)
We have many varieties of Proven Winners flowering shrubs currently available with the rest arriving throughout the month of August. Please call or stop by to check for availability.
Originally published on August 1st, 2018. Updated on August 1st, 2023.