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Garden*Hood was awarded "Best New Plant Plant Source" by Atlanta Magazine. The
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 “Garden*Hood may not be as large as a Pike or as affordable as a big box store, but they make up for it with their funky selection of specialty plants and incredibly knowledgeable and eager staff. This Grant Park gem, with its turquoise-painted garden beds and chicken coops, is the place to go for unique finds sure to make your gardener friends green with envy.”
Thanks y'all!
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Hours of Operation
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By popular demand, Garden*Hood is now open on Tuesdays!
Tuesday-Sunday, 10:00 am to 6:00 pm.
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Featured Plants
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 | | Bergenia ciliataThis rarely offered plant has been one of our best selling shade perennials in 2010! Medium-green, fuzzy foliage emerges in spring and continues to grow (each leaf reaching nearly saucer size!), short spikes of pinky-white flowers rise just above foliage in mid-spring. Dies back to the ground in winter, re-emerges in spring. Clump forming, 1' high x 2-3' wide. Best in shade and amended, well-drained soil. |
Camellia sasanqua 'Tiny Princess'This special Camellia is rarely offered. Its miniature semi-double, pink-and-white fragrant flowers come in profusion in late winter. This form will eventually making a large shrub, perfect for the shade border and well-amended soil. Photo by Randy Emmitt rlephoto.com | |  |
 | | Carex morrowii 'Ice Dance'This evergreen groundcover sedge has great foliage! Strappy, medium-green leaves are striped with a clean white edge and complement just about anything! Use 'Ice Dance' in containers, around stepping stones, or with ferns, Hosta or Heuchera! Grows 1' high x 2-3' wide. Best in partial shade and amended, well-drained soil. |
Gardenia 'Frostproof'This terrific plant produces literally "hundreds" of sweetly fragrant, double white flowers from spring through summer. 'Frost Proof' Gardenias are one of the better forms for Atlanta gardens because of their extra cold-hardiness. Site in sun to partial shade and amended, well-drained soil. | |  |
 | | Heuchera 'Georgia Peach'WOW! This new H. villosa (our native coral bell) has BIG, evergreen peachy-red leaves! Great in well-drained containers or massed in the partial shade to shade garden! Grows 1' high x 2' wide. Plants are topped by 2' dainty stalks of white flowers in late summer. |
Hydrangea paniculata 'Little Lime'A NEW DWARF form of the ever popular ‘Limelight’ Hydrangea. All the durability of a peegee (sun tolerance, blooms on new wood, gorgeous green-white summer blooms) but 1/3 the size! Great for small gardens! 3' x 3'. | |  |
 | | Koelreuteria bipinnataK. bipinnata makes a small tree (20-30' high x less wide). Large, loose clusters of yellow flowers are followed by papery fruit capsules in shades of orange, red & salmon that resemble little Japanese lanterns in the fall. Best in sun to partial shade and average soil. |
Thelypteris decursive-pinnataThis deciduous fern is a vigorous grower and one of our favorites! Unique, eye-catching bright green foliage is perfectly at home in rock walls, a border, or in a mass planting. Best sited in part shade and consistently moist soil. | |  |
 | | Cyrtomium falcatumSuperb evergreen fern...great texture! This Japanese native grows happily in southern shade gardens with moist to average soil. Grows 2' high, mature plants can have a 4' spread! Useful as a foundation planting or in groupings. |
Viburnum cinnamomifoliumYet another durable quick evergreen for shade is the underutilized and rarely offered, Viburnum cinnamomifolium. This shrub commonly reaches 10-15' high and wide. Glossy evergreen foliage and white spring flowers. Terrific in partial shade to shade and average to poor soil. | |  |
 | | Viburnum x pragenseThis fast growing, EVERGREEN Viburnum is one of our best selling shrubs! Prague Viburnum reaches 6-10' high and wide. It blooms in early spring with pretty pink buds that open to creamy white, spicy scented flowers. Thrives in average soil and partial shade to shade. |
Thuja koraiensis 'Glauca Prostrata'This low-growing evergreen makes a superb foundation planting or evergreen centerpiece in a container! Bluish-green upper foliage, lovely white on the undersides. Once temperatures cool, the whole plant takes on a gorgeous plum-purple-silvery hue. 4' x 4'. Rounded habit, slow growing. Can be used in sun or partial shade and average soil. | |  |
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About GardenHood
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Atlanta's Grant Park is home to Garden*Hood, the newest destination for experienced and novice gardeners seeking unique plants and a friendly, knowledgeable staff to help bring their landscapes to life.
Garden*Hood is the brainchild of co-owners David McMullin, Scott McMahan and Valerie Barton.
Learn more about Garden*Hood in this article from the AJC .
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