Specimen Plants

Specimen Plants 181 to 240 of 650 total

  • Shaina Japanese Maple Leaves Close Up

    (1)

    Growing Zones: 5 to 8

    Shaina Japanese Maple

    $124.99
  • Music Box Rose Blooming

    (1)

    Growing Zones: 4 to 9

    Music Box Rose

    $59.99
  • Etouffee™ Fountain Grass on the Ground
    Growing Zones: 5 to 9

    WorryFree

    Etouffee™ Fountain Grass

    $49.99
  • Royal Purple Smoketree Stem & Foliage

    (4)

    Growing Zones: 5 to 8

    Royal Purple Smoketree

    $78.99
  • Blue Princess Holly Foliage and Fruit Close Up

    (1)

    Growing Zones: 5 to 8

    Blue Princess Holly

    $55.99 - $73.49
  • True Native Plant
    Mature Eastern White Pine Tree

    (2)

    Growing Zones: 3 to 8

    American Beauties Native Plants

    Eastern White Pine

    $79.99
  • Row of Dawn Redwood Trees
    Growing Zones: 5 to 8

    Dawn Redwood

    $88.49 - $179.95
  • Twisted Needle White Pine Stem with Leaves
    Growing Zones: 3 to 8

    Twisted Needle White Pine

    $81.99
  • Rise Up Ringo Rose flowering

    (1)

    Growing Zones: 4 to 9

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    Rise Up™ Ringo Rose

    $31.99 - $73.99
  • Tuff Stuff Top Fun™ Hydrangea Flowering
    Growing Zones: 4 to 9

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    Tuff Stuff Top Fun™ Hydrangea

    $31.99 - $76.99
  •  Passion Party™ Pink Frost Pieris flowering
    Growing Zones: 6 to 8

    Passion Party Pink Frost Pieris

    $65.99 - $81.49
  • Pinky Winky Prime™ Hydrangea Flower Close Up

    (1)

    Growing Zones: 3 to 8

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    Pinky Winky Prime™ Hydrangea

    $31.99 - $76.99
  • Mature Spice Island Korean Spice Bush Blooming

    (2)

    Growing Zones: 5 to 9

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    Spice Island Korean Spice Bush

    $64.49 - $78.49
  • Little Linda Miniature Mountain Laurel Flowers and Leaves

    (2)

    Growing Zones: 5 to 8

    Little Linda Miniature Mountain Laurel

    $65.49 - $84.49
  • Brodie Eastern Red Cedar Shrub Close Up
    Growing Zones: 3 to 8

    American Beauties Native Plants

    Brodie Eastern Red Cedar

    $76.49 - $129.95
  • Rise Up Lilac Days™ Rose flowers
    Growing Zones: 4 to 9

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    Rise Up Lilac Days™ Rose

    $31.99 - $71.49
  • Maroon Swoon™ Weigela Flowers and Leaves

    (2)

    Growing Zones: 4 to 8

    Bloomin Easy

    Maroon Swoon™ Weigela

    $65.99 - $73.99
  • Sugar n' Spice® Koreanspice Viburnum Flowers and Leaves

    (2)

    Growing Zones: 4 to 8

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    Sugar n' Spice® Koreanspice Viburnum

    $64.49 - $78.49
  • Adams Elderberry Growing in the Sunlight
    Growing Zones: 3 to 8

    American Beauties Native Plants

    Adams Elderberry

    $73.99
  • Reminiscent™ Coral Rose blooming
    Growing Zones: 4 to 9

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    Reminiscent Coral Rose

    $32.49 - $67.49
  • Red Flame Switch Grass

    (1)

    Growing Zones: 4 to 8

    Red Flame Switch Grass

    $38.99 - $53.99
  • True Native Plant
    Coast Leucothoe Foliage and Blooms

    (2)

    Growing Zones: 6 to 8

    Coast Leucothoe

    $60.99 - $74.49
  • True Native Plant
    American Hornbeam Growing in the Landscaping
    Growing Zones: 3 to 9

    American Beauties Native Plants

    American Hornbeam

    $87.49
  • Westcountry Polar Princess Lupine flower

    (1)

    Growing Zones: 5 to 8

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    Westcountry™ Polar Princess Lupine

    $30.99
  • Nantucket Blue™ Hydrangea Blooming
    Growing Zones: 5 to 9

    Nantucket Blue™ Hydrangea

    $76.49
  • True Native Plant
    Common Sneezeweed Flowering

    (1)

    Growing Zones: 3 to 8

    Common Sneezeweed

    $49.99
  • Pocahontas Lilac Flowering

    (3)

    Growing Zones: 3 to 8

    Pocahontas Lilac

    $78.99
  • Sweet Caroline Upside™ Key Lime Sweet Potato Vine in Garden Planter Leaves Close Up

    (2)

    Growing Zones: 10 to 11

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    Sweet Caroline Upside™ Key Lime Sweet Potato Vine

    $15.74
  • Healthy October Glory Red Maple

    (2)

    Growing Zones: 4 to 9

    October Glory Red Maple

    $87.49 - $169.99
  • True Inspiration Hybrid Tea Rose Blooming

    (1)

    Growing Zones: 5 to 8

    True Inspiration Hybrid Tea Rose

    $59.99
  • True Native Plant
    Healthy Carolina Allspice

    (4)

    Growing Zones: 4 to 8

    Carolina Allspice

    $73.99
  • True Native Plant
    Paper Birch Growing in the Sunlight

    (2)

    Growing Zones: 2 to 6

    American Beauties Native Plants

    Paper Birch

    $101.49
  • Reminiscent™ Crema Rose flowering
    Growing Zones: 4 to 9

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    Reminiscent Crema Rose

    $32.49 - $73.99
  • Paraplu Adorned Hibiscus Flower Close Up
    Growing Zones: 5 to 9

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    Paraplu Adorned™ Hibiscus

    $31.99 - $71.49
  • Equinox Valley Lilac Flowers and Leaves

    (1)

    Growing Zones: 3 to 8

    Equinox Valley Lilac

    $77.49
  • Healthy Purple Passion Rhododendron Plant
    Growing Zones: 4 to 8

    Purple Passion Rhododendron

    $61.99 - $85.99
  • Top Point Dwarf White Cedar Foliage Growing
    Growing Zones: 4 to 8

    American Beauties Native Plants

    Top Point Dwarf White Cedar

    $65.99
  • Watermelon Ruffles Hibiscus

    (2)

    Growing Zones: 4 to 9

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    Watermelon Ruffles Hibiscus

    $29.99
  • Rare Plant
    Milky Way Dogwood Flowers & Foliage
    Growing Zones: 5 to 8

    Milky Way Dogwood

    $91.99
  • Hoogendorn Japanese Holly in the garden

    (1)

    Growing Zones: 5 to 8

    Hoogendorn Japanese Holly

    $74.99
  • Praying Hands Hosta in the garden

    (2)

    Growing Zones: 3 to 9

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    Praying Hands Hosta

    $30.99
  • Ragin Cajun Spigelia Flowering
    Growing Zones: 5 to 9

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    Ragin Cajun Spigelia

    $30.49
  • Rainbow Rhythm® Blazing Glory Daylily Flower Close Up

    (1)

    Growing Zones: 3 to 9

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    Rainbow Rhythm® Blazing Glory Daylily

    $30.99 - $41.99
  • Sweet Caroline Upside™ Black Coffee Sweet Potato Vine in Garden Planter
    Growing Zones: 11.00

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    Sweet Caroline Upside™ Black Coffee Sweet Potato Vine

    $15.74
  • Gibraltar Bush Clover Flowering

    (1)

    Growing Zones: 5 to 8

    Gibraltar Bush Clover

    $57.49
  • Red-Vein Enkianthus Flowering

    (2)

    Growing Zones: 4 to 8

    Red-Vein Enkianthus

    $59.99
  • Jersey Blueberry Berries and Leaves Close Up

    (1)

    Growing Zones: 4 to 8

    Jersey Blueberry

    $59.99
  • Leonard Messel Magnolia Flowering

    (2)

    Growing Zones: 4 to 8

    Leonard Messel Magnolia

    $88.49
  • Harlage Wine Sweetshrub Flowering

    (4)

    Growing Zones: 5 to 8

    Hartlage Wine Sweetshrub

    $69.99
  • Virtual Violet Lilac Growing under the Sunlight
    Growing Zones: 3 to 7

    First Editions Plants

    Virtual Violet Lilac

    $78.49
  • Marshmallow Moon Hibiscus flowering

    (1)

    Growing Zones: 4 to 9

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    Marshmallow Moon Hibiscus

    $29.99
  • Healthy Amber Gold Arborvitae

    (1)

    Growing Zones: 4 to 8

    Amber Gold Arborvitae

    $79.99
  • Shawnee Brave Bald Cypress Trees in the Sunset

    (1)

    Growing Zones: 4 to 8

    Shawnee Brave Bald Cypress

    $100.49
  • Red Bandit Mountain Laurel Covered in Blooms
    Growing Zones: 4 to 8

    Red Bandit Mountain Laurel

    $64.99 - $84.49
  • Decadence Deluxe Periwinkle Popsicle False Indigo flowering
    Growing Zones: 4 to 9

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    Decadence® Deluxe Periwinkle Popsicle False Indigo

    $29.99 - $59.99
  • China Girl™ Holly Covered in Foliage and Fruit

    (1)

    Growing Zones: 5 to 8

    China Girl™ Holly

    $57.49 - $73.99
  • Harvest Moon Witch Hazel in a American Beauties Native Plants Container
    Growing Zones: 4 to 8

    American Beauties Native Plants

    Harvest Moon Witch Hazel

    $80.49
  • Golden Hinoki False Cypress In Pots in Nursery
    Growing Zones: 4 to 8

    Golden Hinoki False Cypress

    $79.99
  • Oso Easy® Ice Bay Rose Blooming in the Sunlight
    Growing Zones: 4 to 9

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    Oso Easy® Ice Bay Rose

    $31.99 - $61.99
  • Red Feather Arrowwood Viburnum Flowering

    (1)

    Growing Zones: 3 to 8

    Red Feather Arrowwood Viburnum

    $78.99
Specimen Plants 181 to 240 of 650 total

Specimen plants are those landscape elements that, because of their structure, their color, their sheer flower power, (or maybe all three!), make a dramatic statement that accents your home's architecture. Specimen shrubs tend to be larger plants (usually 5 feet or taller) that are exceedingly showy at least once a year. Think of them as the plants that set your home apart from everyone else's.

The right specimen plant will make passersby stop in their tracks, but with so many options, how to pick the right one? As you look through our selection, note which ones you are personally drawn to. Think about where they might be placed in your landscape that will accentuate features of your home's exterior, like spaces between windows, a fireplace, or the center of a large bed. Think, too, of your home's color. Is there a specimen shrub here that would really set it off, either when it is in flower, or perhaps in fall, if it develops outstanding color? The important thing is to select plants that you love and can be proud of year after year.

If you find yourself drawn to more than one plant, you don't have to pick just one! A specimen shrub is a focal point of a portion of your landscape, so there's room for multiple specimens within one yard. For maximum impact, look for plants that are at peak at different times of the year so the focus shifts through the season. And don't forget about the back and sides of your home - specimen plants aren't just for passersby. They can be a key part of your private retreat as well!

Best Specimen Plants

  • False Cypress
  • Dogwood
  • Smoke Bush
  • Burning bush
  • Pearl Bush
  • Seven Son Flower
  • Rose of Sharon
  • Hydrangea
  • Japanese Holly
  • Ninebark
  • Elderberry
  • Arborvitae
  • Viburnum
  • Weigela
  • Rhododendron

-Information provided by Proven Winners® ColorChoice®

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