The new! The best! The hard-to-find!
That's what was offered - and what we sold out of! - at the FONA tent at this year's Garden Fair.

• Intersectional peonies, including some yellow ones. These treasures normally sell for huge sums, but FONA was able to secure a range at more reasonable prices.
• Great new hydrangeas in a range of sizes. There are the newest rebloomers, some very compact ones, choice Japanese lacecaps, and other hard-to find- cultivars
• Some choice new lilacs developed at USNA
• Hypericums with great berries in fall. Both this year and last these flew off the tables.
• Many plants that bloom in the late summer and fall, including a dwarf Lespedeza and really rare Indigofera amblyantha (which actually blooms from May till Thanksgiving)
• An assortment of the newest introductions to the line of Encore azaleas, which were so successfully introduced to the DC area some years ago at the Garden Fair
• Several new hybrid phlox
• A range of reblooming iris
• New, shorter delphiniums that are said to tolerate DC heat and humidity
• Some very special small flowering trees, including USNA's Prunus x "Dreamcatcher" and a number of Prunus mume, which will be your delight in late winter for years to come
• The two sensational new hybrids of Calycanthus (our native Sweetshrub), one with deep maroon flowers, the other with white.
• Some of the new series of Tiarellas which are named after regional rivers.
• An assortment of hardy terrestrial orchids and arisaemas, which have always been coveted.

Each year we change our plant selection, always offering the most exceptional and rare plants available.  For a complete list of what the Friends of the National Arboretum offered at the 2009 Garden Fair, click on the links below.  Keep checking our website and our newsletter for any updates concerning our 2010 Garden Fair.  We look forward to seeing you there next year!

 Alphabetical by Botanical Name

 Alphabetical by Common Name

 Alphabetical by Category (shrub, perennial, fern, tree, vine, annual, grass)