January-February
Plants with interesting bark such as paperbark maple, colorful fruit such as holly, or early flowers such as Lenten rose, snowdrops, winter jasmine, and witchhazel.
March
Anemones, Cornelian cherry, crocus, daphne, forsythia, Japanese andromeda, rhododendrons, sweetbox, and winterhazels.
April
Azaleas, crabapples, daffodils, dogwood, grape hyacinths, flowering cherry, magnolias, quince, perennials, purple-leaf plum, redbud, tulips, and viburnums.
May
Azaleas, bulbs, clematis, dovetree, flowering shrubs, fringetree, Japanese dogwood, perennials, red buckeye, smokebush, viburnums, and wisteria.
June
Annuals, golden rain tree, herbs, hydrangeas, Japanese iris, perennials, mountain laurel, roses, Satsuki azaleas, southern magnolia, and stewartia.
July-August
Annuals, butterfly bush, chaste tree, crape myrtle, hydrangeas, perennials, rose-of Sharon, roses, summersweet, trumpet vine, and water and bog plants.
September
Annuals, perennials, autumn crocus, roses, ornamental grasses, ornamental cabbage and kale, water hyacinths, and autumn witchhazel.
October-November
Fall color of deciduous trees and shrubs such as dogwood and Japanese maple as well as ornamental fruit of beautyberry, holly, pyracantha, and viburnum.
December
Camellias, winter interest of ornamental grasses, heavenly bamboo, hollies, and red and yellow-stemmed dogwood.