An impressively vigorous native cultivar. Long, charcoal grey stems carry the cool lemon yellow flowers, producing an excellent floral display atop the compact, upright mound of blue-green foliage. You’ll be impressed with the excellent vigor of this yellow flowered selection. It forms an upright, vase-shaped mound of attractive blue-green foliage topped with long, charcoal stems which carry the lemon yellow flowers in late spring to early summer, followed by decorative seed pods in fall. The contrast of dark stems with light flowers really pops in the landscape, delivering an excellent floral display. This easy care, drought tolerant, deer resistant perennial is an excellent choice for gardeners looking for low maintenance or native perennials.
Stately and stunning are two words that accurately sum up this American Beauties native that is long lived and easy to grow. While a perennial that dies back to the ground each year, Baptisia looks like a shrub once it emerges from the soil with multiple, tall, upright, almost woody stems creating a big, beefy bush with deep green pea-like foliage. By mid-May, the top of each stem sports a string of buds that open by late month revealing deep, indigo blue, hooded, pea-like flowers that may stretch 6-8″ high. The color is stunning against the foliage backdrop and the flowers are long lasting, staying in color well into June. Baptisia is easy to grow in any sunny, well-drained soil. It is drought tolerant and has an extensive root system which makes it difficult to move once established so find it a permanent home and enjoy the color!
Mounding and spreading, this variety provides a virtuoso display of 1-2″ diameter lavender hose-in-hose flowers in mid-May. One of the hardiest evergreen azaleas, this plant is suited both for foundation planting or border groupings. Dependable, spectacular bloom. Showy red hue to fall and winter foliage.
Exceptional reddish-purple flowers in early to mid-May, along with dark glossy foliage really make this selection stand out! Very hardy with excellent winter leaf retention.
Upright growing deciduous azalea that explodes with giant trusses of vibrant orange flowers in early to mid-May.Lightly scented and very distinctive in the garden. Spectacularly showy in the spring landscape. Very hardy, superb when used in groups. Tolerates partial shade.
Shimmer in the shade with ‘Pictum’. The silver-purple sheen that covers the plant is what makes it an irresistible addition to the garden. Prefers moist soils on the woodland edge yet will tolerate more sun in cooler climates. PPA Plant of the Year 2004.
This early blooming beauty will captivate you with mounding, deeply cut, lustrous, dark green foliage and an ample display of airy, pale pink flower spikes starting in mid to late May and continuing into late June.
Many people think there is no better red flowering Astilbe that ‘Fanal’ but we think that ‘Montgomery’ is far superior. Its deep red flower color in early June is richer and more vibrant that ‘Fanal’ but that’s only the start of what makes this plant stand out. Its foliage is incredible! It emerges from the ground bronzy red in the early spring and, even as it matures to a deep, lustrous green as the spring progresses, it retains an infusion of red color that makes it jump at you from the landscape and enhances its red flower color. It’s a perfect plant for partial shade and moist, well-drained soil and is a knockout when planted in groups. Watch for even more color as the hummingbirds make a bee-line to the open flowers!
Deutschland’ Astilbe starts the spring with a mound of bronzy, deep green foliage. This deeply cut foliage provides great texture for any shady area spring through fall and provides a stunning backdrop for creamy white plumes that rise above the foliage and open in late June attracting nectar seeking hummingbirds and butterflies. ‘Deutschland’ thrives in moist, shady locations and is popular for border plantings or alongside water areas. Its magnificent blooms are superb for both fresh or dried flower arrangements while its dark foliage blends seamlessly with small to medium size gold-leafed hostas or ferns. Plant this deer, rabbit, slug and rodent resistant beauty in groups for maximum impact. In order to keep Astilbe looking good for the next year, do not cut it back in the winter, (the old foliage helps protect the plant from winter damage), but prune in early spring.
Same small habit like all chinensis-type Astilbes, but an incredible new flower color! Deep red buds open to pinkish-red flowers, these will surely brighten up the garden as many plants start to fade at the end of the summer. Blooms July-August.
Broad leaves with deep cuts are what make this variety different from the others. Not to mention the incredibly bright lilac-purple flowers that bloom all summer. A shorter, more compact form allows for ‘Visions’ to be planted anywhere you have a shady gap to fill. Blooms July-August.
Fanal’ adds some color to the shaded landscape with red foliage in the spring that transistions to green for the summer months and that’s just the foliage. The deep red flowers top the lacy green foliage in the hot summer months. A great selection for the shaded garden especially useful in woodland areas or where deer browsing is a concern since deer and rabbits tend to leave Astilbe’s alone. Thrives even in the darkest shade.
You’d love this plant just for its foliage as ferny, shiny mounds of foliage form a beautiful tussock of green in a partial shade area. In June, flower spikes rise above the foliage and reveal airy, pure white blooms that contrast sharply with its foliage through late July, lighting up any corner of the landscape.
Loads of semi-double hot pink starry flowers cover the dark green foliage well into fall. Great for adding a burst of late season color and butterflies love the nectar! The compact form looks neat and tidy with high resistance to mildew and disease. Grows best in full sun, evenly moist, fertile, well-drained soils. Deer resistant. Remove faded flowers to prolong bloom season. Divide every 3 years. Plant propagation prohibited.
‘Purple Dome’ is a ‘must-have’ plant for the late summer and fall garden. It is simply one of the best blooming fall Asters and it’s one of the densest with its naturally dwarf form keeping it from sprawling out of control and looking messy like many other Asters can. ‘Purple Dome’ is the picture of neatness with tight branching swathed in small, deep green, strap-like foliage. Once early September hits, this neat form is coated with an exquisite veneer of 2″ diameter, deep purple, yellow centered daisies that will demand your attention. The show continues well into October making it one of those fall bloomers that will leave you with a warm feeling for your garden right on through the cold winter.
What a fall beauty in the garden and what a wildlife magnet!! ‘Alma Potschke’ is all this and more making this easy to grow American Beauties native a landscape must. Deep green, small, narrow foliage tightly packs multiple stems producing a dense mound that is coated with button-like flower buds by early August. These buds open to reveal 1-2″ diameter rose colored petaled, yellow centered daisies that completely obscure the foliage by late August and persist into late September. Butterflies can’t resist the allure of its bloom and later in the fall, birds can’t get enough of the seed left from the past bloom. ‘Alma Potschke’ loves full sun, tolerates some light shade, and is stunning with planted in groups in the landscape.
The foliage resembles that of Astilbe, topped by dense spikes of cream-colored flowers. Makes for a background of even a specimen plant. Blooms from June through till July.
Velvety silver cushions look fabulous in rock gardens, borders or as a mass planting. Although requiring full sun, ‘Silvermound’ will have a tendency to “melt out” if overexposed to heat and humidity. Cut back to rejuvenate. Bloom insignificant.
