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You’ll find yourself checking the weather for snow when this selection blooms in late April because it blooms so heavily that it looks like a drift of snow left from the winter’s cold. Bloom continues through May on this easy care, very hardy, very tolerant plant that deer avoid.
It’s hard to take your eyes off this flashy bloomer in late April when it loads up with deep, dark magenta-red flowers forming a mat of color that gives any landscape a blooming jumpstart. Along with amazing flower power, this deer resistant plant is a breeze to care for, tolerating full sun and poor, dry soils.
This plant is not picky, it just needs to be noticed. You’d have to be pretty oblivious not to notice it starting in late April through May when its dense, ground hugging form and dark, needle-like foliage are obscured by medium blue flowers putting on a memorable show. ‘Emerald Blue’ loves well-drained soil, tolerates poor fertility well, and is deer resistant.
Sometimes gardeners think that the only good plant is the newest plant from the hottest breeder. ‘Blue Moon’, a superb native plant discovered by Bill Cullina at the New England Wildflower society, shows you that tremendous plants can come from anywhere. ‘Blue Moon’ emerges early in the season to form a loose, tumbling, trailing mass that covers itself with buds by early April and bloom by late April. And what a bloom!! Profuse numbers of deep violet-blue flowers conceal the foliage they are so numerous creating a cloud of color well into May. Add in this plant’s tremendous flower scent and the fact that ‘Blue Moon’ is absolutely perfect for semi-shaded and shaded areas and you have a tough yet tender early spring bloomer that will charm you every year.
The perfect addition to a garden in hot, dry areas. Lacy-like, bright sky blue flowers are held on amethyst calyxes, with strong stems and an upright habit. The beautiful color will last a long time!
The vine of choice for university buildings! A quick grower that adds a look of stateliness wherever it grows. Very similar in habit and growing conditions as quinquefolia with the same excellent fall color and bird attracting fruit.
Here’s a vine that has so much to offer the landscape yet few people know about it. Virginia Creeper is easy to grow and is a perfect plant for sun or partial shade on a trellis, rock wall, or any other sturdy structure. It displays a unique, 5 leaflet palmate, dark green foliage that looks beautiful throughout the growing season and provides great bird and mammal cover and a great food source for the caterpillars of some of our favorite butterflies. This plant’s inconspicuous spring flowers produce a multitude of deep bluish-purple berries that birds find quite attractive. This functional, easy to grow plant also puts on a crimson-red fall foliage show that would make this American Beauties selection worth growing even if the landscape critters didn’t love it!
Some of the sweetest looking plants seem to go undiscovered as is evidenced by this charmer. ‘Goshiki’ is a dense growing, pyramidal shaped evergreen with cut, prickly, holly-like foliage that will mesmerize you with its heavy dose of gold flecked variegation that turns cream as the leaves age. New foliage has a distinct reddish-bronze cast, adding to the attractiveness of this easy care plant that thrives in sun or part shade.
Blue Wonder’ is a fragrant, low, soft green/grey silvery foliaged selection that forms a spreading mound that will be smothered with larger than usual lavender-blue blossoms in summer, from May to July. Shearing off the spent flowers will promote rebloom on this tough, tolerant, deer resistant, drought resistant selection. Its shorter stature makes it suitable for the front of the border, for use as a groundcover and makes it perfect for underplanting large shrubs. ‘Blue Wonder’ is a great plant that you’ll love almost as much as your cats, that crave its scented foliage, and your local moths and butterflies that flock to it for its nectar.
This first class selection keeps its tiny, dense, rounded shape all season long. Small, grey-green, aromantic leaves are topped with well-branched stems carrying spikes of sky blue flowers. Ideal for border, mass planting, containers or edging. Bright blue flowers attracts butterflies. To encourage more flowers prune back to half its size after initial bloom. ‘Cat’s Meow’ is a durable plant that perform well in average soils in full sun.
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Wine red flowers open from buds that resemble raspberries. A stunning and long flowering perennial that makes a great cut flower and the petals are edible. The flowers’ sweet nectar attracts scores of hummingbirds, butterflies, and bees to the garden. The aromatic foliage smells like mint when crushed and is often used to flavor teas. Attractive, dark green foliage exhibits excellent mildew resistance.
Those wet landscape spots sure can be difficult to make beautiful. It’s a good thing that native plants like Blue Cardinal Flower are around to fill and beautify spots that could be such eyesores without them. This selection has vigor that belies its tough growing conditions with strongly upright plants sporting medium green colored, long, lance-like foliage. Plants continue to grow upward as summer approaches, topping themselves with numerous long flower stalks. The buds on these stalks open in early summer revealing prominently lower lipped blue blooms that are striking to you and to all the butterflies and hummingbirds that will visit for a nectar snack. This selection will bloom throughout the summer and will thrive along streams and ponds even if their feet stay a little wetter than most other plants can tolerate. Why such a strange species name you might ask?? This native was used in years past as a folklore venereal disease cure giving it its unique species name!
You’ll find this classic American Beauties plant growing naturally in moist, swampy areas, but with a constantly moist soil it will thrive in your landscape and put on a stunning summer show. Plant it toward the back of the garden or around wetland features and in groups to put on the best show as this plant forms a dense clump of upright stems crowded with almost fleshy, medium green foliage. Buds form at the tops of these stems and give rise to a profuse amount of scarlet-red, two lipped tubular flowers in late July continuing right into September. Humming_birds find these flowers an irresistible source of nectar as do colorful butterflies like swallowtails, while spent flower heads and stems provide nesting to birds and cover for small native animals and insects.
Brilliant gold and cream-variegated foliage really brightens up a dark corner. Lavender flowers. August.
Every American Beauties garden should have a home for a plant this versatile and this easy to grow. Oval and upright, Spicebush is a perfect plant for grouping as a backdrop or screen in any garden in almost any location since it tolerates shadier, moist conditions without missing a beat. Tiny yellow-green flowers emerge before this plant’s pungent foliage develops, providing early season nectar to native bees and butterflies. Deep green leaves provide great summer cover for birds but it’s this plant’s red berries that have birds coming from far and wide to snack on, whether they are local natives or migratory birds passing through. Showy yellow fall foliage color will really stand out in the garden.
Single 2-3″ white flowers all summer long if dead headed. Lustrous deep green foliage. Hardy and durable if planted in well-drained soil and full sun. June-July. 2003 Perennial Plant of the Year.
Unlike many Shasta Daisies where the flowers are thrilling but the plants are less than desirable, Daisy May™ is a well behaved, compact and perfectly easy plant to grow and keep in any sunny garden location. And, oh yes, its blooms are spectacular with flowers that are all you would ever want as a dyed in the wool daisy lover! Deep green, long, serrated foliage forms a dense mound that gives rise to countless bud bearing flower stems that rise nearly a foot above the foliage in early June. Flowers begin to open soon after showing off golden yellow centered flowers with pure white rays that will keep on coming well into August. With their long stems and happy faces, how could any daisy lover resist cutting them for long lasting beauty in the house? That in itself is a good reason to plant a group of these easy to grow, showy plants that want only adequate moisture and well drained soil to become your favorite Shasta Daisy.
Bountiful, long spikes of lavender-blue blooms over bluish-green evergreen foliage spring through fall. Though rot-resistant, this Lavander will definitely have increased performance in well-drained soil. A popular variety for drying and potpourri. Deer resistant as well! Flowers June-September. See pages 14-15 for more details on the White Flower Farm program.
A slightly smaller version of ‘Hidcote’ with flowers of a paler lavender color. Needs well-drained soils. Many uses for its fragrant leaves and flowers. June-September.
Blue-green leaves have shining silver centers. The abundant purple blooms add just enough color to make this plant subtle yet spectacular! Blooms April through June. A great plant for the shade!