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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.
Low Scape Mound™ aronia is a tough, tolerant, tidy little mound of glossy green foliage. In spring, it’s covered in hundreds of dainty white flowers, and in autumn, the leaves turn brilliant red to contrast with dark purple-black fruit. The unique low-growing, mound-shaped habit of this new variety makes it perfect for mass planting as a ground cover or edging plant. Best of all, it thrives almost anywhere: cold climates and hot ones, wet soils and dry ones, sun and part shade. This native shrub will gracefully handle just about any landscape challenge you can throw at it!
Unbelievable when in flower! This tough and vigorous grower will become a 4′ tall beast in no time. Add countless flowers of violet-blue, the licorice fragrance of the foliage, and you have no reason not to have one of these in your garden. Attracts bees and butterflies. Excellent cut flower. Prefers average to dry soils. Blooms July-September.
Seductive summer sweetness abounds in this new Blooms of Bressingham selection, with its irresistible large heads of long lasting butter-yellow flowers atop sturdy columnar stems that rise above fern-like deep green foliage with gentle silvery highlights. Like the other Yarrow from Blooms, ‘Sunny Seduction’ offers a more compact plant with sturdier stems and more uniformity that other Yarrow making it a nobrainer for the landscape. Sun loving and deer resistant, ‘Sunny Selection’ is a butterfly magnet when in blooms and the flowers are perfect for cutting and brightening up the inside of the house. Plant it in groups and enjoy the carefree summer bloom show!
Echinacea purpurea is one of the great butterfly magnets of the native perennial garden. Coneflowers are easy to grow in average to dry, well-drained soils. Flowers with large orange-gold spiky centers and strong reflexed rose-pink petals appear in July and August. Very drought tolerant.
A superb groundcover for part to full shade, this plant displays a rich green shiny foliage year-round and a great texture that is a definite landscape plus. Loaded with blue flowers in the spring, this plant prefers a moist but well-drained soil.
This is one of those plants that is so unobtrusive until it comes into bloom and then is so outstanding that you are always taken pleasantly by surprise. ‘Lucerne’ is so easy to grow, tolerating most any well-drained soil and full sun and sporting clean, deep green, narrow grass-like or iris-like foliage that forms a clean, upright landscape tuft that is pleasing but unremarkable. Loads of buds begin to form in early May, emerging from the foliage, and the plant transforming show is ready to begin. Buds open in mid-May with an explosion of deep blue, yellow centered, 3?4″ six lobed flowers that are stunning against the deep green backdrop. These flowers continue to open well into July providing a great nectar source for native bees and small butterflies while its foliage provides cover for small mammals. Plant it in groups in the foreground of the garden a show that is as unexpected as it is long.
Bluish-green, upright foliage gives a sizzling display of oranges, reds, yellows and purplish-browns in the autumn. ‘Standing Ovation’ thrives in poor, dry soils and its seed heads are prized by native songbirds. It provides winter landscape interest and cover for birds and other native critters.
As free flowering as its dark flowering relatives, ‘Snow Hill’ offers an easy to use, dense, compact habit topped with spectacular, pure white, stem ending spires of small flowers that color up starting in early June. Its heavy bloom will thrill you while its contrating color will give you ample oppotunity to make your garden come alive when mixed with a striking purple variety like ‘May Night’. With its silvery green, sage scented foliage and compact, tidy form, ‘Snow Hill’ is resistant to deer, drought and heat! It will make a great moon garden plant that attracts butterflies, hummingbirds and gardeners alike!
One of the signature plants for late spring and early summer, ‘May Night’ puts on an amazing show with tall, colorful, indigo-blue flower spikes from early June through mid-July. Group this plant in the front or middle of any sunny perennial bed and marvel at the powerful show its massed bloom will put on. 1997 Perennial Plant of the Year.
If there ever was a poster boy for an overachieving garden plant, ‘Marcus’ would be it. Its dense, compact, low profile form nearly recedes into the garden until it starts to put up 3 to 4″ long flower spikes above its foliage in late spring. As the small, deep purple flowers begin to open in June this plant leaps into your consciousness and then it overwhelms it as ‘Marcus’ covers itself with bloom, almost completely obscuring the tightly bunched, deep green lance-like foliage. ‘Marcus’ will bloom into September especially if spent blooms are pruned off and is right at home in a sunny garden with well-drained soil and, given its small stature, is a plant that begs to be massed to overwhelm the senses when in bloom.
Great color, attract butterflies and birds, very easy to grow and maintain. Should I continue? Long-blooming 3-4″ daisy flowers shine golden yellow against the dark green foliage. The center cone of the flower is almost black in color. Plant in full sun and moist soils. Blooms July-September. 1999 Perennial Plant of the year.
One of herbs “royalty” with a scent that has so many wonderful uses! A must, either fresh or dried, for seasoning hundreds of foods, ‘Arp’ is perfect for use in teas, herbal oils, bath oils, and dried sachets and potpourris. ‘Arp’ loves full sun and good air flow and will grow well in containers, inside or outside. Upright, bushy form, dark green-gray foliage, and abundant small purple flowers will make you want these by the arm load! Perennial.
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One of the true charmers for the shade garden, this plant emerges in the spring forming ladders of oblong cool green foliage brushed with white variegation along arching stems. Pink flower buds dangle on the underside of arching stems with the leaves carried above and open in May to little white tubes that give the plant a pleasing, delicate appearance. Solomon Seal’s foliage keeps clean all summer making this clump forming plant a must-have for the garden.