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Long-lived, tough, and reliable, this robust and vigorous barrenwort forms attractive ground-covering mounds with larger heart-shaped leaves and coppery-orange flowers. It spreads slowly and is especially useful in dry shade, including under established...

Valuable late and long blooming perennial - meets in bloom with Asters, Solidagos or Anemone japonica. Small white flowers in clusters. Spreads into wide clump, in good conditions can self-seed. Pollinator magnet. Adaptable and tolerant to heat and...

Smaller and cute tender perennial, often used as annual - continuously flowers from June to September with pendulous papery pink-white-green flowers (can be used in dried mixes). Forms small mounds of trailing stems, semi-evergreen sub-shrub. Aromatic,...

Brilliant pink flowers, pale grayish-green succulent leaves, flowers mature to rusty red. Reliable tall stonecrops, stays ornamental for 6 months (leaves, flowers, seedheads). Award of Garden Merit by RHS in 1993 (Royal Horticultural Society in Britain),...

True deep blue flowers, heart-shaped crinkled leaves. Grows into small mound. Heat, drought and looks like humidity tolerant, but most likely not a plant for deep south. Used as a tea substitute. Blooming Time: June (mid-summer)Size: 9-12" tall and...

Beardless Iris with strappy evergreen leaves (in warmer zones) and pale lilac flowers. Often grown for very ornamental seedpods that crack open in summer to show bead-like orange-red seeds that persist till late fall or winter. Tolerates shade lot better...

Clumping perennial with broad basal leaves. Wiry stems arch to one direction and create cascading effect (especially on the slopes). Because it comes from barren of the Appalachia region it needs dry or drained soils. Blooming Time: August to...

'Ruby Port' Columbine offers double maroon-red flowers. Traditional cottage garden plant and great cut flower. Not long-lived plant, but persist in the garden by self-seeding. Likes a bit cooler or partially shaded spot. Blooming Time: April/May-...

Strictly upright, evergreen rosettes, wiry stems with scarlet red flowers. Very long flowering season from July to fall. Attracts hummingbirds and butterflies. Blooming Time: July to October/NovemberSize: forms a narrow, upright clump, usually...

Small mat-forming perennial for edges, retaining walls, rock gardens, troughs or crevice gardens. Soft lavender-blue flowers with darker veins, bronze-green leaves. Spreads wide to form little mat, but is not competitive enough to be  a true...

'Red Grape' blooms with vivid 1" red-purple flowers. Grassy leaves emerge gray-green. Easy to grow. Blooming Time: June/July, often reblooms later on, especially if cut backSize: 15'' high x up to 12’’ wideUSDA Zones: 4/5 to 10Culture: full...

Vertical and narrow plant, with evergreen basal rosettes and subtle spikes of tiny brown-red flowers. Good cut flower. Shorter-lived perennial, on a good site persist by self-seeding (or collect some seeds and sprinkle, where desired). Toxic to humans,...

Asian counterpart to American native Amsonia tabernaemontana. China blue-purple flowers in the spring, relatively larger leaves turn yellow in autumn (sometimes yellow-orange) Smaller, compact and more full looking mound. Rare in cultivation. Blooming...

Very large form that eventually gets 7-8' wide and reminds of medium-sized shrub. Seeds of this plant originate in Hot Springs, Arkansas (read the whole story down bellow). Long-lived and tough perennial, slowly matures to very large and wide clumps...

Earlier blooming fall aster for drier soil. Slowly forms wider clumps. Purple-blue 1"+ flowers on wiry stems. Blooming Time: June/July to July/August (depending on your zone and soils), flowers for about 3 weeksSize: about 20" tall and wide, slowly...

Plant well known in Traditional Chinese Medicine. Less known in garden culture. Somewhat grassy gray-green lily-like leaves, long flowering spikes with tiny purplish flowers. Thick root is harvested as the medicinal plant and has variety of use (from...

Smaller plant with lanceolate grassy leaves and globular clusters of pink flowers. Heat, salt spray and rocky soils. Suitable for in drained soils Blooming time: June to July/August  Size: 0.75' tall x 0.5'-0.75' wide USDA zones: 6 to 7/8 Culture:...

More delicate looking spring phlox, with smaller needles, forming only small clumps. Smaller button-like pale pink flowers. Very hardy selection from northwestern mountainous USA, so suitable for cooler northern areas (but does surprisingly quite well in...