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True dense ground cover with evergreen/semi evergreen leaves. Easy to grow, tough, adaptable, quite drought tolerant perennial.

Large-flowered soft pink, 4" in diameter. Newer blooms are more intense in color and lighten to pale rose as they age (bicolor effect of the entire clump). Popular cultivar of native plant, awarded...

Cultivar of native perennial with bronze-chocolattey-reddish leaves, soft pink flowers and increased tolerance to direct sun and foliar diseases. Leaves are more robust. In hotter climates may...

Easy to grow pure white summer blooming aster. Tolerant to heat, humidity and drought. Blooming Time: summer-late summer

Not demanding smaller perennial for edges and rock gardens. Flat rosettes of dark green glossy leaves, white flowers with inflated pale green calyxes.

Cultivar with chartreuse/golden hue in the leaves. It's pronounced the most earlier in the season and all day long sun and probably more in southern states thna the northern ones.

Tough, adaptable and spreading wildflower with deep brown-red colored foliage. Spreads wide to form colonies in time.

Hardy garden mum with light apricot pink single flowers. Very vigorous and easy to grow. Late blooming (October to October/November) and attracts many pollinators and butterfl

Hardy garden mum with pure white slightly doubled and overlapping petals (about 3" in diameter) Late blooming (October/November).

Hardy garden mum vibrant pink flowers. Late blooming (October/November), attracts butterflies. Deer and rabbit avoid it for it's aromatic leaves.

Hardy garden mum with warm, vibrant bi-color flowers (orange-red). Late blooming (October/November), attracts butterflies. Deer and rabbit avoid it for it's aromatic leaves.

White blooming yarrow that originates from 'Oertel's Rose' Shorter, vigorous, north American genotype that will not vanish in your garden.

Evergreen fern with unique coppery-orange new emerging leaves and the same color at the end of the season after the first frosts. Spread slowly by short rhizomes, ground covering growth.

Very wide clumping sedge with variegated leaves. Workhorse plant for mass plantings, bigger containers, or virtually any garden. More tolerant to sun and heat than some older cultivars. <

Underused native grass with strap-like leaves, ornamental hairy leaves. Very good fall and winter color = purple-red!

Very adaptable spreading sedge with universal use. Top performer in Mt. Cuba Carex trials, gaining 4

Smaller fine-leaved sedge, ground-covering clumps, great for matrix planting or rock gardens. Little work horse for lower maintenance gardens.

Top performing sedge in Mt. Cuba Carex trials - gaining 4.4 points (out of 5) in shade conditions, and 4.0 for sunny location.