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Moderately-wide spreading to wider clump-forming hybrid phlox (but it won't take over your garden). Blooms 1-2 weeks earlier than common creeping phlox and meets with tulips and other bulbs. Deep pink flowers. Blooming time : early to mid spring -...

Heavy and long-blooming cultivar with a two-toned look due to the unique feature of non-dropping spent flowers. Pink flowers fade to deeper rose-red. Flowers from June till frost. Heucher villosa hybrid = increased heat and humidity tolerance, often...

Cultivar with light lavender-pink flowers with dark wine purple eye. Vigorous, but stays in mounds and doesn't spread like some other cultivars. 4" tall x 20" wide Moss phlox or creeping phlox forms dense low evergreen or semi-evergreen mats. In early...

'Hot Lips' Turtlehead is a compact, fast-growing cultivar, reaching 2' in height and width. Very dark, shiny, bronze-green leaves in regular mounds and rosy-pink flowers in dense spikes. Rarely bothered by pests and deer. The genus...

Very late-blooming perennial with clouds of small pale blue flowers. Tough, adaptable and dry shade tolerant. This cultivar is propagated from cuttings, which means all the plants are clonal with uniform look. Upright plant with heart-shaped basal leaves...

Lavender blue flowers, smoky purple calyxes, deeply dissected gray leaves with fine texture. 'Blue Jean Baby' is a vigorous, shorter and manageable new variety with good shape. One of the top performers in Chicago Botanic Garden trials, gaining 5...

Cultivar with eye-catching scarlet-red color and dark red eye. Easy, vigorous, spreading up to 2'. Moss phlox or creeping phlox forms dense low evergreen or semi-evergreen mats. In early spring, the flowers completely cover the whole plants. Even this...

Unique, light, wiry structure with a rich blooming and very long flowering season (June to frost), fast growth, pure white flowers. Shorter-lived perennial that can reseed, or can be grown as an annual and re-planted every year. Nowadays you can find...

This gorgeous, reliable perennial is a perfect ground cover. The bright green, simple, lanceolate foliage smells of freshly-mown straw or hay when damaged, and the small, white, 4-petaled flowers appear in late spring through early summer. The...

Tight vase-shaped, clumping grass with small purple flowers. Leaves stay at the base only. The flowering stems turn yellow and coppery-yellow in the early fall. Compact, bushy selection made by famous Danish garden designer Piet Oudolf. Cool season...

Very late bloomer for sunny garden and somewhat drained soils. Pest and trouble free. The white, daisy-like flowers with yellow-green centers are 2-3" in diameter and bloom from late summer until frost. The thick, toothed, succulent dark green...

Catmint that blooms all summer long. Flowers nicely above the foliage and never flops. This sturdy, compact cultivar with fragrant blue-purple blooms and green, aromatic foliage. 'Summer Magic' doesn't flop, even during summer storms, has...

The green-white or green-yellow flowers are followed by dark brown berries. Grass-like wetland perennial that spreads via rhizomes to form dense stands, which provide excellent support for wildlife and appear similar to cattails or irises from far away...

Butterfly and native insect magnet! This long-flowering native perennial gets its name from the short, stiff hairs that cover the stems and narrow leaves, giving them a rough texture. The tall, upright stems have less foliage toward the top and are...

False indigo, also known as leadplant, belongs to the pea/bean family and is one of the few true prairie shrubs. This deciduous (woody) perennial's delicate green foliage is covered in short hairs, giving it a silvery or dusty appearance. 4-8"...

Highly ornamental and well behaved clump sedge that likes moisture, but will do fine in medium moist garden in half shade. Usually grows to 2' (up to 3' in rich and moist soil) x 1-1.5' wide clumps. Cool season grass (grows actively since early spring),...

Low mounds of evergreen narrow leaves, flat cluster of white flowers in mid to late spring. Plant is fully covered with blooms in the peak of flowering. 10" tall x 12" wide (gets wider in time, up to 24"). Full sun to half shade, average with average...

Slowly spreading, compact clumps, rosettes of heart-shaped leaves, arching spikes of small yellow flowers. Groundcovering late and long blooming goldenrod with superior qualities.  There are not many reliable groundcovers for sun (most competitive,...