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Stonecrop with gray-blue leaves, pink edges during summer heat months and pink flowers in early fall and orange-red fall color. Easy and tough plant with ground covering growth. For sunny garden with average to leaner drained soil. Often sold with...

Stonecrop with gray-blue leaves, dense growth and rosy-red flowers in summer. Easy and tough plant. For sunny garden with drained soil. Blooming Time: June/July Size: 10" tall x 12" wide USDA Zones: 3-9 (heat zones 6-9) Culture: sun, grows well...

Small succulent stonecrop with gray needle-like leaves and yellow flowers. For sunny garden with drained soil. Blooming Time: June to July Size: usually under 0.5' tall x 1-1.5' wide USDA Zones: 3-9 (heat zones 6-9) Culture: sun, grows well in...

Smaller filling and ground covering perennial for edges in full sun or half shade. Blooming Time: mid to late spring, with sporadic blooming through summerSize: 6" tall x 8-12" wide low mound with semi-evergreen leaves USDA Zones: 5 to 8Culture: full sun...

Low growing, nicely arching goldenrod for edges, raised beds, retaining walls or bigger rock gardens. Well behaved, doesn't seed much around and stays in clumps. Pollinator magnet as any other goldenrod. Blooming Time: August - September Size: usually...

Small and modest woodland edge perennial for half shade or shade garden. Goes well with spring bulbs and native ephemerals. Blooming Time: early to mid spring (end of March to April, depending to your zone)Size: usually 8-10" tall x 5-8" wideUSDA Zones:...

Double-flowered shasta daisy (with full centers). Upright growth, 3.5" flowers in diameter, great cut flower. Blooming Time: early summer to late summer (deadheading significantly prolongs the bloom period - so July till September)Size: up to 30" tall x...

One of the best performing asters in the 2003-2009 Chicago Botanic Garden trials! Bright deep pink flowers, good flower coverage, manageable size, usually without flopping and opening. Excellent resistance to leaf spots (better than some new cultivars)...

Short-lived perennial or biennial with long blooming period. Highly attractive to variety of pollinators. Native to south central USA and part of Midwest. Blooming Time: June/July to September Size: erect clumps about 2-3' tall x 1.5-2' wide...

Very late blooming Aster, usually the latest one. 1" lavender blue flowers in clusters, large coarse leaves with a reddish fall color. Vigorous, very drought tolerant, but can also become a thuggish plant. It spreads wide via rhizomes, so it is...

Shorter-lived perennial or even biennial, that persists in the garden due to self-seeding. Very easy to grow, adaptable and opportunistic - it will fill the gaps - but you can recognize it for it's fuzzy leaves. Can be easily reduced, if needed...

Sturdy old-fashioned perennial with mustard yellow flowers and fern-like, silver foliage. Very easy to grow, but requires sunny, well drained and somewhat leaner soils. Award of Garden merit by RHS (Royal Horticultural Society, Britain). Aromatic plant...

Dense, ground covering grass with late summer flowers and striking coppery-pink fall color. Similar to the popular 'Karl Foerster' grass, but much smaller. Blooming Time: from mid summer to early fall, brown-yellow flowersSize: 2-3' tall x 3' wide, in...

Southeastern, native sedge with significantly blue-green leaves. Requires some shade during the day, likes moisture, but will grow fine in average garden conditions. Well behaved, clumping, with fairly robust evergreen leaves. Blooming Time: May-June...

Perennial with long purple-red spikes. Reminicent of Veronica, but is more tolerant to heat and humidity. Slightly aromatic leaves deter deer and rabbits. Medicinal used in the past - for respiratory troubles, digestion, and an anti-inflammatory use...

Slender, eye-catching flower with vivid carmine red flowers. Gray-green grassy leaves (semi-evergreen), leafless stems. Not a super long-lived plant, lives about 3-4 years, but seems to be easy to grow in garden conditions. Can self-seed in good...

Easy to grow, versatile and adaptable native beardtongue. White-flowering form selected from chance seedling. Not too long-lived, but persists by moderate seeding around. Blooming Time: from late May to late June. Size: 15" tall x 10-12" wide, airy...

Easy to grow, trouble free shade perennial with cream-yellow variegated leaves and orchid-like flowers in late August till late September. Deer and rabbit resistant plant - best to be planted close to the path, so you can admire it's beauty. Tolerates...