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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...

Vigorous, semi-evergreen needle-like leaves and lavender-pinkish, medium-sized flowers. Very drought and heat tolerant, needs average to well drained or sandy soils. Tough plant with similar needs like creeping phlox. In early spring, the flowers...

Upright, narrow shorter-lived "daisy". Finely divided aromatic basal leaves that repel insects (and deer). Wiry stems with clusters of white-yellow daisy flowers. Good cut flower. Blooming time: early to mid summerSize: 2.75-3' of height x 1-1.25' of...

Cultivar with white flowers with dark purple eyes Blooming time : usually for a couple weeks in April/May (in cooler region or in cool spring longer)Size : 5” tall x 14-18" wide matUSDA zones : 3 to 9Culture : full sun, half shade, dappled sun,...

Cultivar with mauve-pink flowers with a dark pink center. Blooming time : usually for a couple weeks in April/May (in cooler region or in cool spring longer)Size : 4” tall x 14-18" wide matUSDA zones : 3 to 9Culture : full sun, half shade, dappled...

Shorter and earlier blooming beebalm, rare in nature, discovered in 2015.  Excellent powdery mildew resistance. White flowers with a hint of purple. Needs drained or dry soil! Don't plant in clay and don't mulch heavily with organic mulch! Blooming...

Unknown Kalimeris, possibly a descendant of 'Daisy Mae' - white flowers, 2' tall and long-lived. Our friends Lisa and Dan Burnham shared the seeds of this unknown kalimeris as a trouble free, durable perennial that is persisting in their garden for 2...

Cultivar with separated pale pink flowers and dark eye.  Selection from Europe. Blooming time : usually for a couple weeks in April/May (in cooler region or in cool spring longer)Size : 4” tall x 14-18" wide matUSDA zones : 3 to 9Culture :...

Small and delicate cultivar with tiny white flowers. Forms only a small mat - it's suitable for rock gardens, containers, troughs, crevice gardens or small flower beds. Blooming time : usually for a couple weeks in April/May (in cooler region or in cool...

Cultivar with pink flowers with dark red eye. Moderately spreading. Blooming time : usually for a couple weeks in April/May (in cooler region or in cool spring longer)Size : 4” tall x 18-24" wide matUSDA zones : 3 to 9Culture : full sun, half...

Cultivar with white flowers and a dash of red in the center. Moderately spreading. Blooming time : usually for a couple weeks in April/May (in cooler region or in cool spring longer)Size : 4” tall x 12-18" wide matUSDA zones : 3 to 9Culture : full...

Heavily blooming goldenrod, tiny flowers, one of the top performers at Mt. Cuba Solidago trials. Great in average to wet soil (and wet clay), well behaved, stays in clumps. Pollinator magnet as any other goldenrod. Blooming Time: July/August - September...

Cream-white, irregularly variegated form of native pokeweed. Reddish stems, shrubby look that widens towards the top.  White flowers in the summer are followed by purple-black berries in the fall. Ornamental for the whole season. The variegation is...

Shade tolerant perennial with ornamental large, shiny compound leaves. Leaves emerge dark bronze-brown, mature to dark green, followed by pink flowers. One of the darkest Rodgersias. Clumping perennial for slightly moist partial shade, shade or water...

Short-lived perennial or biennial. Value by ones for it's fuzzy silver leaves, and for larger white flowers by others.  Deadheading prolongs it's life. Persist by self seeding (it's good to intentionally sprinkle the seeds too). Drought tolerant,...