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Excellent new cultivar, attracts hummingbirds and butterflies, deer and rabbit resistant, top performer and highly recommended by Mt. Cuba center :

Monarda - Beebalm 'Jacob Cline' - very good red cultivar, robust and tall (4' 2"), vigorous and healthy, with significantly lighter green leaves and also a bit earlier flowering -  starting mid June...

Monarda - Beebalm 'Purple Rooster' is clump-forming perennial with true dark purple flowers. This cultivar doesn't suffer from powdery mildew and is highly recommended by

Exceptionable looking, clump forming native wildflower for full sun or half shade. It prefers sandy soils, or drained soils (rocky, gritty)

Monarda - Beebalm 'Marshall's Delight' is clump-forming perennial with bright neon pink flowers. This cultivar was selected in Canada as mildew resistant variety, but it may not be true regionally,...

Monarda - Beebalm 'Gardenview Scarlet' is clump-forming perennial with truly red flowers and very good performer. This is second best cultivar of Monarda for hummingbirds, see the results of

This easy-to-grow native perennial is a true pollinator magnet! It will bring long-tongued bees, bee flies, butterflies, skippers, hummingbird moths, and many other insects to your garden. And of...

Wild Basil Balm is unique in the genus Monarda - this one is a native woodland plant and prefers to grow in shade! It will also tolerate drier shade under trees. The white flowers (typical for bee...

This interesting perennial is reminiscent of aloe (it's also called "false aloe") or a "weird" agave (another name is Agave virginica). The most ornamental part of the plant is the rosette of...

A very common, but also widely underused perennial! The Great Blue Lobelia prefers sun or partial shade and a moist location. It blooms in late summer, with 1 1/2- to 3- foot spikes of deep blue...

Cardinal Flower is one of the most beautiful and popular wildflowers for a moist, sunny or partly-shaded spot in the perennial border, meadow, rain garden or alongside a stream. The brilliant...

A common shrub in the moist woods of eastern North America, Lindera benzoin is one of the first native shrubs to bloom. It becomes conspicuous early in the spring blooming period, when clusters of...

'Floristan White' is a white-flowering cultivar of dense blazing star. This favorite, easy to grow, and very showy perennial has narrow leaves that  gradually decrease in size and length towards to...

This favorite, easy to grow and very showy perennial has narrow leaves that gradually decrease in size and length towards the top of the stems, which continue in 10" long spikes of purple-red flowers...

You may think, why grow a "boring looking" plant? Yes, the flowers are quite small, and you will have to look closely to find them beautiful. But what makes this plant interesting is the stiff,...

Virginia Seashore Mallow is a perennial with several thick stems rising from the crown; the leaves are hairy and gray. Its very pretty 2-inch pink flowers are reminiscent of Hibiscus. It is a good...

Also called Shreve's Iris, this native bog iris has violet-blue flowers with yellow-white crests in midsummer. The fragrant blooms attract pollinators and can be used as a good cut flower. 

Variable seed mixture with bluish and purple tones.This underused native Iris is a great native perennial and a hummingbird and bee favorite. The clus