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Cultivar 'Painter's Palette' has cream-white splish-splash painting on its leaves, with a little pink tint on the nodes and tiny red flowers/bracts (instead of white flowers of the wild form). This...

Rocky Mountain beardtongue is one of the easy to grow western species of Penstemons even here in Midwest. It requires full sun and well drain, medium moist to dry soils (shallow, rocky, sandy,...

Showy perennial with unbranched stems, basal rosettes of leaves and nearly white flowers. Looks like dainty version on Pentemon digitalis, which is more common in horticulture.

Easy to grow and very showy beardtongue. Versatile and adaptable. Tolerant to heat, humidity and black walnut.

This is improved version of 'Husker Red' propagated from cuttings/divisions, so all the plants have the same quality = keeps the rich color in leaves for the whole season! (while the seed strain...

Not very common plant for sale, clump forming native perennial, with basal leaves and pale to dark violet flowers in May to June. Usually grows to 2' tall x 1' wide, naturally occurs in dry slopes,...

Southwest native, but still very hardy perennial with bright scarlet orange-red, tear drop shaped flowers in May to July. Easy to grow perennial, very showy flowers, deer, rabbit and drought...

Very showy perennial with 2" big, golden-yellow, slightly fragrant flowers, orange buds, and a reddish late fall color. Flowers open during the day and attract bees and butterflies.

Easy-to-grow perennial with large (3"), yellow, slightly fragrant flowers that bloom for the entire summer. This native wildflower forms low mounds, and with age will create wider ground-covering or...

A beautiful hybrid evening primrose with parentage of native Oenothera fruticosa. Clump forming perennial, fast growing,but long-lived perennial with dense narrow leaves and ground-covering habit...

Very long time blooming perennial, native to Texas and New Mexico, but still pretty hardy (zones 5 to 8). 12'" tall and up to 18" wide, 2" big, soft pale pink flowers. This is spreading perennial,...

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...

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...