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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...

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...

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...

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,...

Very tall fall-blooming daisy. Upright bushy growth, 2-3" flowers in diameter, great cut flower. Award of Merit by RHS (Royal Horticultural Society in Britain). Not suitable for the deep South. Blooming Time: September-OctoberSize: usually 5' tall x 2'...

Short, but wide delicate native Lespedeza. Long stems sprawl or creep on the soil surface among other plants. Flowers for very long time with smaller cute pink-purple flowers. Grows well in sun and even in lighter shade. Very drought and heat...

Larger yellow flowers, flat basal rosettes. Well behaved and slowly spreading into wider clumps (less aggressive than O. pilosella). Somewhat reddish stems and dark green foliage (purple tips). Heat and humidity tolerant plant.  Blooming Time: May...