Growing Conditions

Mountaineer® 'Calico Red' is mid-sized, fast growing shrub with chartreuse-orange leaf color and small pale yellow tubular flowers. Holds the color from spring to fall. Blooming Time:  June/July Size: usually 4' tall x 5' wide mounding...

Mountaineer® 'Merlot' is mid-sized, fast growing shrub with deep, clear merlot-red foliage borne on deep purple upright stems. Small pale yellow tubular flowers. Holds the color from spring to fall. Blooming Time:  June/July Size: usually 3...

Architectural plant, usually shorter-lived perennial or biennial, that persist in the garden by moderate seeding. Award of Garden Merit by RHS (UK). Rusty Foxglove can seed on disturbed or open soil and stays in garden, even when short-lived. Seedlings...

Vertical and narrow plant, with evergreen basal rosettes and subtle spikes of tiny brown-red flowers. Good cut flower. Shorter-lived perennial, on a good site persist by self-seeding (or collect some seeds and sprinkle, where desired). Toxic to humans,...

A bit shorter foxglove with coppery-rose to strawberry rose flowers in May to June. Shorter-lived or biennial. Sometimes sold under commercial name 'Summer King'. 2-3' tall x 1-2' wide, basal leaves, 2-3" pendulous tubular flowers attract hummingbirds...

Charming native spring ephemeral with odd looking flowers. Disease free, deer and rabbit resistant. For it's qualities awarded by Award of garden Merit by Royal Horticultural Society (UK). Basal rosette of watery leaves, nodding flowers, dies back after...

Showy and easy perennial. Large white flowers with blue spots inside bloom in early summer and features low mounds of fresh green leaves. Groundcovering growth. Blooming Time: May to June (in cooler areas can bloom until August)Size: usually 8-10"...

True deep blue flowers, heart-shaped crinkled leaves. Grows into small mound. Heat, drought and looks like humidity tolerant, but most likely not a plant for deep south. Used as a tea substitute. Blooming Time: June (mid-summer)Size: 9-12" tall and...

Evergreen fern with unique coppery-orange new emerging leaves and the same color at the end of the season after the first frosts. Spread slowly by short rhizomes, ground covering growth. Blooming Time: doesn't flowerSize: 1.5-2' tall x 1.5-2' wide USDA...

Long-lived, knee-high coneflower, with excellent pollinator and bird support, very drought tolerant - unique complex hybrid of three native coneflowers: Echinacea purpurea, Echinacea tennesseensis and Echinacea angustifolia. It's proven in our hot and...

One of the top performers at Mt. Cuba Coneflower trials 2018-2020 and still excellent for pollinators! Double win win! "Echinacea ‘POST301’ (Postman) is a member of the Butterfly™ Series from Arie Blom of AB-Cultivars in the Netherlands...

This super showy and rare wildflower is highly recommended for home landscaping. It is the only wild Echinacea with yellow flowers and became the parent of many new colorful hybrids of coneflowers. It originally grows only in the Ozark area of Arkansas...

Top performing coneflower in Mt. Cuba trials in 2018-2020! Great plant with many flowers, intense coral-watermelon color (fades to orange), an early and long-flowering season and vigorous. "Echinacea ‘Glowing Dream’ is a Terra Nova Nurseries...

Large-flowered soft pink, 4" in diameter. Newer blooms are more intense in color and lighten to pale rose as they age (bicolor effect of the entire clump). Popular cultivar of native plant, awarded the Perennial Plant Association’s Plant of the...

Wild form of Echinacea purpurea for the maximum wildlife support. It tolerates more shade than the cultivars, but also usually requires a bit more moisture. So you can use its advantage and plant in areas with some shade (especially in hot and dry...

'Mellow Yellows' is seed strain cultivar, introduced by German seed company Jelitto in 2018. Color varies with each plant and can be creamy, lemon and dark yellow. The best perennial combinations include many border perennial, due to it’s rough...

Easy to grow, very showy, underused, long-lived and long-flowering perennial. The pure botanical species was endangered in natural areas from 1979-2011. It grows upright, and the leaves are narrow, or lanceolate. Reddish-pink saucer-shaped flowers face...

Hardy hybrid coneflower with compact, upright, well branched habit. Burgundy red flowers and higher flower coverage. Narrow leaves show parentage of narrow- leaf coneflowers which leads to better tolerance to drought, heat and humidity. Forms wide,...