Growing Conditions

Old fashioned plant with fragrant purple-red flowers, excellent cut flower. Short-lived perennial or biennial. Easy to grow, persist by re-seeding. Size: 18-20'' tall x 10-12" wide, clumpsFlowering time: May/June (can rebloom in late summer in cooler...

Upgraded version of old fashioned plant of Sweet William! Interspecific hybrid with more tidy upright growth, shorter statue, slightly smaller gray-green leaves and fragrant deep red single flowers! Excellent cut flower, very long blooming season from...

Slender, eye-catching flower with vivid carmine red flowers. Gray-green grassy leaves (semi-evergreen), leafless stems. Not a super long-lived plant, lives about 3-4 years, but seems to be easy to grow in garden conditions. Can self-seed in good...

Attractive native woodland grass for half shade or shade, spreading and partially ground covering. Usually 2' tall x 2-3' wide, slowly spreading. Nice shiny, erect blades that arch nicely. This grass can be a thug, so it may not be the best option for...

Tall, gold foliage with true red flowers. Vigorous cultivar, strong upright growth, more flowers and longer flowering season! Dies back after finishing flowering (comes back the following spring) Excellent Hosta companion! Blooming Time: April/May to...

Old-fashioned Bleeding Heart with soft pink-white flowers in late spring. Elegant arching branches, silvery-green leaves. Turns yellow and dies back in early summer (to come back the following year). Easy to grow and trouble-free longer-lived perennials...

Southeastern native shrub, endangered in natural habitats. Great wildlife support - attracts various bees, butterflies and hummingbirds. Long season flowering. Pale yellow to greenish tubular flowers in clusters. Good fall yellow-red color. Other...

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 - the only thing that it needs is drained soil. Large deep blue flowers in early summer, low mounds of fresh green leaves. Groundcovering growth. Blooming Time: May to June (in cooler areas can bloom till August)Size: usually...

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...

One of the easiest to grow dragonheads, even in regular flower bed conditions! Deep sky-blue, slightly fragrant flowers in early summer. Mounds of narrow, green, aromatic leaves. Adaptable and tough plant is a deer resistant, bee-friendly perennial...

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...

The biggest of North American Dryopteris species. Slowly spreads wide. For shade garden with average to moist soils.   Blooming Time: not floweringSize: 3-4' tall x 4-6' wide, in time forms wider coloniesUSDA Zones: 3 to 7Culture: full to partial...

Long-lived perennial with a tap root, slender habitus, and narrow hairy leaves. ’Hula Dancer’ offers interesting flowers with slim pale pink drooping petals and greenish centers. Heat, humidity, and drought tolerant plant. Flowers 2 to...