Growing Conditions

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, 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...

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,...

New hybrid coneflower with compact upright habit, large raspberry purple flowers, higher flower coverage and very long flowering season from June to September. Top performer at Mt. Cuba center - gaining 4.7 points out of 5! Also 8th best pollinator...

Compact upright habit, horizontal pure white flowers, high flower coverage and very long flowering season from June to September. 1.5' tall and wide, dense growth, narrower leaves show parentage of narrow- leaf coneflowers = great tolerance to drought,...

'Panama Red' = compact coneflower cultivar with red shades. 5" flowers open as intense red, then soften to bright orange-red and fad to burn to orange shades. Dense and somewhat "ground covering" growth. Starts to bloom earlier than other varieties...

Charming, large bi-color coneflower hybrid. Tall and upright with very sturdy stems. Floriferous and long blooming period, with good drought tolerance. Drooping petals, whitish with magenta-pink halo and orange centers. Prolonged healthy leaves...

Drought tolerant, late flowering wildflower with ground covering character, that flowers when most of woodland plants are finished blooming.  Usually reaches 1.5-2' of height and width (sometimes up to 3'), quite large basal leaves, small...

Long-lived, tough, and reliable, this robust and vigorous barrenwort forms attractive ground-covering mounds with larger heart-shaped leaves and coppery-orange flowers. It spreads slowly and is especially useful in dry shade, including under established...

Showy airy grass with thin green-gray leaves and fluffy white seedheads. Usually sold under cultivar names 'Wind Dancer' or 'Blue Eros', which are miss-named trade names or common names. Other common names are Blue Love Grass or Ellitt's Love Grass...

Sand love grass is similar to common Purple Love Grass (Eragrostis spectabilis), but is more robust and taller. Up to 4' tall (usually about 3') x 2-3" wide clumps of fine leaves, purple tinted flowers right above the foliage, flowers in July to August...