Growing Conditions

Old-fashioned, but alien-looking lily with doubled pale orange flowers, heavily spotted. Easy to grow. Good cut flower (2 weeks in the vase). Blooming time: summer (July)Size: 4-6' tall by 1-2' wideUSDA zones: 3/4 to 9, heat zones 1-7Culture: full sun,...

Clouds of smoky-blue tiny flowers with evergreen rosettes. Good in coastal areas for its salt tolerance. Pollinator friendly, great in dried flower arrangements, but also as fresh cut flower. Blooming Time: July-AugustSize: 2-3' tall and wide, basal...

Interesting and long-lived, non-invasive perennial with rough basal leaves combined with very fine cloud structure of small purple-blue flowers. Proven as reliable plant in hot and humid Midwestern climate! Effective in summer, fall and winter. Usually...

White flowering form of common, great, modest, adaptable and easy to grow native perennial. Prefers sun or partial shade and average moist to moist location. It is blooming in late summer, it has 1 1/2- to 3- foot spikes of snow white flowers The value...

Delicate native lobelia for drier soils (while the majority of lobelias like more moisture). 2' tall x 0.5' wide, narrow subtle looking that intermingles with other taller plants (under-story plant). Blooms in June to July with whitish, white or pale...

Underused native grass with strap-like leaves, ornamental hairy leaves. Very good fall and winter color = purple-red! Best in a garden with some shade during the day, mixed in with other shade tolerant plants. Will moderately seed around, where happy...

Old-fashioned plant, that forms clumps of strap-shaped leaves in the spring, then dies back and completely disappears until flowering time in late summer. Clusters of soft 5-6" trumpet-shaped pink flowers (with lilac-bluish hint) on naked stems...

Small, filler plant for a half shade or shade garden with a very long flowering season. Good mound forming, groundcover with an interesting leaf pattern!  Blooming Time: spring to fall with the peak in early/mid summerSize: 12" tall and 12-14" wide...

Tough, adaptable and spreading wildflower with deep brown-red colored foliage. Spreads wide to form colonies in time. Blooming Time: June/JulySize: 2' tall x 2' wide, spreads wide with underground rhizomes to form large coloniesUSDA Zones: 4 to...

Underused perennial, tough and adaptable plant, densely groundcovering soil and suppressing weeds. Cultivar of native wildflower, ornamental for the whole growing season, with amazing burgundy-red fall color. Slowly spreading wide into 1-2' tall and...

Nice wildflower for shady gardens. Native to eastern half of USA, can be found in moist, rich woodlands and woodland edges, but can tolerate full sun. With more sun (or dappled sun), the starry, fragrant flower will get bigger. Flowers in late spring,...

Woodland perennial, that spreads by rhizomes and is suitable for naturalizing in bigger woodland or shaded gardens. Grows to 1.5' tall and wide, and spreads further by rhizomes, so it can form nice ground covering colonies. Starry cream-white flowers are...

This interesting perennial is reminiscent of aloe (it's also called "false aloe") or a "weird" agave (another name is Agave virginica). The most ornamental part of the plant is the rosette of succulent leaves that have dark red-brown spots. The flowering...

Showy smaller perennial with mounds of evergreen leaves and white pinkish flowers from April/May to June. 10-14" tall x 6-8" wide. Full sun to half shade. Average soil with average moisture (medium to medium-moist) to dry or somewhat drained soils. ...

Uncommon garden perennial, but beautiful and quite easy to grow wildflower that is native to Tennessee, Kentucky, North Carolina, West Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania. 1-1.5' tall x 0.75' wide, flower in  June- July with 2" pinkish or...

Beautiful native fern for colonizing with fresh green leaves and gracefully opening, narrow vase-shaped clumps. Award of Garden Merit by Royal Horticultural Society (UK). Usually 4' tall x 3-4' wide, but spreading by rhizomes to make looser colonies. In...

Woodland perennial with exotic, bigger orchid-like flowers in May. 'Royal Velvet Distinction' is selection from famous Dutch plant lady Eleonore de Koning (nowadays retired). 12-14' tall and wide mounds, dark green and slightly fuzzy leaves, pink-white...

Moisture loving, native perennial with cute lilac-blue flowers in the summer. Ideal plant for rain gardens, moist spots, banks of your pond, up to a shallow standing water or can be tucked in flower bed with medium-average moisture, especially on heavy...