Growing Conditions

Tight vase-shaped, clumping grass with small purple flowers. Leaves stay at the base only. The flowering stems turn yellow and coppery-yellow in the early fall. Compact, bushy selection made by famous Danish garden designer Piet Oudolf. Cool season...

Monarda - Beebalm 'Gardenview Scarlet' is clump-forming perennial with truly red flowers and very good performer. This is second best cultivar of Monarda for hummingbirds, see the results of Mt. Cuba's Monarda trials. Most hybrids won't attract as many...

Monarda - Beebalm 'Jacob Cline' - very good red cultivar, robust and tall (4' 2"), vigorous and healthy, with significantly lighter green leaves and also a bit earlier flowering -  starting mid June and flowering for 3 weeks. And one of the best for...

Monarda - Beebalm 'Marshall's Delight' is clump-forming perennial with bright neon pink flowers. This cultivar was selected in Canada as mildew resistant variety, but it may not be true regionally, so still the best place is sunny spot with good air...

Shorter Monarda bradburiana hybrid with dark chocolate red leaves and stems in the first half of the season. Mildew resistant and a bit earlier blooming than other tall Monarda didyma hybrids. M. bradburiana genes bring good mildew resistance, a...

Very dark flowering cultivar with dark stems, darker leaves and dark bracts. Shorter, stays in clump. This plant originates at Intrinsic Perennial Gardens (IL), but the breeder left this plant for sensitivity to mildew...anyway, we managed to bring one...

Monarda - Beebalm 'Raspberry Wine' is clump-forming perennial with purplish-red flowers. Tall cultivar and also the 5th best one for hummingbirds. This nativar doesn't suffer from powdery mildew and is highly recommended by Mt. Cuba center. Most...

Shorter and earlier blooming beebalm, rare in nature, discovered in 2015.  Excellent powdery mildew resistance. White flowers with a hint of purple. Needs drained or dry soil! Don't plant in clay and don't mulch heavily with organic mulch! Blooming...

Superb low-growing beebalm with light lavender-pink spotted flowers, mint-scented leaves, and a more compact and smaller habitus than other Monardas. Very valuable and tough plant - for early blooming (before other taller Monarda), excellent drought and...

Wild Basil Balm is unique in the genus Monarda - this one is a native woodland plant and prefers to grow in shade! It will also tolerate drier shade under trees. The white flowers (typical for bee balm) bloom from mid- to late summer, and...

Exceptionable looking, clump forming native wildflower for full sun or half shade. It prefers sandy soils, or drained soils (rocky, gritty) otherwise it is true short-lived perennial that will last only few years. But it self-seed reliably, so even on...

Also known as "Pink hair grass," this very showy fall grass forms regular mounds of fine leaves topped by airy pink to pink-red seed heads at the end of the season. This native grass has some great qualities – it’s highly ornamental and...

Not very common native wildflower and very interesting perennial. Large palmated leaves (up to 10", the biggest leaves are at the base), one single upright stem with small white and fragrant flowers (up to 0.5-0.75"). Flowers in June to end of July (or...

Catmint that blooms all summer long. Flowers nicely above the foliage and never flops. This sturdy, compact cultivar with fragrant blue-purple blooms and green, aromatic foliage. 'Summer Magic' doesn't flop, even during summer storms, has...

New catmint, recommended and awarded. Long bloomer with aromatic leaves, so proven to be deer and rabbit resistant. This patented cultivar (under "technical name" and number 'Bokratune' PP29556) arrives from Nepeta kubanica - species of catmint with...

A bit smaller cultivar of Catmint with soft pink flowers above grayish foliage. Forms low, wider clumps. Quickly re-blooms when cut back after first flush of flowers. Drought tolerant once established. Blooming Time: May - June (with some...

Compact and sterile cultivar of Catmint with larger than usual blue flowers above grayish-green foliage. Forms low, compact and slightly wide clumps. Quickly reblooms when cut back after first flush of flowers. This older cultivar was a great standard...

Sterile, very prolific bloomer and much smaller than it's parent 'Walker's Low'. Forms low, compact and wide clumps. Small pale lavender-blue flowers for the whole season. Drought tolerant once established. Blooming Time: May - September (with less...