Growing Conditions

Robust fern that can reach royal size of 6' of height and 3' wide. Award of Garden Merit by Royal Horticultural Society (UK, 1993). The size depends on the soil and moisture, in average moist soil it can be only 2' tall and wide. Loves moisture and best...

Groundcovering native wildflower for half shade or shade garden. Adaptable. 2' tall with flowers, rather large fresh green 6" tall leaves, spreads by rhizomes and groundcovers soil. In optimum conditions can be fast spreader. Golden-yellow , smaller...

'Heavy Metal' is upright cultivar of native switch grass, with metallic blue leaves, pinkish flowers in July and August (persist till winter) and yellow fall color (fades to tan-beige). 5' tall x 2' wide clumps, slowly spreading with rhizomes. Full sun...

Strictly upright and vertical, with a nice gray-silver color with rosy-colored flowers. Good height at under 4', and is adaptable and easy. Size: 3-4' tall x 2-3' wide clumps Blooming time: July, August, SeptemberUSDA zones: 4 to 9Culture : sun, half...

Switchgrass with very narrow and upright shape - suitable even for smaller gardens. Steel blue foliage, powdery blue stems, golden seed panicles in early fall. Very adaptable - can handle heat, humidity, black walnut and is drought tolerant. Stays...

Switch Grass 'Northwind' is strictly upright, very narrow vase-shaped grass with bluish-green leaves. Perennial Plant of the Year in 2014(awarded by the Perennial Plant Association), for it's excellent garden performance and multiply season interest,...

Wild Quinine - for no reason overlooked and underestimated native perennial! Again, it had to be famous landscape architect from abroad (Piet Oudolf, Holland and others, who immediately spotted it's beauty and included this perennial gem into charming...

Unique looking carrot family biennial or short-lived perennial. Valuable for blooming in the peak of summer! Probably discovered and used for the first time by famous garden designer Piet Oudolf, followed by others like Jaap De Vries (Netherlands), in...

Low maintenance penstemon with rose-purple or pink-purple flowers, bee friendly, good butterfly and hummingbird plant. Easy to grow, tough selection from Dale Lindgren at University Nebraska, beardtongue hybrid that is cold, heat, humidity, drought and...

Southwest native, but still very hardy perennial with bright scarlet orange-red, tear drop shaped flowers in May to July. Easy to grow perennial, very showy flowers, deer, rabbit and drought resistant plant. Naturally occurs in open woodlands and dry...

Narrow, upright plant with evergreen basal leaves. Wonderful, transparent, vertical accent for sunny and dry gardens. Shorter-lived perennial - the clumps have to be divided to renew the vigor of the plant, or can be grown from seeds. Blooming Time:...

Narrow, upright plant with evergreen basal leaves. Wonderful, transparent, vertical accent for sunny and dry gardens. Shorter-lived perennial - the clumps have to be divided to renew the vigor of the plant, or can be grown from seeds. 'Twizzle Purple' is...

Strictly upright woodland beardtongue. Never flopping, it boasts thick rosettes of basal leaves and long stems with tubular pink-purple flowers (sometimes white-pink). There aren't many woodland Penstemons, so this one brings a nice extension of the...

Not very common plant for sale, clump forming native perennial, with basal leaves and pale to dark violet flowers in May to June. Usually grows to 2' tall x 1' wide, naturally occurs in dry slopes, road banks, or dry woodlands in eastern USA, primarily...

Very showy prairie beardtongue with 2" large flowers, shorter-lived, but self-seeding. Best for sunny garden with drier soil. Narrower and somewhat loose clumps can reach up to 2' in height and 1' in width. Flowers emerge in May/June, in upper third up...

This new variety offers yellow to white-yellow foliage and flowers that are similar to the wild form (white to white-pink). This easy-to-grow cultivar is quite adaptable to light and soil conditions and can enrich sunny or half-shade borders, pollinator...

Vegetative-propagated cultivar with bronze-tinted leaves, pink flowers and red fall color. Intrinsic Perennial Gardens (Hebron, Illinois) introduction, parent of newer cultivars with dark leaves. Good, forgiving and adaptable perennial. 2.5-3' tall x...

Clump-forming, easy to grow perennial. Great for hummers, butterflies and native bees. Tough and resilient. Typically grows to 3-3.5' and 0.5-0.7' wide. Forms smaller mounds of dense packed leaves and rigid, upright stems with tubular flowers (to 1.25"...