Growing Conditions

Cardinal Flower is one of the most beautiful and popular wildflowers for a moist, sunny or partly-shaded spot in the perennial border, meadow, rain garden or alongside a stream. The brilliant...

A very common, but also widely underused perennial! The Great Blue Lobelia prefers sun or partial shade and a moist location. It blooms in late summer, with 1 1/2- to 3- foot spikes of deep blue...

This outstanding selection of a native, fast growing, climbing honeysuckle is landscape friendly, very healthy and mildew resistant. Highly ornamental, vigorous and attractive to hummingbirds!  Dec

Underused native grass with strap-like leaves, ornamental hairy leaves. Very good fall and winter color = purple-red!

Old-fashioned plant, cultivated in European gardens since the 12th century (since the crusades, which is reflected in other common names like "Knigh't Cross" or 'Jerusalem Cross"). Other nam

'Oculata' = "eyed", this is form with white flowers with pink or magenta eyes. The eye is variable (plants are seedlings). Old-fashioned short-lived perennial that persist in your garden by self...

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! 

Tough, adaptable and spreading wildflower with deep brown-red colored foliage. Spreads wide to form colonies in time.

Again, one of the plants that somehow ended up in our nursery (mislabeled bareroot plants...), and now what to do with them? Anyways, this is very vigorous, spreading and grou

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...

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,...

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...

Showy smaller perennial with mounds of evergreen leaves and white pinkish flowers from April/May to June. 10-14" tall x 6-8" wide.

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,...

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).

Famous designer Piet Oudolf's introduction! A tall, elegant, airy, structural, but very transparent grass. A Warm se

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...

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