Growing Conditions

'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...

Switchgrass cultivar with shorter & wider clumps (4' x 4'). Wide, powdery-blue, arching leaves with cream seed heads. Reminicent of invasive Miscanthus (Chinese Grass) and is an excellent subtitute for it. Blooming time: late summer to fallSize: 4'...

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...

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,...

Short, dense, tidy cultivar. Stays upright and maintains it's tidy statue. Flowers emerge light pink and open to loose hazy seedheads. Starts blooming and stays green later (till Halloween) than other Switchgrass. Tough and adaptable with inherited...

Native perennial, rare in cultivation, flowering for all season, for drier or drained soils. Reminds of more common P. integrifolium, but it is much shorter, only about 1.5' tall and 1' wide, leaves are also more fuzzy and look more gray. Small white...

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...

Late blooming three-season plant - the emerging leaves are usually reddish, the fall color is red to burgundy red and if you don't cut the stems in late fall, they stay ornamental throughout the winter. Tolerant to heat and humidity. Attracts a lot of...

Valuable late and long blooming perennial - meets in bloom with Asters, Solidagos or Anemone japonica. Small white flowers in clusters. Spreads into wide clump, in good conditions can self-seed. Pollinator magnet. Adaptable and tolerant to heat and...

New sterile = not seeding variety, developed at the University of Georgia! Big, dark-red to copper bottlebrush plumes rise above mounds of rich green arching leaves.  Blooming Time: mid to late summerSize: mounds 2-3’ tall and 2-2.5'...

New sterile = not seeding variety, developed at the University of Georgia! Upright, slightly arching clumps, topped with bottle brush flowers emerging violet-purple and maturing to silver. Blooming Time: mid to late summerSize: mounds 3’ tall and...

New sterile = not seeding variety, developed at the University of Georgia! Very short and compact (18-24" x 30"), slightly arching clumps, topped with large tan bottle brush flowers. Size: mounds 18" (24" with flowers) tall and 30-36" wide USDA...

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 garden. Shorter-lived perennial - the clumps have to be divided to renew the vigor of the plant, or can be grown from seeds. Blooming Time: May/June...

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...

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...