Growing Conditions

Cultivar 'Painter's Palette' has cream-white splish-splash painting on its leaves, with a little pink tint on the nodes and tiny red flowers/bracts (instead of white flowers of the wild form). This perennial is clonal, since it is vegetatively...

Quite common perennial plant in the wild, but not so common in our yards. Forms nice bushy clumps of green leaves with thin flowering stalks above the leaves. Flowers are small, green-white, and generally insignificant. The reason why this native...

Ground covering fern, tough, with firm leaves that don't break up easily. Vigorous and slowly spreading wide. Underused and not much known in horticultural trade. P. decursive-pinnata is a deciduous, upright fern with beautifully tapered, feathery...

Also called rock pink, small succulent perennial, native to Central southern United States (see the detail distribution on USDA map.) Usually 6-8" tall x 2-4" wide, 1" purple-pink flowers open around noon and stay open till mid afternoon, succulent...

Kashmir Sage is smaller perennial for sunny garden with drained or dry soil. 2' tall x 1.5' wide clump, felty green leaves with grayish backside, clusters of mauve-pink flowers in June and July. Full sun or mostly sun are the best, plus drained soils...

Excellent vertical flowering plant for dry, sunny or partially-shaded areas. The big, fuzzy leaves are gray-green, stay at the ground level and are evergreen. The upright eye-catching stems are topped with bare clusters of big pale yellow flowers...

Most likely unknown in USA, charming and non-spreading perennial, native to Central, southeastern Europe and Asia. Forms quite dense clumps of green at the ground, toothed leaves, reddish and nearly bare stems carry small pink flower in clusters. Size 4'...

Cultivar (possibly hybrid of 2 native species) with 1.5" raspberry pink flowers and darker eye. Blooming Time: mid summer end of June - July/August; blooms for six weeks (deadheading prolongs the blooming season and prevents unwanted seedlings)Size: 3-3...

Beautiful spring perennial with deeply cut pale lila-lavender flowers, south central Indiana genotype. Forms regular mounds, usually 0.25' tall x 0.5' wide (can be a bit taller or wider too). 2" long linear leaves are everegreen, the base becomes...

Healthy and early blooming, mid-sized phlox, discovered in natural plant communities in Alabama. Sturdy stems, lighter green clean leaves, high coverage with flowers, good for butterflies and hummingbirds. One of the top performers at Mt. Cuba Phlox for...

Phlox divaricata ‘Blue Moon’ is a lovely compact cultivar of our native woodland phlox.  Plants have semi-evergreen leaves and form ground covering mats.  In early spring, foliage is topped by loose clusters of large showy blue and...

Selection from famous landscape architect and plantsman Piet Oudolf with pure white flowers in early spring. 12-15" tall x 12" wide clumps of partially evergreen leaves, saucer shaped fragrant white flowers (sometimes the buds and old fading petals have...

More delicate looking spring phlox, with smaller needles, forming only small clumps. Smaller button-like pale pink flowers. Very hardy selection from northwestern mountainous USA, so suitable for cooler northern areas (but does surprisingly quite well in...

Excellent selection of early summer flowering phlox, that doesn't suffer with any leaf diseases.Highly recommended by Chicago Botanic Garden’s Plant Evaluation Program and also one of the winners of Mt. Cuba phlox trials. Large pink flowers, medium...

Peppermint candy-like striped flowers in long conical clusters. 2'-3' tall x 1'-1.5' wide clumps, narrower leaves with excellent mildew resistance. Flowers in June-July, slightly fragrant flowers attract hummingbirds and butterflies. This cultivar was...

Phlox nivalis 'Camla' reminds of finer looking Phlox subulata (Creeping or Moss phlox). Little known, but vigorous plant. It has shiny, evergreen needle-like leaves and mauve-pinkish, medium-sized flowers. It is very drought and heat tolerant, need...

Vigorous, semi-evergreen needle-like leaves and lavender-pinkish, medium-sized flowers. Very drought and heat tolerant, needs average to well drained or sandy soils. Tough plant with similar needs like creeping phlox. In early spring, the flowers...

"Improved" version of Phlox paniculata ‘David' with regular, upright clumps. Makes a great cut flower. Good resistance to powdery mildew. Pure white flowers bloom in midsummer atop 3′ tall stems. Tall phloxes flower for a long period of time,...