Growing Conditions

Cream-silver margin and a heavily veiled leaf surface, bright coral-red flowers. Sport of favorite cultivar 'Raspberry Splash'. Tolerates heat and humidity, is recommended even for the deep south. Easy to grow, it takes several years to mature-sized...

Clump forming, shade-loving perennial with cobalt blue flowers in mid spring and spotted leaves. Leaves may be semi-evergreen in warm winters.  Lungwort with better tolerance to heat and humidity and very good resistance to powdery mildew. Divide in...

A more heat tolerant lungwort with silver leaves, purple-blue flowers that fade to cobalt blue. Immature leaves appear spotted.  Mounding perennial with dense ground covering habit. Blooming Time: blooms for a shorter period in April/May, the main...

Dramatic deep blue flowers. Clump forming, partial-shade to shade-loving perennial with cobalt blue flowers in mid spring and dark green leaves. Leaves may be semi-evergreen in warm winters.  Blooming Time: April (as early as late February in the...

Aromatic plant with fluffy white flowers in late summer, followed by fluffy seedheads, true pollinator magnet. 2-3' tall x 3-4' wide, spreads wide very slowly by underground rhizomes, but it is not as aggressive as other mountain mints.Sturdy upright...

Very modest perennial with tops looking like they have been spray-painted. Dense clumps, 4 feet tall and wide and spreading wider, are topped with hemispherical flower heads with small white flowers supported by silver gray leaves. The white coloring...

Very modest, hardy, tough and easy to grow superb pollinator perennial! Slender mountain mint has the most narrow, nearly needle-shaped leaves and clusters of white flowers in July to September. From all the mountain mints, this one has the weakest mint...

Virginia Mountain Mint is an easy to grow and underused perennial that grows as a small bush with an upright structure. It has a long bloom time of 4 or more weeks and is highly attractive to pollinators. Its light green and narrow leaves and smaller...

Stunning new mountin mint hybrid with green+silver+burgundy+purple coloration on leaves. Small pale lavender flowers attract myriads of native insects and hummingbirds. Easy to grow and vigorous, supposedly less spreading than one of the parents (P...

Mexican hat or Prairie Coneflower 'Red Midget' is dwarf selection, reaching to 20" tall x 10-15" wide. Slender looking, aromatic plant, with deeply cut leaves and red-brown flowers from July to early October. Wild form of Ratibida columnifera (usually...

Easy, modest and very showy-looking native perennial and wildflower with elegant drooping petals and big (2-3”) flowers. It has a beautiful, airy structure, and the stems with big yellow flowers often dart in the wind. It usually doesn't grow...

Nodding pink flowers with yellow spots. Reminds of foxglove. Spreads by rhizomes into wide groundcovering clumps (especially on looser soil). Likes some moisture, established plants are quite drought tolerant. In zone 7 needs some protection. Blooming...

Old-fashioned and still-popular edible plant. But also a very ornamental plant with bold structure, reddish stems, and cream-white flowers. Very deer and rabbit resistant!  Just try to combine it with hardy geraniums, groundcovers, Siberian Iris,...

Deam's Black-eyed Susan - this may seem like just another rudbeckia in a row, but no no! This variety can beat the most popular Rudbeckia fulgida 'Goldsturm', lets quote North Creek Nurseries : "While there may be a bounty of black-eyed susan on the...

Another Rudbeckia? Yes, and a very good one! Even though they may look similar to you, they offer different qualities that may suit your garden better than others.  - Var. fulgida is long flowering botanical variety, the latest of all Rudbeckias -...

If there is a true perennial classic, it has to be Rudbeckia ‘Goldsturm‘. This striking cultivar has been popular in horticulture since its introduction in 1949, and its popularity was crowned by the Award of Garden Merit by Royal...

Very showy perennial, not common and underused in horticulture. Wild form grows only in a few scattered locations in the Southeastern, Midwest and Central USA. Hardy in zones 5 to 8. 'Sundance' is a seed strain cultivar, introduced by German seed company...

Superb plant, even short-lived and re-seeding perennial or biennial. This plant was honored with All-America Selection winner in 2003 and a Gold Medal winner at the 2003 Fleuroselect trials in England! 3' tall x 1.5-2' wide, branched clumps, covered with...