Growing Conditions

Evergreen clumping sedge with wider silvery-blue leaves.  Even it's also called "creeping sedge", this grass doesn't creep at all and stays in tight 12" x 18" wide clumps. Blooms in spring, but the flowers are insignificant and it's really the...

Smaller fine-leaved sedge, ground-covering clumps, great for matrix planting or rock gardens. Little work horse for lower maintenance gardens. Suitable for cooler areas. Blooming Time: April/MaySize: 6" high and 12" wide clumps, slowly spreadingUSDA...

Very valuable groundcover sedge for dry shade. Carex pennsylvanica is unpalatable to deer, rabbits, livestock, and other herbivores. Pennsylvania Sedge forms soft, grass-like clumps of very narrow, bright green leaves. The clumps will spread,...

Excellent groundcovering, clump-forming native sedge with very fine texture of fresh green leaves. Grows to about 1' (tall and wide, in ideal conditions up to 2'). Beautiful fresh green leaves appear very soon in the spring (cool season grass), stays in...

Versatile native grass (sedge), adaptable to light conditions and moisture. Cool season grass (actively growing in cooler months of the season), evergreen or partially evergreen. 12" tall x14" wide" clumps of fine green leaves, slowly spreads wide by...

Top performing sedge in Mt. Cuba Carex trials - gaining 4.4 points (out of 5) in shade conditions, and 4.0 for sunny location. Adaptable to soils and light conditions, but likes more moisture. Ground-covering growth. Cool season sedge (grows actively in...

Robust wetland sedge for moist to wet soils. Carex vulpinoidea forms regular clumps that have an evergreen look. The leaves are bright green and narrow, and it bears attractive fox tail-shaped seed heads in May/June (don't last long). Some...

Very adaptable spreading sedge with universal use. Top performer in Mt. Cuba Carex trials, gaining 4.7 points in shade and 4.4 in sunny location. Tolerates light foot traffic and mowing. In look reminds fine leaved Carex pennsylvanica. Blooming Time:...

Tough grass for any situation - sun, half shade, shade, and any soil from dry to moist. And also great solution for dry shade! For sun location needs more moisture. The ideal conditions are moist, fertile soil and some little shade during the day, where...

This is a taller and slender-looking perennial that has white/white-pink turtlehead flowers in August to September. Grows into narrow, upright clumps that slowly spread by rhizomes.  The best uses are in shade gardens, woodland gardens, bog gardens,...

Wild basil, modest perennial standing on the edge of horticultural interest and we don't know why...Ok, let us point it's qualities : - regular mounds, very dense with ground covering nature - very adaptable to light condition - can grow in full sun,...

This native wildflower is a very showy plant that has big, golden yellow flowers and a long flowering season. It grows in clumps of light green, hairy leaves. For sunny flower beds with drier/drained soils, wildflower gardens, meadows or prairies. It is...

Coreopsis major, also known as Greater Tickseed or Whorled-leaf Coreopsis, is a tough native perennial grown for its bright yellow flowers, long bloom season, and excellent performance in hot, dry conditions. It is especially useful in full sun and...

This modest and tough wildflower grows in ground-covering clumps that slowly spread by rhizomes, so in time and good conditions it can form some colonies (though it's not an aggressive spreader at all). 2" yellow flowers, dark green foliage. Coreopsis...

Trouble free, compact plant with a very long blooming season.Yellow, star-shaped flowers with orange discs start blooming in June. In suitable conditions freely (moderatelly) self seeds and fills the gaps. Heat and drought tolerant. Deer, rabbit and...

More leafy than other native prairie clovers, purple-light purple flowers form prolonged ornamental seedheads (last till mid fall). Can't compete with tall competitive plants, so combine with shorter/smaller plants. Late bloomer, drought and heat...

Purple prairie clover is a showy, native North American perennial. It grows in slender-looking, upright clumps, with fine leaves and cylindrical spikes of purple flowers. Drought tolerant. This is a pollinator favorite plant - the pollen and nectar...

"Delphinium exaltatum is an attractive and floriferous native woodland-edge perennial that is equally at home in the home garden border. Growing to a height of 4’, this summer-blooming perennial has attractive medium-green, palmate leaves and...