Growing Conditions

Beautiful hairy gray leaves and stems. This wildflower spreads quickly and aggressively via rhizomes, so it's more suitable for larger landscaping projects or naturalization. The rhizomes are right underneath the soil surface, so it's easy to reduce the...

Slowly spreading and less aggressive form of Artemisia ludoviciana! Introduced by Plant Delights Nursery, from Patrick McMillan from his collections froma round Fredericksburg, Texas. The clump opens in the upper part into wide and a bit irregular clump...

Tough and very hardy aromatic perennial for sunny and dry gardens. Forms low clumps and doesn't spread. Attractive, aromatic, fern-like silver leaves deter many insects, mosquitos, but also deer and rabbits. Plant is bitter (and poisonous) and leaves...

Stunning, brand new cultivar, combining the best of two native Artemisia species! Excellent durability, heat, humidity, drought tolerance, good garden size and non-aggressive habit! Aromatic silver leaves deter deer and rabbits. Forms low and wide clumps...

The cultivar 'Garden Ghost' has compact mounded growth. Well branched, ornamental silver-gray foliage, aromatic. In relatively short time will spread into wide clumps by rhizomes. Looks great in bigger containers . Blooming Time: late summer, but may...

Also called Bride's Feather, this is a quite robust, bushy-looking woodland perennial. It has compound green leaves and cream-white plumes that remind one of Astilbe or Spirea (it's relatives with Spirea). The plants can be male or female; males have...

Narrow horizontal panicles of tiny creamy-white flowers on bronze-toned stems. The panicles fade to brown, giving each spike an interesting two-toned appearance. Fall color is red/reddish. Quite heat and humidity tolerant. For its decent size, it's...

Also called Canadian Wild Ginger, this plant is a quite common native ground-covering perennial. It's a deciduous plant, so the leaves disappear in the late fall and emerge again in early spring, but this doesn't change its highly competitive ground...

Swamp milkweed 'Ice Ballet' is the white-flowering form of native swamp milkweed. It offers 4,” dense clusters of vanilla-scented, white flower heads that put on a show through the summer. It is a must for butterflies and monarchs, and...

One of Nature's top food supermarkets for insects! Over 450 insects are known to feed on some portion of this species, including monarchs! This milkweed is the easiest to grow but also the most “weedy”. Due to it’s long underground...

Butterfly Milkweed 'Hello Yellow' is a yellow flowering form that monarch butterflies love as much as the typical orange milkweed. This pollinator magnet also attracts hummingbirds. This is a "seed strain," so the flower colors range from lemon and...

Favorite perennial with orange flowers that attract many butterflies. Forms more regular clumps up to 3’ in diameter (less in poorer soils); the leaves are narrow, the stems hairy. The big seed pods release silky-tailed seeds into the wind and can...

Very late-blooming perennial with clouds of small pale blue flowers. Tough, adaptable and dry shade tolerant. This cultivar is propagated from cuttings, which means all the plants are clonal with uniform look. Upright plant with heart-shaped basal leaves...

'Eastern Star' is a bit shorter and more compact than the species and has very dark, nearly black and shiny stems and dark veins on leaves. Flowers are white, smaller (less than 1"). Adaptable, tough mounding and groundcovering perennial, easily grown in...

Very adaptable, tough mounding perennial. White Wood Aster has smaller, fragrant, starry flowers (slightly less than 1'' in diameter) that are borne very abundantly on wiry stems. In full bloom this perennial is covered with flowers; if grown in...

A unique form of Heath Aster with cascading, very densely branched stems completely covered in small, bridal white flowers that bloom late in the season. Forms wide, nearly groundcovering mounds. Great pollinator plant! Blooming Time: early to mid fall...

Low growing, prostrate fall aster with small 0.5" white flowers that completely cover the plant. Very tough, healthy, vigorous and adaptable. Plant slowly, grows wide. Leaves are stiff, tiny and remind of heaths. One of the Aster winners in Chicago...

From the Mt. Cuba research center: "A Mt. Cuba Center Plant Introduction. Ranked as the #1 aster in an evaluation study at Mt. Cuba Center, this herbaceous perennial produces abundant, violet blue flowers on 3-4’ tall stems as fall color...