Growing Conditions

Robust fern that can reach royal size of 6' of height and 3' wide. Award of Garden Merit by Royal Horticultural Society (UK, 1993). The size depends on the soil and moisture, in average moist soil it...

Upright, columnar switgrass cultivar - not-flopping, withstands wind and snow. Great height of 4', unique rose-colored flowers, gray-green leaves (with hint of rose color in the fall).

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...

'Sage Advice' = darkest purple shade of Russian Sage to date. Rich lavender purple flowers, darker calyxes, dissected (but slightly wider leaves). Strictly

Mountain Fleece is pretty much unknown plant in Midwest, but we expect this this will change. Hardy and easy to grow perennial from Himalaya, 3-4' tall and wide, more or less groundcovering clumps...

Compact cultivar with dense ground covering growth, golden leaves, spikes of red flowers in late summer. Usually 2.5' tall x 1.5-2' wide clumps, that slowly spread wide to groundcovering mounds...

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,...

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...

Cultivar (possibly hybrid of 2 native species) with 1.5" raspberry pink flowers and darker eye. Blooming Time: mid summer end of June - Ju

"Improved" version of Phlox paniculata ‘David' with regular, upright clumps. Makes a great cut flower.

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.

Large, spreading clumps, deep shrimp pink flowers in the spring, green leaves with prominent white spots. Deer, rabbit, and mildew resistant.

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 he

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.

Dramatic deep blue flowers. Clump forming, partial-shade to shade-loving perennial with cobalt blue flowers in mid spring and dark green leaves.

Large-flowering and early sage that meets late tulips. Fuchsia pink flowers on dark charcoal stems, prolific bloomer. Densely branched, compact and non-flopping hybrid of Salvia nemorosa and Salvia...

Unique hybrid of white flowering Solidago ptarmicoides (also called Aster ptarmicoides) with yellow-flowering Goldenrod. 'Sweet Kisses' gained from this cross: a

The name of this gorgeous clump-forming perennial comes from its past use – Native Americans (Creek and Cherokee) used the poisonous root to expel intestinal worms. The flowers are tubular, with an...