Growing Conditions

End of season flowering native plant, small creamy flowers in loose panicles open to highly ornamental fluffy seedheads. Fragrant flowers attract a lot of insects. Suitable for dryish garden. Size: usually around 3' tall x 1.5-2’ wide. Can handle...

Clump-forming grass with ornamental dangling spikelets arranged in loose panicles. (they start green with a hint of purple and fade to tan color). The flowers move in a slight breeze and are excellent dry flowers! Cool season grass that prefers somewhat...

This native woodland perennial grass spreads very slowly and forms clumps that have a light, airy structure. The leaves are gray-green; the long panicles of satin-silver flowers often flop to one side and turn brown-yellow with age. ...

Dense, ground covering grass with late summer flowers and striking coppery-pink fall color. Similar to the popular 'Karl Foerster' grass, but much smaller. Blooming Time: from mid summer to early fall, brown-yellow flowersSize: 2-3' tall x 3' wide, in...

'Avalanche' is similar to very popular 'Karl Foerster', a bit shorter and with white stripe in the centers of the leaves and more narrow. The whole look is more silver. Light purple flowers from May (cool season grass), fade to "light oatmeal" color, the...

'Eldorado' is similar to very popular 'Karl Foerster', just a bit shorter and with golden stripe in the centers of the leaves. The golden stripe sometimes starts cream white, in the summer heat often fades to greenish. Pale purple flowers from May (cool...

'Hello Spring' Reed Grass offers white edged leaves that arch down to the ground. Variegation is most visible before the summer heat strikes. Pink flowers age to bronze-tan. Reminds of older cultivar 'Overdam', but is lot more vigorous and bulks up...

Popular and truly excellent ornamental grass with wonderful vertical structure and very long ornamental value from May to February. Adaptable, drought tolerant and tough. First grass that received the Perennial Plant of the Year Award in 2001. This grass...

'Hello Spring' Reed Grass offers white creamy leaf centers. Fresh sprouts have chartreuse tone. Purple flowers age to bronze-orange to tan. Looks like variegated form of cultivar 'Karl Foerster'. Great vertical structure and very long ornamental value...

Smaller, highly aromatic perennial for drained soil or rock garden. Mounds about 0.75' tall x 1' wide, tubular purple-pink flowers, quite ornamental leaves. Flowers from the May/June till August/September, with the major peak in June/July. Full sun to...

Showy and all summer blooming perennial for drier or drained soil. Usually grows to 1-1.5' of height x 1-2' wide, it's also usually more sprawling than growing upwards. Deep magenta, upward facing cup-shaped flowers in Jun to beginning of August. Sun and...

Marsh marigolds are hardy and quite common perennials that can be found throughout the whole northern hemisphere, thriving in temperate zones. Caltha palustris has leathery, light green, round leaves and large, golden-yellow flowers in late...

Well behaved, non-spreading rich blooming selection of bluebell. Stiff upright stems, 2/3 of stem is covered with lilac-purple bell flowers in clusters. Blooming Time: spring to summer (depending on your zone April/May to June)Size: 18" tall x 16-18...

Campanula 'Blue Waterfalls' is a mounding, low growing bluebell with evergreen mat of fresh green leaves and violet-blue flowers of varying intensity. In the blooming peak, flowers flow outwards from the center and cover the entire plant. Vigorous, easy...

Vigorous plant. Spreads moderately into wide ground-covering clumps. Large 2.5" tubular deep blue-purple flowers. Doesn't seem to be bothered by the humidity and black walnut presence. Blooming time : June-July, with some reblooming later onSize: 24"...

Eye-catching low growing bluebell with evergreen mat of fresh green leaves and rich violet-blue flowers on erect stems. In the blooming peak, flowers cover the entire plant. Well behaved small perennial for drained soils. Blooming Time: early summer...

One of several top performing sedges in Mt. Cuba trials - both in sunny location (4.1 point out of 5) and full shade (4.3 points out of five). Although plants in the full sun get older sooner and have to be divided. Universal use, adaptable to soils and...

Universal use sedge, with wider evergreen to semi-evergreen leaves. Very adaptable to soils and light conditions, ground-covering growth. Cool season sedge (grows actively in the cooler first part of the season). Excellent for gardens with difficult to...