Growing Conditions

Baptisia 'Purple Smoke' is one of the top performers in Mt. Cuba's Baptisia trials and here is why : - 150 inflorescenses on mature clump, flowers in late May for 3 weeks

Dward Baptisia with light periwinkle blue flowers, gray-green leaves. Compact round shape and great performance makes it suitable for smaller gardens! Blooming Time: May

A very showy plant when in bloom! Blue wild indigo is a long-lived and drought tolerant perennial that grows in robust and dense clumps. What's more, it is easy to grow and adaptable to many soils,...

Natural dwarf form of Blue Wild Indigo, suitable for smaller gardens. 28" x 28" tall and wide, shrubby-looking clumps (40" with flowers). Blue-violet flowers in spikes in May/June.

Long-lived perennial, but slower to establish (like other Baptisia). Regular mounds of gray-green leaves, smaller yellow flowers in May/June- June, followed by marble-sized round seed pods (the shape...

Also called "chocolate daisy" for the light chocolate fragrance of the daisy-like flowers; another common name is lyreleaf greeneyes. It has grayish, aromatic and divided leaves, pale yellow to...

Native re-seeding annual with golden flowers at the end of the season = August to October. Very valuable for many pollinators, butterflies and Monarchs.

If you think there are no more unusual native plants, that turn out to be good garden plants, then you haven't met this goldenrod! Fresh green leaves arranged in tufts, delicate fabulous yellow...

Our selection with creamy variegated leaves, named after our right hand worker Lela, who loves this plant. Variegation is stable, but is less pronounced during the hottest weeks of summer. Aromatic...

Showy, easy to grow, suitable for garden conditions and with superior qualities for native pollinators! Aromatic minty leaves. 

An upright perennial with clusters of pale lilac to whitish, fragrant flowers, aromatic minty leaves, and stems that do not branch much. This plant can bloom for very long time.

Boltonias are great plants for adding color to the garden in the fall. Related to Asters, they are covered with 3/4" aster-like white flowers. The green-gray leaves are ornamental too. This clumping...

Shorter or dwarf form of false aster. Var. latisquama has larger flowers than the more widely-spread Boltonia asteroides; it is also native to the more central USA, along with only a handful of...

Modest, but attractive grass, that is native to all states (excluding Nevada). Heat and drought tolerant and easy to grow, adaptable prairie grass.

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.

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...

Dense, ground covering grass with late summer flowers and striking coppery-pink fall color. Similar to the popular 'Karl Foerster' grass, but much smaller.

'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.