Growing Conditions

This easy-to-grow native perennial is a true pollinator magnet! It will bring long-tongued bees, bee flies, butterflies, skippers, hummingbird moths, and many other insects to your garden. And of course, hummingbirds will feed on its nectar too! This...

Very long time blooming perennial, native to Texas and New Mexico, but still pretty hardy (zones 5 to 8). 12'" tall and up to 18" wide, 2" big, soft pale pink flowers. This is spreading perennial, with a bit ground covering growth, less aggressive and...

Small evening primrose with larger (1"+) magenta flowers. For hot and dry garden. Short-lived, but will self-seed. Blooming Time: June-July/August Size: small clump 0.5-0.75' tall x 0.5'-1' wide USDA Zones: 6 to 10Culture: full sun, medium to...

Easy-to-grow perennial with large (3"), yellow, slightly fragrant flowers that bloom for the entire summer. This native wildflower forms low mounds, and with age will create wider ground-covering or trailing clumps. Flowers from May to August with the...

Southwestern native wildflower, with small pink flowers (under 0.5" in diameter), but long flowering season. Best for dry and leaner soils. Usually 1-1.5' tall, slender looking plants with small bright pink flowers from May till October. This is more or...

We got this groundcovering and densely spreading oregano last year and then realized it has lost its variegated leaves...The true 'Jim Best' cultivar has irregularly yellow-splashed leaves. Despite that, we decided to propagate it as "Jim Best Reversed",...

Vegetative propagated cultivar with dense and groundcovering growth. Ornamental and edible culinary plant, pollinator friendly. Forms wide mats, only about 5-6'' tall x 1.5-2' wide (in time). Flowers in June-July with tiny pale pink flowers. Full sun,...

Round-leaved ragwort is native wildflower and could be be considered "weedy" by some, but this perennial has some great benefits, so just use this plant on the right place : - modest, adaptable and shade tolerant plant - withstands heat and sun (more...

Native perennial, rare in cultivation, flowering for all season, for drier or drained soils. Reminds of more common P. integrifolium, but it is much shorter, only about 1.5' tall and 1' wide, leaves are also more fuzzy and look more gray. Small white...

Strictly upright woodland beardtongue. Never flopping, it boasts thick rosettes of basal leaves and long stems with tubular pink-purple flowers (sometimes white-pink). There aren't many woodland Penstemons, so this one brings a nice extension of the...

Not very common plant for sale, clump forming native perennial, with basal leaves and pale to dark violet flowers in May to June. Usually grows to 2' tall x 1' wide, naturally occurs in dry slopes, road banks, or dry woodlands in eastern USA, primarily...

Very showy prairie beardtongue with 2" large flowers, shorter-lived, but self-seeding. Best for sunny garden with drier soil. Narrower and somewhat loose clumps can reach up to 2' in height and 1' in width. Flowers emerge in May/June, in upper third up...

Clump-forming, easy to grow perennial. Great for hummers, butterflies and native bees. Tough and resilient. Typically grows to 3-3.5' and 0.5-0.7' wide. Forms smaller mounds of dense packed leaves and rigid, upright stems with tubular flowers (to 1.25"...

Easy to grow and very showy beardtongue. Versatile and adaptable. Tolerant to heat, humidity and black walnut. Blooming Time: from late May to late June. Size: 18" tall x 12" wide, airy clusters of changeable multicolored purple-pinkish-white...

Showy perennial with unbranched stems, basal rosettes of leaves and nearly white flowers. Looks like dainty version on Pentemon digitalis, which is more common in horticulture. Native wildflower to Central and eastern United States, see the USDA...

Underused charming native perennial with strictly upright bushy habit. Evergreen leaves with purple veins, smaller tubular purple-pink flowers in large airy panicles. Surprisingly (rather) long flowering period for about 6 weeks (or even more, depending...

Blunt mountain mint - native plant throughout eastern north America - grows  in open moist woods, meadows, and bogs. It makes spreading clumps with bright green very aromatic leaves, and 2 foot stems are topped in mid to late summer and fall with...

Quite common perennial plant in the wild, but not so common in our yards. Forms nice bushy clumps of green leaves with thin flowering stalks above the leaves. Flowers are small, green-white, and generally insignificant. The reason why this native...