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Delicate, airy, looking perennial / deciduous sub-sbrub with unique purple-blue flowers that bloom late summer to early fall. Irregular white variegation, sometimes top leaves are completely white. From a distance the plant appears silvery-gray. It dies...

This perennial has unique, purple-blue flowers that appear from late summer to early fall. It dies back completely in the winter. The foliage releases an unpleasant aroma when crushed, which causes deer to avoid it.  Caryopteris divaricata...

Smaller shrub or sub-shrub with darker blue-purplish flowers arranged in clusters on it's branches. Dull green-gray, aromatic leaves. Valuable for late late blooming period and deer and rabbit resistance (aromatic leaves). Vigorous and pollinator very...

Sub-shrub with woody base, deep blue flowers and vibrant yellow-green foliage.  Valuable for its late blooming period and deer and rabbit resistance (aromatic leaves). Reliable performer, pollinator friendly! PA State University Trials Best of...

Interesting native woodland perennial with showy blue berries in the fall. The ornamental leaves are bluish or blue-green; the flowers are an indistinct yellow-green. The blue cohosh becomes most showy toward the end of the season. It establishes slowly...

Also called yellow scabious, this tall, airy perennial is quite stately, reaching 6' tall pretty early in the season while other tall prairie plants are still rather small. It also starts flowering fairly early in the summer, creating a display of...

This ground covering, non-invasive perennial hails from Western China. It grows into a dense mat of glossy leaves with slightly reddish stems, accented with dark gentian-blue flowers in late summer through early fall. Towards the fall, the leaves...

Tough grass for any situation - sun, half shade, shade, and any soil from dry to moist. And also great solution for dry shade! For sun location needs more moisture. The ideal conditions are moist, fertile soil and some little shade during the day, where...

Cultivar 'Black Ace' offers nearly black sprouts and foliage in the early season (leaves turn green at the beginning of summer). Taller and slender-looking perennial with white turtlehead-like flowers in August to September. Grows into narrow, upright...

This is a taller and slender-looking perennial that has white/white-pink turtlehead flowers in August to September. Grows into narrow, upright clumps that slowly spread by rhizomes.  The best uses are in shade gardens, woodland gardens, bog gardens,...

'Tiny Tortuga' = dense mounding perennial, the shortest and compact cultivar of Chelone. . This gorgeous, adaptable perennial grows in mounds that stay tightly closed and have a ground-covering habit. The clumps of shiny, dark green leaves are topped by...

Hardy garden mum with warm, vibrant bi-color flowers (orange-red). Late blooming (October/November), attracts butterflies. Deer and rabbit avoid it for it's aromatic leaves. Excellent cut flower. Can be cut back before 4th of July for more dense and...

Hardy garden mum with pure white slightly doubled and overlapping petals (about 3" in diameter) Late blooming (October/November). Deer and rabbit avoid it for it's aromatic leaves. Excellent cut flower. Can be cut back before 4th of July for more dense...

Single pink flowers attract butterflies and variety of insects. Late bloomer, with fairly long flowering season, excellent cut flower. Easy to grow, trouble free, due to the aromatic leaves also completely deer and rabbit resistant. Spreads into wide...

This superior cultivar, selected in 1942 for its vigor, durability and quality, is still a favorite and in cultivation to this day! 'Mary Stoker' is a single-flowering mum that attracts some pollinators, honeybees and butterflies (including Monarchs)...

This fall flowering clematis has fragrant, cream-white flowers in late summer through early fall (flowers are 1.25" in diameter). This is the ideal substitute for the invasive Clematis ternifolia (sweet autumn clematis) introduced from Japan. The native...

Wild basil, modest perennial standing on the edge of horticultural interest and we don't know why...Ok, let us point it's qualities : - regular mounds, very dense with ground covering nature - very adaptable to light condition - can grow in full sun,...

Probably the most vigorous and the longest-lived red-flowering cultivar, with sterile flowers and long blooming period. Fresh green, needle-like leaves, wine red 1.5" flowers (in diameter), forms 1.5' tall and 1.5-2' wide clumps (spreads a little by...