Growing Conditions

Robust looking perennial with large, spiky and shiny leaves and pink-mauve snapdragon-like flowers in early summer. Trouble free and drought tolerant. Awarded by Award of Garden Merit by RHS (Royal Horticultural Society, Britain) in 1993. 3-4' tall x 2...

Highly attractive and architectural perennial with decorative green leaves and long spikes of fragrant white flowers. Effective in woodland gardens, shaded flower beds, cottage gardens and naturalized areas. Best if planted in groups and in front of a...

Probably the most robust summer blooming Allium on the market! Strong and vigorous clumps. Pale pink 3-3½" sphere, highly attractive to various insects, turn to ornamental seedheads. Grayish foliage, the whole plants has strong onion/garlic and...

Superb late flowering show-stopper, tough plant with no pests and diseases. Deer and rabbit resistant and highly attractive for butterflies and bees. Perennial Plant of The Year in 2018. No wonder, why we see this amazing plant more and more in public...

Superior selection with nearly black sprouts in early spring, very dark stems for the whole season, bluish flowers in early spring (for 4-6 weeks), and yellow foliage color in the fall (the more sun, the better the fall color). This tough, adaptable, and...

"Blackhawks’ is an exciting new stand-out cultivar grown as a seedling of Andropogon gerardii ‘Red October.’ The upright foliage starts dark green but begins to turn purple in August as nights cool and is nearly black by late September...

" ‘Dancing Wind’ is an easy care cultivar with a striking display of colorful foliage from late summer until frost. The summer foliage is yellow-green, accented with red. As the season progresses, the foliage reliably turns from red to deep...

Andropogon ‘Red October's' leaves emerge green with reddish highlights. During the summer the plant changes to purplish-red to burgundy-purple. After first frost its leaves turn a vivid scarlet red. Universal warm season grass that goes well with...

Stunning, brand new cultivar, combining the best of two native Artemisia species! Excellent durability, heat, humidity, drought tolerance, good garden size and non-aggressive habit! Aromatic silver leaves deter deer and rabbits. Forms low and wide clumps...

Narrow horizontal panicles of tiny creamy-white flowers on bronze-toned stems. The panicles fade to brown, giving each spike an interesting two-toned appearance. Fall color is red/reddish. Quite heat and humidity tolerant. For its decent size, it's...

One of the best performing asters in the 2003-2009 Chicago Botanic Garden trials! Bright deep pink flowers, good flower coverage, manageable size, usually without flopping and opening. Excellent resistance to leaf spots (better than some new cultivars)...

'Billowing Pink' = new selection of Aromatic Aster - very vigorous, dense, with high percentage flower coverage and very late blooming! Bubble gum pink flowers 1½" in diameter. Healthy foliage - mildew free! This plants needs space, and in 3 years...

Hybrid of the native Lady Fern (Athyrium filix-femina) and Japanese Painted Fern (Athyrium niponicum 'Pictum'). It inherited the upright habit and better drought tolerance of the native fern and the silvery leaves with maroon midribs from it's Asian...

Large sport of Japanese Painted Fern, reaching 3' of height and 4' of width (up to 6'). Discovered in Plant Delights Nursery (NC) in the 90's. Fronds (leaves) have darker wine-red stems and silvery-green leaves. Slowly spreads into wide clumps. Best in...

'Lunar Eclipse' is an exceptional hybrid valued for its large, unique blooms which emerge pale yellow/cream white along long spikes and darken over the flowering period to light purple/lilac and then shades of dark violet and bluish purple, creating a...

Cultivar with bi-color effect on one plant - pink-mauve flower that age to nearly white. 3.5-4' tall and wide clumps, somewhat reminding of little shrub. Sun to half shade (4-6 hours), flowers better in the full sun. Adaptable to many soil types with...

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...

Coreopsis verticillata 'Heartstrings' = 2" cream flowers have a dark reddish pink eye. The eye zone jets nearly to the tip of each petal, with flecking appearing along the veins. Great mildew resistance. Tolerant to heat, humidity and droughts...