PERENNIALS BY COLLECTIONS

Clump perennial with ornamental leaves and dark red oval flowers. Native to a few cooler climate states of USA. Young leaves are edible and be used in salads or soups. Seeds freely, so dead head if you want to prevent seedlings or use it in meadow-type...

Small succulent stonecrop with rounded gray leaves and white flowers. For sunny garden with drained soil. Evergreen plant, with pinkish winter color. Blooming Time: May/June and sporadically during the summer Size: 1-2"' tall x 6-8" wide USDA Zones:...

Small and modest woodland edge perennial for half shade or shade garden. Goes well with spring bulbs and native ephemerals. Black walnut tolerant, deer and rabbit resistant plant. Attracts butterflies. Blooming Time: early to mid spring (end of March...

Sturdy old-fashioned perennial with mustard yellow flowers and fern-like silver foliage. Very easy to grow, but requires sunny, well drained and somewhat leaner soils. Award of Garden merit by RHS (Royal Horticultural Society, Britain). Aromatic...

Well behaved, clumping sedge with the finest evergreen leaves. Very slowly growing into wide groundcovering mats. Great as a lawn substitute in dry shade and other difficult places. Tolerates regular mowing - see the Mt. Cuba trial results. Blooming...

Southeastern native sedge with significant bluish to blue-green leaves. Requires some shade during the day, likes moisture, but will grow fine in average garden conditions. Well behaved, clumping, with fairly robust evergreen leaves. Blooming Time:...

Old fashioned plant with fragrant flowers (pink tones). For sunny garden, drained soils, drier edges, rock and crevice gardens. Blooming Time: May/June (very late spring to early summer) Size: 1-1.5' tall tall x 1' wide, gray leaves form low dense mat ...

Slender eye-catching garden pink with vivid carmine red flowers. Gray-green grassy leaves (semi-evergreen), leafless stems. Not super long-lived plant, lives about 3-4 years, but seems to be easy to grow in garden conditions. Can self-seed in good...

Short, creeping and groundcovering perennial with shiny chocolate-burgundy leaves with green undertones. Blue flowers in late spring/early summer. Usually is able to suppress small annual weeds, but isn't strong enough to outcompete bigger or strong...