Cut Flowers

Gaura 'Rosy Jane' = compact mounds, white flowers with pink picotee edges and green foliage splashed with purple. Graceful airy look. Pollinator friendly, very floriferous variety with long flowering season.  In cooler areas is treated a...

Old-fashioned, but alien-looking lily with doubled pale orange flowers, heavily spotted. Easy to grow. Good cut flower (2 weeks in the vase). Blooming time: summer (July)Size: 4-6' tall by 1-2' wideUSDA zones: 3/4 to 9, heat zones 1-7Culture: full sun,...

'JoJo' features double vibrant pink flowers and manageable compact garden size of 4' and great vigor. 'JoJo' is completely sterile (no seeding in the garden). Fluffy, round to cone shaped clusters large, maroon stems, deep green leaves...

Campanula 'Blue Waterfalls' is a mounding, low growing bluebell with evergreen mat of fresh green leaves and violet-blue flowers of varying intensity. In the blooming peak, flowers flow outwards from the center and cover the entire plant. Vigorous, easy...

'Ruby Port' Columbine offers double maroon-red flowers. Traditional cottage garden plant and great cut flower. Not long-lived plant, but persist in the garden by self-seeding. Likes a bit cooler or partially shaded spot. Blooming Time: April/May-...

'Red Grape' blooms with vivid 1" red-purple flowers. Grassy leaves emerge gray-green. Easy to grow. Blooming Time: June/July, often reblooms later on, especially if cut backSize: 15'' high x up to 12’’ wideUSDA Zones: 4/5 to 10Culture: full...

Vertical and narrow plant, with evergreen basal rosettes and subtle spikes of tiny brown-red flowers. Good cut flower. Shorter-lived perennial, on a good site persist by self-seeding (or collect some seeds and sprinkle, where desired). Toxic to humans,...

Very large form that eventually gets 7-8' wide and reminds of medium-sized shrub. Seeds of this plant originate in Hot Springs, Arkansas (read the whole story down bellow). Long-lived and tough perennial, slowly matures to very large and wide clumps...

Earlier blooming fall aster for drier soil. Slowly forms wider clumps. Purple-blue 1"+ flowers on wiry stems. Blooming Time: June/July to July/August (depending on your zone and soils), flowers for about 3 weeksSize: about 20" tall and wide, slowly...

Plant well known in Traditional Chinese Medicine. Less known in garden culture. Somewhat grassy gray-green lily-like leaves, long flowering spikes with tiny purplish flowers. Thick root is harvested as the medicinal plant and has variety of use (from...

Smaller plant with lanceolate grassy leaves and globular clusters of pink flowers. Heat, salt spray and rocky soils. Suitable for in drained soils Blooming time: June to July/August  Size: 0.75' tall x 0.5'-0.75' wide USDA zones: 6 to 7/8 Culture:...

Upright, narrow shorter-lived "daisy". Finely divided aromatic basal leaves that repel insects (and deer). Wiry stems with clusters of white-yellow daisy flowers. Good cut flower. Blooming time: early to mid summerSize: 2.75-3' of height x 1-1.25' of...

Unknown Kalimeris, possibly a descendant of 'Daisy Mae' - white flowers, 2' tall and long-lived. Our friends Lisa and Dan Burnham shared the seeds of this unknown kalimeris as a trouble free, durable perennial that is persisting in their garden for 2...

Heavily blooming goldenrod, tiny flowers, one of the top performers at Mt. Cuba Solidago trials. Great in average to wet soil (and wet clay), well behaved, stays in clumps. Pollinator magnet as any other goldenrod. Blooming Time: July/August - September...

Meadow Rue with darker, nearly black stems (in full sun), pink-purple flowers and columbine-like gray-green leaves. Best in cooler areas (not for deep south). Blooming Time: May/JuneSize: about 5' tall x 1.5-2' wideUSDA Zones: 5 to 8/9Culture: half sun,...

Mildew resistant cultivar and tolerant to more humid climates. Long flowering season, coral pink flowers with orange tinge. Blooming Time: mid-July to the beginning of September, peaks at the end of JulySize: 30-32" tall x 30-32" wide, spacing 18-20",...

Very tall fall-blooming daisy. Upright bushy growth, 2-3" flowers in diameter, great cut flower. Award of Merit by RHS (Royal Horticultural Society in Britain). Not suitable for the deep South. Blooming Time: September-OctoberSize: usually 5' tall x 2'...

Robust perennial sunflower with ornamental leaves and fairly big golden flowers at the end of summer and early fall. Tolerates drought, dry soils, and is a very good cut flower. Attracts a lot of wildlife! Blooming Time: August to...