Cut Flowers

Drought and heat tolerant cool season grass, very adaptable from full sun to dry shade. Chartreuse flowers age to tan and light brown color.

Underused native grass with strap-like leaves, ornamental hairy leaves. Very good fall and winter color = purple-red!

Very adaptable spreading sedge with universal use. Top performer in Mt. Cuba Carex trials, gaining 4

Smaller fine-leaved sedge, ground-covering clumps, great for matrix planting or rock gardens. Little work horse for lower maintenance gardens.

Top performing sedge in Mt. Cuba Carex trials - gaining 4.4 points (out of 5) in shade conditions, and 4.0 for sunny location.

Universal use sedge, with wider evergreen to semi-evergreen leaves. Very adaptable to soils and light conditions, ground-covering growth. Cool season sedge (grows actively in the cooler first part of...

One of several top performing sedges in Mt. Cuba trials - both in sunny location (4.1 point out of 5) and full shade (4.3 points out of five). Although plants in the full sun get older sooner and...

Ground covering perennial for half shade or lighter shad. Aromatic leaves that turn red-orange in the fall,  soft pink flowers open from mauve buds in May.

'Hello Spring' Reed Grass offers white creamy leaf centers.

'Hello Spring' Reed Grass offers white edged leaves that arch down to the ground.

Shorter, late blooming, with excellent wildlife support. For average to moist soils. Blooming Time: 

Easy to grow, trouble free shade perennial with glossy leaves and orchid-like flowers. Valuable for very late blooming season in the shade garden (inc. deep shade).

Mid to late summer blooming perennial sunflower, well behaved (forms wide clumps). Double to full flower don't offer much pollen and nectar for pollinators, but it is still valuable host plant for...

Exotic perennial with golden-yellow flowers. Pollinator friendly, attracts hummingbirds, deer and rabbits avoid it.

Single pink flowers attract butterflies and variety of insects. Late bloomer, with fairly long flowering season, excellent cut flower.

'Avalanche' is similar to very popular 'Karl Foerster', a bit shorter and with white stripe in the centers of the leaves and more narrow. The whole look is more silver.

Big Bluestem cultivar combining silvery leaves with smoky purple and red stems. Adaptable warm season grass with universal use.

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.