- Achillea (ak-uh-lay'-uh) Yarrow - zone 3, full sun, loves it hot and dry, vigorous grower with lacy
foliage
- Achillea Angelique Yarrow - 24-26" tall, rich, dark red blooms
- Achillea Gloria Jean Yarrow - 18-24" tall, bright rose-pink blooms, does not spread
as quickly as other yarrows
- Achillea Moonshine Yarrow - 22-24" tall, lemon yellow flowers, silver-gray foliage
- Anemone (ah-nem'-o-nee) Robustissima - zone 3, full sun/part shade, late summer/fall
bloomer, best in moist soil, blooms are large, single pink
- Aquilegia - Columbine - zone 3, part shade, blooms late spring. Tip: If you keep deadheading
(trimming off finished blooms), you will greatly extend the bloom time well into summer.
- Aquilegia Black Barlow - 24-30" tall, double, dark purple-black blooms
- Aquilegia Songbird Bunting - 24-28" tall, very large, showy 3" blue and white blooms
- Aquilegia Clementine Red - 18-24" tall, profuse, double fuchsia-red flowers
- Aquilegia Clementine Rose - 12-18", profuse double soft pink blooms
- Armeria Spendens - Sea Thrift - zone 3, 8-10" tall, small mounds of tufted, grass-like leaves,
bright, carmine rose, clover-like blooms
- Artemesia Silver Mound - zone 3, full sun/part shade, 8-10" tall, soft silver-gray foliage
- Asarum (as'-us-rum) Canada Wild Ginger - zone 2, part shade/full shade, 6-8" tall, grown
for its foliage, clump-forming ground cover, unique bloom hidden under foliage
- Aster - zone 4, full sun/part shade, bright, late summer blooms attract butterflies
- Aster Jenny - 12-16" tall, raspberry-red flowers with yellow center
- Aster Purple Dome - 24-28" tall, deep purple flowers
- Bee Balm - see Monarda
- Black-eyed Susan - see Rudbeckia
- Blanket Flower - see Gaillardia
- Bleeding Heart - see Dicentra
- Campanula (cam-pan'-yew-luh) Blue Clips - zone 3, full sun/part shade, 8-12" tall, profuse
bloomer, lovely lavender blue in mid-summer
- Campanula White Clips - same as Blue Clips only pure white blooms
- Chrysanthemum - zone 4, full sun, 15-22" tall. Nothing says autumn like colorful mums!!
- Chrysanthemum Autumn Sunset*
- Chrysanthemum Burnt Copper - one of our favorites!
- Chrysanthemum Gold Country
- Chrysanthemum Mammoth Dark Bronze Daisy*
- Chrysanthemum Mammoth Dark Pink Daisy*
- Chrysanthemum Mammoth Yellow Quill Daisy*
- Chrysanthemum Maroon Pride
- Chrysanthemum Purple Waters
- Chrysanthemum Small Wonder*
- Cimicifuga (sim-ih-sih-fu'guh) Brunette - zone 3, part shade/full shade, 3-5' tall, purplish-
bronze foliage with creamy white bottle-brush type flowers, good cut flower
- Columbine - see Aquilegia
- Coneflower - see Echinacea
- Coral Bells - see Heuchera
- Cushion Spurge - see Euphorbia
- Daylily - see Hemerocallis
- Delphinium - Larkspur - zone 3, full sun, tall, extremely showy blooms, taller types have hollow
stems and may require staking to keep them upright
- Delphinium Blue Butterfly - 12-14" tall, dwarf version, fluorescent blue
- Delphinium Magic Fountain Dark Blue with White Bee - 28-36" tall, lovely rich
dark blue with white eye
- Delphinium Magic Fountain Sky Blue - tall spikes of sky blue blooms
- Dianthus Firewitch - zone 3, full sun, 6-8" tall, mounds of silver-blue foliage with bright
magenta pink blooms in late spring—very showy
- Dicentra Bleeding Heart - zone 3, part shade/full shade, 24-30" tall, can go dormant in summer
after they bloom, have a single tap root so are not divisible
- Dicentra Gold Heart Bleeding Heart - stunning gold-green foliage and traditional
pink and white heart-shaped dangling blooms, not as prolific a bloomer as
the Old Fashioned Bleeding Heart but foliage is very striking
- Dicentra Old Fashioned Bleeding Heart - arching stems with dangling heart-shaped
pink and white blooms
- Dicentra Alba Old Fashioned Bleeding Heart White - same foliage as Old Fashioned
but blooms are pure white
- Digitalis Mertonensis Foxglove - zone 3, full sun/part shade, 24-36" tall, bell-shaped flowers
in shades of pink to copper, long-lived perennial
- Echinacea (ek-ih-nay'-shuh) Coneflower - zone 3, full sun/part shade, daisy-like bloom, oftentimes
the petals of which are pointed downward in a cone shape around an orange-brown center,
very sturdy plant, great cut flower
- Echinacea Harvest Moon* - zone 4, 24-30" tall, gold flowers with golden orange cone
- Echinacea Sundown - zone 4, 32-40", warm orange flowers, fragrant, vigorous
- Echinacea Ruby Star - zone 3, 36" tall, bright carmine red with horizontal petals, one
of our favorite, most reliable coneflowers
- Echinacea Vintage Wine* - zone 3, 26" tall, deep raspberry pink petals, orange
center
- Echinacea White Swan - zone 3, 18-20" tall, abundant white flowers, tolerates
drought
- Eupatorium (yew-puh-tor'-i-um) Phantom* Joe Pye Weed - zone 4, full sun/part shade,
30" tall, large wine-red flower clusters (think pink broccoli!), great performer
- Euphorbia polychroma Cushion Spurge- zone 4, full sun/part shade, 12-18" tall, fluorescent
yellow blooms in spring on round, mounded plants
- Gaillardia Blanket Flower - zone 3, full sun, drought tolerant, blooms all summer
- Gaillardia Arizona Sun Blanket Flower - 8-10" tall, large fiery orange-red blossoms tipped
with yellow
- Gaillardia Burgundy Blanket Flower - 30-36" tall, rich wine flowers with dark red
centers
- Gaillardia Fanfare Blanket Flower - 12-15" tall, striking deep orange-red trumpet-
shaped flowers flare out with yellow tips
- Geranium - zone 4, full sun/part shade, this perennial looks nothing like the annual geranium but
has small brightly colored blooms on cut-leaf foliage
- Geranium Ballerina - 4-5" tall, hot pink flowers with dark veins
- Geranium Elke* - 10" tall, large blooms of fluorescent pink with white at center and edges
- Geranium Sanguineum - zone 3, 10-15" tall, hot pink blooms, foliage turns red in fall
- Goldenrod - see Solidago
Grass - zone 4, full sun, enjoy hot and dry conditions. We sell clump-forming grasses that will
NOT spread wildly in your garden. Tip: If you want extremely easy-care gardening, use
some ornamental grasses. They're graceful in the summer; leave them stand through
winter snows and, in spring, chop them back almost to the ground before the new growth begins. You can use the blooms for great dried arrangements.
- Grass Calamagrostis (kal-uh-muh-gro'-stis)Karl Foerster - 5-6' tall, feathery blooms, seeds
are sterile
- Grass Calamagrostis Overdam - 5' tall, variegated foliage with margins that begin pink and
turn creamy white
- Grass Helictotrichon (hee-lik'to-try'kon) Sapphire Blue Oat Grass - 24" tall, silver-blue
- Grass Miscanthus Kleine Fontaine (Little Fountain)* - 3-4' tall, nice shorter grass, pink-beige
flowers become whitish plumes in autumn
- Grass Miscanthus Purpurescens Flame Grass - 4' tall, great fall color of bright red-orange
- Grass Miscanthus Ferner Osten* (Far East) - 4-5' tall, beautiful deep wine plumes begin in July
and mature to creamy silver by fall
- Grass Schizacharium (skiz-uh-kair'-ree-um) Blue Heaven Little Bluestem - zone 3, 4-5' tall,
blue foliage that turns beautiful reddish-purple in fall
- Grass Spodiopogon Frost Grass - 4-5' tall, likes moist soil in full sun, large, impressive
form with purplish flower panicles, does not stand as well in winter as other
grasses
- Hemerocallis - Daylily (not a true lily because it does not have tuberous roots) - zone 3, full
sun/part shade, Re=reblooms, Ex=extended bloom, Fr=fragrant
- Hemerocallis Bella Lugosi - 33" tall, Re, large 6" dark purple blooms with ruffled
edges and brilliant yellow eye, lime green throat
- Hemerocallis Carlotta* - 25", Re, Ex, Fr, raspberry-red with lemon yellow
- Hemerocallis Eenie Fanfare - 12", miniature red blooms attract butterflies and
hummingbirds
- Hemerocallis Eleonore* - 28" tall, Re, Ex, large lavender blue flowers with ruffles
- Hemerocallis French Tudor* - 28" tall, Re, Ex, huge, rose-pink flowers, blue-green foliage
- Hemerocallis Going Bananas - 18-22" tall, lemon yellow flowers, nearly continuous bloom
all summer
- Hemerocallis Little Grapette - 12" tall, petite with grape-purple blooms, green throat
- Hemerocallis Mary Reed - 12", Ex, purple flowers with white mid-rib
- Hemerocallis Pardon Me - 18", Re, Fr, 2" colorfast deep red blooms
- Hemerocallis Purple d'Oro* - 18", Fr, everblooming all summer, ruffled soft purple
- Hemerocallis Ruby Stella - 12-22" tall, wine-red blooms all season
- Hemerocallis South Seas - 30" tall, Ex, Fr, 6" vibrant coral color blooms
- Hemerocallis Sunday Gloves - 27" tall, Re, Ex, Fr, near-white very fragrant blooms
- Hen and Chicks - see Sempervivum
- Heuchera (hew'-ker-uh) Coral Bells - zone 4, part shade, round mounds of colorful foliage (these
are NOT you mother's traditional green coral bells!), delicate blooms rise above foliage and
are a great cut flower
- Heuchera Hollywood - 8" tall, ruffled metallic-purple leaves, brilliant coral flower
- Heuchera Peach Flambe - 7" tall, WOW! colors of bright peach to flaming red-
orange , white flowers
- Heuchera Pistache* - 10", huge chartreuse to lime-green leaves, very vigorous with better
sun tolerance, creamy flowers
- Heuchera Sparkling Burgundy - *12" tall, bright burgundy with clean white flowers
- Heuchera Tiramisu* - 8-10", bright golden yellow leaves with red-blotched center,
vigorous grower with better sun tolerance, creamy flowers
- Hosta - zone 3, part shade/full shade, extremely easy care, “king of the shade" plants, many
variations in leaf size, color, texture; blooms are usually lavender or white and rise above
the leaves. Tip: Use both the blooms and the leaves in fresh flower arrangements.
Hostas can sometimes be susceptible to insect damage from slugs. If you notice neat
round holes in the middle of your hosta leaves, most likely it is slug damage. You can
prevent (or treat) by sprinkling insecticide (slug bait) around the plants. (Look for pet-safe
brands.)
- Hosta August Moon - 24-30", sun tolerant, rounded leaves of golden green
- Hosta Blue Angel - 18-28", huge blue leaves with white blooms, heavy foliage is
insect resistant
- Hosta Blue Mouse Ears - 6" tall, appropriately named with small, round blue-green
leaves, makes a 1' wide mound
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- Hosta Brim Cup - 20-28", an old favorite, creamy yellow heart-shaped leaves that turn white with green center
- Hosta Clovelly* - 18-22" tall, unusual deep rippled “piecrust edges," pale lavender blooms
- Hosta Halcyon - 10-18", chalky blue ribbed leaves, violet flowers, insect resistant
- Hosta Holy Mole - 24-30", thick rubbery leaves, chartreuse with wide, dark green margins, fragrant near-white flowers
- Hosta Honeybells - 22-30" tall, glossy, bright green leaves, tolerates full sun, fragrant lavender blooms
- Hosta Queen Josephine - 12-15", very shiny dark green leaves with yellow margins, purple flowers
- Hosta Striptease - 20-26" tall, impressive wide, dark green margins surround a gold center which is occasionally lined in white, pale violet flowers
- Hosta Sum and Substance - 36" tall, huge plant with gold-green leaves, sun tolerant and insect resistant, fragrant lavender flowers
- Jacob's Ladder - see Polemonium
- Joe Pye Weed - see Eupatorium
- Lamium - zone 3, part shade/full shade, great groundcover in shade, silvery-white leaves
- Lamium Orchid Frost - 4-6" tall, large, orchid-pink flowers, heavy bloomer
- Lamium White Nancy - 4-8" tall, pure white flowers, excellent weed-smothering
groundcover
- Leucanthemum Becky Shasta Daisy - zone 4, full sun, 36-48" tall, white daisy with golden
center, large 4" blooms. Tip: Cut faded flower stems for continued rebloom.
- Lewisia Little Plum* - zone 3, full sun/part shade, 6-9", requires good drainage, abundant
rose-purple blooms with a touch of orange
- Ligularia - zone 3, part shade/full shade, impressive plants, large leaves, need moist soil
- Ligularia Little Rocket - 36-40" tall, large spikes of bright yellow blooms
- Ligularia Osirus Fantaisie* - zone 4, 24" tall, deep green leaves with glossy
burgundy undersides, bright golden yellow flowers
- Lily - Asiatic - zone 3, full sun, huge colorful blooms
- Lily Asiatic Matrix - 12-18" tall, fiery red with orange marking at the center of each
petal
- Lily Asiatic Monte Negro - 38" tall, very rich, dark red blooms
- Lily Asiatic Navona - 28" tall, elegant, large white blooms
- Lily Asiatic Orange Art - 36" tall, deep orange highlighted with burgundy speckles
- Lily Asiatic Petite Brigitte - 15-17" tall, pure yellow blooms
- Lily Asiatic Vermeer - 24-32" tall, soft pink bloom with white center
- Malva Zebrina - zone 3, full sun, 36" tall, related to hibiscus, shrub-like with pale purple
flowers with bold raspberry-purple veins radiating out from the center
- Monarda Bee Balm - zone 4, full sun/part shade, mint-scented foliage with colorful blooms that
attract butterflies and hummingbirds, vigorous grower, can sometimes susceptible to
powdery mildew fungus
- Monarda Fireball - zone 3, 18-24" tall, bright red flowers, compact, mildew resistant
- Monarda Gardenview Scarlet - 36" tall, highly mildew resistant, bright red
- Monarda Marshall's Delight - 36" tall, hot pink flowers, mildew resistant\
- Mums - see Chrysanthemum
- Nepeta (nep'-uh-tuh) Walker's Low - zone 3, full sun, does well in dry conditions, 18-24" tall,
grey-green foliage, unbelievable flower display all summer with large lavender-blue
blooms. Tip: In midsummer, if it's getting too tall, cut it back by at least half and it
will re-bush and rebloom beautifully. An absolutely great plant!
- Pasque Flower - see Pulsatilla
- Penstemon Ruby Candle - zone 3, full sun/part shade, 24" tall, brilliant red blooms attract
butterflies and hummingbirds, drought tolerant
- Peony - some say “pee-oh'-nee," some say “pee'-uh-nee," no matter—they're beautiful either way!
Zone 3, full sun, lovely huge balls of blooming color, great cut flower. Tip: When they're
done blooming for the season, trim off the dried up blooms and the plant makes a lovely
“shrub" even when it's not blooming.
- Peony Kansas* - 32" tall, double large watermelon red flowers
- Peony Krinkled White - 32" tall, single, snow white crinkled petals with yellow center
- Peony Santa Fe* - 30" tall, bright cerise pink outer petals with creamy pink center
- Perovskia Little Spire Russian Sage - zone 4, full sun, 25" tall, shrub-type perennial with a
single tap root (so it won't multiply like other perennials) with woody stems that are
covered in beautiful lavender blue blooms along the stems. Gorgeous! Tip: Cut the
plant back each spring (down to 8-12") to maintain good vigor.
IMPORTANT: Russian sage is very late to come alive in the spring, sometimes not
showing life until almost June. Be patient and do not give it up as dead.
- Phlox - full sun, showy, long-lasting flowers, many are fragrant, great cut flower. Tip: Phlox can
be susceptible to the disease powdery mildew; planting resistant varieties and planting
them where there is good air movement will help alleviate this problem.
- Phlox David - zone 3, 40" tall, large, pure white flowers, exceptionally disease
resistant
- Phlox Emerald Blue Creeping Phlox - zone 3, 6" tall, spring blooming with light
blue color, solid green mat remainder of summer
- Phlox Emerald Pink Creeping Phlox - zone 3, 6" tall, like the blue only light pink
- Phlox Eva Cullum - zone 4, 24-28" tall, dark pink center with soft pink petals
- Phlox Laura - zone 4, 20-24" tall, rich purple with white star center
- Phlox Red Super* - zone 4, 28" tall, large light red flowers, prolific bloomer
- Physostegia Miss Manners Obedient Plant - zone 4, full sun/part shade, 30" tall, bright white
spikes above dark green, waxy foliage, is not invasive like traditional obedient plant
- Polemonium (po-luh-mo'-nee-um) Jacob's Ladder - part shade/full shade, showy, graceful fern-like
foliage with lavender-blue blooms
- Polemonium Bressingham Purple - zone 4, 15" tall, dark purple foliage turns green in
summer, good cut flower
- Polemonium Stairway to Heaven - zone 3, 12" tall, green/white variegated foliage
- Polygonatum* Variegated Solomon's Seal - zone 2, 24-36" tall, part shade/full shade, prefers
moist site, green leaves edged with yellow margins that turn creamy white, cream-
colored flowers hang from arching stems followed by black berries in fall
- Pulsatilla Rubra Pasque Flower - zone 4, 8-12" tall, full sun/part shade, deep red-burgundy
flowers followed by attractive seed heads, prefers well-drained soil or rock garden
- Rudbeckia (rood-beck'-ee-ah) Black-eyed Susan - zone 3, full sun/part shade, wonderful golden
daisy with dark center, great cut flower, very study plant, easy-to-grow
- Rudbeckia Goldsturm Black-eyed Susan - 24-30" tall, long bloom time, great plant!
- Rudbeckia Henry Eilers* Black-eyed Susan- 48" tall, unusual tubular yellow petals
that are forked at the end, U.S. native
- Rudbeckia Herbtsonne (Autumn Sun) Black-eyed Susan - 6' tall, great for the back
of the border , very hardy, a really bright spot in the garden
- Russian Sage - see Perovskia
- Salvia Meadow Sage - zone 3, full sun, drought and heat tolerant, blue-purple flower spikes
- Salvia Marcus - 8-12" tall, dark blue flowers, excellent rebloomer if trimmed
- Salvia May Night - 24-30" tall, long lasting blooms, great cut flower either fresh or
dried
- Sedum Stonecrop - zone 3, full sun, drought tolerant, thick, fleshy leaves, loves hot, dry conditions.
Every garden needs sedum!
- Sedum Angelina - 3-5" tall, golden yellow needle shaped foliage, great in rock
gardens
- Sedum Autumn Fire - 18-24" tall, heavy stems support large dense flowers of pink
that fade to bronze
- Sedum Black Jack - 24" tall, deep purple foliage with vivid pink flowers
- Sedum Dwarf Assorted - an assortment of small sedum—cute and durable for rock garden
- Sedum Lidacense (ly'-duh-kens) - 4-6" tall, rosette-shaped blue-green foliage
- Sedum Matrona - 18-24" tall, dark burgundy stems, blue-green leaves, pink blooms
- Sedum Neon - 18" tall, hot pink flower heads, BRIGHT!
- Sedum October Daphne - 6-10" tall, arching stems of blue-green rosette-shaped foliage
- Sempervivum Hen and Chicks Assorted - zone 3, full sun, small 2-5" round rosettes that love it hot,
dry and crowded—they do best in dry, sandy soil with their roots crowded into small area
or in a container or miniature garden
- Sempervivum Cobweb - 1-2", fine white cobweb-like hairs criss-cross between leaf tips
- Sempervivum Red Beauty - 3-4", gray-green leaves with blood-red tips
- Sempervivum Sanford Hybrids - 3-4", large rosettes of deep red, sharply pointed leaves
- Shasta Daisy - see Leucanthemum
- Solidago Little Lemon Goldenrod* - zone 4, 12", full sun, bright masses of golden yellow flowers,
does not cause hay fever
- Solomon's Seal - see Polygonatum
- Speedwell - see Veronica
- Stachys Hummelo - zone 4, 18-20" tall, showy spikes of densely packed, lavender-rose flowers
shoot up through foliage on tall stalks
- Step-ables Assorted* - zone 4, full sun/part shade, an assortment of small plants to tuck into a rock
garden or between stepping stones in a path
- Tanacetum Isla Gold Tansy - zone 4, full sun, 24" tall, bright golden lacy foliage all summer, does
not spread or self-seed, a beautiful, easy-care plant
- Thalictrum Kyushu Meadow Rue - zone 3, part shade, 4-6" tall, dainty, airy clusters of pinkish-
purple flowers above delicate green leaves
- Veronica Speedwell - zone 3, full sun/part shade, spikes of flowers, easy care
- Veronica Aztec Gold - zone 4, full sun/part shade, 6" tall, brilliant gold leaves form a wide,
low, spreading mound with short spikes of sky blue flowers
- Veronica Erika* - 20" tall, pink spikes, great drought tolerance
- Veronica Eveline - 22", tall spikes of rose-purple flowers, prolific bloomer
- Veronica Fascination - (formerly “Veronicastrum) - 40" tall, strong stems topped by
lovely purple-lilac-pink spikes, beautiful dark green foliage
- Veronica Giles van Hees - 6-8" tall, beautiful pink spikes attract hummingbirds
- Veronica Royal Candels - 15" tall, deep violet-blue, removing faded spikes will
encourage reblooming
- Yarrow - see Achillea
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