Create an early season sensation in your garden with this very dependable, very showy bloomer. Heavily lobed, deep green, silver backed foliage emerges early in the spring to form a wide spreading mat of foliage. Plants are quickly topped by a continuing succession of flower buds that begin to open in mid to late April, showing off clusters of bright yellow flowers that will continue unabated until early June. While also being a shade lover, Celandine Poppy loves moisture and is at home along ponds and stream beds where it satisfies its hankering for moist feet. This plant provides lots of landscape cover for native critters and is very showy when grouped, in fact, it so aggressively seeds itself you may want to give it some room and look to keep it contained for your optimum enjoyment.
Sweet Kiss Strawberry is delicous and like its name its full strawberry flavor is super sweet. It has even won numerous blind taste tests, for best flavor. Everbearing fruit is a large sized, dark red fruit is ready to harvest from June until frost.
‘Flavorfest’ is an exciting advancement for backyard berry growers as well as the professional berry farmer. Extreme disease resistance is paired with deliciously flavored, large plump berries. Good option for organic gardeners with excellent disease resistance.
Stoke’s Asters have always possessed a desireable bloom, great color and a long bloom time, but many varieties have just not measured up in the garden for performance and long term surviv_ability. ‘Peachie’s Pick’ changes all of that, giving you a dense, compact, reliable plant that thrives in the garden while providing you with an unbroken summer of color. Found by a Mississippi gardener in her home garden, ‘Peachie’s Pick’ has been judged the best garden performing Stokesia available and you’ll see the difference as flower spikes rise above the foliage in late June bearing countless violet-blue, double flowers into August. It’s a great show from this plant that thrives in full sun or partial shade and well-drained soil. Plant it in groups for a stunning summer carpet of color.
Don’t let this plant’s small package fool you into thinking its performance is small. Dense and compact, ‘Mel’s Blue’ packs a bigger plant’s punch with masses of fat buds that open in July to reveal huge 2 to 3″ diameter blue flowers that cover the plant into late summer. This color machine is perfect for massing in the garden for a wave of summer color or for using in a mixed container that will be sure to grab some attention.
Deep green, strap-like foliage forms a tight mound that serves as the backdrop for fat buds that open to reveal big, pure white, double, frilly, aster-like blooms that start in late June and continue through the summer. Easy to grow, this selection will thrill you with its strength of bloom and its ability to keep clean, cool, fresh bloom in the garden despite the summer’s heat.
Many times customers tell us our plant tags don’t come close to matching the actual flower color seen on the plants when in the garden. With ‘Purple Parasols’, we can pretty much guarantee this will be the case. There is no way to capture the rainbow of colors this floriferous summer bloomer transitions through. Initially the 4″ diameter multi-petaled blooms are a light blue. As they age they transition to a darker blue followed by a progression to bluish purple then reddish purple and finally a dark magenta pink. What a journey and what a color bonus for your summer garden as ‘Purple Parasols’ will freely bud and bloom from July into early September. It’s the perfect plant for grouping in the front of any sunny garden spot and, as you might guess, planting them in a group just adds to the changing color excitement this plant brings to the landscape. Make sure ‘Purple Parasols’ is planted in well drained soil and avoids wet feet in the winter months to ensure long garden life.
This sport of the old Stokesia standard, ‘Blue Danube’ is far superior in every way. It’s dense, tight, compact form is much nicer and much more garden ready that ‘Blue Danube’ making it easier to use in small spaces and easy to group in the garden. ‘Elf’s’ bloom power is far superior with more flowers packed onto a far tighter package than its older relative. Finally the bloom itself on ‘Elf’ is superior as its 2-2.5″ diameter flower is dome shaped rather that the more concave ‘Blue Danube’ flower giving it an even bigger look and an easier, more satisfying view of its great, rich lavender blue flowers. This long blooming flowering machine will have color from mid July into September and will be a star in the summer garden at a time when consistent color and great form can be hard to come by. ‘Elf’ loves full or partial sun areas in the garden and will be welcome add to any mixed perennial container with its superior form and blooming power.
Large, rounded clump of long, narrow, textured green leaves are attractive even when not in bloom. Showy spikes of two-lipped lavender-rose flowers rise above the foliage throughout summer, creating a brilliant color display. Provides a spectacular visual impact when planted en masse. Makes a unique addition in sunny borders, containers, or as a cut flowe
A superb low-maintenance groundcover. Thick, fuzzy foliage rapidly forms a soft, spreading mat. Good sun and drainage is necessary as the hairs retain water, creating a potential for rot. Non-flowering. Stunning by moonlight.