Upright, narrow blades form a narrow, vase-like clump of bluish-green color that tops itself with purple-red inflorescens in August. Foliage turns a brilliant orange-red in fall lighting up the landscape. Brilliant fall color in the landscape. Easy to grow. Drought resistant, deer resistant and perfect for massing in the landscape.
This narrowly columnar, upright grass displays handsome blue foliage that takes on twilight shades of shimmering, silvery purple in mid-summer. Purplish flower spikes add to the color in summer and mature to tan seed heads in fall. Easy to grow. Drought resistant, deer resistant and perfect for massing in the landscape. Birds love its flowers for seed and nesting material.
Beautiful lavender-blue flowers adorn this plant in abundance, and bring butterflies by the boat-load. They persist all season, beginning in May and lasting through October. The compact basal foliage is gray-green in color and mounds to 24″ round. Plant in full sun and well-drained fertile soil. Can be used in the perennial border or as a long-lasting cut flower
Outrageous flower color will make you the envy of the neighborhood when you plant this striking, long blooming selection in the garden. In fact, you might want to plant a few, that’s how riveting the color is on these 2+” diameter brilliant violet-purple blooms that are held aloft above a deep green basal mound of foliage from May into July. They are an exceptional plant for grouping at the front of any sunny garden bed and have the added benefit of attracting a slew of butterflies along with a slew of neighbors to gawk at the incredible flower color. ‘Vivid Violet’ loves full; sun and moist, well drained soil.
Pink Diamonds’ is a breakthrough in breeding for the Pincushion Flower beacuse of its uniformity and compactness – ‘Pink Diamonds’ maintain a perfect, well-branched shape all season. Pale Lavender flowers are showy and bloom for a long time against the dense, rich dark green leaves. Ideal in containers, borders or groups. Attracts butterflies. Good cut flowers. Cut faded flowers to encourage rebloom. Rounded habit with erect flower stems. Prefers a well drained soil in full sun to light shade.
Butterfly Blue’ has always been the standard bearer for Scabiosa in the garden but it’s time for this old standy to move aside…there’s a new Scabiosa in town that will give your garden the jolt of excitement that you had always hoped ‘Butterfly Blue’ would. ‘Blue Note’ is noticeably different because its form is denser, tighter and fuller while its blue flowers are noticeably darker and far less ‘washed out’ looking that ‘Butterfly Blue’. The result?? A dense, mound of a plant that covers itself with beautiful blue pincushion flowers beginning in May continuing into early summer. Lost in all the blooming fury will be this plant’s fine textured, grey-green foliage and the fact it plant performs like a blooming fool without asking anything from you but half to full day sun, well-drained soil (a must for winter garden survival!) and a willingness to enjoy the show!
A dramatic new Black Elder with a sturdy, columnar form, jet-black foliage, and masses of two-tone pink blooms all summer long.
As free flowering as its dark flowering relatives, ‘Snow Hill’ offers an easy to use, dense, compact habit topped with spectacular, pure white, stem ending spires of small flowers that color up starting in early June. Its heavy bloom will thrill you while its contrating color will give you ample oppotunity to make your garden come alive when mixed with a striking purple variety like ‘May Night’. With its silvery green, sage scented foliage and compact, tidy form, ‘Snow Hill’ is resistant to deer, drought and heat! It will make a great moon garden plant that attracts butterflies, hummingbirds and gardeners alike!
Dependable and colorful, ‘Blue Hill’ is the type of perennial that requires very little effort to grow yet delivers incredible garden results. Emerging in the early spring with deep green, narrow foliage, ‘Blue Hill’ becomes a dense, multiple stemmed mound in no time. As May progresses, each stem is topped by buds that elongate into a 3 to 4″ stems that rise above the foliage and open to reveal masses of pure blue flowers by early June. Since there are so many stems the amount of closely packed flower spike makes for an incredible show of bloom that continues well into the summer. With its dense, compact from, ‘Blue Hill’ is perfect for grouping in the middle of the garden and, as long as you plant it in a sunny spot with well-drained soil, you can stand back and admire the show without a thought of any extra work.
Improved selection of the much loved ‘Eveline’ with larger flowers, brighter color and better branched flower stems. Long lasting lavender pink with a darker purple lip flowers begin to appear in April.