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Butterfly Milkweed

Like its relative, Asclepias incarnata, this plant is essential to attracting Monarch butterflies to the landscape but, unlike incarnata, it likes a much drier spot and, since its profile is […]

Chantilly Lace Goatsbeard

A part-shade loving perennial that produces beautiful sprays of lacy, cream-colored flowers. A similar look to Astilbe, but more drought tolerant.

Outstanding foliage with stunning silver-grey color along with superb texture from its scalloped dissection are this selection’s calling card and one that will keep it looking stunning in the garden […]

Low Scape Mound™ Aronia

Low Scape Mound™ aronia is a tough, tolerant, tidy little mound of glossy green foliage. In spring, it’s covered in hundreds of dainty white flowers, and in autumn, the leaves turn brilliant […]

Karl’s Cousin® Big Bluestem

This narrow, upright, architecturally pleasing specimen boasts an outstanding blue-green foliage color that changes to purple-blue as the weather cools in fall. Long blooming with showy flower heads for six […]

Big Bluestem

Big Bluestem is a clumping, strongly upright growing grass that makes a great tall backdrop in any perennial landscape. It’s breathtaking in mass plantings, with its thin foliaged texture and […]

Blue Ice Star Flower

Narrow, deep green, willow-like foliage gives rise to showy, pyramidal clusters of deep, lavender-blue flowers in late May through June. It’s hard not to fall in love with this plant […]

Bluestar

A textural masterpiece, this selection features willow-like foliage lining stiff, mound forming stems that end with light blue, star-like flowers that bloom in late May. Perfect for moist, shadier spots, […]

Alyssum Mountain Gold, Basket of Gold

This low growing perennial will make you think you are off to see the wizard! Just follow its golden flowered carpet that will creep and crawl among the rocks or […]

Wild Nodding Onion

Easy to identify by its distinctive, nodding, pastel lilac-pink flowers in late spring, Nodding Onion thrives in challenging sites such as hot sun and gravely soil. It is strikingly beautiful […]