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Bowman’s Root

Olive-green foliage on woody branches forms a neat mound that serves as the backdrop to delicate, white flowers that bloom in spring and move like butterflies in the breeze. Foliage […]

Quaking Aspen – Clump Form

This multi-stemmed Quaking Aspen is perhaps most noted for its beautiful white bark, its deep green, glossy foliage that quakes in the slightest breeze, and its golden fall color. Delicate […]

Christmas Fern

Adaptable and evergreen, this native tolerates such a wide range of landscape conditions that it is a must for the American Beauties garden. While it will thrive in very moist […]

Small Solomons Seal

This partial to full shade loving American Beauties perennial is a garden workhorse without being overbearing. Its curving, arching stems emerge from the soil and fill in with long, fairly […]

Jacob’s Ladder

Small, dark green leaves make for the perfect backdrop for the slate-blue, bell-shaped flowers held atop long, upright stems in May and June. Butterflies and other pollinators are drawn to […]

Stairway to Heaven Jacobs Ladder

Bill Cullina from the New England Wildflower Society brings a lasting legacy to the partially shaded garden with this woodland wonder that you won’t be able to resist. First you’ll […]

Eastern White Pine

A signature native plant for the eastern woodland, Eastern White Pine is easy to grow and provides a multitude of landscape uses. Its long, soft needles are held in bundles […]

Pink Manners Obedient Plant

The much-loved obedient plant ‘Miss Manners’ has a new sister. ‘Pink Manners’ is a well-behaved, clump forming perennial that reaches 3’, just a bit bigger than her sister. Soft pink […]

Vivid Obedient Plant

A selection of one of our native North American wildflowers. ‘Vivid’ flowers in vertical rows up the spikes and open sequentially from bottom to top created spikes of color that […]

Miss Manners Obedient Plant

For years the name Obedient Plant was a bit of a garden joke since this group of plants were such aggressive garden sprawlers, but this American Beauties selection lives up […]