Popular grass with arching tan flower spikes above domes of blue foliage. Excellent for mass plantings, borders, containers or accent.

You’ll gasp with delight once you see this summer blooming beauty in flower! ‘Red Jewel’ is a true garden jewel when it blooms in July featuring deep burgundy petals with a hint of blue that are tipped with just a sliver of bright yellow. The raised center cone is also adorned with yellow bringing more attention to the delicate petal tips. Tight clusters of these jewel-like flowers are held on sturdy, strong, upright stems and provide a grand flowering statement in the garden as the dog days of summer approach. ‘Red Jewel’ is even more of a summer dream for your garden given its tolerance for hot sun, sandy soils and drought…it takes a beating and still performs like a gem! Even butterflies find these flowers inviting as they come by for a nectar snack while adding even more summer color to your garden!

Large soft-blue flowers with dark purple veins look smashing against the dark, rich green foliage. Low-growing perennial with spreading growth habit is good in hanging baskets or as ground cover. Attracts hummingbirds and butterflies. Easy to grow. Perfect for grouping in the middle of a perennial garden. Deer resistant and long summer blooming. Loves sun but will thrive in partial shade

From midsummer into early fall, clusters of small, 4-petaled flowers open and bloom at the nodes. At each node, the spoon-shaped leaves meet at angles to form a cross, thus the name Cross Gentian. This vigorous plant with its prodigious amount of bloom really draws the hummingbirds and butterflies! Excellent selection for rock gardens or mixed beds.

Blue flowers seem to be the Holy Grail of the garden and many perennials claim to have blue flowers only to have them turn out to be a mixture of blue and purple hues that may be striking but not the true blue that gardeners crave. Thanks to the efforts of hybridizer extraordinaire Darrel Probst, this new Gentian will actually provide the blue flowers that every gardener dreams about. With a name like ‘True Blue’, it better come through and it does bearing brilliant, upward facing, truly blue 2″ flowers up and down its stems from mid-July into September. ‘True Blue’ is not just a landscape one-trick pony. Its thin, smooth, green, lance-shaped leaves add nice texture to the garden and provide the perfect backdrop for its bright flowers while its tight bunching stems produce a form that is pleasing and easy to use in the middle of any half to full-day sun location. But beware, ‘True Blue’ is ready to add colors other than blue to your garden…it’s the ability to attract butterflies and hummingbirds will make this plant an even more valuable commodity for your landscape!

You’ll fall in love with the bright blue foliage of this impressive new fescue! The unique evergreen foliage stays bright for year long interest . Use as a striking specimen, massed in the landscape, borders or mixed container plantings.  Wheat colored flowers extend above the tidy mounds of powder blue blades in late spring and summer. Drought tolerant once established. Deer resistant.

Get ready for the first Sea Holly with all gold colored foliage! The prickly, deeply cut foliage is a stunner but combining that color with the intense blue of the flower stems and the flowers themselves is what really puts ‘Neptune’s Gold’ over the top. Group it in the middle to back of the garden for a color show that is out of this world. Drought tolerant.

There is no hidden message in this plant’s name. ‘Big Blue’ means exactly that…the big blue color of its flower along with the striking and surprising big blue color of its stems and silvery-blue foliage combine to make this possibly the most aptly named plant we sell! Stiffly upright, this plant unfurls its spiny, silvery green, blue tinged foliage in the spring with buds topping the stem ends by late May. As the bud bearing stems extend above the foliage, a wave of blue color covers them both and seems to grow more irridescent by the day until early July when the long lasting flower opens with spiky rays surrounding a blue, beehive shaped center cone. The flower form is as unique as the color and a single flower seems like it will last forever and will even keep its color if you cut it and use it dried flower arrangements. Deer resistant, drought tolerant once established and easy to grow, every sunny garden needs this plant!

Eryngium planum, commonly called sea holly, is a coarse, clump-forming perennial that features a summer bloom of steel-blue, thistle-like flower heads on branched stems rising from a rosette of dark green basal leaves. Excellent selection for sun-baked areas of the landscape. Beds and borders. Effective as a single specimen or in groupings.

This unusual, beautiful selection is loaded with unique characteristics that will make it shine in your garden. You’ll love its thickly textured foliage that adds interest and color with its bluish tinge combined with a cream-colored margin. Long-lasting, spiny violet flowers in summer provide an outstanding contrast to the foliage. Perfect for grouping, ‘Jade Frost’ thrives in hot areas and in sandy soils.