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, Bluestar attracts pollinators and lights up the fall garden with brilliant yellow foliage color.

This long overlooked native perennial deserves a prime stretch of real estate in any landscape with its massive flower show, its fine textured form, and its electric fall foliage color display. It’s a plant for all seasons and one that is extremely easy to grow and adaptable to moist soils or dry. Foliage emerges deep green and willow-like on a myriad of thick, whip-like stems that form an open, flowing, yet dense mounded presence in the garden. Mid-May is heralded by the appearance of thousands of small, light blue, five petalled stars that group at the top of the stems and put on a show that will draw gasps from your neighbors. The flower show continues throughout June but, once it’s done, this plant doesn’t just fade away. Its foliage keeps its cool, clean green throughout the summer and, as the weather cools in the fall, explodes into a supernova of yellow color that can be seen from across the yard and beyond. Bluestar loves full sun or light shade and is as carefree in the garden as you can get!

Tough and textured, this selection’s long, soft, needle-like foliage creates a dreamy garden groundcover that is perfectly topped with clusters of pale blue, star-like flowers in late May. Outstanding yellow fall foliage color.

Black Scallop’ is the most attractive Ajuga to come along in recent years. This low growing groundcover will quickly become your new favorite! Brilliant deep blue flowers cover this creeping beauty from May through June, creating a sharp contrast against the shiny, jet-black leaves. The wonderfully dark foliage retains its sharpness all season long in full sun or full shade, although it will be the shiniest with some sun exposure. ‘Black Scallop’ is perfect for use in the landscape as a mass planting, as a foreground planting or to create interesting texture and color contrasts in combination planters. ‘Black Scallop’ will easily outperform other Ajuga in the landscape, as it is both heat and drought tolerant once established.

Unbelievable when in flower! This tough and vigorous grower will become a 4′ tall beast in no time. Add countless flowers of violet-blue, the licorice fragrance of the foliage, and you have no reason not to have one of these in your garden. Attracts bees and butterflies. Excellent cut flower. Prefers average to dry soils. Blooms July-September.

You will thrill to the summer blooming power of this pollinator magnet as large spikes of deep blue flowers rise above deep green foliage starting in July and continuing into September. Dense, compact and perfect for grouping. Long blooming with outstanding summer color. Perfect for added color in the garden with its ability to attract hummingbirds and other pollinators. Great to group and to use in containers.

Fischeri sends up striking upright spikes of lavender-blue flowers from late summer to early fall when few other blue flowers are in bloom. This species has particularly strong stems that will not require staking. The distinctive, deeply divided, dark green, glossy foliage provides interest when the plant is not in bloom.