Performance is this sweet groundcover’s strong point with rapidly growing, deep green foliage forming a dense, horizontal mat quickly and efficiently. Better yet, Pratia doesn’t skimp on looks with a continual show of starry, dark blue flowers framed against deep green foliage starting in May and continuing right through the summer.

One of spring’s subtle pleasures, this Potentilla is a vigorous grower and a vigorous mid to late spring bloomer with loose groups of golden-yellow flowers that enliven the ground with their color. Perfect for full sun, Potentilla needs well-drained soil and is an outstanding groundcover for dry areas.

Looking for a tough, tolerant groundcover that looks refined while putting on a show? This Potentilla may be the plant for you as it laughs off sandy soil and full sun with ease while providing a carpet of small, deep green, thick foliage that can form big masses when planted in groups. Even better, this American Beauties plant is a flowering fool with bunches of small, pure white flowers blooming from late May until fall providing a constant supply of nectar for native bees and butterflies and an added supply of color to your garden. While evergreen, it also provides a subtle but significant show of deep red fall foliage with flashes of yellow making this one of the best little groundcovers you’ve never heard of!!

Looking for a tough, tolerant groundcover that looks refined while putting on a show? This Potentilla may be the plant for you as it laughs off sandy soil and full sun with ease while providing a carpet of small, deep green, thick foliage that can form big masses when planted in groups. Even better, this American Beauties plant is a flowering fool with bunches of small, pure white flowers blooming from late May until fall providing a constant supply of nectar for native bees and butterflies and an added supply of color to your garden. While evergreen, it also provides a subtle but significant show of deep red fall foliage with flashes of yellow making this one of the best little groundcovers you’ve never heard of!!

Glossy, evergreen leaves are shiny and nearly glow in the shaded landscape. Polyblepharum means “many eyelashes” in reference to the hairy fiddleheads and petioles. As the fiddleheads unfurl they flip backwards and resemble tassels, hence the common name of Tassel Fern. An excellent addition to the mixed woodland border or wild gardens its graceful vase shaped clump slowly spreads. Deer and rabbit resistant.

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 circumstances, Christmas Fern is a godsend to dry, shady spots as its low profile, wide spreading, deep glossy green fronds will grow in these harsh conditions and still look lush. A mass planting of this fern makes a strong, beautiful landscape statement but, whether planted in groups or alone, it still provides great year round cover to numerous valuable landscape critters and constant greenery to the garden, even in winter.

One of the true charmers for the shade garden, this plant emerges in the spring forming ladders of oblong cool green foliage brushed with white variegation along arching stems. Pink flower buds dangle on the underside of arching stems with the leaves carried above and open in May to little white tubes that give the plant a pleasing, delicate appearance. Solomon Seal’s foliage keeps clean all summer making this clump forming plant a must-have for the garden.

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 narrow, medium green foliage that forms a nicely flowing clump when established in the garden. Greenish-yellow bell-like flowers emerge in a set with one on either side of the stem, dangling gracefully below the foliage in May. Purple berries follow in summer and provide food for birds and turtles while its foliage provides great cover for the same garden critters. This plant prefers moist, well-drained soil and provides an outstanding look planted in groups. It even puts on a surprisingly effective show of yellow foliage color in the fall!

A shrubby, more compact form of Japanese Black Pine with an irregular growth habit that adds a dramatic character to the landscape. Branches grow and expand as a building storm cloud with no two developing alike. Silvery buds contrast dramatically with dark green needles

White Pine is one of our area’s standout native evergreen trees. ‘Torulosa’ puts a new twist on this old time favorite with curled, twisted needles that cover the plant and give it a different look and texture that is subtle but readily apparent in the landscape. The needles are soft and carry the same pleasing blue-green tinge that is one of White Pine’s most agreeable characteristics but they corkscrew with 2 or more twists and give the tree and fuller, more fluffy look that the species. Like its regular needled parent, ‘Torulosa’ is a large, rapidly growing tree that performs well in full sun or partial shade so give lots of room and let your neighbors comment about this easy to grow, showy novelty.