You’ll be amazed by the sheer will to flower this dense, compact plant exhibits. In fact, you’ll be blown away in early June when this plant is nearly completely covered with light pink, tubular flowers. Like all Weigelas, this plant is easy to grow and its compact size lends itself to grouping and massing to create an incredible flower display in late spring.

These are daylight neutral plants and able to flower any time of the year when temperatures are moderate. With impressive weather tolerance, these compact and mounding beauties display the bicolor effect with very first blooms. A superb choice for rock gardens, containers, edging or showy groundcover. Cut faded flowers to encourage re-bloom and prevent seeding. Prefers a moist, well-drained soil in full sun to part shade.

These pansies do well in the cooler months and are a wonderfull addition to window boxes and hanging baskets.

It features purple upper petals, peach lower ‘face’ petals, lavender whiskers and wonderful fragrance. Viola is a popular landscape series that overwinter well thanks to a vigorous root system. They have a compact and uniform habit and display excellent heat tolerance as well as numerous blooms on each plant.

Starting in late spring red buds line the upright stalks and open in summer showing off purple pollinator-attracting flowers. Lance-like leaves whorl up the stems and provide a strong vertical accent in the garden and look great when grouped at the garden back. Birds love to use the stems for nesting.

The neat fact about Aspire Speedwell is not only its great pink flowers it’s the fact that it stays looking fresh and blooming longer then other Veronicas. Its compact form and long lived pink flowers who’s saturated pink color is far superior to others for reliable color all-season. While this favorite attracts butterflies it is ignored by deer and rabbits.

Giles Van Hees’ is a dwarf variety of Speedwell and its dense, compact form, along with its oversized display of reddish-pink, long-lived flowers will make this plant a staple in any perennial bed. Plant it in the front or middle of the border to best enjoy its bloom beginning in early June, or use it in a container garden where its dense form and brilliant bloom will flourish. Once the flowers are past, shear off the spent blooms to encourage a later summer reblooming that will inject life into your late summer garden. ‘Giles Van Hees’ loves full sun and moist, well-drained soil for the optimum flower performance and it is extremely forgiving, requiring very little care to thrive. Butterflies and hummingbirds love its sweet flowers, while deer avoid the flowers and its deep green serrated leaves.

Veronica is one of those easy care perennials that can be easy to overlook in the garden except during its fairly narrow bloom time starting in late spring. ‘First Love’ is a hard working selection that is just as easy to grow but possesses a much longer bloom period making it go from forgotten to fantastic in your landscape. ‘First Love’ continues to send up its spikes of clear, deep pink blossoms for weeks after most Veronicas have packed it in keeping it the focus of viewing activity for you and all the butterflies and hummingbirds that come calling. This low mound of summer color is perfect for grouping at the front of a border so all can enjoy its long show or mixed with other long bloomers in container plantings. Grow ‘First Love’ in full sun or partial shade. It tolerates most soil types easily and resists chewing by rabbits and deer.

Baby pink flower wands are borne prolifically atop a rounded, low clump of deep green foliage. Try planting in combination containers or near the front of the border.

This sweet and petite selection offers a soft color palette. Pure baby pink flower spikes stand atop a very short, compact mound of healthy green foliage. The ideal size perennial for containers and edging.