A true harbinger of spring after a long winter, this dense little plant just keeps on pushing up small, purple pansy-like flowers with orange faces on stems so they stand singly above the leaves.  Perfect for spring color, this selection is a strong bloomer and will thrill you when grouped in the front of a garden.  Even better, it is a great little sparkplug for a mixed perennial container that is perfect for your spring deck or patio.

Blooming with abandon, ‘Columbine’ will try and succeed in being the star of any garden throughout the year since its bloom continues unabated from early spring right on into September. Better yet, its bloom is captivating with copious white flowers streaked with purple that seem to completely cover the foliage for months. ‘Columbine’ is so easy to grow and so rewarding in full sun or partial shade and works so well planted in groups that you’re likely to want to pick up a few extras to beef up the show in your landscape!

A popular evergreen groundcover with deep purple flowers that open each spring, attracting butterflies. Tough and easy to grow, thriving in nearly every shaded landscape location. Tolerates dry soil once established and is deer and rabbit resistant. 

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.

Whitley’s Speedwell forms a mat of feathery olive-green leaves, bearing tiny sapphire-blue flowers that nestle on the stems in late spring. Makes a colorful and drought tolerant groundcover or lawn substitute. Plants will often will repeat bloom in late summer or fall. Easily divided by ripping pieces of the clump apart in spring or fall. Evergreen foliage and deer resistant!

Joining the popular MAGIC SHOW® Veronica comes a brand new color for the collection. ‘Purple Illusion’ matches the habit and flower size of ‘Wizard of Ahhs’, but with thick, rosy purple flowers. Dark green leaves form a thick foliar canopy, so the plant has substance even after it has finished blooming. ‘Purple Illusion’ requires vernalization to bloom. Try pairing with DAISY MAY® Leucanthemum and ‘Cherry Truffles’ Heuchera.

‘First Glory’ forms a low mound of attractive deep green foliage that gives rise to numerous spikes of dark royal-blue flowers. A compact Speedwell selection, ideal for near the border edge, in containers and the rock garden. Prune off spent blooms to encourage more flowers. Butterflies love these spikes of blue flowers and can frequently be seen in droves drinking it’s sweet nectar. Deer and rabbit resistant!

Veronica can sometimes be a plant that delivers more promise than results in the garden. ‘Hocus Pocus’ is a variety that will restore your faith in Veronica with an outstanding plant that will keep you clapping whether its planted in the garden or mixed in with other perennials in a container garden. What make ‘Hocus Pocus’ such a winner? Well, you can start with a plant that is dense, compact, pest free and happy to keep its great form in the garden unlike other family members. You can continue with the size of its flower spikes which rise above the foliage in June and reach lengths of 6-8″, a size that is remarkable for these narrow yet stiff stems that hold countless little buds. Finally, when the flowers open in early July, the deep purple bloom color combined with the length of the flower spike make for an unforgettably wonderful show that lasts well into August. ‘Hocus Pocus’ will put on a great show alone but a sublime one when grouped in the front or the middle of any full sun or partial sun garden.

Vivid royal purple flower wands are borne prolifically atop the compact, full mound of bright green foliage. Often reblooms in late summer. Plant near the front of the border.

This new compact Veronica is covered in dark blue spikes of blooms all season long. It will flower from late spring right through to a frost!