‘Mona Lisa Smile’ has long rosy purple spikes that attract butterflies and hummingbirds to the garden. A dense, rounded habit and thick green foliage looks great in the garden even without the beautiful blooms. Easy to grow and works well in any sunny garden or container. Deer resistant!

Joining the popular Magic Show® Collection, this plant brings early blooming, outstanding flower color, and neat habit. One of the earliest Veronica to bloom, this plant produces thick spikes of intense violet blue flowers. Spikes of blue/violet blooms in early summer are Butterfly and Hummingbird magnets! Superb cut flowers with long lasting, vivid color. Easy, neat habit.

Columnar and upright but still compact, this selection boldly fills the middle of the garden with a powerful show of late spring into early summer purple bloom on spikes atop a plant loaded with densely packed, deep green foliage. This plants holds its bloom seemingly forever while complementing other garden bloomers effortlessly. Whether single or grouped in the garden or showing off in a mixed container, ‘Purple Leia’ is a garden force!

Compact and lower growing than its native relative, ‘Southern Cross’ brings great summer color to the garden on a plant that is incredibly tolerant and easy to grow. Tall, strongly upright stems are topped with small, purple rayed, yellow centered daisies that bloom in August and September while attracting masses of pollinators with their magnetic bloom! Perfect for grouping in the garden!

New York Iron Weed is tall and upright with strong stems that are covered with narrow dark green leaves. This aggressive grower bursts into bloom in August with deep purple, aster-like flowers. The fluffy haze of deep purple is often covered by a parade of butterflies in late summer. Other beneficial insects feed on the nectar and the pollen. It is deer resistant, easy to grow and and disease resistant. Plant in full sun. Tolerates a wide range of soils and conditions, but prefers rich, slightly acidic soils that remain moist. Remove flower heads before seed develops to prevent unwanted self-seeding. If you want shorter plants, cut back stems nearly to the ground in late spring Leave the stems standing through winter to provide cover for beneficial insects

Iron Butterfly’ is a tough, tolerant, drought resistant native perennial that can produce the colorful beauty you crave for your native landscape while attracting butterflies and growing where most plants wouldn’t even think of trying to establis a root. This Ironweed thrives in dry rocky soil and still manages to produce beautiful, tiny purple, star-like, butterfly attracting flowers above long, narrow foliage from late summer and on into fall and, better yet, does it all on a far more compact plant than the actual species. Plant it in groups at the back of your garden in full sun and in well drained soil and ‘Iron Butterfly’ will quickly thrive to produce an abundance of blooms.

Tall, slender stems hold up 5 to 6 inch spikes of the most beautiful, lavender blue, flowers that bloom for several months! Some say the flower spikes are reminiscent of candelabras. The flowers attract butterflies and it is a host plant for the Common Buckeye butterfly.  Don’t cut them back before spring because Cardinals, Sparrows and Junco’s enjoy eating the seed. This is an easy perennial to grow in bright sun with moist soil. It looks especially nice in rain gardens or along a ponds edge. Amazingly, blue vervain is native to every state in the U.S.

While you’ll be immediately attracted to the outstanding foliage color of this little known selection, you’ll be thrilled by its amazing ability to grow and thrive in almost any sunny or partially shaded situation. Its foliage is three or four-leaved, dark purple-black with a green margin and looks like Clover except you’ve never seen Clover with this kind of color! Small white flowers appear briefly in early summer but the real wow factor for this plant is its foliage that looks good from spring thru fall, especially with a hard prune in midsummer to rejuvenate the foliage. It makes a very nice filler plant in tubs or mixed containers and, because it is a vigorous grower, you need to give it plenty of room and not grow it next to slower growing plants that it might overgrow. Black-leafed Clover can also be used as a lawn substitute and mowed to the desired height.

Soft textured, medium green foliage forms a tight, rounded bush that comes alive with almost irridescent, deep purple flowers from May through until frost. Strong growing with few pests. Constant summer color. Attracts butterflies and hummingbirds. Spectacular grown in a container on a deck.

Forms a compact clump of attractively dissected, green leaves with deep red to purple centers. Light pink buds open to creamy white flower spikes just above the foliage.