A superb perennial herb that is one of the backbones of any herb garden. Widely used as a seasoning for most any dish. English thyme loves full sun and well-drained soil and will even tolerate poor soils. Low and spreading with lilac-purple summer flowers that bees love! Perennial.

A textural masterpiece, wooly thyme is the perfect perennial landscape groundcover with its flat growth and spreading habit. Silvery-gray, wooly foliage is just so touchable and is a perfect plant for patio and stepping stone use. Stepping on its teeny, fuzzy foliage releases a strong, pleasant thyme scent that enlivens the garden with its aroma. Wooly thyme is easy to grow, loves full sun, grows well in containers and its foliage can be used for a variety of herbal uses from potpourris to aromatherapy.

There’s a lot to love about this mounding, spreading groundcover. Its form is perfect for grouping in a mass planting, it loves to grow around and between pavers, its fine textured foliage fills the air with fragrance, and it erupts into a carpet of deep purple bloom in the late spring. Best of all, ‘Purple Carpet’ will make you look like a landscape pro without even trying since it is so easy to grow.

Big and bold clump-forming perennial offers wine purple stems topped with broad sprays of bright, lavender flowers. Foliage is a great contrasting blue-green and dainty in form and texture, resembling maidenhair fern. Perfect for use in border, meadows and other naturalized areas. Intolerant of intense heat and humidity.

Selected for its strong blooming prowess and excellent hardiness, Royalty Lilac will be a wash with stem ending blossoms in mid-May, usually a week later than Commom Lilac. Fragrant and loaded with lavender purple color, it is a stunner!

Classic lilac fragrance with vigorous, modern-day disease resistance! Scentara Pura® is a hyacinthiflora lilac, the most fragrant type on the market. It earns its name from its pure purple flowers and deep, true fragrance. Fresh green foliage resists disease and keeps the plant looking good even when it’s not in bloom. Warm climate gardeners should especially take note of Scentara Pura lilac: it requires less chilling than other lilacs, so performs better when winters are mild.

Deep, dark, and desirable, this early May bloomer will take your landscape by storm with waves of fragrant, double, dark purple flower panicles that have to be seen and smelled to believe! Blessed with great foliage and superb multi-stem form, this plant is a real performer as it extends its flower show deep into May for your viewing pleasure. See pages 14-15 for more details on the White Flower Farm program.

Get ready for the Lilac that doesn’t keep you waiting for a Lilac show in your yard. That’s right, like all the other Hyacinthiflora selections, ‘Purple Glory’ is a rambunctious bloomer giving you loads of sweet bloom even when the plants are very young. Not only is this selection incredibly dependable and floriferous, it’s also a stunner sporting big cones of bluish-purple, fragrant flowers that will fill your landscape with their heavenly aroma. Its mid May bloom will be a singular event in your yard or in your house since its fragrant bloom makes an outstanding cut flower for a vase. Plant ‘Purple Glory’ in half to full day sun and give it some room to grow to become a spring signature in your landscape.

This vigorous growing selection is the harbinger of the lilac blooming season as deep purple buds open in early May to reveal masses of rich violet flower panicles that fragrantly decorate the landscape throughout May with their color and staying power. Rich green foliage and upright, multi-stem form provides great substance for border groupings or specimen use.