A rare find, this superb selection come to us from the plant experts at Equinox Valley Nursery in Manchester, VT. This exciting plant will be a superb addition to any shrub border and a magnificent specimen as tall, upright branches top themselves with tapered triangles of buds in early May that are approximately 1/3 larger than other Lilac selections. Its deep purple-red buds open in early to mid May to reveal rare double flowers with all the traditional Lilac scent and lavender color that you come to expect, just in a larger size. You’ll love to cut one of these massive beauties for a vase! 

‘Honeysong Purple’ sports huge, true royal purple flowers with a hint of red towards the center that darkens as it matures. The contrasting white stamens, purplish stems, and deep green mounding foliage just add to its bountiful charm! Blooms from late summer to mid-fall for gorgeous late-season color. Attracts butterflies, and makes an excellent cut flower.

Seedless, non-invasive and non-stop blooming are exactly what makes Double Play Doozie® spirea the most beautiful, innovative, ground-breaking spirea to ever grace a landscape. Like all of the Double Play^® spirea series, the show begins in early spring, when the foliage emerges in blazing brilliant color – in this case, deep red. By late spring, the flowers begin to emerge, a bright, glowing purple-red that truly sings in the landscape. And as summer comes on, the show doesn’t stop: it just keeps flowering, and flowering, and flowering. Because it produces no seeds, it puts all of its energy into flowering! It does it all with the same good looks, drought tolerance, and deer resistance that you expect from spirea.

This easy-to-grow succulent forms rosettes of thick, fleshy, pointed leaves. ‘Peggy’ displays rich purple leaves in spring fading to deep red in summer with mahogany-brown fall and winter color.

Forms a low, rounded mound in spring, growing to just under 1′ tall by summer. Dark green leaves become covered in a dome of dark pink flowers followed by pretty seed heads.

Another great, eye catching Sedum from Chris Hansen, you’ll be entranced by the smoky blue to purplish succulant foliage that forms a flattened mound of color in the landscape. That color is enhanced in June and July when big flattened heads of plum colored flowers coat this plant causing it to become and electric garden presence. Perfect for massing and for containers!

Named after the mountain range of its breeder Peter Heus, ‘Appalachian Blues’ will be a dainty, blue addition to almost any place in the garden since it loves the sun or the shade. A compact, clumping habit, with serrated leaves and bicolor flowers (blueish-purple and white) that will grow to just 2’ tall.

This outstanding native thrives in many landscape spots while providing food and shelter to some of our most beloved native birds. This sun lover forms clumps with loads of slender green foliage, producing a 2′ mound by mid-summer. Whether in moist or dry soils this plant looks great in groups especially when seed stalks emerge in August and produce purplish-bronze flowers that provide a stunning color contrast to the foliage followed by white, fluffy seed heads that attract a raft of birds. Want more color? Take a look at this plant’s bronze to orange fall foliage color that may be its most outstanding visual feature.

Strong, upright blades form a beefy, vertical clump featuring striking steel blue color with stunning purple highlights. Strong enough to stay upright despite rain and wind, each blade tops itself with an airy inflorescence in fall Spectacular fall color. Deer resistant. Very easy to grow. Tolerates drought once established. Spectacular when massed in any sunny area. Great landscape texture with foliage and bloom

Beautiful lavender-blue flowers adorn this plant in abundance, and bring butterflies by the boat-load. They persist all season, beginning in May and lasting through October. The compact basal foliage is gray-green in color and mounds to 24″ round. Plant in full sun and well-drained fertile soil. Can be used in the perennial border or as a long-lasting cut flower