Compact plant with very cute, strawberry-red button-shaped flowers, tidy green and white variegated foliage. blooms mid-summer to fall.

Be the first garden center in your market to have this incredible new Sambucus that will have you rubbing your eyes in disbelief when you first see it! This Proven Winners® exclusive is available this year in limited release only and your customers will fall in love with it as soon as they lay eyes on it. The first thing you’ll notice is the foliage that will stun you with its beauty. ‘Black Lace™’ has wispy, threadlike foliage that is made even more intriguing by its dark purple, nearly black coloration. This color and texture combine with a compact, yet open and airy plant form to give the look of a threadleaf Japanese Maple on a plant that is so much easier to get established and grow. If ‘Black Lace™’ had just its foliage and form it would be a remarkable plant, but when you add in this plant’s massive 10″ diameter, lightly fragrant, pink, flattened lacy flower heads that open up in early June, and you have a plant that has few equals in its beauty. ‘Black Lace™’ thrives in full sun or part shade and has such versatility it even grows well in a container garden!

Bushy perennial with mounds of green leaves beneath violet-purple flower spikes. Reliable color for sunny borders or mass plantings. Good cut flowers.

A colorful plant with a load of uses! Purple sage’s grayish purple foliage is a stand out either in the garden or growing in a container and is widely used in seasoning a range of foods from stuffing to meats to vegetables. It also dries beautifully for use in wreaths and potpourris. Easy to grow, loves full sun and well-drained soil. Annual/Tender Perennial.

‘Rose Marvel’ Salvia is a colorful perennial that produces vivid magenta-pink flower spikes atop the mounded, aromatic foliage. A low-maintenance re-bloomer that attracts butterflies, bees, and hummingbirds. Make nice cut flowers that the deer and rabbits won’t get to!

The dense, compact stature belies the flower power of this selection which becomes a flowering machine in early June with masses of violet-blue spikes loaded with colorful small but intense blooms. With its short stature, Blue Bouquetta® is perfect for the front of a bed or in a mixed container

If there ever was a poster boy for an overachieving garden plant, ‘Marcus’ would be it. Its dense, compact, low profile form nearly recedes into the garden until it starts to put up 3 to 4″ long flower spikes above its foliage in late spring. As the small, deep purple flowers begin to open in June this plant leaps into your consciousness and then it overwhelms it as ‘Marcus’ covers itself with bloom, almost completely obscuring the tightly bunched, deep green lance-like foliage. ‘Marcus’ will bloom into September especially if spent blooms are pruned off and is right at home in a sunny garden with well-drained soil and, given its small stature, is a plant that begs to be massed to overwhelm the senses when in bloom.

A strong bloomer, ‘Caradonna’ features a bevy of violet-purple flowers starting in June. These flowers are strung along a multitude of spikes held above fragrant foliage made even more attractive by the glowing purple color of the spikes and stems themselves lending a color intensity that makes this plant even more of an attention getter.

Enjoy these flowers again and again throughout the summer with rebloom! Violet blue flowers are produced on rosy purple calyxes on a perfectly rounded, dense and beautiful habit.  Produces both fragrant flowers and foliage and is easy to grow in almost any climate.  Attracts bees, butterflies and hummingbirds while it resists deer and rabbits.

Super size your garden color in the summer with a new, bigger, beefier, more floriferous sage that will have you finding any sunny spot possible to plant this color machine. Deep green, fragrant foliage with a nearly gray gloss decorates strongly upright stems that form a dense clump with flower spikes at the tip of each stem. Incredible numbers of flowers open from June into August on elongated spikes that stretch up to 6″ in length showing off a deep blue-violet color that is riveting. Place this in an area with well-drained soil and plant them in groups for a lengthy, outrageous display of color that will leave you applauding for more.