Get ready for color as this striking selection is awash in it year round! Brilliant golden foliage emerges in spring to cloak this easy to grow, rounded plant in season long sunshine. Flattened white heads of small flowers bloom in May followed by bird pleasing white berries in summer. Golden foliage turns deep red in fall and drops to reveal amazing red-oranges plant stems that light up the winter landscape. 

Masses of white flowers with a large raspberry eye reside atop strong stems covered with dark green, threadleaf foliage from mid-summer to early fall. Bright Raspberry color expands to almost cover the surface in cooler temperatures on this long blooming, easy to grow color machine. Drought tolerant once established. Excellent resistance to powdery mildew. Sterile bloom means no self seeding in the garden. Beautiful, summer long color for containers, beds or borders. Superb when grouped.

‘Starlight’ is jam-packed with out-of-this-world features. They are low-maintenance plants that are drought-tolerant, attract butterflies, support bees, and are deer resistant. These flowers make a great addition to a rock garden with their purple and white blossoms that appear in the summer. 

Star Cluster’ will do its best to vie for your attention with large, 2-2.5″ blooms featuring bright, creamy white petals that surround a yellow button center resulting in a nearly perfect daisy flower. Needless to say, it succeeds in getting your attention, not just for a week or two, but from mid June right on into October! Even better, as the weather cools in late summer and early fall, these stunning flowers look even better as they develop a purple splotch at the base of each petal. ‘Star Cluster’ is part of the Big Bang™ series of Coreopsis from American plant breeder Darrel Probst that has produced other great drought resistant, deer resistant, easy care Coreopsis that have helped jump start the summer garden. Don’t forget to cut some bloom to bring inside for a vase throughout the summer as long as you can fight off the butterflies that love these showy, profuse blooms as much as you do! Plant ‘Star Cluster’ in full sun in groups or singly in mixed containers for loads of summerlong color.

Polaris Tickseed has a compact form with brilliant white petals surrounding a yellow center that creates a daisy flower that will draw a crowd of admirers. One of the Big Bang™ series of Coreopsis from American plant breeder Darrel Probst. Its compact form is perfect for grouping in the front of the perennial border and it will be a bust out star in any mixed deck container for full sun. ‘Polaris’, with its spectacular bloom and easy to use form along with the pleasing texture of its foliage, will have you looking for every little corner you can find to plant it in your landscape. Well-drained soil is the key to making this plant a star in your garden year after year.

The leaves of ‘Exotica’ are green with pink and white streaks. Best color will be achieved with some protection from direct sun. Superb color. Huge foliage makes this a great novelty for shade gardens or for growing in a container. Easy to grow.

Old fashioned and very dependable, this leafy groundcover spreads by stolons and can create big patches of its wide, upright held, deep green foliage in partial shade or shade locations. While its foliage stays clean and distinctive throughout the growing season, it’s the Lily of the Valley flower that gets most of the attention with it’s white, nodding bells, strung together on drooping stems that bloom in April and May and fill the air with their sweet scent. These bells droop their way out of the foliage making a pretty picture and a great cut flower, too!

This improved form of one of our area’s most important and most fragrant natives will thrill you with a long summer bloom that features flowers that are up to double the size of the species. ‘Vanilla Spice’® is densely covered with deep, dark green, shiny foliage with the ends of the new growth topped by tall spikes of buds that can reach 4-6″ long. These buds open in early July to charm you with a sweet, spicy fragrance and a profusion of extra-large white flowers that make an impressive show. Each flower is roughly the size of a dime and acts as a magnet for butterflies adding to its colorful display. Upright branched with a rounded shape, this shrub prefers shady locations and will tolerate moist soils. Plant it in groups under high branched trees or on a wooded border for a very impressive, very fragrant summer display.

It doesn’t take a genius to see that this Summersweet gets its name from the foot-long strands of densely packed fragrant flowers that twist off in all directions just like Einstein’s distinctive look. Compact, Einstein™ is more prolific blooming than the species with flower racemes twice as long. An outstanding shady garden choice for summer bloom and pollinator attraction.

Sugartina® ‘Crystalina’ enhances all the great summer attributes of our native Clethra and puts it all together in a tight, dense, small landscape friendly package. Dense and full, this wider growing than tall selection will never breach the 3′ foot range in height yet it is still a powerhouse in the landscape with deep green, impossible glossy foliage and branch ends topped with 2 to 4″ long spires of pure white, incredible fragrant flowers in late July and August. The scent from this plant’s bloom will fill your yard with sweetness and will attract quite a following of local butterflies, too! With its low growing, contained form, ‘Crystalina’ will fit nearly anywhere in the landscape meaning its seductive scent can grow right up near the house or will make a pleasing, controlled grouping near a woods edge at your property border. It even has a great display of yellow fall foliage color that is the climax to the season for this easy care shrub that will thrive in sun, partial sun or mostly shade and will even tolerate wet feet.