What a way to cap off the Blueberry season in your edible landscape! ‘Blue Gold’ is the perfect last Blueberry of summer with its pleasing nickle sized fruit, its firm, sweet yet tart taste and its propensity to fruit in huge quantities as if to give you as much great fruit as you can handle until the next Blueberry season! ‘Blue Gold’ fruit is great for fresh eating, preserves and baking and it certainly give you plenty of fruit starting in early August. Along with being a heavy fruiter, ‘Blue Gold’ is an outstanding landscape specimen for partial to full sun with great foliage, form, profuse, white, bell-shaped May bloom and what many think is as striking an orange to red fall color as any fall foliage plant you could grow.

It would be hard to find a plant that has more admirers or uses than this American Beauties selection. Its dense, low, spreading, compact form makes it an idea plant for a multitude of landscape uses as a front of the landscape planting or as a mass planting in any sunny to partial shaded area. Even better than its versatility, this plant is a magnet to native bees and butterflies seeking out the nectar from its small white flowers in May and to birds and small mammals in the summer for that multitude of small, sweet, dark blue fruit. You will prize this plant as much as these landscape creatures especially when you consider how it tolerates dry, acid, poor soils and how it puts on a fiery orange-red to purply-red fall foliage color that looks like someone set the ground on fire!

This native blueberry produces sweet, dark blue berries from mid-to-late summer and has an open, airy form befitting a shrub border or native garden environment. Dainty white flowers cover the bush in May, and its dark green leaves put on a magnificent autumn show as they transform to a reddish-bronze color, making this a great selection for both taste and aesthetic purposes.

Hang this plant next to your colorful annuals for a beautiful and delicious combination. Clusters of sweet blueberries will cover the plants throughout the season, and the leaves will turn deep red and green in the winter months.

Blueberry Glaze® is unlike any other blueberry variety. With its small stature and incredibly glossy, dark green leaves, Bushel and Berry™ is reminiscent of a boxwood and can easily be sheared as such. The white with pink spring flowers beautifully contrast the deep foliage color. Small, little dark (almost black) berries present in little bundles mid-summer. The small berries have intense flavor much like the flavor of wild blueberries. With their deep flesh color, these berries pack a healthful punch with their antioxidant-rich qualities.

The perfect perennial for spring interest in the shade garden. Finely dissected green leaves have dramatic dark burgundy centers and form a rounded, clumping habit. Creamy bottlebrush-like flowers.

A dependable, hard working selection, this plant is a perfect shade groundcover that adds attractive maple-like foliage and terrific spring bloom that really brightens and enhances darker areas. Flower spikes form in late April and open in early May covered with foamy white, lightly fragrant flowers through the month and into June.

‘Running Tapestry’ may be a tough, easy care plant but this aggressively growing groundcover also brings a beautiful, refined look to a shaded or partially shaded area. Heart shaped foliage crowds onto dense, short, spreading plants carrying a pleasing green color, offset by speckled red veining and a red central leaf area. This foliage forms a dense carpet that gives rise to numerous flower stalks that carry profuse, small, white blooms above the plant from late April into June. These flowers are an abundant nectar source for beneficial native bees and insects while providing instant light to a landscape’s darker spots. Plant ‘Running Tapestry’ in groups and enjoy the foliage and flower show.

Superb foliage combines with heavy spring bloom and a landscape toughness that belies its beauty. ‘Sugar and Spice’ emerges in the spring with a mound of glossy green leaves with a prominent maroon to burgundy central blotch. In May, countless stalks rise above the foliage bearing small white flowers that form a cloud above the plant that lasts well into June. Perfect for massing and for shady areas!

Outstanding form and foliage are the calling card of this shade loving perennial. It’s a beauty that forms a tight, rounded mound made up of deeply scalloped foliage that features a deep burgundy leaf center surrounded by bright green on the rest of the leaf. The result is very showy especially in early May when short spike rise above the foliage bearing clouds of creamy white mini bell flowers that persist into early summer.