A butterfly gardeners dream plant, this selection features strong upright stems that group to form a beefy clump that covers itself with showy, yellow to bronze-colored single daisies in late summer and fall. These color machines are loved by pollinators and cut flower aficionados!

This exceptional native will brighten your garden with yellow ray flowers surrounding a brown, bulbous cone all summer long. Low maintenance with dense foliage that forms a tight, rounded bush, its flowers bloom from June through August, attracting butterflies like a magnet. 

You’ll gasp with delight once you see this summer blooming beauty in flower! ‘Red Jewel’ is a true garden jewel when it blooms in July featuring deep burgundy petals with a hint of blue that are tipped with just a sliver of bright yellow. The raised center cone is also adorned with yellow bringing more attention to the delicate petal tips. Tight clusters of these jewel-like flowers are held on sturdy, strong, upright stems and provide a grand flowering statement in the garden as the dog days of summer approach. ‘Red Jewel’ is even more of a summer dream for your garden given its tolerance for hot sun, sandy soils and drought…it takes a beating and still performs like a gem! Even butterflies find these flowers inviting as they come by for a nectar snack while adding even more summer color to your garden!

Helenium’s are native to the eastern United States and have gone through amazing transformation through hybridization. Most Heleniums start blooming in late summer but ‘Mardi Gras’ begins in late June and keeps kicking for six to eight weeks, perfect for summer appreciation. The multicolored 2″ blooms have yellow petals that are lavishly splashed with orange red. The center cones of the flowers are deep brown and are skirted by these multicolored petals, providing wild color patterns. Give this plant plenty of room in the middle or back of a border, in full sun and well-drained soil.

First bred in Holland as a cut flower, ‘Double Trouble’ is the first double-flowered Helenium for your garden that you can count on to perform. Numerous rows of brilliant yellow petals surround a golden sphere to produce an outstanding, daisy-like flower in such numbers that even one plant will kick start your summer garden. Because of its breeding as a cut flower, it has sturdy flower stems that work well in the garden to easily keep its flood of multi-petaled flowers upright as well making it the perfect summer cut flower plant for inside your house. Add in the fact that these flowers are sterile, wasting no energy on seed production, and you have a plant that will bloom with a massive display of color from early July until frost. Be sure to plant ‘Double Trouble’ in full sun and in rich well-drained soils to ensure a great show for year to come.

This captivating selection developed by noted Connecticut Kalmia expert Richard Jaynes, blooms after the leaves have fallen in the fall. While this seems like a thing of small importance to some, most fall blooming Hamamelis tend to bloom with the foliage still on the plant making its unique, striking, fragrant flowers very easy to overlook. You’ll find ‘Harvest Moon’ impossible to ignore with vivid, densely packed clusters of lemon yellow flowers showing off their trademarked crinkly, strap-like petals against bare branches in November for stunning late-season appeal. These flowers are considerably larger and showier than the species and make walking in the garden as Thanksgiving approaches a real treat! ‘Harvest Moon’ is a big, beefy, attractive plant in spring and summer with deep green leaves that provide loads of native critter cover and an easy going nature that lets it thrive in most sunny, well-drained locations.

Introduced by the Arnold Arboretum in Boston, this is simply the most floriferous of the early spring blooming Witch Hazel’s and one of the most rewarding to grow. This dense, strong growing shrub buds up with abandon and lets loose a storm of buttery yellow flowers in early to mid-March that covers its bare branches giving you the confirmation that spring has finally arrived! ‘Arnold’s Promise’ is one of the latest blooming Witch Hazel’s available making its flowers the ones with the most spring impact. ‘Arnold’s Promise’ is easy to grow and will thrive in almost any sunny location with good drainage. Like all Hamamelis, it gets to be large so give it the space to grow and thrill you with its bloom!

This trouble free native straddles the line between tree and shrub but there is never any doubt of the outstanding characteristics it brings to the landscape. Aggressive growing, it quickly becomes a substantial landscape presence bringing substantial beauty to each season. Spring sees its large, bluish-green foliage emerge with a bronze tinge. Foliage darkens through the summer months hiding branches and providing thick covered protection for numerous bird species. As colder weather approaches, leaves turn a bright yellow providing a tremendous fall foliage show. After the foliage has left in late October, this plant blooms with its spidery yellow, strap-like petals complete with a spicy scent that enlivens the autumn landscape with the last flower of any ornamental of the season. Distinct gray bark adds winter interest to this American Beauties classic plant that grows in full sun or partial shade.

The earliest flowering shrub of the spring, this selection blooms late February to early March with yellow, very fragrant flowers. Large growing and open in habit, it’s a great plant for the border or a large accent. Excellent yellow fall foliage.

A Cary Award winning beauty, this superb selection is loaded with great landscape features. One of the earliest bloomers in the garden, ‘Pallida’ displays its bunches of bewitchingly fragrant, strap-like, light yellow petalled flowers from late February to late March in abundant quantities. Long, deep green summer foliage mellows to a bright yellow-orange in the fall, while silvery-gray bark is stunning in the winter landscape. Hardier than ‘Arnold’s Promise’!