Purple Coneflower has masses of beautiful lightly-scented purple daisy flowers with coppery-bronze eyes at the ends of the stems from mid summer to early fall, which are most effective when planted in groupings, also attracting pollinators. The flowers are excellent for cutting. Its pointy leaves remain green in color throughout the season.

Also known as English Ivy, the consummate vine, this evergreen climber or dense groundcover with beautiful deep green foliage will cover walls, trees and fences in short order; very adaptable and vigorous, one of the hardier varieties but protect from sun and wind in winter

• Mature Height: 8 inches
• Mature Width: 20 feet
• Sunlight: Sun, Part Sun, Shade
• Soil Conditions: Moist (Typical)

Autumn Joy Stonecrop has masses of beautiful clusters of pink flowers at the ends of the stems from late summer to late fall, which emerge from distinctive coral-pink flower buds, and which are most effective when planted in groupings. The flowers are excellent for cutting. Its large succulent round leaves remain grayish green in color throughout the season.

Hidcote Lavender has masses of beautiful spikes of fragrant purple flowers rising above the foliage from early to late summer, which are most effective when planted in groupings. The flowers are excellent for cutting. It has attractive grayish green evergreen foliage. The fragrant needles are highly ornamental and turn coppery-bronze in the fall, which persists throughout the winter.

Few plants are as endlessly charming—or as forgiving—as Hen & Chicks, and the Trio Honeycrisp collection brings three coordinating selections together for instant character. Tight evergreen rosettes multiply freely, sending out little ‘chicks’ that cluster around the parent in living, sculptural mosaics. Thriving in full sun with very little water, these tough succulents are perfect for containers, rock gardens, trough plantings, or tucked between stepping stones. Their fleshy leaves are reliably deer-resistant and shrug off heat, drought, and poor soil with ease. Watch in summer for curious red blooms that rise on stems above the rosettes before the plant resets and carries on. It’s a low, ground-hugging accent that rewards almost no effort with year-round structure and texture.

Prairie Smoke (Geum triflorum) boasts distinctive pink feathery seed heads. Each stem holds 3 bell-shaped blooms that transform into wispy pink plumes. Massed, it creates a pinkish haze that lingers a month. Fern-like, deeply serrated leaves have hairy margins. Winter brings attractive red & crimson shades.

This fabulous variety is a fragrant, robust lavender that, due to its short size and tightly held blooms, makes a great low hedge; it can also be massed in the garden; blooms profusely in spring and is then a fragrant gray green shrub

Blue Wild Indigo has masses of beautiful spikes of indigo pea-like flowers rising above the foliage from mid spring to early summer, which are most effective when planted in groupings. The flowers are excellent for cutting. Its round compound leaves remain olive green in color throughout the season.

Little Spire Russian Sage features delicate spikes of lavender flowers rising above the foliage from early summer to mid fall. The flowers are excellent for cutting. Its attractive tiny fragrant narrow leaves emerge silver in spring, turning grayish green in color throughout the season.

Firewitch Pinks has masses of beautiful fragrant fuchsia frilly flowers with white eyes at the ends of the stems from late spring to mid summer, which are most effective when planted in groupings. The flowers are excellent for cutting. Its attractive grassy leaves remain silvery blue in color throughout the year.

Snow Hill Sage has masses of beautiful spikes of white flowers rising above the foliage from late spring to early summer, which are most effective when planted in groupings. The flowers are excellent for cutting. Its fragrant narrow leaves remain green in color throughout the season.

Hi Ho Silver Thyme is a perennial herb that is typically grown for its edible qualities, although it does have ornamental merits as well. The tiny fragrant oval grayish green leaves with distinctive creamy white edges and tinges of silver can be harvested at any time in the season. The leaves have a mild taste and a pleasant fragrance.

The leaves are most often used in the following ways:

Blue Star is a low growing, mounded juniper with bright steely blue foliage that contrasts beautifully with the typical greens of other garden plants as well as yellows and purples. The needles are radially arranged around the stems giving the appearance of stars. Great in the rock garden, as a low border plant or in a mass planting for the color effect.

Trio Berries Hens & Chicks brings the classic charm of sempervivum in a tidy, spreading form with rich red summer blooms that arrive in cheerful clusters above the evergreen rosettes. Perfectly scaled for containers, rock gardens, and border edges, it slowly expands as the mother rosette offsets into a spreading cluster of smaller chicks. Full sun, lean soil, and almost no water once established are all it needs—making it an ideal choice for hot, dry spots where more demanding plants struggle. The thick, succulent leaves carry it through drought and poor conditions with ease, and deer and rabbits reliably leave it alone. Plant it in a mix with other sedums and sempervivums for a tapestry of contrasting textures and colors that changes subtly through the seasons. A genuinely carefree accent that earns its keep wherever it’s planted.

Whorled Milkweed is a delicate, fine-textured native that’s a quiet powerhouse for the pollinator garden. Its slender stems are dressed in airy whorls of needle-thin leaves, giving it a soft, almost feathery presence among bolder companions. Native across much of the eastern U.S., it serves as an essential host plant for Monarch caterpillars while its summer flower clusters draw butterflies and other beneficial pollinators. Happiest in full sun to light shade, it asks for little water and thrives in the lean, well-drained soils other plants snub. Deer tend to leave it alone, and it spreads gently to form colonies—perfect for naturalized borders and prairie-style plantings. Weave it through a meadow garden and watch the winged visitors arrive.

Hello Yellow Butterfly Weed brightens the sunny summer border with clean, vivid yellow flower clusters that are irresistible to monarchs and other butterflies—making it one of the most rewarding milkweed choices for a pollinator planting. A Great Lakes nativar, it forms a tidy, clumping mound of narrow foliage reaching twelve to eighteen inches tall, fitting neatly into borders, rock gardens, or naturalistic mass plantings. Unlike some milkweeds, it is notably drought tolerant once established, thriving in lean soils and full sun without supplemental watering. Deer and rabbits reliably pass it by, and it handles the difficult root zone beneath black walnut trees with ease. The seedpods that follow the flowers are gracefully ornamental in their own right, eventually splitting to release silky-tailed seeds. It’s a genuinely no-fuss nativar that pays for itself all summer long in monarch sightings alone.

Unique maroon spikes of pea-flowers with a yellow keel rise from medium green foliage in late spring; use this plant for its outstanding display of vertical flowers as an accent in the garden or borders

Trio Campfire Hens & Chicks smolders with year-round drama—its tight, architectural rosettes dressed in vivid red foliage that deepens and shifts through the seasons, from bright scarlet in summer to rich burgundy and copper-bronze in fall and winter. An evergreen succulent that thrives in containers, rock gardens, and hot, well-drained spots where little else survives, it is as close to indestructible as a garden plant gets. The mother rosette gradually produces clusters of smaller chicks around its base, slowly filling available space with a living mosaic of warm color. Full sun, lean soil, and minimal water are all it needs—in fact, it prefers to be left on the dry side. Tuck it into troughs, stone walls, or mixed containers where its bold, compact form can be appreciated up close. This is a plant for the gardener who wants reliable drama without the work.

Prairie Coreopsis (Coreopsis palmata) is a beautiful, long-blooming wildflower that is especially useful for establishing in difficult areas with poor soils and dry conditions. Native to the Midwest, the plant begins blooming in late spring with showy pale-yellow flowers that attract a variety of native bees and sulphur butterflies.