Sassy Summer Lemon Yarrow features showy lemon yellow flat-top flowers at the ends of the stems from early to late summer. The flowers are excellent for cutting. Its attractive tomentose ferny leaves remain grayish green in color throughout the season.

Northern Bayberry is a rugged native shrub prized for the clusters of waxy, aromatic gray-blue berries that cling to branches all winter and have been used for centuries to make fragrant candles. Exceptionally adaptable, it thrives in poor, sandy, and salty soils where most shrubs struggle, making it a go-to for coastal plantings, windswept slopes, and erosion control. The aromatic semi-evergreen foliage holds late into fall before giving way to persistent berry clusters that cedar waxwings, yellow-rumped warblers, and other birds rely on for cold-season fuel. Deer, rabbit, pest, and disease resistant — tolerant of salt, Black Walnut root competition, and difficult ground — it spreads into effective colonies and earns its keep in hedges, mass plantings, and naturalized areas.

Constant Cadence® Peach Milk Pinks is smothered in stunning fragrant double rose frilly flowers with peach overtones at the ends of the stems from late spring to early fall. The flowers are excellent for cutting. Its attractive narrow leaves remain green in color with hints of silvery blue throughout the year.

A standout shrub producing bright yellow foliage all summer long, maturing to golden tones in fall; very showy, great as a color contrast in the landscape; plant on slopes, in beds, or as a border

Handsome compact juniper has low, slowly spreading branches clothed in beautiful silvery blue foliage. Showy frosted blue berries decorate the branches later in the season. Makes a lovely accent plant or grouped in mass for it's outstanding color and textural effects.

New Vintage Terra Cotta Yarrow brings warm, earthy richness to the summer and fall border with flat-topped flower clusters in a nuanced blend of orange, amber, and copper tones. The color deepens and mellows beautifully as the season progresses, delivering a sophisticated palette that complements both traditional and contemporary garden designs. Feathery, fragrant foliage forms a sturdy upright clump that holds its shape without staking. This low-water, heat-tolerant perennial is genuinely tough—deer and rabbit resistant, drought tolerant, and happy in challenging, dry soils. Excellent for cutting and drying; butterflies are reliable visitors throughout the season.

Cotoneaster acutifolius, commonly called Peking cotoneaster, is an upright, deciduous shrub with a rounded top that typically grows to 6-10’ tall and as wide. It is noted for its pubescent twigs, pinkish-white spring flowers, dull green foliage, interesting fall color and persistent black fruits. Small, 5-petaled, white flowers with tinges of pink bloom in spring (May-June).

Variegated Russian Stonecrop is clothed in stunning yellow star-shaped flowers with orange eyes at the ends of the stems from early to mid summer. Its attractive succulent oval leaves remain green in color with showy white variegation and tinges of pink throughout the season.

Leaflets velvety on the lower surface, margins frequently almost parallel are often abruptly rounded at both ends and with a notch at the tip. Flowers small, purple to dark blue with yellow stamens extending beyond the single petal, crowded in narrow, 3-6 in., spike-like clusters at or near the ends of the branchlets, appearing from April to June.

Plum Rosy False Indigo is a stunning Baptisia with upright spikes of rosy-pink pea-like flowers that emerge in spring above fresh blue-green foliage. As a Great Lakes native and deep-rooted perennial, it takes a few seasons to establish but rewards patience with decades of increasingly impressive performance. Growing 3 to 5 feet tall and wide, it forms a substantial, shrub-like clump that looks beautiful even when not in bloom—the blue-green foliage provides a refined backdrop for summer companions, and the inflated seed pods add ornamental interest into fall. Deer resistant, drought tolerant once established, and Juglone tolerant. One of the most long-lived and distinguished perennials for the native garden.

Northern Borders™ Cotoneaster is primarily valued in the garden for its cascading habit of growth. It features tiny clusters of pink flowers along the branches in mid spring. It has attractive white-variegated dark green foliage. The tiny glossy round leaves are highly ornamental and turn an outstanding brick red in the fall.

Frothy sprays of lilac-purple flowers launch skyward well above a basal rosette of lance-shaped foliage. Instant bouquets, the branching stems are topped with clusters of papery florets. Use fresh or dried – a favorite of floral designers. Top-notch for xeriscaping. Limonium Dazzle Rocks is extremely floriferous and will keep your vases jam-packed with pleasing bouquets summer into fall.

Glossy green foliage with masses of tubular, lavender-violet flowers on dark stems adds dramatic color to mixed borders, hillsides, meadows, and naturalized gardens. This compact, sturdy and super hardy summer bloomer transitions to fall by showing off its dark seed heads and purple-tinged foliage.

Rosa rugosa Alba is the classic white form of the rugged rugosa rose, opening large single blooms of pure white with a sunny center and sweet clove fragrance. Exceptionally hardy, it tolerates salt, wind, and poor soils while resisting deer, rabbits, and disease without any spraying. The crinkled green foliage turns golden in fall, and large red-orange hips follow the flowers. Plant it in full sun, where it makes a superb informal hedge or seaside planting. It blooms through summer with little to no care. For carefree, fragrant white on a tough plant, white rugosa is hard to beat.

Prairie Flame Shining Sumac is primarily valued in the landscape or garden for its ornamental upright and spreading habit of growth. It features bold spikes of creamy white flowers rising above the foliage from mid to late summer. It has green deciduous foliage. The large glossy narrow pinnately compound leaves turn an outstanding scarlet in the fall.

This smaller shrub features attractive sulfur yellow flower clusters in early summer, contrasting the dark reddish-purple foliage that turns a more vivid red in fall; a drought and shade tolerant plant that is great for challenging sites

Juniperus communis ‘Effusa’ is a low, spreading form that adapts to any garden, even in shady locations. Its small needles grow close to the flexible, reddish brown stems, which show off soft, cinnamon brown tips when new, and mature to bright green as the season progresses.