UpTick™ Gold Tickseed is smothered in stunning yellow daisy flowers with gold eyes at the ends of the stems from late spring to early fall. The flowers are excellent for cutting. Its narrow leaves remain emerald green in color throughout the season.

New Jersey Tea features showy clusters of fragrant white flowers at the ends of the branches from mid spring to early summer. The flowers are excellent for cutting. It has attractive green foliage with grayish green undersides. The glossy pointy leaves are highly ornamental but do not develop any appreciable fall color. It produces red capsules in mid summer, which fade to dark brown over time. The buttery yellow stems are very effective and add winter interest.

Lovely rose flowers with good color retention, and no gap between flowers and foliage; an attractive container plant; excellent for xeriscaping and hot, sunny, dry locations in the garden; performs well on hot sites

Prairie Winds® Blue Paradise Little Bluestem features airy plumes of plum purple flowers rising above the foliage from late summer to late fall. Its attractive grassy leaves are bluish-green in color with hints of silvery blue. As an added bonus, the foliage turns gorgeous shades of burgundy and plum purple in the fall. The brown seed heads are carried on showy plumes displayed in abundance from late summer to mid fall. The silvery blue stems are very colorful and add to the overall interest of the plant.

Rocky Mountain Blazing Star has masses of beautiful spikes of violet flowers with rose overtones and dark red eyes rising above the foliage from mid summer to mid fall, which emerge from distinctive red flower buds, and which are most effective when planted in groupings. The flowers are excellent for cutting. Its narrow leaves are green in color. The foliage often turns coppery-bronze in fall.

Prairie Coneflower brings a warm, sun-drenched energy to the summer border—its clear yellow petals radiating from prominent dark cones that rise on upright stems through the heat of midsummer and on into fall. Illinois native and thoroughly at home in Midwest gardens, it thrives in full sun and lean, well-drained soil with very little supplemental water once established. Butterflies, bees, and hummingbirds work the blooms from the moment they open, and as the seed heads dry and persist into autumn, goldfinches and other songbirds flock to them. Two to three feet tall, it mixes beautifully with ornamental grasses and blue-flowered companions like salvia and amsonia, where the warm yellow makes every neighbor look better. It shrugs off deer and rabbits and tolerates even sites near black walnut trees without complaint. Mass it in a sunny border or naturalized planting for a display that rewards the garden for months on end.

Kodiak ^® Red diervilla is a native flowering shrub that looks great while shrugging off shade and problem soils. New growth emerges in spring with a deep burgundy tone, and turns vivid red in fall. During summer, leaves have a red edge and clusters of small yellow flowers appear all season. It's a simple but beautiful way to add low-maintenance color to parts of your yard that have been difficult to landscape.

Blue Shag White Pine is a dwarf conifer which is primarily valued in the landscape or garden for its ornamental globe-shaped form. It has attractive bluish-green evergreen foliage. The needles are highly ornamental and remain bluish-green throughout the winter.

Kitten Around Catmint has masses of beautiful spikes of lightly-scented powder blue flowers with rose calyces rising above the foliage from early summer to early fall, which are most effective when planted in groupings. Its small fragrant pointy leaves remain bluish-green in color throughout the season.

SpinTop™ Red Starburst Blanket Flower has masses of beautiful semi-double red daisy flowers with dark red eyes and yellow tips at the ends of the stems from early summer to early fall, which are most effective when planted in groupings. The flowers are excellent for cutting. Its tomentose narrow leaves remain grayish green in color throughout the season.

Blue By You Meadow Sage has masses of beautiful spikes of blue flowers with violet overtones and burgundy calyces rising above the foliage from mid spring to early fall, 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.

Mariken Dwarf Ginkgo is primarily valued in the garden for its ornamental globe-shaped form. It has bluish-green deciduous foliage which emerges chartreuse in spring. The fan-shaped leaves turn an outstanding buttery yellow in the fall.

Bobblehead Ornamental Onion features bold balls of lightly-scented lilac purple flowers with purple overtones at the ends of the stems from mid to late summer. The flowers are excellent for cutting. Its attractive sword-like leaves remain bluish-green in color throughout the season.

Antique red flowers with good color retention, and no gap between flowers and foliage; an attractive container plant; excellent for xeriscaping and hot, sunny, dry locations in the garden; performs well on hot sites

Big Bluestem, a native grass of the Midwestern prairie, has been rediscovered as a useful and beautiful landscape plant. Drought tolerant and easy to maintain, it is a natural choice for prairie, meadow and naturalistic plantings. But, Andropogon gerardii is also great as a background or accent in mixed plantings. Big Bluestem is especially interesting when in bloom - its curiously shaped seed heads resemble upside-down turkey feet.

There’s a quiet magic to Little Bluestem, a clumping native grass that shifts with the seasons and brings effortless movement to the garden. Through summer its fine, upright blades stand in cool blue-green tufts, then ignite in fall to a tapestry of copper, burgundy, and gold that lingers well into winter. Native to the tallgrass prairies of the Midwest, it thrives in full sun and asks for very little—low water and lean soil suit it perfectly once established. Reaching two to three feet tall, it’s ideal massed across a slope for erosion control or woven through a naturalized border for texture and light. Songbirds flock to its seed heads through the colder months, while deer and rabbits tend to pass it by. Plant it in generous drifts where the low sun can backlight its foliage—that’s when it truly glows.

New Dimension Rose Meadow Sage has masses of beautiful spikes of rose flowers with burgundy calyces rising above the foliage from late spring to late summer, which are most effective when planted in groupings. The flowers are excellent for cutting. Its fragrant narrow leaves remain grayish green in color throughout the season.

Little Bluestem Sandhill grows tall, up to four feet, with powder blue leaves that widen as they rise. It thrives in full sun and dry to average soil, showing beautiful fall colors from creamy orange to purple.

Whiteout Candytuft is smothered in stunning white flowers at the ends of the stems from mid to late spring. Its narrow leaves remain green in color throughout the year.

False Sunflower has masses of beautiful gold daisy flowers at the ends of the stems from early summer to mid fall, which are most effective when planted in groupings. The flowers are excellent for cutting. Its serrated oval leaves remain green in color throughout the season.

Snowflake Candytuft is one of the great reliable pleasures of the early spring garden, smothering its low evergreen mound in a solid blanket of crisp white flowers that emerge even as the season is still finding its footing. The display is brief but glorious, creating a clean, bright carpet that works beautifully as a groundcover, edging plant, or tucked into a rock garden wall. After bloom, the tidy evergreen foliage takes over and holds the garden floor through every season with quiet, unpretentious presence. It asks very little once established—just full sun and excellent drainage—and handles drought, deer, black walnut, and poor soil with equal ease. The compact habit, under 12 inches tall, makes it a natural fit at the front of a border where you want early color without fuss. A foundational spring perennial that rewards its place year after year.