A tough, fast-growing groundcover for slopes or banks, and areas with poor, dry soil. The glossy, green foliage displays an excellent red fall color and is fragrant when brushed against or leaves are crushed. Works well in border plantings, backed by taller shrubs and perennials. Deciduous.

Midwinter Fire Dogwood has clusters of creamy white flowers at the ends of the branches in late spring. It has green deciduous foliage. The glossy oval leaves turn an outstanding gold in the fall. It produces deep purple berries in late summer. The red bark and harvest gold branches are extremely showy and add significant winter interest.

Blue Heaven Bluestem is primarily grown for its highly ornamental fruit. The indian red seed heads are carried on showy plumes displayed in abundance from early fall to late winter. Its attractive grassy leaves are bluish-green in color. As an added bonus, the foliage turns a gorgeous orange in the fall. It has masses of beautiful spikes of light green flowers rising above the foliage in late summer, which are most effective when planted in groupings. The brick red stems are very colorful and add to the overall interest of the plant.

Shiloh Splash River Birch features subtle chartreuse catkins in early spring. It has green foliage edged in creamy white. The small serrated pointy leaves turn an outstanding yellow in the fall. The peeling white bark is extremely showy and adds significant winter interest.

Bright yellow flowers emerge along winter-bare branches of this vigorous, symmetrical, columnar Cornelian Cherry. Dark green foliage follows, remaining clean and dark green through the summer months before turning deep crimson in autumn. Tart and tasty bright red fruit ripens in late summer to early fall. Attractive dark brown bark exfoliates with age.

Slender Silhouette Sweetgum is primarily valued in the landscape for its rigidly columnar form. It has forest green deciduous foliage. The lobed palmate leaves turn an outstanding orange in the fall.

Jewel Black Raspberry is the premier black raspberry variety for home gardeners, producing large, glossy, intensely flavored black berries with a rich, deep sweetness that red raspberries simply can’t match. The trailing canes grow 3–5 feet tall and benefit from support on a trellis or stake in a sunny border or fruiting bed for the best berry production. White spring flowers attract pollinators before the fruit sets in early summer, and birds are enthusiastic competitors for the harvest. Disease resistant and cold-hardy, Jewel is a reliable and productive choice for the home edible garden. The foliage turns warm red-burgundy and copper-bronze in fall, adding a seasonal ornamental note. A delicious, distinctive variety that earns its devoted following among berry enthusiasts.

Candy Cloud Blue Garden Phlox delivers large, fragrant flower heads in a clear, soft blue throughout summer and into fall, bringing that classic phlox sweetness and color to sunny and partially shaded borders. Part of the improved Candy Cloud series, it offers excellent disease resistance—a trait that’s long been a challenge with traditional garden phlox varieties. Growing 18 to 24 inches, it works beautifully in mid-border groupings or mass plantings where its fragrant blooms make the most impact. Deer and rabbit resistant, it draws butterflies and hummingbirds reliably throughout the long bloom season. Juglone tolerant and cold hardy.

Yellowtwig Dogwood is a multi-season native shrub with year-round appeal, offering something beautiful in every month — white flower clusters in spring, lush green foliage in summer, golden fall color, and brilliant bright yellow stems that glow through the winter garden when color is most welcome. Growing 5–9 feet tall and wide in a graceful mounding form, it’s ideal for shrub borders, mass plantings, and naturalized areas in sun to partial shade. Birds are drawn to the small white ornamental fruit through summer and fall, and the vivid yellow stems are especially striking when cut for winter arrangements. Native to the Great Lakes region, resistant to deer and disease, and tolerant of Black Walnut, erosion, and cold, it’s one of the most adaptable and hardworking native shrubs available. A beautiful four-season investment for any landscape.

With bright yellow leaves, Lucky Devil^® Ninebark is a spectacular shrub to serve as a focal point, informal hedge, or along the foundation of your home. With a mature size of 3 to 4 feet tall and wide, beautiful white blooms in spring, and orange fall color, this compact shrub is a multi-season wonder in cool and moderate climates. While some yellow-leafed plants may bleach out in full sun, Lucky Devil^® maintains its bright color to capture attention and serve as a strong accent to other plants in the landscape.

Lindsey's Skyward Bald Cypress is primarily valued in the landscape for its rigidly columnar form. It has emerald green deciduous foliage. The ferny bipinnately compound leaves turn an outstanding harvest gold in the fall. The shaggy silver bark and antique red branches add an interesting dimension to the landscape.

Laced Up® Elderberry brings the ornamental elegance of deeply cut, lacy foliage to a tough and adaptable native shrub, creating feathery green texture that softens the landscape through the entire growing season. Flat-topped clusters of white flowers appear from spring into summer, attracting butterflies and pollinators, before giving way to dark berries that birds relish in fall. The vigorous, mounding habit fills large shrub borders and hedges with presence, while brilliant fall color — red-burgundy, gold, and copper — provides a striking seasonal finale. Deer and rabbit resistant, tolerant of Black Walnut root competition, and native to the Great Lakes region, it’s a beautiful and functional choice for naturalized plantings and wildlife gardens.

Heritage River Birch features subtle chartreuse catkins in early spring. It has dark green deciduous foliage. The pointy leaves turn an outstanding yellow in the fall. The peeling creamy white bark is extremely showy and adds significant winter interest.

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

Prairie Blue Little Bluestem is a fine-textured native grass that earns its place through four-season structure and a brilliant fall display—its narrow blue-green summer foliage giving way to rich burgundy and copper-bronze color as the weather cools, then standing in beautiful form through winter. A native of Great Lakes prairies and grasslands, it grows in a tidy mounding clump reaching two to three feet tall, adapting readily to poor, dry soils in full sun and asking for almost nothing once established. Airy seed heads appear in late summer and fall, feeding sparrows and finches well into the cold months. It is exceptionally drought tolerant and handles clay, sandy, and rocky soils with equal ease. Plant it in drifts along a sunny slope for erosion control, or mass it across a meadow-style planting where its changing seasonal display can be fully appreciated.

Highly ornamental spring, summer and fall, with attractive fruit, leaves and berries; emerging foliage has reddish hue; this low growing spreader makes a good groundcover. Muskingum Gray Dogwood is primarily grown for its highly ornamental fruit. It features an abundance of magnificent white berries in late summer. It has clusters of creamy white flowers at the ends of the branches in late spring. It has grayish green foliage which emerges burgundy in spring. The glossy pointy leaves turn an outstanding dark red in the fall.