White Blazing Star has masses of beautiful spikes of white flowers rising above the foliage from mid summer to early fall, which are most effective when planted in groupings. The flowers are excellent for cutting. Its grassy leaves remain green in color throughout the season.

Large, semi-double vibrant fuschia pink flowers. Reliable, heat-tolerant, and easy to grow. Highly floriferous with a dense, vigorous habit.

North Pole® Arborvitae is a dwarf conifer which is primarily valued in the landscape for its rigidly columnar form. It has dark green evergreen foliage. The scale-like sprays of foliage remain dark green throughout the winter.

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

Bright, sunshine-yellow flat-topped blooms hover over a tidy clump of fine, aromatic foliage from early through late summer, bringing cheerful, long-lasting color to the front of a sunny border. Little Moonshine is wonderfully easygoing — it loves full sun, asks for very little water once settled in, and shrugs off heat, lean soils, and even the juglone beneath black walnut trees. Butterflies flock to the nectar-rich flower heads and finches nibble the seedheads come fall, yet deer and rabbits consistently leave it untouched. Snip the spent blooms and you’ll coax a second flush of flowers, lovely for fresh-cut bouquets. Its compact, clumping shape suits borders, containers, and pollinator gardens alike, while its dense roots make it a smart pick for stabilizing a sunny slope. With the tough, prairie-born resilience of classic yarrow, it’s a true plant-it-and-enjoy-it perennial.

Low Scape Snowfire® Aronia features showy panicles of white flowers with red anthers at the ends of the branches in mid spring. It features an abundance of magnificent navy blue berries from late summer to late fall, which fade to black over time. It has forest green foliage with olive green undersides. The glossy oval leaves turn an outstanding red in the fall.

This easy perennial is grown mainly for its attractive, coppery red, heavily lobed foliage. Each finger-like leaf has a burgundy red center. Olive green summer leaf color. Creamy white, bottlebrush-like flowers.

America Rose features showy fragrant salmon flowers with pink overtones along the branches from late spring to mid fall, which emerge from distinctive scarlet flower buds. The flowers are excellent for cutting. It has green deciduous foliage. The glossy oval compound leaves do not develop any appreciable fall color.

Low Scape Mound® Aronia features showy panicles of white flowers with brick red anthers at the ends of the branches in mid spring. It features an abundance of magnificent black berries from late summer to mid fall. It has forest green deciduous foliage. The glossy oval leaves turn an outstanding red in the fall.

Big Blackhawk Bluestem brings the bold, sweeping drama of the prairie into the home garden. This stately native grass forms tall, upright clumps that climb to three to five feet, adding vertical structure and graceful movement wherever it’s planted. Native to the central and eastern United States, it thrives in full sun and lean, dry soil, growing tougher and more drought-tolerant with each passing season. As autumn arrives, its green blades take on warm coppery-bronze tones that catch the late-season light and persist into winter. Songbirds feed on its seed heads through the cold months, and it’s seldom browsed by deer. Plant it in sweeping masses on a sunny slope or as a living screen—it’s prairie grandeur at its finest.

Chatto Wild Cranesbill has masses of beautiful shell pink flowers with white centers at the ends of the stems from late spring to early summer, which are most effective when planted in groupings. Its deeply cut lobed palmate leaves remain dark green in color throughout the season.

Luna White Hardy Hibiscus makes an unforgettable statement in the summer garden with enormous, saucer-like white blooms that can span ten inches or more across—each one a stunning, tropical-feeling display on a plant that is thoroughly winter-hardy in our climate. The pure white flowers open in succession from midsummer through fall, with fresh blooms replacing spent ones to maintain a continuous show for weeks on end. Growing three to five feet tall and wide, it earns a spot as a strong focal accent in the sunny border or near a water feature where its bold form and generous bloom make maximum impact. Butterflies and hummingbirds visit regularly throughout the season, adding movement and wildlife value to whatever space it anchors. Despite its exotic appearance, it is a remarkably undemanding perennial—give it full sun, adequate moisture, and well-drained soil, and it handles the rest on its own. The only patience required is in spring, when it emerges quite late; mark its location and resist the urge to dig it up before it wakes.

Cloudburst Phlox is a compact perennial with a naturally dense habit and rich green foliage. It produces abundant clusters of white flowers beginning in late spring and continuing through summer. Its restrained growth makes it ideal for foundation plantings, borders, and smaller garden spaces where you need reliable color without excessive spread.

Amazing Grace Moss Phlox is smothered in stunning white star-shaped flowers with gold eyes and a hot pink ring at the ends of the stems from mid to late spring. Its tiny needle-like leaves remain forest green in color throughout the year.

Madame Galen Trumpet Vine is one of the most spectacular flowering climbers you can grow, producing vivid clusters of large trumpet-shaped orange blooms that hummingbirds simply can’t resist. A vigorous native-region vine that reaches 20–30 feet with proper support, it’s ideal for covering arbors, fences, walls, or trellises in full sun. Deep green foliage creates a lush backdrop for the brilliant summer and fall flower display, then turns a clean yellow-gold before dropping. It’s tough, adaptable, and highly resistant to deer, rabbits, insects, and disease. Tolerates Black Walnut and cold conditions, making it a reliable performer across a wide range of garden situations. Train it upward and give it room to run — the reward is a cascade of color that lasts from midsummer into autumn. A showstopper that earns every bit of the space it takes.

This naturally dwarf, early blooming Phlox will add a long season of color to your garden. Near white flowers have a dark pink, central star pattern. The dark green, glossy foliage is mildew and disease resistant.

Sugar Shack® Button Bush features unusual racemes of fragrant creamy white ball-shaped flowers along the branches from early to late summer, which emerge from distinctive buttery yellow flower buds. It has green foliage throughout the season. The glossy pointy leaves turn coppery-bronze in fall. The red fruits are held in clusters in mid fall. Sugar Shack is a smaller, more compact version of the native Buttonbush. Buttonbush is common and widely distributed in Illinois, often found in wet areas like swamps, bogs, and along water corridors.

Sunseeker Pumpkin Pie Coneflower celebrates the warm tones of autumn with rich, pumpkin-orange petals surrounding a prominent dark center cone that deepens beautifully as the flower matures. Part of the Sunseeker series, it brings compact, self-supporting growth with a generous bloom season stretching from midsummer through fall. The warm orange flowers pair naturally with purple, chocolate, and gold tones in the mixed border, making it a versatile and visually satisfying choice. Deer and rabbit resistant, it draws butterflies and seed-seeking birds throughout the season. A reliably carefree perennial with excellent cold hardiness and disease resistance.

Spicy Devil^® Ninebark is a great structural shrub with plenty of multi-season interest to keep your garden exciting spring through fall. Leaves emerge a fiery combination of orange and yellow before maturing to a vibrant reddish-purple, which is a beautiful backdrop to the white-pink spring flowers. Growing to 3-4’ tall and wide with that gorgeous dark foliage, Spicy Devil^® is a fantastic foundation plant or small hedge in cool and moderate climates.

This compact rounded shrub is bathed in pure white double flowers all season long, beautifully contrasting the fine textured, rich green foliage. It's hardy, tough and adaptable to all conditions, but dislikes wet soils. The stunning white flowers feature gold eyes at the ends of the branches from late spring to early fall. It has dark green foliage throughout the season. Use it anywhere in the garden or even as a groundcover of sorts. It will do well in containers too.

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.

Dense, glossy green foliage turns a splendid merlot color with cool winter temperatures. Clusters of delicate, bell-shaped, white summer flowers produce exceptionally large, red, ornamental berries that hold from fall through to spring. Works well as a foundation plant or groundcover. A delight in mixed holiday container plantings. Evergreen.

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

Purpleleaf Royal Fern features bold spikes of brown flowers rising above the foliage in mid summer. Its attractive enormous oval bipinnately compound leaves emerge deep purple in spring, turning green in color with distinctive burgundy veins. As an added bonus, the foliage turns a gorgeous gold in the fall.

Beelicious® Purple Hyssop features airy spikes of lightly-scented purple tubular flowers with rose calyces rising above the foliage from mid summer to early fall, which emerge from distinctive pink flower buds. The flowers are excellent for cutting. Its attractive fragrant pointy leaves remain grayish green in color with distinctive dark green veins throughout the season.

Gardenview Scarlet Bee Balm sets the summer border ablaze with whorls of vivid scarlet-red blooms that hummingbirds simply cannot resist. Native to the woodlands of eastern North America, this beloved old garden favorite draws butterflies and bees in equal measure, and its seed heads feed the birds into fall. Forming a rounded, two- to three-foot mound of fragrant green foliage, it’s prized for strong mildew resistance that keeps the leaves looking fresh. The flowers are wonderful for cutting, and deadheading encourages a second wave of bloom. Typically avoided by deer and rarely troubled by rabbits, it’s an easygoing anchor for a sunny bed. Plant it alongside phlox and rudbeckia for a high-summer display that hums with life.