Swamp Milkweed has fuchsia flat-top flowers with rose overtones at the ends of the stems from mid summer to early fall. The flowers are excellent for cutting. Its narrow leaves remain grayish green in color throughout the season.

Pow Wow Wild Berry Coneflower turns up the intensity from midsummer straight through fall, its vivid rosy-purple petals radiating outward from bold coppery cones that give any sunny border a jewel-toned glow. Native to the Great Lakes region, this garden-tough perennial sinks deep roots that handle summer heat and dry spells with ease once established. It reaches two to three feet tall and blooms with remarkable staying power, drawing monarchs, swallowtails, and hummingbirds to the garden for weeks on end. As the season winds down, the seed-laden cones persist and goldfinches flock to them through autumn and into winter. Plant it in full sun in generous drifts at the border’s middle or back, where its purple flowers pop beautifully against the warm tones of ornamental grasses. It shrugs off deer and rabbits and asks for nothing more than good drainage and a spot in the sun.

The most common and recognizable of the ferns, this is a very tough and hardy plant, featuring tall lacy fronds all season long that continue to grow strongly through any adverse conditions. Grows best in shade with rich, moist soil. Has a great textural effect in gardens and can be used to hide a fence or other structure in the landscape.

Blue Ice Star Flower has blue star-shaped flowers at the ends of the stems from late spring to early summer, which are interesting on close inspection. The flowers are excellent for cutting. Its narrow leaves are light green in color. As an added bonus, the foliage turns a gorgeous yellow in the fall.

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

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.

Cheyenne Spirit Coneflower has masses of beautiful lightly-scented orange daisy flowers with red overtones and 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.

This compact selection forms a small, upright clump of striking blue-green leaves; airy heads of dark red flowers appear on plumes in late summer; perfect as an accent or massed in borders

Late-blooming, moisture-loving Hot Lips Turtlehead is perfect for bog gardens, waterside or any moist area in the garden. It's upright, spreading stems are clothed in gorgeous glossy, very dark green leaves. Hot pink flowers, resembling little turtle heads, bloom at the tips of the stems in August and September. Pair with Cranesbill (Geranium), Foxglove (Digitalis), Meadowsweet (Filipendula), Windflower (Anemone) and Siberian Iris. Named after a Greek god, Chelone, who insulted the gods and was turned into a turtle! Deer and bunny resistant.

Concord Grape Spiderwort has masses of beautiful clusters of purple flowers at the ends of the stems from early to late summer, which are most effective when planted in groupings. Its attractive grassy leaves remain bluish-green in color throughout the season.

SunSeekers® Rainbow Coneflower has masses of beautiful lightly-scented salmon daisy flowers with rose overtones and coppery-bronze eyes 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 pointy leaves remain green in color throughout the season.

Shenandoah Reed Switch Grass features airy plumes of rose flowers rising above the foliage in mid summer. Its attractive grassy leaves are green in color with prominent ruby-red tips. As an added bonus, the foliage turns a gorgeous burgundy in the fall. The brick red seed heads are carried on showy plumes displayed in abundance from late summer to mid fall. The brick red stems are very colorful and add to the overall interest of the plant.

An attractive clumping ornamental grass with fine-textured, silver-green blades that turn golden-bronze after first frost. A great specimen for adding texture to shrub borders and perennial beds, or for massing as a screen.

Cinnamon Fern is primarily valued in the landscape or garden for its cascading habit of growth. It features bold spikes of dark brown flowers rising above the foliage in late spring. Its enormous oval bipinnately compound leaves are green in color. The foliage often turns peach in fall.

Balmy Purple Beebalm has masses of beautiful clusters of fragrant purple flowers with hot pink overtones and dark red centers at the ends of the stems from late spring to late summer, which are most effective when planted in groupings. The flowers are excellent for cutting. Its fragrant pointy leaves remain green in color throughout the season.

This variety produces a showy display of bright purple flowers with a dark purple center; prune lightly after flowering to encourage a dense growth habit; wonderful for rock gardens, edging, or in mixed containers;

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

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.

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.