Arnold Promise Witchhazel is bathed in stunning fragrant yellow strap-like flowers with red calyces along the branches from late winter to early spring before the leaves. It has green deciduous foliage. The serrated round leaves turn an outstanding yellow in the fall.

Coral Bells, Dolce Toffee Tart is a stunning mounded perennial with foliage that emerges amber-orange and matures to rich gold tones. Delicate creamy white flowers bloom on tall scapes during midsummer, adding elegant height and contrast. Perfect for partially shaded beds, borders, and containers, this variety brings year-round color and texture to your garden. Its compact, mounding habit makes it ideal for mixed plantings and landscape designs.

Cuphea 'Sweet Talk Deep Pink' is a compact, free-branching shrub that produces striking pink tubular flowers with deep purple calyces throughout spring to fall. This heat and drought-tolerant plant thrives in bedding displays, shrub borders, and containers, while its continuous blooms attract pollinators all season long. Perfect for gardeners seeking reliable color and low-maintenance performance.

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.

This exquisite variety produces threadlike branches with tiny scale like leaves that are bright yellow-green; puts on a dramatic winter show when the outer edges of the plant turn a rusty bronze color; makes a great garden accent or low hedge

Diabolo Ninebark features showy clusters of white flowers at the ends of the branches from late spring to early summer, which emerge from distinctive pink flower buds. It has attractive deep purple deciduous foliage which emerges burgundy in spring. The serrated lobed leaves are highly ornamental and turn an outstanding red in the fall. It features abundant showy red capsules from early to mid fall. The peeling tan bark adds an interesting dimension to the landscape.

Blackhaw Viburnum features showy creamy white flat-top flowers at the ends of the branches in mid spring. The royal blue fruits are held in abundance in spectacular clusters from early fall to late winter. It has dark green deciduous foliage. The pointy leaves turn an outstanding purple in the fall.

Buttonbush is covered in stunning clusters of creamy white button flowers with buttery yellow overtones at the ends of the branches from late winter to early summer. The flowers are excellent for cutting. The white fruits are held in abundance in spectacular clusters from late summer to late winter. It has light green evergreen foliage. The tiny narrow leaves remain light green throughout the winter.

Blue Ice Bog Rosemary features dainty nodding white bell-shaped flowers with shell pink overtones at the ends of the branches from mid to late spring. It has attractive powder blue evergreen foliage. The needles are highly ornamental and remain powder blue throughout the winter.

Rock Candy® Pink Beard Tongue has masses of beautiful spikes of rose tubular flowers with pink overtones, white throats and dark red stripes rising above the foliage from early to late summer, which are most effective when planted in groupings. The flowers are excellent for cutting. Its narrow leaves remain green in color throughout the season.

Marmalade® Potentilla features showy orange flowers at the ends of the branches from early summer to mid fall. It has dark green deciduous foliage. The small ferny compound leaves do not develop any appreciable fall color.

Pussywillow is a beloved harbinger of spring, producing the iconic soft, silver-gray catkins that appear on bare branches before the leaves emerge and signal winter’s end like nothing else in the garden. Growing 9–15 feet with graceful, weeping branches, it makes a beautiful focal point near water features, rain gardens, or naturalized areas in full sun. Fresh green foliage follows the catkins and holds through summer, turning warm gold and copper-bronze in fall. The cut branches are prized for spring arrangements — snip a few before the catkins fully open and bring them indoors. A native-region plant that supports birds and wildlife, it tolerates wet soils, erosion-prone sites, and Black Walnut with ease. A truly special shrub that connects us to the season’s first stirrings of life.

Bergeson Compact Dogwood features showy clusters of white star-shaped flowers at the ends of the branches from mid to late spring. It has dark green deciduous foliage which emerges chartreuse in spring. The pointy leaves turn an outstanding burgundy in the fall. It produces white berries with powder blue overtones from mid to late summer. The scarlet branches are extremely showy and add significant winter interest.

The Crimson Comet Buttonbush is a fantastic addition to any garden or landscape. With its vibrant red foliage and unique spherical flowers, this plant is sure to stand out. Its beauty is not the only benefit, as it is also a great option for attracting beneficial insects and pollinators. The compact size of the Crimson Comet Buttonbush also makes it a great choice for small gardens and containers.

Red Buckeye features showy spikes of ruby-red flowers rising above the foliage from early to mid spring. It has dark green deciduous foliage. The palmate leaves do not develop any appreciable fall color.

Golden Splendor Hemlock is primarily valued in the landscape for its distinctively pyramidal habit of growth. It has attractive gold evergreen foliage. The needles are highly ornamental and remain gold throughout the winter.

'Amber Glow' is a compact arborvitae that gives some amazing color. 'Amber Glow' has bright yellow-green foliage during the summer. As fall approaches, the foliage turns a more bright yellow. During the winter months, 'Amber Glow' turns to a brilliant amber to give a unique winter interest. 'Amber Glow' may reach 3-4 ft in height and width in 10 years.

In early summer, Tufted Hair Grass erupts into a shimmering cloud of fine, airy flower panicles that catch the light and sway with the slightest breeze, lending soft movement to the garden. Below, it forms a neat, fountain-like clump of slender deep-green blades that stays tidy throughout the season. A cool-season grass native to our region’s moist meadows and open woods, it settles easily into local gardens and thrives with steady, moderate moisture. The golden seed heads hold their beauty into fall and feed visiting songbirds, while its fibrous roots make it a fine choice for stabilizing slopes. Deer and rabbits pass it by, so the planting stays full and graceful. Sweep it through a bed as a flowing groundcover, or let a single clump shine as a textural accent.

Switch Grass is a prairie native from the Great Lakes region that brings easy, four-season beauty to the sunny garden—and genuine ecological value along with it. From summer into fall, its upright clumps of dark green blades support airy clouds of fine-textured flower panicles that catch the light and move beautifully in a breeze. Come autumn, the foliage transitions through warm shades of yellow-gold and copper-bronze before settling into tawny buff tones that persist through winter. Birds flock to the seed heads for reliable late-season forage, giving this grass genuine wildlife value beyond its good looks. It forms a tidy, non-spreading clump reaching three to five feet tall and handles challenging conditions with remarkable equanimity—drought, black walnut, deer, and erosion-prone slopes are no match for it. Mass plant it in a meadow-style border or naturalized area for maximum impact with minimum effort.

Wild Quinine offers the calm, architectural beauty of flat-topped clusters of crisp white flowers that hover like clouds above coarse, dark green foliage all summer long. Native to the tallgrass prairies of the Midwest, it’s a tough, drought-tolerant perennial that thrives in full sun and lean soil once established. Reaching two to three feet tall and spreading into a substantial clump, it makes a striking accent or a quiet foil for showier prairie companions. Pollinators, especially small native bees and butterflies, work the blooms, while the seed heads dry to a handsome bronze that holds its shape into winter. It’s remarkably trouble-free—deer-resistant once established and untroubled by rabbits, insects, or disease. The papery flower clusters are also long-lasting in fresh and dried arrangements alike.

Generally, you would need both a male and female bittersweet plant to get the much loved orange berries, but you’ll only need one with Autumn Revolution^™ Bittersweet. This beloved native vine is covered in green leaves in the summer and joined by gorgeous orange berries that form in the late summer and get their color in early fall. The berries on Autumn Revolution^™ are twice the size of other bittersweet varieties and are great for cut arrangements and other DIY crafts. The berries that aren’t used for crafts in the fall provide wonderful winter interest.

Common Persimmon is a beautiful native tree that doubles as an edible landscape specimen, offering ornamental merit across all four seasons alongside a generous harvest of sweet, richly flavored orange fruit in fall. Growing to an impressive 30–40 feet with an upright habit in full sun, it makes a striking specimen in a larger yard or naturalized setting. The fruit is best after a frost has softened the flesh and converted the starches to sugar — the result is a deeply sweet, honey-like flavor that’s exceptional fresh or dried. Vivid orange and gold fall foliage is among the most brilliant of any native tree. Fully resistant to deer, rabbits, insects, and disease, it supports birds and wildlife generously and tolerates Black Walnut. A durable, deeply rewarding tree for any landscape that has room for its full, impressive presence.

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.