Hadspen Blue Hosta features dainty spikes of lavender tubular flowers rising above the foliage in late summer. Its attractive textured heart-shaped leaves remain blue in color throughout the season.

Hosta Ruffled Mouse Ears is a miniature Hosta that displays blue-green leaves with lighter, ruffled edges. As the foliage matures, it transitions from blue-green to dark green, characterized by rippled and frilled margins. Due to its thick substance and slow growth rate, the plant exhibits resistance to slugs. It produces purple flowers from July through August. Although it can tolerate sunlight, it performs optimally in dappled shade.

Pink Cascade Butterfly Bush features showy panicles of fragrant pink flowers with orange eyes at the ends of the branches from mid summer to early fall. The flowers are excellent for cutting. It has light green deciduous foliage. The narrow leaves do not develop any appreciable fall color.

New Vintage Violet Yarrow delivers flat-topped clusters of rich violet-purple blooms from summer into fall, adding jewel-toned depth to sunny borders that pairs beautifully with warm yellows, silvers, and soft pinks. The feathery, aromatic foliage forms a tidy upright clump that stays attractive even between bloom flushes. Heat tolerant, drought resistant, and unfazed by poor soil, it asks for little more than full sun and good drainage to thrive. Deer and rabbit resistant with strong disease resistance, it’s one of the most reliably low-maintenance perennials available for a mixed planting. Butterflies visit the blooms faithfully, and the flower heads dry beautifully for use in cut arrangements.

This beautiful groundcover is a variation of the Bowles variety that is less prone to disease and has blue flowers instead of the lilac-lavender usually found; partial shade is best with well drained soil but will grow quite well in heavy clay

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.

Autumn Red Daylily features bold crimson trumpet-shaped flowers with gold throats and a orange reverse at the ends of the stems from early to mid summer, which emerge from distinctive orange flower buds. The flowers are excellent for cutting. Its grassy leaves remain green in color throughout the season.

Zebra Grass features bold plumes of coppery-bronze flowers rising above the foliage in late summer. Its attractive grassy leaves are bluish-green in color with showy yellow variegation. The foliage often turns yellow in fall. The silver seed heads are carried on showy plumes displayed in abundance from early fall to late winter. The brick red stems are very colorful and add to the overall interest of the plant.

Night Embers Daylily features bold dark red trumpet-shaped flowers with burgundy overtones, gold throats and yellow edges at the ends of the stems from early summer to mid fall. The flowers are excellent for cutting. Its grassy leaves remain green in color throughout the season.

Big Sky Salvia makes a bold, handsome statement in sunny borders with its tall, branching spikes of vivid blue flowers rising to 24 to 36 inches in spring and summer. The upright form and rich blue flower color pair beautifully with warm yellows, purples, and soft pinks in the mixed perennial border. Aromatic foliage deters deer and rabbits while adding pleasant fragrance to the garden. Reliable, cold-hardy, and Juglone tolerant, it’s a dependable backbone plant for the perennial garden. Hummingbirds and butterflies are drawn to it reliably throughout the bloom season.

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.

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.

This hardy bamboo has rigidly upright canes that are green with a bright yellow stripe, the occasional cane with a zig zag kink; an excellent rigid screen, fundamental in Japanese gardens

Tears In Heaven Hosta features dainty spikes of lavender tubular flowers rising above the foliage in late summer. Its attractive textured pointy leaves remain steel blue in color with curious silvery blue undersides and tinges of grayish green throughout the season.

Noble Spirits lends a soft, romantic air to the partly shaded garden, unfurling large, frothy plumes of creamy-white flowers above bold mounds of fresh green, fern-like foliage in summer. This sturdy, clumping perennial builds to a substantial three to five feet, holding its own as an anchor at the back of a shade border or along a woodland path. A more compact, garden-friendly take on the classic, it delivers the airy, astilbe-like blooms goat’s beard is loved for on an exceptionally strong frame. Native to North America, it’s well adapted to our conditions and offers welcome nectar to summer butterflies. Plant it where it receives dappled light and consistent moisture, and it will return more impressive each year. Best of all, deer and rabbits tend to overlook it, so the foliage stays lush from spring to frost.

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.

Frothy sprays of lilac-purple flowers launch skyward well above a basal rosette of lance-shaped foliage. Instant bouquets, the branching stems are topped with clusters of papery florets. Use fresh or dried – a favorite of floral designers. Top-notch for xeriscaping. Limonium Dazzle Rocks is extremely floriferous and will keep your vases jam-packed with pleasing bouquets summer into fall.

Variegated Russian Stonecrop is clothed in stunning yellow star-shaped flowers with orange eyes at the ends of the stems from early to mid summer. Its attractive succulent oval leaves remain green in color with showy white variegation and tinges of pink throughout the season.

Firefly Sunshine Yarrow features showy yellow flat-top flowers at the ends of the stems from early to late summer. The flowers are excellent for cutting. Its attractive tomentose ferny leaves remain dark green in color with hints of grayish green throughout the season.