Plant Guide

Popular Plants

• Recent Additions

  Caryopteris × clandonensis
  (Blue beard, Blue-spirea, Blue-mist shrub )

  Hosta 'June'
  (Plantain lily)

  Ipomoea tricolor and cvs.
  (Morning glory)

  Amaranthus cruentus
  (Prince's feather, Purple amaranth, Red amaranth)

  Amaranthus tricolor and cvs.
  (Chinese spinach, Tampala, Joseph's coat)

  Acer japonicum 'Aconitifolium'
  (Full-moon maple, Fernleaf full-moon maple)

• Fall Color

  Acer shirasawanum 'Aureum'
  (Golden Full Moon Maple)

  Aster novae-angliae ‘Purple Dome'
  (New England aster)

  Sedum ‘Autumn Joy’
  (Stonecrop)

  Persicaria amplexicaulis 'Firetail'
  (Bistort, Mountain fleece)

  Caryopteris incana 'Jason'
  (Sunshine blue bluebeard)

  Chrysanthemum morifolium
  (Hardy garden mum)

• Perfect Perennials

  Geranium 'Rozanne'
  (Hardy geranium)

  Viola ‘Etain’
  

  Echinacea purpurea ‘White Swan'
  (White coneflower)

  Rudbeckia fulgida var. sullivantii 'Goldsturm'
  (Orange Coneflower, Black-eyed Susan)

  Dichondra argentea 'Silver Falls'
  (Kidney weed, Silver nickel vine, Silver pony's foot)

  Trillium recurvatum
  (Prairie trillium, Bloody butcher, Purple wakerobin, Wood lily, Trinity flower)

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