Our experts reveal their must-have plants for this season.
From new plants to staples we should’ve planted years ago, this episode will take a look at plants that are on our nursery shopping list this season. There’s a baptisia that has tricolor blooms, a purple potato that looks like it’s speckled, and more than a few must-have evergreens. And, if those don’t float your boat, there are plenty of other suggestions to tempt you—and help empty your wallet at the garden center this year.
Expert: Ritchie Steffen, curator at the Elisabeth C. Miller Botanical Garden in Seattle, Washington
Related Links:
https://www.finegardening.com/beautiful-low-maintenance-plants
https://www.finegardening.com/27-perennials-long-lasting-appeal
https://www.finegardening.com/best-plants-sunny-borders
Featured Plants:
- ‘Pink Lemonade’ baptisia (Baptisia ‘Pink Lemonade’)
- ‘Brownie Points’ baptisia (Baptisia ‘Brownie Points’)
- Trillium
- Chocolate cosmos (Cosmos atrosanguineus)
- Stachys ‘Hummelo’
- ‘Harvest Moon’ potato
- ‘Slowmound’ mugo pine (Pinus mugo ‘Slowmound’)
- ‘Sea Urchin’ white pine (Pinus strobus ‘Sea Urchin’)
- ‘Papoose’ dwarf Sitka spruce (Picea sitchensis ‘Papoose’)
- ‘Fat Albert’ blue spruce (Picea pungens ‘Fat Albert’)
- ‘Ken Janeck’ rhododendron (Rhododendron ‘Ken Janeck’)
- ‘Sky Pencil’ holly (Ilex crenata ‘Sky Pencil’)
- Azaleas
- ‘Gibraltar’ azalea (Rhododendron ‘Gibraltar’)
- ‘Morning Light’ miscanthus (Miscanthus sinensis ‘Morning Light’)
- ‘Blackhawks’ big bluestem (Andropogon gerardii ‘Blackhawks’)
- Little bluestem (Schizachyrium scoparium)
- ‘Standing Ovation’ little bluestem (Schizachyrium scoparium ‘Standing Ovation’)
- Panicum
- Hosta ‘Waterslide’
- Hosta ‘Curly Fries’
- Hosta ‘Sum and Substance’
- Amsonia ‘Stormcloud’
- Amsonia cilliata ‘Georgia Pancake’
- ‘Storm Shelter’ daylily (Hemerocallis ‘Storm Shelter’)
- Carex spp. and cvs.
- Camas (Camassia spp. and cvs. )
- ‘Orion’ camas
- Triteleia
- Triteleia ‘Corrina’
- Agapanthus
- ‘Starlight’ triteleia (Triteleia ixioides ‘Starlight’)
- Erythronium
- Magnolia ‘Black Tulip’
- Magnolia ‘Mark Jury’
- Venus® dogwood (Cornus ‘Kn308’)
Comments
I have wanted Sky Pencil holly for years, hard to find I also might prefer the foliage of Blue Arrow juniper instead. Like Steve I have plans to start a dwarf (really dwarf) conifer area of my garden. Search for 'Dansgrden conifer garden'gardenweb conifer forums. It's AH-mazing. I have saved all his photos, true inspiration. Ebb Tide rose is on my list. I'm crazy about foliage. I really wanted a actaea simplex but I found one - Hillside black beauty. Beautiful almost black lace-cut foliage. Great contrast to Japanese forest grass.
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