Blooms

If you are a fan of Strawflowers, either in the garden or dried as everlastings, give this mix a try. A fast growing, upright 2- to 3-foot tall gem with double daisy-like, papery flower heads in shades of purple, rose and white. Like Strawflowers, the cut flowers are terrific for dried arrangements.

A superbly heat-tolerant, bedding extraordinaire with rich plummy-purple, rosy-magenta blooms atop dense dark-green foliage that attracts hummingbirds, butterflies, and compliments by the dozen! This foot-high charmer, with a vertical habit, begins flowering late spring, will continue right until frost and can easily be tucked into available space in your beds or containers. If you deadheaded regularly, you will be repaid with vibrant, non-stop color from this dramatic beauty.

A 2017 Fleuroselect Gold Medalist for striking color, habit, and top-notch flowering performance. This care-free, drought-tolerant winner erects  27- to 31-inch, elegant spikes of small, bell-shaped, vivid scarlet flowers that serve as sirens to every pollinator in the neighborhood. Aflutter with winged pollinators, this gorgeous foxglove cousin thrives in full sun, well-drained soil and will continue its display from early summer into the fall.

Also known as White Lace Flower, this elegant filler sets 2½- to 3½-inch pure white intricate, graceful, lacy flowers on strong upright stems within a full, well-branched 24- to 30-inch plant with fern-like foliage. The clusters of star-shaped, green seed pods also make a unique bouquet addition.

A Fleuroselect 2016 Gold Medal winner offering masses of enduring, striking, purple-blue flowers in profusion on upright spikes held above minty green foliage. This compact Catmint, beloved by bees and butterflies, is an outstanding garden performer — easy, reliable and does not spread like other mint. Bring color and fragrance to your sunny border, walkways, patios and containers.

This ornamental, wild form of carrot is a spectacular, vividly-colored variety of Queen Anne’s Lace. The lacy umbrellas atop strong sturdy stems reach up to 4-feet tall, open chaste white, change to soft pink and finally deepen to a rich rose-red. A delicate filler for your perennial beds and borders that provides a lovely everlasting for your arrangements and bouquets.

This well-loved beauty makes an architectural statement with rich lilac-purple flower clusters floating atop slender, willowy stems that stand un-staked up to 6 feet tall. Good see-through plant for a splash of color and in mass plantings.

Best Tithonia for cutting. Flowers are 3 1/2 inches wide on strong branching plants with velvety dark green leaves. Blooms midsummer to frost. Loves hot dry sites. Once you have Tithonia in your garden, it’s hard to live without!

A stunning first-year flowering echinacea with hues ranging from rich purple to pink, red, salmon, yellows, creams and white. The abundant flowers grace the top of well branched, durable plants. Well suited to your perennial border, a mass landscape planting, a butterfly garden or as a cut flower.

This uncommon, easy-care perennial, too seldom seen in American gardens, features the foliage of an Iris, the blooms of a Lily, and unusual glossy black berries that form in clusters when its seedpods split open in fall. Long-blooming and very easy to grow, it is a fine addition to any planting. The jazzy, unusual blooms arriving mid-summer are borne at the end of long, wiry stems, reach 2 inches wide and have a rich orange base and liberal scarlet speckles. Fascinating to behold in the garden and often brought indoors for arrangements.

This showy 2- to 3-foot tall plant produces blossom spikes of papery, apple green, bell-shaped calyxes enveloping small white flowers. An extremely long-lasting and striking addition to both cut and dried arrangements. In the vase, it’s a perfect foil for more brightly colored annuals whilst adding form, structure, and interest in its own right. A self-sower that can usually be relied upon for years of successive blooms.