‘Dara’ Ammi

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 long-blooming, easy-to-grow, self-seeding annual will reward you with consistently true-blue, double flowers on 3-foot tall plants throughout the growing season for years to come. A cottage garden favorite. Ideal for naturalizing, cutting and drying. Edible petals make a stunning garnish

This gorgeous, native annual wildflower will beckon droves of pollinators and a bevy of beneficials to your landscape! Named for the distinct basketweave pattern of its phyllaries (modified leaves) surrounding the flower head base, each bloom is captivating as it unfurls. Growing up to 4-feet tall, the plant has deeply incised foliage and 3-inch diameter, fringy purple blooms with a creamy center. Grows best in full sun, well-drained and slightly acidic soil. Outstanding cut flowers, suitable for both fresh and dried flower 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.

A gem! Bright, 2-inch, sky-blue flowers atop 24-inch tall, branched stems create a generous cloak of that fills in your garden gaps. Spent flowers drop tidily, making room for an inexhaustible show of blue until frost. Widely adaptable to sun or shade, charming in mixed beds and borders, and a pleasant self-sower.

This 12-tall and wide, silver leafed annual, reminiscent of perennial lamb’s ears, is a fabulously productive and unique foliage plant. The deeply-lobed, wooly, felted, silvery leaves combine well with any color scheme in your garden beds and will provide a great soft accent and contrast plant for your container designs. Easy to grow, drought resistant and sun-loving. The foliage also provides an elegant filler for flower bouquets. As a cut-and-come-again crop, the more you pick it, the more stems it will produce. 

This Sea Holly is adored by gardeners and florists alike for its unique and long-lasting, blue, spiny flowers which add dramatic color and texture to gardens and bouquets.  The thistle-like flower heads sit atop 32-inch tall, heavily branching stems. A hardy and drought tolerant perennial that will thrive in a sunbaked area of your landscape.

A captivating, season-long bloomer for your garden beds, large containers, hanging baskets or window boxes. Featuring vibrant salmon-colored blooms atop deep green and ruffled foliage, this upright and mounding cultivar reaches 12-14 inches tall and wide. Tolerates full sun to part shade. Trim off the flower heads after they fade to encourage ongoing blooms. 

A dramatic accent for your landscape! With mahogany-red, deeply-cut foliage akin to a maple leaf, the rich, decorative foliage of this ornamental will be a standout in your landscape or large container planting.  When the sturdy branches of this 4- to 6-foot tall cultivar are cut, the foliage is perfect for your late summer and fall bouquets. For the richest evolution of colors, plant in full sun.

This Fleuroselect Gold Medal winner is a fragrant, first-year flowering English Lavender with striking purple-blue, blooms and silvery grey foliage. Bushy in habit, 14 inches tall at maturity, it is adored by pollinators, well suited to poor soils, and simply breathtaking when planted en masse or as low hedgerows. 

The vibrant chartreuse green foliage, pineapple perfume and late season bright floral display, makes for a pollinator and hummingbird haven! The profusion of showy, tubular scarlet flowers on long graceful spikes is just irresistible. Both leaves and flowers are edible. This fast-growing, 30-inch annual, with open habit lends itself equally well to containers, herb gardens or mixed borders.

Discovered in a public garden in Bampton, UK, this airy verbena is a cloud of tiny lavender-pink flowers. Reaching 24″ tall and wide, it’s perfect for mass plantings, large tubs, or as a whimsical filler in beds and containers. Understated at first, it bursts to life in mid-summer, attracting butterflies and beneficial insects, with blooms that persist through fall. Cooler weather deepens the foliage to rich eggplant tones, adding evolving color and enchanting charm to any garden.

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.