Ageratum High Tide Mix
Bring a pop of blue to your borders and containers all season long with this attractive annual flaunting layers of bright, almost furry, blossoms atop 16-inch plants. Taller and more vigorous than other landscape ageratums, the pollinators will also relish these blooms. A cut-and-come-again delight to embellish your summer posies with color and texture.
Alternanthera ‘Purple Prince’
This Latin American tropical has a splashy and colorful display of flawless foliage. A mounding, trailing, non-flowering 10- to 16-inch cascader, it is full-on purple and ruby-rose goodness from the get-go! A striking mingler for your window boxes and containers. Thrives in full sun, requires little water, disease-resistant.
‘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.
Matsumoto Blue Aster
With blazing blue petals and contrasting yellow centers, this semi-double blooming aster is an eye-catching selection. A great cut flower, 26-inch tall plants have an upright habit that mingles well with others in patio pots and borders.
Bachelor’s Button ‘Blue Boy’
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
Bells of Ireland
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.
Blackberry Lily
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.
Browallia Blue Lady
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.
Columbine Nora Barlow
Named after botanist, geneticist and granddaughter of Charles Darwin, this stalwart survivor has been a standout in English gardens since the early 17th century. Highly decorative, this 2-foot tall branching perennial boasts showy rosy-pink blooms, with many overlapping pointed petals that fade to pale green at the tips. Blooms from late spring into early summer. Easily self-sows.
Cuphea ignea ‘Dynamite’
Small, bright, tubular-shaped scarlet flowers are a beacon for hummingbirds, hummingbirds, and more hummingbirds! These compact, well-branched, low maintenance annuals are a great filler for your hanging baskets, containers and patio designs. Grows 8 to 10” tall and 12” wide. No deadheading required.
Golden Marguerite ‘Kelwayi’ Daisy
This 30-inch tall, clump-forming, drought tolerant perennial is most effective when planted in groupings or en masse in the sunny border. Perfect choice for an area of your garden where self-seeding is welcomed. As known as Golden Chamomile, plants form a bushy mound of finely divided, fern-like, aromatic, green foliage with loads of small bright-yellow daisies. Can be cut regularly for use in summer posies or deadheaded to extend the bloom season. May even cut entire plant back to 6 inches mid-season for a whole fresh new flush.
Forget-Me-Not ‘Ms. Marilyn’
A special variety cultivated by our friends at 3 Porch Farm. Care-free, vigorous, and extremely productive, this 24-36” tall perennial is awash in sprays of smoky periwinkle-blue flowers. A boon to the pollinator community, and a lovely addition to you perennial beds. Self-sows.
Hibiscus Mahogany Splendor
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.
Elegance Purple Lavender
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.
Malva ‘Mauritanica’
This 4-foot tall, flamboyant beauty is perfectly suited to co-mingle in your borders. Large, luxurious, violaceous blooms are highlighted with darker accent veins in a radiating pattern on the petals. Flowers sequentially climb the erect stems as they bloom. Self-sows.
Pineapple Sage
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.
Sidalcea Malvaflora Starks New Hybrid
This 30-inch tall Hollyhock-like perennial boasts beautiful spires of rosy blooms in mid summer. Most effective in the landscape when planted in groupings, and perfect for cutting for summer bouquets.
Verbena Bonariensis
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.