Perennials

Gunnera manicata (GIANT RHUBARB)

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'Dinosaur food' says it all for this slowly creeping perennial, it looks as if it just arrived from the Jurrassic era! It is one of the largest herbaceous perennials on earth! Native to eastern South America with amazing, huge, lobed, ruffled and highly...

Echinacea prima 'Tiger' (CONEFLOWER)

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Profusions of 4in multi-colored flowers of bright golden yellow to tangerine to soft salmon, bloom for months on very compact plants at 10-16 inches tall and wide. Foliage is deep green and abundant. Growing 'Prima Tiger' in containers, mixed beds,...

Hosta abiqua (HOSTA)

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Hardiness zones 3-9 Like tiny blue mountain-lakes, the intensely cupped and puckered leaves of this hosta with its white mid-summer flowers make it an attractive and distinctive specimen; (Walden West) 

Geranium cantabrigiense 'Karmina' (GERANIUM)

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Hardiness zones 4-8 This is a delightfully floriferous, vigorous little mat-forming plant, perfect as a semi-evergreen ground cover or for planting under roses and other shrubs. Its many lilac-pink to rose-purple, five-petaled flowers bloom from dark red...

Echinacea 'Tangerine Dream' (FRAGRANT ORANGE CONEFLOWER)

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Hardiness zones 4-9 This easy-care perennial produces abundant masses of bright, tangerine-orange, single flowers. The large, four-inch blossoms feature wide, overlapping petals and have a delightful sweet honey fragrance. Dark-green 2' clumps of foliage...

HELLEBORE Helleborus Honeymoon "Irish Luck"

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Hardiness zones 4-9 Large single flowers of lime green with burgundy centers bloom readily in spring, and may last for 6 weeks! The spent blooms are attractive as well, and will last for weeks as well. They stand 18-24 inches above dark-green...

Hosta tortifrons (HOSTA)

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This delightful little hosta is very different and quite eye-catching! The shiny, narrow, upright leaves of this rarely seen 6" mounder are twisted and turned and look a bit like plantain leaves. Masses of lovely pale-lavender blooms appear in...

Gunnera chilensis 'tinctoria' (GIANT RHUBARB)

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Dramatic (to say the least!) landscape plants for pool edge or part shade with round lobed leaves 3-6' across!; "I believe the secret for ensuring its reaching gigantic proportions... is to feed the brute'" (E. A. Bowles). PSh/M-W ...

Geranium cantabrigiense 'Biokovo' (GERANIUM)

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Hardiness zones 5-8 Found in the Biokovo Mtns of S. Yugoslavia, this mat former has runners to 12" long with glossy, scalloped, 1-3" leaves that make a pretty groundcover by themselves but are topped with 1" white flowers flushed with pink at the center...

Euphorbia cyparissias 'Fens Ruby' (RED-LEAVED CYPRESS SPURGE)

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This vigorous rainbow of a groundcover has foliage which opens in spring with ruby-red leaf tips which mature to gorgeous, soft shades of blue-green. The foliage creates a 1' mound of incredible feathery foliage that contrasts beautifully with other...

HELLEBORE Helleborus Honeymoon "Sandy Shores"

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Hardiness zones 4-9 The elegant, single flowers of 'Sandy Shores' are blushed with apricot surrounding their burgundy flecked centers on the interior side, and rosy-pink on the outside. These beautiful, two-toned flowers nod above the contrasting...

Echinacea 'Merlot' (LARGE FLOWERED CONEFLOWER)

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Wonderful wine-red stems and petioles are topped by extra large (up to 5" across!) long-lasting pink flowers, standing at just 2-3' this coneflower requires no staking so it is just perfect for the border, conatainer or vase. S/M PPAF Zone 5

Hosta 'Royal Standard' (SUN-TOLERANT HOSTA)

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Rich, deep-green, wavy-edged foliage and fragrant white flowers make this variety a standard by which to measure the others. Each long, narrow leaf is up to 9" long and massed together they create a mound 2' tall and 5' wide! The late-summer, cup shaped,...

Gaura lindheimeri 'Whirling Butterflies' (GAURA)

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Supposed to be an improvement (though thats hard to believe!) with a wonderfully descriptive name, this new Gaura has whiter flowers which dance like butterflies on their gracefully-waving, rosy-red, willow-leaved stems. S/M-D ...

Coreopsis citrine 'Citrine' (COMPACT COREOPSIS)

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Hardiness zones 5-9 Profusions of bright yellow flowers with darker golden eyes burst from this compact tickseed from June through September! Low maintenance, easy to grow and looks clean all summer long. A delightful selection for mass plantings, mixed...

Rainforest Sunrise (HOSTA)

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The thick glossy and heavily veined leaves on this compact Hosta are a vivid chartreuse-yellow at their centers, and develop bright dark green contrasting margins. A surprisingly bright and beautiful standout for shadier places in the landscape,...

Echinacea 'Sombrero Salsa' (RED CONEFLOWER)

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Chili-pepper-red sombreros with a pom-pom on top make this compact, well-branched 24" perennial a bright-light in border or vase over all three!! summer months. S/M/GDr PPAF ...

Corydalis 'Blue Heron' (BLUE CORYDALIS)

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Large cluster of vibrant sapphire-blue flowers over dissected blue-green foliage place this 6-10" mounder a cut above the rest. Lovely in a shady garden where it will bloom spring into summer. PSh-Sh/M Zone 6

Echinacea eyecatcher-canary Feathers (YELLOW CONEFLOWER)

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Large blooms up to 5 inches wide are bright yellow, with golden cones. The gorgeous plants are compact, well-branched, and sturdy, standing 18-20 inches tall by 14-16 inches wide. 'Canary Feathers' is cheerful choice for bright pollinator gardens,...

Baptisia american Goldfinch (GOLDEN FALSE INDIGO)

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Bold golden-yellow spikes of peal-like flowers proliferate well above the wide base of dense foliage, for weeks, beginning in late-spring or early summer. After blooming, if left to fruit, round seed pods will persist through fall. This is a gorgeous,...

Coreopsis 'Ruby Frost' (RED COREOPSIS)

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Hardiness zones 6-10 Named by the readers of Birds and Blooms for its distinct and showy ruby-red petals edged which are edged with brilliant white. The large blooms rise above deep-green foliage forming a 16" mounding perennial. This is a break-through...

Centaurea 'Amethyst in Snow' (BICOLOR CORNFLOWER)

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Showy white petals around a royal-purple center (an amethyst in snow) make these large bachelor buttons” on 14" stems of silvery-green foliage lovely in the summer border. S/M/GDr alkaline PPAF COPF ...

Bugleweed tenorii 'Princess Nadia' (VARIEGATED BUGLEWEED)

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'Princess Nadia' is an absolutely beautiful, variegated groundcover with dramatic leaves splotched in cream, green, purple, and fuchsia-burgundy pink. In spring the plant is covered with blue flower spikes which may repeat, to some degree, through summer...

Arisaemama (JACK IN THE PULPIT)

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Wonderful in the shade: 3-6'tall "snake-skin" stems with large leaves divided into 12 slenderly tipped leaflets. This is one of the hardiest, easiest Arums to grow. Have been used in Chinese medicine for thousands of yrs. Sh/M/not dry Zone 7