Zone 7

Hastingsia alba (WHITE RUSHLILY)

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This little lily-relative from wet-meadows is only found growing in Northern California and Southern Oregon. Beautiful 1-3' spikes of tiny white flowers rise from a grass-like tuft. The flowers fall...

Fuchsia magellanica 'Aurea' (YELLOW HARDY FUCHSIA)

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Hardiness zones 6-10 This unusual form of the always-enjoyable Hardy Fuchsia (to 2') adds some bright color to a shady picture with its yellow leaves and contrasting reddish stems and tubular flowers...

HOSTA "Hadspen Blue"

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Charming mounds of powdery soft-looking, steel blue-gray leaves are thick, remarkably textured and cupped. Its muted tones pair beautifully with variegated and boldly colored cultivars. Summertime...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Cupressus torulosa (BHUTAN CYPRESS)

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Hardiness zones 7-9 A tall, handsome, pyramidal tree (C. Harrison) with horizontal branches and flattened sprays of dark-green whip-like branchlets; used sometimes as a fast-growing vertical accent...

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...

Corydalis 'Blue Heron' (BLUE CORYDALIS)

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Hardiness zones 6-8 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...

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...

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...

Adiantum pedatum (NORTHERN MAIDENHAIR FERN)

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Hardiness zones 3-8 This lovely, delicate-looking, deciduous fern is native to the eastern United States where it is found growing in forested slopes, gully bottoms and damp shady woods. Forming...

Athyrium niponicum 'Regal Red' (RED-STEM JAPANESE PAINTED FERN)

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Hardiness zones 4-9 Each frond of this elegant 12-18in fern is a deep "regal" purple-red in the center, edged with frilly (slightly twisted) silver edges. A wonderful, colorful, softly ruffled...

Aquilegia caerulea (ROCKY MTN COLUMBINE)

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Hardiness zones 3-8 Fields of these brilliant-blue and white spurred flowers are an inspiring sight in Colorados high Rockies where its the state flower. S-PSh/M/GDr 

Agapanthus 'Twister' (BICOLORED LILY-OF-THE-NILE)

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A recipient of the Award of Garden Merit by the Royal Horticultural Society, this stunning Lily-of-the-Nile blooms with 6-8 inch wide umbels of bicolored flowers. Its petals are stark white and open...

Asclepias speciosa (SHOWY MILKWEED)

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Hardiness zones 3-9 This stunning native wildflower is wonderful for wildlife gardens! Monarch butterflies rely on it for larval food and nectar while Orioles use the dead stems for nesting materials...

Agapanthus praecox 'Headbourne Blue' (LILY-OF-THE-NILE)

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Beautiful, bold flower heads on 3' stalks in summer are made of up to 75 trumpet-shaped flowers each ranging in cooling shades of soft-blue to violet standing above semi-evergreen mounds of...

Asclepias incarnata (SWAMP MILKWEED)

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Hardiness zones 3-9 This unusual species of milkweed features wonderfully intricate and very showy, bright-pink flowers on 2-4' stems. This species is exceptionally useful for naturalizing in moist...

Campanula 'Pink Octopus' (BELLFLOWER)

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Hardiness zones 5-9 Wonderful, deeply Octopus-leg divided flowers of white and deep-rose ... up to 50 at a time!... top 18" stems of deeply-cut foliage over a long summer period. S-PSh/M PPatentAF...

Asclepias fascicularis (NARROW-LEAVED MILKWEED)

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Hardiness zones 6-10 This delicate-looking wildflower from the western United States is extremely drought-tolerant, trouble-free and very important for wildlife. Clusters of intricate,...

Arctostaphylos uva-ursi (KINNIKINNICK)

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Hardiness zones 2-8 A wonderful evergreen ground cover, perhaps a bit more tolerant of wet conditions as this selection comes from the East Coast; medium-sized dark-green glossy leaves and clusters...

Baptisia lactea (WHITE BAPTISIA)

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Hardiness zones 4-9 This striking prairie wildflower looks like asparagus at first before it sends up its show-stopping 3-5' plumes of creamy white flowers in early summer; attractive blue-green...