Nepeta 'Summer Magic'

Catmint

The non-stop flowers of this nepeta are on upright stems that don’t flop. Gray-green foliage is durable and relatively pest free.

Exposure: Full Sun to Part Shade
Size: 15-18" tall x 15-18" wide
Bloom: Summer - Early Fall
Color: Lavender-blue
Hardiness: Zone 4
Patent: PP#27090
Characteristics: Deer Resistant, Cut Flower, Butterfly/Hummingbird Attracting

#1 - $7.85 (1-9); $6.55 (10-24); $6.30 (25+)

Nepeta x faassenii 'Walker's Low'

Catmint

A rampant bloomer with lavender-blue flowers from April through fall. Has small, gray-green aromatic leaves. Its neat form makes a perfect border or edging plant. Perennial Plant of the Year for 2007.

Exposure: Full Sun
Size: 36" tall x 36" wide
Bloom: Late Spring - Fall
Color: Lavender/Blue
Hardiness: Zone 3
Characteristics: Deer Resistant, Butterfly/Hummingbird Attracting

#1 - $7.35 (1-9); $6.05 (10-24); $5.80 (25+)

Oenothera berlandieri 'Siskiyou'

Evening Primrose

A sprawling, busy plant that can be quite agressive in fertile soil. Long lasting, cup-shaped pink flowers with yellow centers appear in early summer. Handles poor soil. Consider planting down a hill, in a meadow planting or a mass planting on its own.

Exposure: Full Sun
Size: 12" tall x 30" wide
Bloom: Early Summer - Late Summer
Color: Pink/Yellow
Hardiness: Zone 5
Characteristics: Deer Resistant, Butterfly/Hummingbird Attracting, Nativar

#1 - $7.35 (1-9); $6.05 (10-24); $5.80 (25+)

Osmunda cinnamomea

Cinnamon Fern

Tall upright fern with cinnamon brown spikes that rise from the center of the plant. Native.

Exposure: Part Shade to Full Shade
Size: 36" tall x 24-30" wide
Hardiness: Zone 5
Characteristics: Deer Resistant

#1 - $9.85 (1-9); $8.55 (10-24); $8.30 (25+)

Paeonia 'Bunker Hill'

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Garden Peony

Peonies form a rounded mass of attractive foliage. Beautiful, large flowers are frequently fragrant and appear in early to midsummer. These are excellent long lasting cut flowers. Foliage on plants will die back completely in the fall.

Exposure: Full Sun
Size: 32" tall x 30" wide
Bloom: Summer
Color: Purple
Hardiness: Zone 2
Characteristics: Deer Resistant

#2 - $18.35 (1-9); $17.05 (10-24); $16.80 (25+)

Paeonia 'Duchess deNemours'

Garden Peony

Peonies form a rounded mass of attractive foliage. Beautiful, large flowers are frequently fragrant and appear in early to midsummer. These are excellent long lasting cut flowers. Foliage on plants will die back completely in the fall.

Exposure: Full Sun
Size: 36" tall x 28" wide
Bloom: Early Summer
Color: White
Hardiness: Zone 2
Characteristics: Deer Resistant

#2 - $18.35 (1-9); $17.05 (10-24); $16.80 (25+)

Paeonia 'Kansas'

Garden Peony

Peonies form a rounded mass of attractive foliage. Beautiful, large flowers are frequently fragrant and appear in early to midsummer. These are excellent long lasting cut flowers. Foliage on plants will die back completely in the fall.

Exposure: Full Sun
Size: 36" tall x 28" wide
Bloom: Early Summer
Color: Red
Hardiness: Zone 2
Characteristics: Deer Resistant

#2 - $18.35 (1-9); $17.05 (10-24); $16.80 (25+)

Paeonia 'Sarah Bernhardt'

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Garden Peony

Peonies form a rounded mass of attractive foliage. Beautiful, large flowers are frequently fragrant and appear in early to midsummer. These are excellent long lasting cut flowers. Foliage on plants will die back completely in the fall.

Exposure: Full Sun
Size: 36" tall x 28" wide
Bloom: Late Summer
Color: Pink
Hardiness: Zone 2
Characteristics: Deer Resistant

#2 - $18.35 (1-9); $17.05 (10-24); $16.80 (25+)

Panicum virgatum 'Gunsmoke'

Switch Grass

Blue green foliage with smoky-purple seedheads. A great native for the late summer landscape. Densely packed foliage with an upright habit holds up well in the rain. Bred in Michigan by Walters Gardens to best suit our climate.

Exposure: Full Sun
Size: 48-52" tall x 36" wide
Bloom: Late Summer
Color: Smoky-purple
Hardiness: Zone 4
Patent: PP#32373
Characteristics: Deer Resistant, Cut Flower, Nativar

#2 - $14.35 (1-9); $13.05 (10-24); $12.80 (25+)

Panicum virgatum 'Hot Rod'

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Switch Grass

One of the earliest Panicum to change color. The foliage emerges a blue green, but quickly turns a deep red. In the fall, the color changes to a deep purple with red-purple seed heads. Nice upright habit.

Exposure: Full Sun
Size: 36-40" tall x 36" wide
Bloom: Late Summer - Fall
Color: Red/Purple
Hardiness: Zone 4
Patent: PP#26074
Characteristics: Deer Resistant, Cut Flower, Nativar

#3 - $16.85 (1-9); $15.55 (10-24); $15.30 (25+)

Panicum virgatum 'Northwind'

Switch Grass

This olive-green, rigidly upright, fast growing grass holds up well against strong winds. It is drought tolerant and has lovely plumes in late summer and early fall. Perennial Plant of the Year for 2014. Native.

Exposure: Full Sun
Size: 72" tall x 36" wide
Bloom: Late Summer - Early Fall
Hardiness: Zone 4
Characteristics: Deer Resistant, Nativar

#3 - $16.85 (1-9); $15.55 (10-24); $15.30 (25+)

Panicum virgatum 'Prairie Dog'

Switch Grass

Upright growth habit and sturdy stems that are a clean blue. Tons of delicate rosy color plumes. Very Nice shorter Panicum

Exposure: Full Sun
Size: 36-48" tall x 24-36" wide
Bloom: Summer - Early Fall
Color: Rosy
Hardiness: Zone 4
Patent: PP#32736
Characteristics: Deer Resistant, Cut Flower, Nativar

#3 - 16.85 (1-9); $15.55 (10-24); $15.30 (25+)

Panicum virgatum 'Purple Tears'

Switch Grass

The purple seed heads are very showy on top of gray tipped flowering spikes. Nice light green foliage. Narrow upright habit.

Exposure: Full Sun to Part Shade
Size: 48" tall x 24-30" wide
Bloom: Late Summer - Fall
Color: Purple
Hardiness: Zone 4
Patent: PP#258515
Characteristics: Deer Resistant, Cut Flower, Navitar

#3 - 16.85 (1-9); $15.55 (10-24); $15.30 (25+)

Pennisetum alopecuroides 'Hameln'

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Dwarf Fountain Grass

Very popular and widely used in groups, mass plantings or even as a specimen in a smaller garden. Finely textured, grass-green foliage is topped by fluffy, wheat-like flowers in July. Stays attractive all winter when foliage fades to a straw color.

Exposure: Full Sun
Size: 30" tall x 24" wide
Bloom: Fall
Color: Cream/Tan
Hardiness: Zone 5
Characteristics: Deer Resistant

#3 - $16.85 (1-9); $15.55 (10-24); $15.30 (25+)

Pennisetum alopecuroides 'Red Head'

Fountain Grass

An earlier flowering Pennisetum that has huge, 3” wide and 8-10” long bottlebrush plumes. The plumes start off deep purple and mature to a smokey purple. Nice green clump foliage.

Exposure: Full Sun
Size: 48-60" tall x 24" wide
Bloom: Mid Summer -Early Fall
Color: Smokey Purple
Hardiness: Zone 5
Characteristics: Deer Resistant

#3 - $16.85 (1-9); $15.55 (10-24); $15.30 (25+)

Penstemon 'Blackbeard'

Beardtongue

Incredibly dark eggplant purple foliage has lilac-purple flowers with white flaring tubes that sit on upright dark purple stems.

Exposure: Full Sun
Size: 28-34" tall x 24" wide
Bloom:  Summer
Color: Lilac/purple
Hardiness: Zone 3
Patent: PP#30052
Characteristics: Cut Flower, Butterfly/Hummingbird Attracting, Nativar

#1 - $8.35 (1-9); $7.05 (10-24); $6.80 (25+)

Penstemon 'Dark Towers'

Beard-Tongue

Big improvement of 'Husker Red', the foliage starts off deep wine purple and keeps its color all summer. Lovely lavender pink flowers on strong, upright stems.

Exposure: Full Sun
Size: 36" tall x 24" wide
Bloom: Early Summer - Summer
Color: Lavender/Pink
Hardiness: Zone 3
Patent: PP#20013
Characteristics: Cut Flower, Butterfly/Hummingbird Attracting, Nativar

#1 - $8.35 (1-9); $7.05 (10-24); $6.80 (25+)

Perovskia atriplicifolia

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Russian Sage

The upright gray finely cut foliage has a loose, open habit. Airy spikes of lavender-blue flowers top the long strong stems. Likes a well drained soil.

Exposure: Full Sun
Size: 36" tall x 24" wide
Bloom: Summer - Fall
Color: Lavender/Blue
Hardiness: Zone 4
Characteristics: Deer Resistant, Cut Flower, Butterfly/Hummingbird Attracting

#1 - $7.35 (1-9); $6.05 (10-24); $5.80 (25+)