Perennial Highlights 2025
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Echinacea Delicious Candy®
EYE-CATCHER™ Delicious Candy® Echinacea features glowing, fuchsia pom-pom blooms in early summer through frost. It has a compact habit and adapts well to hot, windy, sunny locations. The vibrant flowers stand out against the plant's dark green foliage and are highly attractive to butterflies and pollinators. As a tough, low-maintenance perennial, it's an excellent choice for borders and containers, offering continuous color with minimal care.
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Brunnera mac. 'Jack Frost'
Brunnera 'Jack Frost' is a rugged perennial that features frosty silver foliage with light green veins, providing a stunning contrast to the tiny, baby blue flowers in mid to late spring that resemble forget-me-nots. Its distinctive leaves retain their striking color throughout the season, offering a bright, shade-tolerant groundcover effect. This low-maintenance plant forms a tidy, mounding clump, perfect for lighting up dark corners of a woodland garden or border.
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Matteuccia struthiopteris
Matteuccia struthiopteris is a species of fern commonly known as the Ostrich Fern or Fiddlehead Fern. Its sterile fronds grow in a vase-like crown and have a feathery, plume-like appearance, which gives it the common name Ostrich Fern. The tightly coiled, immature fronds, called fiddleheads, are considered an edible delicacy when cooked, particularly in northeastern North America.
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Salvia 'East Friesland'
This easy-care, low-maintenance, Salvia features tall spikes of violet-blue flowers on erect purple stems that appear from June to July. Reblooms readily with deadheading, ensuring an extended season of color. 'East Friesland' forms a neat, upright clump of gray-green, aromatic foliage, making it a robust and dependable choice for adding vertical accent and attracting pollinators to sunny garden borders.
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Digitalis Pink Panther®
Digitalis Pink Panther® (Pink Panther® Foxglove) features an upright clumping habit with multiple stalks of bright, purplish-pink bell-shaped blooms in early summer. These tall flower spires are a hummingbird magnet! Pink Panther® is a sterile hybrid and valued for its extended bloom time, lasting longer than traditional varieties without setting seed. Its vertical accent makes it an excellent focal point for borders and cottage gardens, thriving best in sun to partial shade.
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Pennisetum alo. 'Red Head'
'Red Head' Fountain Grass is a popular and eye-catching ornamental grass celebrated for its dramatic appearance and ease of care, making it a favorite for both home gardeners and professional landscapers. The most notable feature of 'Red Head' are its large, striking flower plumes. They emerge in mid to late summer as smoky, dark red, or burgundy-purple bottlebrushes, resembling large foxtails.
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Schizachyrium sco. 'Smoke Signal'
'Smoke Signal' Little Bluestem is an ornamental warm-season grass native highly prized for its exceptional seasonal color change, with the blue-green foliage transitioning to scarlet red and deep purple tones in late summer and fall. Valued for its strictly upright, non-flopping columnar habit, which remains attractive well into the winter.
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Polemonium 'Heaven Scent'
Polemonium 'Heaven Scent' (Jacob's Ladder) is a popular perennial valued for its fine texture and sweet fragrance. Its striking, fern-like foliage emerges with a reddish-purple tint in spring, gradually maturing to deep green. In late spring to early summer, the plant produces airy clusters of lightly fragrant, bell-shaped, bluish-purple flowers. 'Heaven Scent' is a lovely choice for woodland gardens, borders, or as a striking companion to hostas and other shade perennials.
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Heucherella 'Sweet Tea'
Heucherella 'Sweet Tea' (Sweet Tea Foamy Bells) is a cross between Heuchera (Coral Bells) and Tiarella (Foamflower). It delivers the best of both: the bold, vibrant color of Heuchera with the heat and humidity tolerance of its Tiarella heritage. 'Sweet Tea' features intense orange-red leaves with cinnamon highlights that darken in the summer and lighten up in the fall. This makes a great accent plant for shady gardens or containers.
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Hosta 'Dancing Queen'
Hosta 'Dancing Queen' is a stunning perennial celebrated for its large, distinctive bright yellow foliage that effectively illuminates shady garden spaces. The leaves have a heavily rippled, 'pie-crust' edge and maintain their brilliant color throughout the season, softening only slightly in late summer. It forms an impressive mound about 15-18 inches tall and 24-30 inches wide, and is topped with spikes of pale lavender flowers in mid to late summer.
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Tradescantia 'Sweet Kate'
Tradescantia 'Sweet Kate' (Sweet Kate Spiderwort) is prized for the dramatic contrast between its foliage and flowers. Its most striking feature is its clump of strappy, grass-like leaves which emerge a brilliant golden yellow and hold this luminous color throughout the season. Standing atop the vibrant foliage are masses of three-petaled, deep purplish-blue flowers that bloom continuously from late spring into summer. 'Sweet Kate' is an excellent, long-blooming choice for adding a bright focal point or an eye-catching accent to garden borders and moist, partially shaded areas.
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Dianthus 'Frosty Fire'
A prolific bloomer, Dianthus 'Frosty Fire' provides color for many months. This showy perennial features a compact, low cushion of attractive blue-green foliage that remains evergreen through winter. The main display is a flush of fragrant, dark red, double flowers appearing on stout stems in early summer. A second generous flush of blooms often follows in early autumn, extending the garden interest.
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Perovskia atr. 'Denim N Lace'
Perovskia 'Denim 'N Lace' is a Proven Winners® selection valued for its compact size and superior structure. 'Denim 'N Lace' Russian Sage features strong, upright stems that resist flopping, making for a tidier plant than older varieties. From mid-summer, the fragrant, lacy-like, sky-blue flowers dusted with purple rise in airy clusters. Plant it in full sun to attract a flurry of pollinators, especially hummingbirds and bees!
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Veronica 'Waterperry Blue'
Veronica 'Waterperry Blue' is a popular and durable creeping Speedwell, valued for its dense, low-growing, evergreen groundcover habit. 'Waterperry Blue' is smothered from late spring to early summer in an abundance of tiny, vibrant lavender-blue flowers accented by dark veins and bright white eyes. Its small, glossy leaves are deep green but take on appealing burgundy and copper tones during cooler months, providing year-round interest. Excellent choice for rock gardens, path edging, or for filling in spaces between flagstones.
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Hosta 'Time In A Bottle'
Hosta 'Time In A Bottle' is a small, unique perennial that brings vibrant, changing color and textural contrast to the shade garden. The narrow, moderately wavy leaves emerge a striking yellow in the spring, which gracefully matures to a bright chartreuse as the summer progresses. It is particularly noted for its abundance of deep purple flowers that appear on tall scapes in late summer. Unusually, the individual flower buds do not fully open, giving the blooms a longer-lasting, striking presence above the foliage.
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