A perennial kale! Enjoy kale without having to replant it every year. Large blue green foliage that is both attractive in the garden and delicious!

Perennial Plant of the Year 2001. This is one of the best ornamental grasses available. Produces its "flowers" or inflorescence early in the season so they can be enjoyed longer. Nice narrow vertical habit. The foliage grows to about 3' tall and the flowe

Can be grown as a perennial or in a container. A small, cool season grass only getting to 8-18 inches tall and 12-16 inches wide. Eye catching variegated gold and green foliage keeps its bright color throughout summer.

'Tropical Sunset' has 3", single creamy yellow flowers that are dramatically streaked with burgundy red veining and picotee edges

Nice late season bloomer. Truly hardy. This Chrysanthemum is not like the "mums" that are sold everywhere else, they are more like daisies with a more open and upright habit. Grows to 26" tall

A late season bloomer that provides you small lavender flowers with yellow centers. Although the flowers are smaller this is a heavy blooming perennial so you won't be lacking on color!

This hardy sage produces gorgeous violet-blue flowers on dark purple stems! Easy to grow, long blooming and thrives in full sun growing up to 24" tall.

Perennial Plant of the Year 2007 Dont let the name fool you, this catmint can grow to 24-30" tall. Its a nice option since the seeds produced are sterile so it does not spread throughout the garden. Deer resistant and drought tolerant make it a good choic

This perennial not only has nice soft pink flowers and terrific fall red/orange fall color but an amazing highly aromatic foliage. We like to use it near walkways where even a slight brush up against the foliage will release the fragrance.

A great ground cover that works wonderfully in those hard to plant dry shady areas! New leaves are a beautiful maroon that will transition into a glossy dark green in summer. Spring produces creamy flowers that stand out against the dark foliage.

A great low shade loving flowering evergreen! One of the earliest blooming flowers in the garden sometimes even flowering in February!

A loved plant by pollinators that adds dark yet vivid blue/purple flowers that emerge from deep maroon buds. A more compact Salvia reaching about 22-24 inches tall and wide.

A larger catmint with large dark purple/blue flowers. Grows 3 feet tall and wide with an upright mounding habit. Attractive to lots of pollinators. Lovely fragrant foliage.

Compact plants with really large flowers. Looks great planted with yellow flowering plants. Very long blooming especially if spent flowers are trimmed off. Deer generally avoid this plant but the butterflies and other pollinators love it. Grows to 1bout 1

Truly a summer beauty! Grass like foliage produces a long stop which has globe shaped bloom on it. Flowers are clusters of small lavender pink flowers that are sure to attract butterflies and bees. Blooms last from July to August.

Good for shady wet areas to provide a nice pop of color. Has tall feathery pink blooms on reddish stems. Grows to only 2 feet tall and wide with a mounding habit.

This is a late season beauty! A densely branched little plant with double flowering bubblegum pink bloom with yellow centers.

Perennial Plant of the Year 2003 This is an improved Shasta daisy with larger flowers on sturdy plants that dont require staking. Great for cutting and enjoying the flowers in arrangements. Grows 3-4' tall in full sun.

Bright gold foliage that can handle more sun than most hosta

A medium sized Hosta that has variegated foliage that changes as it ages. Starting with chartreuse margins that get more gold/yellow then eventually fading to more of a creamy color.

Perennial Plant of the Year 2009 Hakone grass is one of our favorite non-native perennials. The deer resistance is fantastic and it brightens up shady spots. Forms a nice spreading clump

Pink Lilac blooms appear fuzzy when in full bloom. This is a dwarf astilbe that makes a nice ground cover in moist areas. The foliage has a nice coarse texture that deer tend to stay away from. A great choice for shady gardens.

A long blooming, heat tolerant, cold hardy Armeria! A nice compact addition to gardens or containers that will give you round clusters of white blooms from spring to fall.

A shade favorite with thick heart shaped leaves with blue centers and creamy white margins. Ruffled edges add even more texture to this attractive Hosta. White flowers emerge in mid summer high above the foliage and will attract hummingbirds!