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!

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

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

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

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 is a lower growing version of the popular Walker's Low. Reaches 12-18" tall and 18-24" wide in full sun

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

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 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.

Bright yellow foliage to add a bit of sunshine to your shade garden! Attractive rippled edges as a nice texture to the wedge shaped leaves. Mid summer bring lavender flowers that rise high above the foliage and attracts hummingbirds!

An early blooming bulb that produces a 4 foot tall stems topped with a "crown" red bell shaped flowers. Deer, rabbit, and black walnut tolerance makes this a nice addition to gardens in our area! Usually blooms from May to June and will go dormant with th

Huge globes of purple flower clusters on tall strong stems. A great deer resistant bulb that makes quite an impact in your garden!

A spreading deer resistant ground cover that is easy to grow. Showy magenta flowers complimented by red sepals in late spring and fragrant foliage all make this a nice choice!

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!

Single daisy-like flowers bloom in sunset-esque shades. Buds emerge red and open orange, fading to a creamy butter yellow. Colors are best in the cool parts of the year—which happen to be when the plant usually flowers.

The name is perfect, the flowers really do have a suede like texture. Grows to 28" tall in full to part sun Photo is courtesy of Walter's Gardens

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

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

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