Perennial Plant of the Year 2020. From Proven Winners: A unique golden-leafed plant for the shade. The color will be brighter yellow in part sun, and more chartreuse or lime green in full shade. Tiny white flowers. After blooming, deep purplish black, ine

This smaller stature, 14-16" tall, turtlehead is great in borders and even containers. A terrific dwarf native plant! Bees, hummingbirds and butterflies love this plant. Works in sun to part sun

Vibrant purple with white eyes on a plant that is loved by hummingbirds! 'Laura" is a taller cultivar at 3-4 feet tall so it would add pops of color nicely in the back of beds. A long bloom times gives you time to enjoy the slightly fragrant flowers.

Perennial Plant of the Year 2014

This cultivar of native Alum root or Coral Bell has nice velvety light green leaves all season and then produces many white flowers held above the foliage in late summer/ early fall. Grows to 18-24" tall and wide in full to part sun

This perennial is a more compact version of its native parent, growing to approximately 2-3' tall. The flowers are single to double approximately 2-3" wide. Makes a nice cut flower since it has good stiff stems that also rarely need staking in the garden.

Mt Cuba Center says: "one of our most reliable native perennial asters. It has a strikingly beautiful mounded appearance with masses of violet-blue, daisy-like flowers on 2-3’ tall multi-stemmed plants in mid to late autumn" Grows 24-36" Height

This fern is a hybrid between the lady fern and Japanese painted fern. The resulting plant has beautiful silver foliage with a nice upright habit. Grows 24-30" tall in full to part shade.

This unusually colored Iris bears copper colored blooms as the common name suggests. Color can vary slightly from being more reddish or more orange. A spring bloomer that is nicely accented by its thin light green leaves.

A compact Ox-eye sunflower that will fit into any garden! 'Sunstruck' produces large flowers atop cream and green variegated foliage that really adds to the wow factor.

This is an early blooming Phlox with full clusters of pink flowers! In addition to the early bloom 'Early flamingo' also blooms for a long time usually from May to August. Loved by pollinators you are sure to see hummingbirds, butterflies, and bees visiti

This is a woodland goldenrod that is very shade tolerant! This late season bloomer is a pollinator magnet with its spikes of small bright yellow flowers.

A profuse bloomer with vibrant purple/blue flowers with maroon edges and centers. Produces double blooms in spring and then single blooms in late summer giving you a long season of interest. Flowers are attractive to hummingbirds making it a great additio

A shorter grass with a slim and upright habit only getting 3-4 feet tall and 2-3 feet wide. Has a nice blue/green foliage with rosy red blooms Good for tidy screens or bed edges.

A good choice to accent wet shady areas with nice blue green foliage. Stays compact only getting 1 foot tall and the same wide. Its an evergreen so interest will be maintained throughout the year.

A very uniform neatly mounded Shasta daisy perfect for boarders or in containers. Big white flowers with classic yellow centers all rise to about the same height of 8-10 inches tall and 10-12 inches wide.

Nice tall yellow flowering native wildflower.

This cultivar was discovered growing in the wild. The flower petals are curled which creates a quilled effect.