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Patrinia scabiosifolia (Golden Lace)

Description:

Golden lace is a clump forming herbaceous perennial with a long season of interest. It has attractive pinnate leaves and flowers, airy stems with yellow flowers. Foliage will often take on a reddish hue in the fall.

Pot size: 3.5 in deep and 2 quart

Details:

  • Family: Caprifoliaceae

  • Plant Type: Herbaceous perennial

  • Zone: 5-8

  • Flower Color: Yellow

  • Flowering Time: June-September

  • Native Range: Eastern Asia

  • Soil: Medium moisture, rich soil

  • Light: Full sun

  • Height: 3-6 feet tall, 18-24 in. wide

Trollius ‘Golden Queen’ (Globe Flower)

Description:

Globe flowers do best in damp soil and produce their flowers on tall stems from late spring to early summer. Dead heading can prolong blooming.

Pot size: 3.5 in deep and 2 quart

Details:

  • Family: Ranuculaceae

  • Plant Type: Herbaceous perennial

  • Zone: 3-8

  • Flower Color: Orange

  • Flowering Time: Late Spring-Early-Mid Summer

  • Native Range: Asia

  • Soil: Moist, damp soil

  • Light: Full sun-part shade

  • Height: 2-3 ft tall, 24-36 in.

  • Width: 1-2 ft

Hardy Geranium 'Orion' (Cranesbill)

Description:

This sterile hybrid is a prolific bloomer of blueish, purple flowers from late spring, through summer. The zigzagging stems mix and mingle well with companion plants such as Achillea 'Terracotta'.  The fine cut leaves turn a brilliant red in the fall.

Pot size: 3.5 in deep and 2 quart

Details:

  • Family: Geraniaceae

  • Plant Type: Perennial

  • Zone: 4a-10b

  • Flower Color: Blue-Purple

  • Flowering Time: Late Spring-Late Summer

  • Native Range:

  • Soil: Medium moisture, moderate fertility

  • Light: Full sun-part shade

  • Height: 24-30 inches tall, 24-36 in. wide

Helenium ‘Moerhiem Beauty' (Sneezeweed)

Description:

This is a hybrid cultivar of Helenium autumnalis. It is a profuse bloomer of deep copper reds, with splashes of orange and yellow. Helenium’s prefer rich, moist soils, in full sun and typically bloom from midsummer to early autumn.

Pot size: 3.5 in deep and 2 quart

Details:

  • Family: Compositea

  • Plant Type: Herbaceous perennial

  • Zone: 3-8

  • Flower Color: Copper Red, Orange, Yellow

  • Flowering Time: Late Spring-Late Summer

  • Native Range: North American

  • Soil: Moist, but well drained

  • Light: Full sun

  • Height: 3-4 feet tall

  • Width: 1-2 feet wide

Achilliea ‘Terracotta' (Yarrow)

Description:

Achillea ‘Terracotta’ is an excellent perennial for full sun and poor, free draining soil. The foliage is fine and feathery and the flower color changes from a deep orange to softer honey color.

Pot size: 3.5 in deep and 2 quart

Details:

  • Family: Compositea

  • Plant Type: Herbaceous perennial

  • Zone: 3-9

  • Flower Color: Orange, Honey colored, fading to straw color

  • Flowering Time: Early, mid, late, summer

  • Native Range: Hybrid cultivar

  • Soil: well drained, poor soils

  • Light: Full sun

  • Height: 2-3 feet tall

  • Width: 1-2 feet wide

Verbascum chaixii ‘Weeding Candles’(Mullein)

Description:

This sterile hybrid is a prolific bloomer of blueish, purple flowers from late spring, through summer. The zigzagging stems mix and mingle well with companion plants such as Achillea 'Terracotta'.  The fine cut leaves turn a brilliant red in the fall.

Pot size: 3.5 in deep and 2 quart

Details:

  • Family: Geraniaceae

  • Plant Type: Herbaceous perennial

  • Zone: 5

  • Flower Color: Blue-Purple

  • Flowering Time: Late Spring-Late Summer

  • Native Range:

  • Soil: Medium moisture, moderate fertility

  • Light: Full sun-part shade

  • Height: 24-30 inches tall, 24-36 in. wide

Iris domestica (Blackberry Lilly)

Description:

Blackberry lilies produce sprays of orange speckled flowers on long stems, that rise above blade like, green leaves. Flowers only last a day, but new buds open daily, in succession. Pollinated flowers swell into green pods, which ripen to reveal clusters of attractive black seeds, hence the name ‘Blackberry Lily’.

Pot size: 3.5 in deep and 2 quart

Details:

  • Family: Iridaceae

  • Plant Type: Herbaceous perennial

  • Zone: 5-10

  • Flower Color: Orange

  • Flowering Time: Summer (Mid-Late)

  • Native Range: Asia

  • Soil: Moist, well-drained

  • Light: Full sun-partial sun

  • Height: 2-3 ft inches tall

  • Width: 10”-2ft wide

Scarlet Bronze Leaf Cardinal Flower (Lobelia speciosa)

Description:

Cardinal flower does best in moist soil when planted in full sun. This cultivar has dark bronze foliage that contrasts well with its vermillion, red flowers, which bloom in succession along an upright flower spike, from mid to late summer.

Pot size: 3.5 in deep and 2 quart

Details:

  • Family: Campanulaceae

  • Plant Type: Herbaceous perennial

  • Zone: 6-10

  • Flower Color: Red

  • Flowering Time: Late Summer- Fall

  • Native Range: North American Hybrid

  • Soil: Damp soil

  • Light: Full sun in damp soil, part shade in dry soil

  • Height: 2 ft tall

Monarda ‘Purple Rooster’ (Bee balm)

Description:

Purple Rooster is a bee balm that shows excellent mildew resistance. It forms a spreading clump, without being invasive. It blooms royal purple flowers over several weeks from mid to late summer. Bee balms are a favorite of humminbirds

Pot size: 3.5 in deep and 2 quart

Details:

  • Family: Lamiaceae

  • Plant Type: Herbaceous perennial

  • Zone: 4-9

  • Flower Color: Purple

  • Flowering Time: Summer (Mid-Late)

  • Native Range: North American Hybrid

  • Soil: Moist, but well drained

  • Light: Full sun-partial sun

  • Height: 2-3 feet tall

  • Width: 1-2 feet tall

Hardy Geranium 'Orion' (Cranesbill)

Description:

This sterile hybrid is a prolific bloomer of blueish, purple flowers from late spring, through summer. The zigzagging stems mix and mingle well with companion plants such as Achillea 'Terracotta'.  The fine cut leaves turn a brilliant red in the fall.

Pot size: 3.5 in deep and 2 quart

Details:

  • Family: Geraniaceae

  • Plant Type: Perennial

  • Zone: 4a-10b

  • Flower Color: Blue-Purple

  • Flowering Time: Late Spring-Late Summer

  • Native Range:

  • Soil: Medium moisture, moderate fertility

  • Light: Full sun-part shade

  • Height: 24-30 inches tall, 24-36 in. wide

Helianthus ‘Lemon Queen’(Perennial sunflower)

Description:

Helianthus ‘Lemon Queen is a tall herbaceous perennial, which blooms bright for several weeks in the late summer and early fall. It pairs nicely with other tall native perennials, especially grasses.

Pot size: 3.5 in deep and 2 quart

Details:

  • Family: Compositae

  • Plant Type: Herbaceous perennial

  • Zone: 4-9

  • Flower Color: Yellow

  • Flowering Time: Late Summer, Fall

  • Native Range: North America

  • Soil: Moist, well-drained

  • Light: Full sun

  • Height: 6-7 ft tall

  • Width: 2-3 feet wide

Helenium ‘Sahin’s Early Flowerer’ (sneezeweed)

Description:

‘Sahin’s Early Flowerer’ is a long flowering helenium with brilliant, bright orange blooms. The petals are splashed with yellow and red which change as they age.

Pot size: 3.5 in deep and 2 quart

Details:

  • Family: Compositea

  • Plant Type: Herbaceous perennial

  • Zone: 3-8

  • Flower Color: Orange, Red, Yellow

  • Flowering Time: Mid summer-late summer

  • Native Range: North American Hybrid

  • Soil: Moist, but well drained

  • Light: Full sun

  • Height: 3-4 feet tall

  • Width: 1-2 feet wide

Hardy Geranium 'Orion' (Cranesbill)

Description:

This sterile hybrid is a prolific bloomer of blueish, purple flowers from late spring, through summer. The zigzagging stems mix and mingle well with companion plants such as Achillea 'Terracotta'.  The fine cut leaves turn a brilliant red in the fall.

Pot size: 3.5 in deep and 2 quart

Details:

  • Family: Geraniaceae

  • Plant Type: Perennial

  • Zone: 4a-10b

  • Flower Color: Blue-Purple

  • Flowering Time: Late Spring-Late Summer

  • Native Range:

  • Soil: Medium moisture, moderate fertility

  • Light: Full sun-part shade

  • Height: 24-30 inches tall, 24-36 in. wide

Hardy Geranium 'Orion' (Cranesbill)

Description:

This sterile hybrid is a prolific bloomer of blueish, purple flowers from late spring, through summer. The zigzagging stems mix and mingle well with companion plants such as Achillea 'Terracotta'.  The fine cut leaves turn a brilliant red in the fall.

Pot size: 3.5 in deep and 2 quart

Details:

  • Family: Geraniaceae

  • Plant Type: Perennial

  • Zone: 4a-10b

  • Flower Color: Blue-Purple

  • Flowering Time: Late Spring-Late Summer

  • Native Range:

  • Soil: Medium moisture, moderate fertility

  • Light: Full sun-part shade

  • Height: 24-30 inches tall, 24-36 in. wide

Hardy Geranium 'Orion' (Cranesbill)

Description:

This sterile hybrid is a prolific bloomer of blueish, purple flowers from late spring, through summer. The zigzagging stems mix and mingle well with companion plants such as Achillea 'Terracotta'.  The fine cut leaves turn a brilliant red in the fall.

Pot size: 3.5 in deep and 2 quart

Details:

  • Family: Geraniaceae

  • Plant Type: Perennial

  • Zone: 4a-10b

  • Flower Color: Blue-Purple

  • Flowering Time: Late Spring-Late Summer

  • Native Range:

  • Soil: Medium moisture, moderate fertility

  • Light: Full sun-part shade

  • Height: 24-30 inches tall, 24-36 in. wide

Hardy Geranium 'Orion' (Cranesbill)

Description:

This sterile hybrid is a prolific bloomer of blueish, purple flowers from late spring, through summer. The zigzagging stems mix and mingle well with companion plants such as Achillea 'Terracotta'.  The fine cut leaves turn a brilliant red in the fall.

Pot size: 3.5 in deep and 2 quart

Details:

  • Family: Geraniaceae

  • Plant Type: Perennial

  • Zone: 4a-10b

  • Flower Color: Blue-Purple

  • Flowering Time: Late Spring-Late Summer

  • Native Range:

  • Soil: Medium moisture, moderate fertility

  • Light: Full sun-part shade

  • Height: 24-30 inches tall, 24-36 in. wide