Rhizomatous perennial with bold palmate leaves up to 36 inches across, emerging reddish-green and becoming dark green. The tall stems bear panicles of numerous pink to crimson flowers in early summer. Height to 6 feet.
This deciduous perennial produces horse-chestnut-like leaves that are palmate and crinkled. Panicles of star-shaped white or pink flowers appear in midsummer. Grow near water or in a bog garden or naturalize at woodland edges. Height to 6 feet.
This clump-forming perennial has elder-like pinnate leaves up to 30 inches long with seven to eleven toothed leaflets. Star-shaped white or prink flowers are born in panicles up to 18 inches long in early to mid-summer. Suits a bog garden or moist woodland border.
This perennial coneflower has glaucous foliage and bears pale yellow reflexed ray florets around conical centers of greenish yellow disk florets. Height 5-10 feet; spread 3 feet.
Few plants produce blue flowers, and fewer still produce a purer blue fower than this one does. Called Gentian Sage, this tuberous rooted perennial will come back year after year if given some protection from winter cold. Growing 45-60 cm. (18-24 in.) or more in height, the stems will produce loose...
This erect bushy annual bears terminal spikes of whorled pale purple flowers enclosed in long-lasting pink or purple bracts. Height 18 inches; spread 9 inches.
This perennial has finely divided gray-green leaves and bears solitary blue-lilac flowerheads from summer through fall. Height and spread 10 inches. Attractive to butterflies.
This white form of Rose Campion comes reliably true from seed and makes an attractive accent in any garden. This erect, wooly silver-gray plant produces a succession of long-stalked white flowers from late spring through the summer and into the early autumn. This biennial reseeds itself reliably,...
