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.
Rose Campion makes an attractive accent in any garden. This erect, wooly silver-gray plant produces a succession of long-stalked purple-red flowers from late spring through the summer and into the early autumn. This biennial reseeds itself reliably, and may survive as a short-lived perennial....
