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Perennials
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This is by no means a definitive list of the thousands of varieties of perennials that are available at Grobe's, but it IS some of the most noteworthy plants you will see.
Our plants arrive on a weekly basis in season to ensure that you will have plants of the best quality and appearance to select for your garden. If you have special perennial requirements, Grobe's can source almost anything, just contact us with what you require. Perennial plants tend to 'be available' as they reach their peak bloom time, so make your planting plans accordingly.
Click on the orange tabs below to see more perennial plants.
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Aralia cordata ‘Sun King’
A bold clump specimen that gives a sub-tropical effect. Its spiny upright stems, big golden yellow leaves, and clusters of white flowers form a lacy veil over top of the plant in summer. This variable sized specimen could grow from 4-8 feet tall and wide in full to partial shade.
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Bright yellow leaves have ruffled edges. Colour remains vibrant through the summer! Grows 11-18 inches tall by 30 inches wide in part to full shade.
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Stachys monieri ‘Hummelo’
Large, rounded clumps of green, long and narrow, textured leaves are lovely even without bloom. Throughout the summer, sturdy spikes of lavender-rose flowers shoot up through the foliage. Growing 18 inches tall and wide, it blooms well in sun or part shade.
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Hosta ‘Lakeside Paisley Print’
Well deserving of the Honour, this stunning hosta produces thick heart-shaped leaves with very wide, wavy, green margins. The narrow, creamy white markings in the center of the leaves shoot out from the cream coloured petioles in a feathery pattern. Light lavender flowers form in mid summer. It grows 10 inches tall and 20 inches wide in part to full shade.
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Allium millenium
This ‘winner’ forms a compact, upright clump of glossy green, thick, strappy leaves which emit a slight smell of onion when crushed. Large 2”, bright rosy purple, tightly rounded clusters of flowers appear on strong stems just above the attractive foliage in late July-August. Attracts butterflies and honeybees, but deer and rabbits avoid it. Grows 15-20” tall and 10-15” wide.
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Asclepias tuberosa
This native North American wildflower is the primary source of food for all life stages of the Monarch Butterfly, and can be included in sunny butterfly gardens. Growing 23-35” tall, plants form an upright clump of narrow green leaves, bearing showy clusters of orange flowers in mid to late summer. Attractive seed pods.
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Hosta 'Brother Stefan'
This stunning hosta deserves the designation! Leaves are incredibly corrugated and puckered, resembling seersucker cotton. In spring leaves appear with bright chartreuse centers and lovely blue-green margins. As the summer progresses, foliage becomes even more spectacular with chalky yellow centers and greener margins. Grows 22-28" high.
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Anemone X hybrida 'Honorine Jober
This pretty plant was bred in 1858 in France, and has a classic perennial in gardens around the world. The clump-forming, bushy, erect plants with long stems that extend to 3' in size have blossoms of intense bright white with a green centre that appear in late summer. It is a very low maintenance plant that can be grown in sun or partial shade on well-drained soils. It is an attractive contrast to the colours of gold and red that appear in fall.
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Hosta 'Curly Fries'
New variety that features very wavy, narrow, super thick pale green leaves that give it a distinct "spidery" appearance. It is recommended that to get a very special effect this new beauty should be grown in half a day of sun where its foliage will fade to near white. It is topped by 24" tall lavender flowers.
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Geranium cantabrigiense 'Biokovo'
This vigorous groundcover will look good all season with little maintenance. In late spring, white flowers with pink outer petal layers begins to appear and it continues to bloom sporadically throughout the summer. The fragrant, glossy green leaves take on reddish tints in fall. It perfoms best in well-drained soil with some dappled shade in the afternoons. Hardy geraniums are wonderful filler plants for any landscape. It grows 10 to 12 inches high by roughly 24 inches wide.
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Hosta 'Victory'
Shiny green leaves of good substance display yellow margins which lighten to pale yellow. The foliage is somewhat upright early in the season, forming a broad spreading mound as the season progresses. Light lavender flowers appear on very long, sideways arching scapes in early to midsummer. The tremendous size with huge variegated leaves of giant specimen Hostas like this one takes some years to develop, but it is an eye-popper in the landscape when it is mature. This one grows 28 to 32 inches tall by 36 to 48 inches wide in partial to full shade locations.
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Panicum virgatum 'Northwind'
One of the very few grasses to become and award winner, this easy to grow grass has blue-green foliage and stands more erect than is typical of the species. It will enhance a sunny location, with a refined garden-worthy apperance and habit. It spreads slowly to form an erect clump about 5 ft. tall. In late summer the foliage is topped by a haze of showy golden yellow seed heads that mature to beige. The fall colour is a lovely gold as well. It is a drought resistant plant.
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Polygonatum falcetum ‘Variegatum’
Green leaves marked with white edges on arching stems, accented by stems of droplet-like flowers. Definitely a winning combination for part to full shade! Grows 3 ft. tall.
Hosta 'Rainforest Sunrise'
Here’s one for the collection! Growing only 10-12 inches tall, it bears small, thick crinkled golden yellow leaves with dark green margins. Part to full shade.
Brunnera 'Jack Frost'
Prominent, heart shaped silver leaves with green veins almost glow in the evening light. Grows 12” tall x 24” wide in full shade to partial shade. Blue spring ‘forget-me-not’ flowers. Stunning!
Hosta 'Liberty'
Yellow edges around dark green centers turn to creamy white during the growing season. Grows 26” tall x 63” wide.
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Amsonia hubrichtii
This striking mass of light green willow-like foliage is topped with steel-blue star shaped flowers in May and June. Fall colour is a stunning golden yellow. It grows 3 ft. tall and 4 ft. wide in sun or part shade.
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Hosta ‘Praying Hands’
Stiff upright folded narrow green leaves with thin gold margins give this plantain lily an almost 'grass-like' appearance. It grows to 15 inches tall and 12 inches wide in partial shade to shade, and produces lavender flowers in mid-summer.
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Baptisia australis
This durable perennial offers pure indigo blue pea-like flowers on stems that will grow up to 48 inches tall. It flowers in May and June in a sunny to part shady garden, and is a very easy to grow plant. In addition to its beauty, it offers attractive black seed pods, and it attracts both hummingbirds and butterflies.
Blanket Flowers (Gaillardia) is an easy to grow perennial with richly coloured daisy like flowers. They are low spreading plants about 12 to 18 inches tall that like full sun and somewhat dry conditions once established.
Hellebores (or Lenten Roses) have many interesting legends and stories associated with them (with links to witchcraft, Greek history and Christianity), but years of careful and painstaking breeding have given rise to an astounding array of colours and bloom types.
Daylilies or Hemerocallis continue to see new developments in blossom size, height, re-blooming characteristics and more. It is simply not possible to list every daylily we offer - but these are among the newest.
Itoh Hybrid Peonies (also known as Intersectional Peonies) are a cross between a Tree Peony and a Herbaceous Perennial Bush Peony. They offer bigger blooms, a wide range of new colours, and a longer bloom cycle. They also have better foliage to see during that part of the season when they are non-blooming.
We also offer many more traditional peonies as well.
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Paeonia 'Big Ben'
Big Ben’s flowers are deep red-maroon with blue undertones. A vigorous grower that grows to 3 ft. tall with strong stems and great fragrance.
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Paeonia lactiflora 'Celebrity'
Show-stopping double selection bears large flowers with layers of raspberry-pink petals mixed with white petals on 30-36 inch tall bushes! Incredibly scented! Grows best in full sun.
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Paeonia ‘Eden’s Perfume’
Huge double pink flowers up to 7” in diam. appear in spring on this vigorous, compact plant. Growing 30 inches tall in full sun, the fragrance is incredibly rich and perfume-like. Peonies make superior cut flowers, lasting more than a week if cut in full bud.
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Paeonia 'Lady Anna'
Lady Anna bears frilly, charming solid mauve or pink blooms. A new variety that is vigorous, grows to 3 ft. tall with fragrant blossoms.
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Paeona lactiflora 'Dinner Plate'
Large 7 inch diam. Ruffled shell pink flowers with a strong rose fragrance cover this sturdy new variety in early summer. Ideal for cut flowers. Grows 32-36” tall and 24-30” wide in sun.
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Paeonia latiflora ‘Madame Calot’
Large, very fragrant double flowers introduced in France in 1856! Globular at first, they are coloured old rose-pink with creamy yellow tints. Crimson flakes mark the somewhat darker centre. Strong-stemmed producer of many blooms! Grows 40 inches tall in sun or part shade and requires rich, well drained soil.
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Paeonia 'Coral Sunset'
This is a stunning coral orange colour to this traditional favorite - it practically glows in the garden. It grows 30-36” tall and 24-30” wide in sun.
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Paeonia lactiflora 'Henry Bockstoce'
Large, cardinal red flowers open in early summer on thick sturdy stems. Sweetly fragrant, they are ideal for cut flowers. It grows 32-40” tall and 24-36” wide in sun.
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Phlox ‘Fashionably Early Crystal’
New hybrid disease resistant type that blooms 2-3 weeks earlier than regular tall garden phlox. Pure white flowers with a faint light purple eye. Some re-bloom in fall. Grows 28-32” tall in sun.
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Phlox ‘Fashionably Early Princess’
New hybrid disease resistant type that blooms 2-3 weeks earlier than regular tall garden phlox. Light fuchsia pink flowers with a darker pink eye. Some re-bloom in fall. Grows 28-32” tall in sun.
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Phlox ‘Fashionably Early Lavender Ice’
New hybrid disease-resistant type that blooms 2-3 weeks earlier than regular tall garden phlox. Pale lavender blooms with light pink eye. Some re-bloom in fall. Grows 28-32” tall in sun.
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Phlox paniculata ‘Bambini Primadonna’
A compact form of garden phlox with large flower heads of hot pink purple!
Grows 10-12” tall in sun or part shade.
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NEW! Northern Exposure Coral Bell Series
In the late 1980’s, Canadian breeders at the Morden Research Station began working with the little known, extremely hardy and rust-resistant Canadian native ‘Heuchera richardsonii’ which tolerated temperatures to - 40 degrees F. Famed breeder Terra Nova took this one step further and developed a series of rounded, rich-coloured showy plants with short flower stalks, great hardiness and natural rust resistance! These long-living, new varieties are ideal for single or group plantings in the landscape or planters, providing long-lasting foliage colour.
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Heuchera ‘Northern Exposure Amber’
Rounded leaves of glowing amber tones support yellow and green flower stems to 18 inches tall. Grows 14 inches tall and 20 inches wide and tolerates all light exposures.
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Heuchera 'Northern Exposure Lime'
This medium-large plant with multiple crowns and round, lime green leaves stays lime green all year. It forms a dense, rounded mound (16 inches tall and 22 inches wide), and has narrow 24-inch spikes of rust-red and green flowers.
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Heuchera ‘Northern Exposure Red’
Clean lines for the landscape with clear dark red to burgundy round leaves on a dense, medium sized mound. Grows 14 inches tall and 20 inches wide.
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Heuchera ‘Northern Exposure Silver’
A great landscape plant, it forms a dense, rounded mound with burgundy-silver to silver leaves. Grows 13 inches tall and 16 inches wide.
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Heuchera 'Apple Crisp'
Coral bells are reliable and easy to grow plants that offer a host of colours to the garden. This new variety offers frilly green leaves and short stems of white flowers in late spring. It grows 6 to 8” tall by 14-16” wide. While it will take a little sun, it's happiest in partial shade to shady conditions.
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Heuchera ‘Black Pearl’
A stunning black foliage plant for both shade and sun! Forms an incredibly dense clump of shiny, jet black leaves (8-10” high) with scalloped, ruffled edges and rosy purple undersides. Topped with 8-10” tall white flowers with pink calyxes.
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Heuchera ‘Brazen Raisin’
Dramatic purple leaves (almost black in appearance) have wine red undersides. The hot pink buds in the late spring open soft pinkish white. It grows 8-10” tall and 18-24” wide in sun or shade.
Heuchera 'Fire Alarm'
This ‘five alarm’ version bears the brightest leaves of all hot red leaved coral bells! This super vigorous, thick, leathery, glossy mound of bold foliage changes colours throughout the season. Grows 8-12 inches tall in filtered sun.
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Heuchera Primo ‘Mahogany Monster’
The name says it all! Massive glossy, mahogany red leaves form a substantial clump of foliage. Large burgundy flower stems hold light pink buds with cream flowers. Foliage mass grows 12-16 inches tall and 22-28 inches wide in sun or shade.
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Heuchera 'Pear Crisp'
Like its sibling above, but with frilly yellow leaves and short stems of white flowers in spring. A compact grower to 7” tall by 11” wide. Best planted in partial shade to shady gardens.
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Heuchera Primo ‘Peachberry Ice’
Looking for an orange foliage plant for your shade garden? This is it! Large 4½-5", apricot orange ruffled leaves have a silver overlay and bright pink reverse. Color is most pronounced with newly emerging foliage and mellows in the summer. Burgundy stems hold airy, cream flowers. Grows 8-10 inches tall and 30-34 inches wide in sun or shade.
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Heuchera ‘Wild Rose’
Forms a dense habit of large, bright rosy purple leaves with prominent deep charcoal gray veining (8-10” high). Upright, dark burgundy stems hold rosy pink flowers. Topped with 8-10” tall rosy purple flowers.
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Monarda 'Bubblegum Blast'
Part of the new ‘Sugar Buzz’ series, this selection shows excellent resistance to mildew, has a strong but less aggressive growing habit and is covered with frilled, bright cherry-red flowers in mid-summer! It grows 24” tall and 32” wide in sun or shade.
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Monarda 'Pardon My Cerise'
This Bee Balm is a petite selection that will in any small spot in your garden. It offers dark cherry red flowers that are the same size as regular Bee Balm, even if the plant only grows 14-18” tall. Unlike older varieties, it also has good resistance to powdery mildew. It blooms in mid-summer in full sun.
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Monarda 'Pardon My Lavender'
Tuck this sweet and petite perennial into the front of your flower border where it will create a colorful edge of two-toned light lavender pink flowers in high summer. Butterflies adore it! It grows to 14" tall, but with blossoms as big as larger varieties.
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Monarda 'Pardon My Purple'
Tuck this sweet and petite perennial into the front of your flower border where it will create a colorful edge of fuchsia purple flowers in high summer. The blossoms are large and are excellent for attracting butterflies. Grows to 12" tall with great mildew resistance.
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Veronica 'Magic Show Enchanted Indigo'
A ‘picture perfect’ variety that forms a fairly short, compact, full clump of bright green, somewhat glossy foliage topped with enchanting royal purple flower wands in early to midsummer. Often re-blooms in late summer and early fall. It grows 16-18 inches tall and wide in full sun.
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Veronica spicata ‘Perfectly Picasso’
White buds open to medium pink flowers. The contrast between the buds and the flowers give this plant a unique bicolor look. Grows 22-26” tall in sun or part shade. Attracts hummingbirds and butterflies!
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Veronica Magic Show ‘Wizard of Ahhs’
Lots of ‘Ohhs and Ahhs’ for this Proven Winner! It bears thick spikes of violet blue flowers above the low, wide clump of dark green foliage Growing 14-16 inches tall and 18-22 inches wide in sun, it is ideal for a front border or mixed planters and attracts lots of hummingbirds and butterflies. Shear back after blooming.
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Veronica incana ‘Pure Silver’
This erect, clump-forming cultivar is noted for its silver foliage and late June bloom of deep sky blue flowers rising above the 12 inch tall silver-grey mound of narrow toothed leaves. Ultimate height with blooms can reach 28 inches tall. Flowers are attractive to bees and butterflies.
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Veronica spicata ‘Very Van Gogh’
Beautiful spikes of rose flowers with purple overtones rise above the forest green foliage from mid to late summer, which are most effective when planted in groupings. Grows 20” tall in sun or part shade. Attracts hummingbirds and butterflies!
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Veronica spicata ‘Royal Rembrandt’
Intense violet purple flowers form on tidy clumps. Grows 18-20” tall in sun or part shade. Attracts hummingbirds and butterflies!
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Dianthus Pretty Poppers Double Bubble
Double medium pink flowers in mid-spring to early summer. Grows 6-8 inches tall and wide in full sun or part shade.
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Dianthus Pretty Poppers Electric Red
Dramatic, rich red flowers in mid-spring to early summer. Grows 8-10 inches and 12-15 inches wide in full sun or part shade.
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Dianthus Pretty Poppers Goody Gumdrops
Semi double fuchsia flowers in mid-spring to early summer. Grows 8-10 inches and 16-18 inches wide in full sun or part shade.
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Dianthus Pretty Poppers Kiss and Tell
Semi double fuchsia flowers in mid-spring to early summer. Grows 8-10 inches and 16-18 inches wide in full sun or part shade
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Dianthus ‘Dancing Geisha’
This upright, clump-forming evergreen perennial has linear grey-green leaves. In the summer stiff, erect stems bear clove-scented, white, mauve or magenta flowers with long, deeply-fringed petals that resemble torn fabric! Grows 10” tall in full sun.
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Dianthus plumarius ‘Key Lime Pie’
Produces pure white blooms with unique apple green centers on stems that do not flop. Grows to 11" tall by approximately the same wide. Drought resistant.
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Dianthus plumarius ‘Georgia Peach Pie’
A compact plant that produces pale blush pink blooms with unique vibrant coral centers. Silver green leaves, it grows to 11' tall and wide with stems that do not flop. Drought resistant.
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Dianthus 'Paint the Town Magenta'
This brightly colored fragrant perennial produces single, vibrant magenta pink flowers atop a low mound of glaucous blue foliage. Use it to edge sunny borders and pathways. Growing 6-8 inches tall, it spreads 12-14 inches wide in sun or part shade.
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Dianthus 'Pretty Poppers Double Bubble’
Clouds of showy double pink flowers top this tight, rounded mound of blue-green foliage putting on an unforgettable show from mid spring through early summer. Ideal as a mass planting or crazy bloomer in a mixed perennial container! Grows 6-8 inches tall and wide in full or part sun.
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Dianthus Pretty Poppers ‘Electric Red’
Clouds of bright red flowers top this tight, rounded mound of blue-green foliage putting on an unforgettable show from mid spring through early summer. Ideal as for mass planting or in a mixed perennial container! Grows 8-10 inches tall and 12-15 inches wide in full or part sun.
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Acanthus spinosus
Bold specimen plant forms a clump of deeply cut, rather spiny dark green leaves and bears upright spikes of hooded, mauve and white flowers in summer. Grows 35-45 inches tall and 30-35 inches wide. Deer and rabbit resistant.
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Primula v. ‘Pink Ice’
These BELARINA® primroses are refined beauties that completely embody the joy and hope that spring offers! Their sizable double blossoms open white then take on a lilace pink blush and bloom profusely throughout the spring season atop the compact, bright green foliage. Plant grows 5-8 inches tall and 10-12 inches wide in part to full shade.
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Agastache 'Blue Boa'
This extremely showy perennial has deep violet-blue flower spikes on a compact, bushy plant! Fragrant leaves and flowers are edible and also attract butterflies. It grows 22-24” tall and 14-16” wide in sun.
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Agastache 'Kudos Mandarin'
An excellent complementary colour to 'Blue Boa', this Dwarf Hummingbird Mint bears bright orange, fragrant flower plumes on a tidy, compact plant. It will grow to 16-18” tall and 14-16” wide in sun.
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Amsonia ‘Storm Cloud’
Low maintenance perennial from Proven Winners produces incredibly dark stems in the spring, followed by olive green leaves with silver veins. Star-shaped, periwinkle blue flowers appear atop of the wide, mounding, shrub-like habit in late spring – early summer. Tolerates part to full sun and can grow 24-30 inches tall and 38-42 inches wide.
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Baptisia ‘Pink Lemonade’
This Proven Winner selection is an excellent selection to attract butterflies. It grows very well in poor soils, and has yellow and pink blooms late spring to early summer.
Grows 3-4 ft. tall and wide.
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Baptisia ‘Sparkling Sapphires’
Vivid violet blue flowers appear atop a compact, upright clump of deep blue-green foliage in spring. Growing only 30-36 inches tall and wide in sun or part sun, its smaller size is well-suited to urban landscapes. Drought tolerant.
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Brunnera macrophylla ‘Jack of Diamonds’
This Proven Winner Selection is a giant version of the popular Jack Frost Bugloss with dramatic overlapping ilver grey leaves and blue spring flowers!
It grows 14-16 inches tall and 28-32 inches wide in part shade.
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Campanula 'Iridescent Bells'
This new, repeat-flowering variety will bring four months of colour to the garden from June through September - a constant mix of silky deep purple buds and mature blooms of silvery-white bells, flushed with palest purple. Grows 24-30” tall and 14-18” wide in full sun.
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Coreopsis 'Mercury Rising'
Also known as ‘Big Bang' for its stunning velvety-wine flowers with a gold-orange button center. It grows 16-18” high in full sun.
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Delosperma 'Fire Spinner'
Ice plants are well known very drought tolerant ground cover perennials, and this one is no exception. What is exceptional, however, is the orange/magenta flowers that cover this plant in the springtime! It spreads to 12-18” wide by 8" tall, and it just loves hot, dry conditions!
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Delosperma 'Lavender Ice'
One of a new series of compact succulent-like groundcovers that are quite drought tolerant. This variety has mauve flowers with purple eyes. Grows less than 6 inches tall in full sun.
Delosperma 'Moonstone'
This is part of a new series of compact succulent-like groundcovers that are drought tolerant. This one has pure white flowers with a yellow eye and grows less than 6 inches tall in full sun.
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Delphinium e. Delphina ‘Rose with White Bee’
This hardy European winner requires no pinching or staking! Growing only 20 inches tall and 12-16 inches wide in full sun, it bears abundant flowers in late June-July. Deadheading encourages blooming. Deer and rabbit resistant, it attracts bees and butterflies.
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Delphinium elatum ‘Million Dollar Blue’
This new heat tolerant Delphinium is the perfect match to ‘Million Dollar Blush’, offering a shorter option for Hybrid Bee Delphiniums. It produces large spikes of semi-double to double true blue flowers on erect stems in early summer and then again in late summer. Grows 2-1/2 to 3 ft. tall and 1-1/2 to 2 ft. wide in full sun. Hardy to Zone 3.
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Dicentra 'Love Hearts'
This is not your traditional bleeding hearts, but a rather wonderful, compact and extremely long blooming new variety! Handsome blue-green foliage looks great all season and the heart-shaped flowers are white with a small purple-pink tip. It grows 10-12” tall and 12-14” wide in part shade.
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Dicentra spectabilis ‘White Gold’
Pristine white flowers and bright golden foliage on a compact plant that grows 24-30 inches tall in part shade to full shade.
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Dicentra hybrid ‘Pink Diamonds’
Proven Winner Selection with colourful two tone pink flowers that grows 12-16 inches tall and 16-18 inches wide in sun to part shade.
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Geum ‘Pretticoats Peach’
Semi-double, ruffled peach and yellow spring flowers rebloom all summer! Grows 10 inches tall and 10-16 inches tall in morning sun/afternoon shade.
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Geum ‘Tempo Rose’
Dark rose pink spring flowers in springtime appear on this plant that grows 8 inches tall and 12 inches wide in full sun.
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Iris ensata ‘Eileen’s Dream’
Tall clump-forming plants growing 32 inches tall prefer moist soil and can be grown in boggy soil near the water's edge. Plants produce huge flat crepe paper-like red-purple flowers dramatically splashed with yellow signals, blooming in late spring to early summer.
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Leucanthemum ‘Ooh La LaSpider’
This well behaved, compact ‘Shasta’ bears masses of fluffy, fully fringed white flowers; the finely-cut petals surrounding a gold button centre. Growing 12-16 inches tall and wide in sun or part shade, it makes an ideal edging plant or to be added to mixed containers. Removing faded flowers increases the blooming time. Divide plants in spring every 2-3 years to maintain vigour.
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Ligularia ‘King Kong’
This part-shade loving specimen produces glossy, black purple leaves that can grow to 16” in diameter. By summer, the leaves mellow to burgundy purple with a semi-glossy finish and reach 3-3.5 ft. tall. Golden orange, daisy-like flowers top the plant on purple stems in midsummer, extending the height of the plant to 4 feet. Slow-growing, this plant will take a few growing seasons to reach its mature height but is well worth the wait.
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Lithodora ‘Gold n Sapphires’
Deep blue flowers in late spring make a beautiful contrast to the lovely golden foliage. It is vigorous and surprisingly good in the sun, making it ideal for groundcover or to soften stepping stones in your garden. Grows 4 inches tall and 18 inches wide.
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Lupinus 'Gladiator'
This stately plant offers unusual and striking yellow and orange-red columns of flowers. It grows to 24” tall with the flowering spires towering above even that.
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Lupinus 'Tutti Frutti'
Stunning, tall dense spikes filled with bi-colour flowers tower above the foliage to 4 ft. tall in sun! One of the best Lupins yet!
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Rudbeckia 'Little Star'
This perennial Black Eyed Susan has pretty bright yellow blossoms with dark brown eyes and blooms all summer! Unlike many of its larger growing cousins, it grows only ‘knee-high’ (14-16” tall and wide), and grows best in full sun.
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Lilium 'Tiny Padyhe'
Five distinct petals to each flower – half fiery red/half pure white! Grows only 14” tall and 12” wide for sun or part shade.
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Heucherella 'Fun and Games Leapfrog'
Chartreuse leaves have prominent burgundy splashed leaves which mellow to green with purple centers before turning apricot and pink in autumn.
It grows 10-12” tall in part to full sun.
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Heucherella ‘Pumpkin Spice’
Bronze red, evergreen leaves fade to a spicy orange with contrasty deep red veins. It grows 6-8 inches tall and 20 inches wide in morning sun and afternoon shade and has delicate and showy early summer cream flowers.
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Heucherella 'Buttered Rum'
Caramel-dipped, deeply-cut maple leaves cover this plant all season. In fall, the cool weather burnishes the leaves to a lovely rose red – making it ideal for containers. Grows into a medium sized mound that's perfect in the landscape. Grows 7” tall by 15” tall in sun or shade.
Pulmonaria 'High Contrast'
Silver spotted highly mildew resistant leaves are dramatic against darker garden plants. Pink bells age to blue! Grows 8-10 inches tall and 16-20 inches wide in part to full shade.
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Pulmonaria ‘Shrimps on the Barbie’
A “Wow” plant! This large, spreading Lungwort has an amazing number of large, deep shrimp pink flowers in the spring. Foliage is green with prominent white spots. Foliage grows 10” tall. Deer, rabbit and mildew resistant.
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Rodgersia 'Bronze Peacock'
The darkest foliage of any Rodgersia, the leaves are thick, glossy, indented and emerge like a peacock’s tail in the spring! Great sculptural addition to the woodland garden! Pink flowers in late spring rise above the mound. Equally dark and dramatic seed heads are long lasting and showy. Grows 22” tall in a compact habit.
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Salvia nemorosa 'Crystal Spires'
This improved perennial Salvia has a more uniform and dense habit and much stronger, more upright lowers. Crystal Blue has light, sky blue flowers, grows 18-20” tall in full sun.
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Salvia p. ‘Midnight Model’
Striking violet-blue flowers in late spring and summer are produced on a rounded, dense clump that grows 18-24 inches tall and 16-22 inches wide in full sun. Cut back after flowering to promote re-blooming
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Salvia p. ‘Pretty in Pink’
Vibrant lavender-pink flowers with darker pink calyxes (outer flower parts) appear in late spring and summer on a rounded, dense clump that grows 18-24 inches tall and 16-22 inches wide in full sun. Cut back after flowering to promote re-blooming.
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Salvia nemorosa 'Violet Riot'
This improved perennial Salvia has a more uniform and dense habit and much stronger, more upright lowers. Violet Riot has dark purple flowers, grows 22” tall in full sun.
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Sedum t. ‘Atlantis’
This eye-catching, trouble free variegated sedum bears green rosettes with wide cream-yellow edges. Growing in a clump forming mound 6 inches tall and 12 inches wide, it flourishes in full sun in poor or average soil conditions and thrives in heat and humidity.
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Sedum 'Cherry Tart'
A new SunSparkler series groundcover introduction with pink flowers above cherry-red foliage. It grows only 4-6” tall in full sun, spreads vigorously, and is drought tolerant once established.
Sedum 'Dazzleberry'
Another new groundcover stonecrop introductions from the SunSparkler Series! Dazzleberry has raspberry colored flowers above smoky-blue foliage and grows to 6-8” tall. Terrific for full sun!
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Sedum x ‘Frosted Fire’
This is a wonderful, wide white-edged selection of Autumn Sedum! This 15 inch tall and wide clump of stunning creamy-edged leaves is topped in summer with reddish flower heads that age to bronze. Tolerant of all but wet soils, it is sun loving and truly low maintenance!
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Sedum 'Lemon Jade'
This ‘Proven Winner’ is a unique yellow flowered sedum with large flowers and clean grey-green leaves on a tight, mounding plant that is less prone to splitting apart. Grows 18” tall and 30” wide in sun.
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This is an exquisite selection of Sempervivum and Jovibarba cultivars selected by Chris Hansen (the breeder for SunSparkler® Sedums). They all have exemplary colors, forms, and hardiness. These drought tolerant perennials are hardy to Zone 3 and grow well in sun to light shade.
‘Berry Blues’: Silvery blue rosettes with flushes of pink and edged in green.
‘Chocolate Kiss’: Rich dark chocolate brown rosettes with accents of red and maroon.
‘Cosmic Candy’: Garnet red leaves are frosted with fine white threads on plants that hold their colour well in the heat.
‘Cranberry Cocktail’: Cranberry red rosettes are accented with splashes of jade green on the leaf tips
‘Golden Nugget’: Bright golden rosettes accented with red picotee edges that colour up quickly in spring then change to bright lime green in summer, before returning again to gold and red in fall. Stunning!
‘Sugar Shimmer’: Tight rounded rosettes are frosted with fine white hairs and subtly accented with pink tipped leaves.
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Sempervivum Chick Charms ‘Cinnamon Starburst’
Cinnamon Starburst™ has a unique color pattern. In a mature plant, the outer leaves of the rosette are a deep cinnamon red that circles the inner bright green foliage. The smaller rosette ‘chicks’ that form around the ‘hen’ can be separated and planted elsewhere if desired. Growing only 2” tall and spreading to 12” wide, it is a great addition for rock gardens, low borders, and patio planters as well. Very drought tolerant and grows in full sun to light shade.
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Grass Favourites
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Grobe's selection of perennial grasses changes throughout the season, as does the sizing of plants that may be available. Grasses are available in 1, 2, 3 and 5 gallon sizes (although not every variety is available in every size). This section indicates only a few of interest of the many that are available.
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Andropogon ‘Red October’
This native prairie grass grows 5-6 ft. tall in full sun and has red-tinted summer foliage that turns to glowing salsa red and burgundy in fall. A very heat tolerant and drought resistant grass.
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Chasmanthium 'River Mist'
Wow! This hardy new grass is quite the show off, with bright green and white variegated bamboo-like foliage and showy drooping flower/seed heads in the summer. It grows to 30 inches tall by 18 inches wide and does best in partial shade.
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Festuca x ‘Cool As Ice’
A refreshing, cool blue vigorous grass with good heat tolerance! Emerges in lighter tones in spring then turns blue in summer. Preferring well drained soil, it adds a wonderfully fine texture to the garden. Grows 8-10” tall in full sun.
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Hakonecholoa m. Fubuki ‘Briform’
Forest grasses are popular gently spreading clumps that are suited for shady gardens. This is the first ever white forest grass, offering shimmering foliage that is creamy white striped in pale green. The tips become tinged pink as it ages. It grows 15 to 18 inches tall and will spread 12-15 inches wide.
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Hakonecholoa 'Stripe It Rich'
Yikes! These white-striped, golden leaves create a new spin on the shade tolerant Forest Grass. Grows vigorously to 10” tall in full to partial sun. Spectacular woodland accent, container plant, or to plant along pathways etc.
Hakonecholoa 'Sunny Delight'
Sweet! This shade loving Forest Grass has green blades with yellow streaks and grows only 10-14 inches tall and 20-24 inches tall.
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Miscanthus sinensis ‘Bandwidth’
This beautiful dwarf ornamental grass has banded yellow and green foliage. Infertile, this is an ideal cultivar for those concerned with reseeding. Growing 2-3 ft. tall and wide in full sun, it is drought tolerant and deer resistant!
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Ophiopogon japonicus ‘Silver Mist’
This narrow bladed low growing mondo grass features sparkling white foliage. It grows to 12 inches tall and will spread to approximately 36 inches wide in part sun to light shade. Winter mulching of this plant is recommended, as it is hardy to zone 6 (and therefore should be sited in a protected location in K-W).
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Panicum virgatum ‘Hot Rod’
This lovely compact switch grass emerges blue-green and reddens rapidly to produce a rich, deep maroon show. Grows 3-4 ft. tall and 2-2-1/2 ft. wide in sun. Switch grasses make lovely sounds when blowing in the wind.
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Panicum virgatum ‘Dust Devil’
Switch grass gets its name from the gentle sounds it makes in the wind. Growing to in a upright dense clump to 4 feet tall by about 32 inches wide, this new variety is one of the most durable and easy of grasses to grow. It is very durable, tolerating drought and other imperfect conditions, and in the fall the tips of its leaves show a hint of deep purplish red that complement the burgundy wine coloured seed heads that form in late summer, and turn tan as they age. It grows best in full sun, and will provide cover for birds in the winter.
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Pennisetum alopecuroides ‘Ginger Love’
This really cool new variety grows 2-3 ft. tall and wide, so it will fit into many a garden. Thick red flower clusters in late summer provide excellent texture, colour and contrast to borders and beds. Plants should be deadheaded when the seeds begin to drop.
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Our perennial expert, Kathy Pinnell, has a thing for Plantain Lilies - or Hostas (their latin name). She loves their ease of growth, varied hues, incredible range of styles, sizes and textures and innate ability to brighten any shady nook. There truly is a place for one in every yard. In addition to the Award Winners found on the first tab, here is a small list of Kathy's Picks - her top Hosta choices for your garden.
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Hosta ‘Avocado’
Large round leaves have a yellow center with a wide green margin and a shiny countenance. It grows 22 inches tall and 42 inches wide in part to full shade.
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Hosta ‘Hans’
Blue green thick leaves have a showy feathered white center. It grows 21 inches tall and 32 inches wide in part to full shade.
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Hosta ‘Risky Business’
Dark green leaves with a contrasting pure white margin. Grows 16-18 inches tall and 36 inches wide in part to full shade.
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Hosta Shadowland ‘Diamond Lake’
Finally, a large blue hosta that's worthy of the Proven Winners stamp of approval! Attractive, heart-shaped, thick and heavily corrugated blue leaves with wavy margins can get up to 9” wide. Pale lavender flowers appear in early to midsummer. Grows 17 inches tall and 45 inches wide in part to full shade.
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Hosta Shadowland ’Etched Glass’
Bring style and refinement to your hosta garden! Very wide, dark green margins contrast with a bright, brilliant yellow margin. Margins have puckering when plant is mature. Near-white flowers appear in early to midsummer. Grows 18 inches tall and 36 inches wide in part to full shade.
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Hosta ‘Ripple Effect’
This sport of Hosta ‘June’, it is a dwarf mounding hosta that produces gold leaves with a thin, blue-green margin. Pale lavender flowers on proportionate stems are produced in mid to late summer. Plant grows 8 inches tall and 15 inches wide in part shade.
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Hosta ‘Sunset Grooves’
This medium sized selection features round, puckered, thick, yellow leaves with a wide, irregular, dark green margin. Sport of H. ‘Rainforest Sunrise’ grows 12-14 inches tall and 18-23 inches wide in part to full shade.
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Hosta Shadowland ‘Waterslide’
This beautifully ruffled hosta is a thrill to behold! Blue, rippled leaves hold their color all season long. Lavender flowers appear on proportionate sized stems in early to midsummer. Plant grows 14-15 inches tall and 30-32 inches wide in part to full shade.
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Hosta ‘Bedazzled’
This small selection has round, corrugated, blue-green leaves with a very wide, gold-yellow margin. Lavender flowers appear in July/August. Grows 6-8” tall in part to full shade.
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Hosta 'Alkazaam'
This mini-hosta grows only 5” tall and 10” wide and is perfect for containers or the edge of a shaded garden. The long narrow green leaves are stiff and have bright golden margins with ruffled edges that transition to white in summer. Light purple bell-shaped flowers emerge on 24" scapes in mid-July.
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Hosta 'Appletini'
Bright yellow spring leaves turn apple green by summer. A dwarf variety that grows only 6” tall x 14” wide.
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Hosta 'Autumn Frost'
This striking plant has blue leaves with an distinctive cream margin. It grows 12” tall x 24” wide.
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Hosta 'Blue Mouse Ears'
This dwarf hosta has rather thick round grey-green to blue-green leaves - they almost look like they are dusted. It grows only 8” tall x 12” wide.
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Hosta 'Blueberry Muffin'
This durable new plant for a full shade garden has pale lavender flowers that appear over broad blue leaves that are part of a well shaped clump. It grows 14 inches tall and spreads 36 to inches wide.
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Hosta 'Coast to Coast'
A large, upright vase-shaped specimen that emerges in spring in chartreuse yellow then turns lighter shade of gold for summer. Leaves are thick, wavy and puckered. Grows 30” tall and 36” wide in part to full shade.
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Hosta 'Coloured Hulk'
Thick shiny light green cupped leaves with dark margins. It grows 16” tall and 24-36” wide in part to full shade.
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Hosta 'Cool as Cucumber'
The rich dark green leaves are set off on this plant with strong white variegation. It grows 2 ft. tall and 4 ft. wide in part to full shade.
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Hosta 'Cracker Crumbs'
Leaves have green margins around bright gold centers. Grows 5” tall x 19” wide.
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Hosta 'Designer Genes'
An unusual hosta variety that has a bright chartreuse leaf contrasted with a bold red stem. It has lavender purple flowers in July, and grows to just 10-12 inches tall in the shady flower bed.
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Hosta 'Diamonds Are Forever'
Dark green leaves with strong white borders. Grows 10” tall and 24” wide in part to full shade.
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Hosta ‘Firn Line’
This stunning, medium sized selection has thick, heart-shaped, intense blue leaves with a wide, creamy margin that matures to pure white. Pale lavender flowers appear early summer. Sport ‘First Frost’. Grows 18-20” tall in part to full shade.
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Hosta ‘Forbidden Fruit’
This vigorous form of the popular 'Orange Marmalade' has thick leaves with a glowing, golden yellow center contrasting with a wide blue green margin. This hosta is so bright it really stands out across the garden. Grows 12-14” tall in part to full shade.
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Hosta 'Irish Luck'
Ruffled shiny dark green leaves, lavender flowers. Grows 18” tall x 36” wide.
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Hosta ‘Justine’
Spear shaped shiny, bright golden yellow leaves turn chartreuse with a wide dark green margin. Lavender flowers bloom in July on attractive purple tinted scapes. The thick leaves hold up well all summer long and the best color tends to develop when grown in dappled sun, although it grows well in full shade. Grows 30 inches tall and 12 inches wide.
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Hosta 'Lakeside Love Affair'
This pretty plant has beautiful tricolour leaves that have white centers bordered with dark green margins, and lime green streaks that radiate inward to the center of the plant. It grows 18” tall and 36” wide in part to full shade.
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Hosta ‘Mini Skirt’
This new sport of Mighty Mouse has thick leaves that emerge blue-green in spring with a yellow margin on ruffled foliage. In mid-summer the leaves are green and the margins are creamy-white. Another miniature from the ‘Mouse Ears’ lineage - it's just plain cute! Grows 5” tall x 13” wide in part to full shade.
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Hosta 'Lemontini'
This dwarf hosta has fleshy leaves that are a bright yellow colour. While compact growing, if planted together will be a striking shady groundcover. It grows 7” tall x 18” wide.
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Hosta 'Little Miss Sunshine'
A new compact plantain lily, it has narrow yellow leaves with purple flowers appearing in summer. It grows 11” tall x 20” wide.
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Hosta 'Mighty Mouse'
This is a brand new dwarf charmer for the shade garden. Blue green leaves with creamy white edges are highlighted with lavender flowers in mid-summer. It grows a mere 8 inches tall and spreads to just 12 inches wide, and offers an opportunity for a splash of brightness in any small shady nook.
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Hosta 'Maple Leaf'
This spontaneously arising mutation from well-known ‘Frances Williams’ bears round blue leaves with a yellow margin with pale lavender flowers in summer. It grows 30” tall and 40” wide in part to full shade.
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Hosta 'Majesty'
A large dark green leaves with large creamy white margins that grows 14” tall and 48” wide in part to full shade.
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Hosta 'Neptune'
This stunner has narrow wedge shaped heavily rippled blue leaves that transition to blue-green by late summer.
Grows 24” tall and 43” wide in part to full shade.
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Hosta 'Pandora's Box'
Leaves have a streaky green edge around white centers. Grows only 4-6” tall x 10-16” wide.
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Hosta 'Prairie Moon'
This mid-sized Hosta (grows 16” tall) is a favorite by all for keeping its color all season long. Thick, wedge-shaped, bright yellow leaves have lightly wavy margins, white backs, and petioles that are flecked with red spots at the base in the spring. As the season progresses, the color mellows a bit but remains distinctly yellow all season. Best in part shade.
Look at this new one…slug resistant and more tolerant of sun! This hosta has crisp-looking, cupped and puckered green leaves with blue-green centres. Grows 18-28 inches tall.
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Hosta 'Royal Wedding'
A medium sized selection that forms a neat upright mound of deep green leaves with broad white and cream margins. Midsummer flowers are large and fragrant! Grows 12” tall and 20” wide in part to full shade.
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Hosta 'Trifecta'
This is another very cool new miniature Hosta. A three coloured blend of creamy white centre with yellow and green margins to the leaves makes this a petite stand out. It blooms with smallish lavender blossoms in mid-summer, and grows to just 4-8 inches tall in the full or partial shade.
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Hosta 'Frosted Mouse Ears'
This dwarf plantain lily has leaves with creamy edges around bluish green centers. It grows only 8” tall x 16” wide.
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Hosta 'Vulcan'
It would be illogical to consider any other plant that is as perfect as this one for brightening up the shady garden. Found as a naturally occurring mutation from the popular 'Captain Kirk' Plantain Lily (must be the Romulans!), the leaves have a pure white center and a dark green edge. The pale lavender flowers that appear in summer also have distinctive white stems. It grows to 15 inches tall by 24 inches wide in full sun to partial shade.
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Hosta 'Tropical Storm'
A compact new plantain lily that has bright golden margins that surround dark green centers. It grows 12” tall x 26” wide.
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Astilbe chinensis 'Delft Lace'
This plant has deep blue green foliage with a silver lacy overlay. Clusters of salmon pink buds open to a soft pink flower. It flowers in mid-summer and grows 24 to 36 inches tall in partial shade.
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Coreopsis vert. 'Route 66'
The flowers of this unusual Coreopsis are cool looking burgundy flowers that feather out to streaked yellow petals, sure to get you your kicks! It grows to 24 inches tall in a mounding habit, and flowers from late June through until October. It is best sited in sun to partial shade.
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Dianthus 'Black Cherry Wild'
This old time favourite has a new hot look. It sports double, deep velvety red 'pinking sheared' flower petals in June and July. It performs best in full sun to partial shade, and with a petite height of only 6 inches can find a place in any garden.
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Dianthus 'Dragon Fruit'
Fully double ruffled flowers in this hot shade of bright pink-magenta is not that commonplace amongst Dianthus varieties, but Dragon Fruit delivers! It grows just 8 inches tall in full sun and partial shade, adding a splash of colour to the June and July flowering border.
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Echinacea 'Hot Papaya'
These striking red-orange pompoms don't look much like a coneflower, but what an accent perennial for the border! Hot Papaya grows to 36 inches tall and flowers from July through until September. It performs best in full sun to partial shade.
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Echinacea 'Tangerine Dream'
This bright coneflower is clear orange with wide overlapping petals. It grows to 30 inches tall and flowers from July through until September. It performs best in sun to partial shade.
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Echinacea 'Tomato Soup'
The juicy red tomato coloured petals of this coneflower will draw the eye wherever they are placed. Growing to 32 inches tall, this plant will bloom in July and August in sun to partial shade.
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Flame Thrower Coneflower
This new coneflower has hot, hot, hot two toned orange petals with a darker spiky cone. It grows to 36 inches tall in full sun and has a very long flowering period of May until September.
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Heucherella 'Sweet Tea'
The striking foliage of this Heucherella looks like huge cinnamon stars with an orange blended border. It grows to 20 inches tall and flowers in June and July. The best colour for the foliage comes with growth in full sun to partial shade.
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Heucherella 'Golden Zebra'
Each bold dark red star on this striking foliage plant is edged with a bright yellow border, sure to brighten any sun to partial shade garden. This plant grows 10 inches tall and flowers in June and July.
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Helleborus 'Onyx Odyssey'
The early spring garden has another new tone shown by the fully double dark purplish black 3" diameter blooms of this brand new Helleborus. It grows 18 to 22 inches tall and flowers in the very early spring (often through the snow!), and grows best in partial shade.
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Helleborus 'Peppermint Ice'
These absolutely gorgeous blossoms are soft pink lotus cup shaped flowers with degrees of peppermint veining and a delicate picotee edge. It grows 12 inches tall and flowers in the very early spring (often before the snow is gone), and grows best in the partial shade garden.
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Helleborus 'Sparkling Diamond'
This stunning new Hellebore is literally covered with double snow white blossoms in the very early spring. It grows 12-14 inches tall and will brighten any partially shaded garden.
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Rudbeckia hirta 'Denver Daisy'
This striking Rudbeckia has a deep brown flared eye with short layered yellow petals. It grows 24 inches tall and flowers from June through until September in sun or partial shade.
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Athyrium nipponicum ‘Crested Surf’
This Proven Winner Selection is a vigorous taller variety with unique double crested tips! It grows in moist, part to full shade locations and grows 20-22 inches tall and 28-30 inches wide.
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Penstemon ‘Onyx & Pearls’
Black foliage and soft lavender flowers with white interiors all summer on a plant that is very tolerant of heat and humidity! Grows 42 inches tall and 38-42 inches wide in full sun.
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Belamcanda chinensis ‘Freckle Face’
The blackberry lily derives its name from the clusters of shiny black seeds that are exposed when its seed capsules split open. Native to the Orient, it's called a lily even though it is actually a member of the Iris family. It has fan-shaped leaves that will reach 2 to 3 feet tall, and the bright orange flower petals of the blossom have deep burgundy spots. It grows best in full sun.
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Delosperma dyer 'Red Mountain'
This outstanding selection of ice plant was chosen for its outstanding coppery orange-red to coral blooms daisy-like flowers that appear from late spring to fall, and turn bronzey as they age. It grows approximately 2 inches tall and will spread to a size of about 15 to 20 inches wide in a tight mat of evergreen foliage. In the winter the foliage will turn to bronze also. It is an ideal and easy to grow rock garden plant.
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Dryopteris labordei 'Golden Mist'
Ferns are excellent plants for the partial to full shade garden, and this one adds some funky colouring with its new growth emerging a contrasting light green colour. It grows 20 to 24 inches tall and spreads to about 2 feet wide in partial to full shade.
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Echinacea 'Firebird'
This coneflower has deep scarlet red drooping petals that surround a perky dart button-shaped cone. It will grow 31 to 36 inches tall and 18 to 23 inches wide in full sun or light shade. It is an excellent plant for hot sunny locations.
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Echinacea 'PowWow' Wild Berry
This coneflower was selected as an All American Selections winner for 2010, and with good reason. It's deep rose 3 to 4 inch wide daisy-like blossoms are produced in far more abundance than other coneflower varieties, and they come continually with no deadheading required. It performs best in sunny hot locations, and will grow to 24 inches tall by about 12 inches wide.
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Echinacea 'Secret Romance'
If you are not ready for a passionate affair (see the plant above), then start slowly and add a little Romance to your garden. This beauty has salmon pink double cones with soft pink petals found beneath, for a look that you will fall in love with. It grows to 29 inches tall by about the same width, and like all coneflowers it favours sunny hot locations.
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Heucherella 'Brass Lantern'
This bright 'beacon in the garden' combines outstanding vigour combined with brassy gold and red spring coloured maple shaped leaves. Tall spikes of white flowers on dark stems appear in mid summer, and the foliage changes to winter colouring of olive and brown. It offers the most effective colour contrast if it is grown in some shade, and grows 18 to 20 inches tall.
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Lilium orientalis 'Miss Lily'
This marks a real departure from what is expected with a fragrant Oriental lily - and it now arrives in the first ever double flowering lily! Icy pinkish white multiple petals form a large bloom that is 4-6 inches in diameter on a plant 24 inches tall. Lilies grow best in full sun to partial shade in well-drained soils. (This plant not available as a bulb).
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