Perennials

This grass offers green foliage in a neat clump.  In early spring wheat-colored plumes rise up to 6 feet tall.  These can handle heavier or clay soils and will not reseed.  Great to use as a backdrop for flowering perennials, as borders or a specimen plant. Very low maintenance plant that you will want to trim off to about 6 inches in late winter or early spring before new growth. 

Very similar to the Karl Foerster Grass, but the Overdam provides a different leaf color.  Beautiful yellow-margined foliage with red-brown, feathery summer plumes that turn a rich gold in fall.  These create a striking vertical effect in your landscape as an accent or mass planting.   They are highly adaptable to soil conditions and again will require pruning to 6 inches in late winter or early spring.  

Elijah Blue Fescue is a beautiful icy-blue clumping ornamental grass.  They produce buff-colored plumes for an eye-catching contrast.  Great to use for edging borders or mass planting as a groundcover.  They do not tolerate soggy soil very well and are pretty drought resistant after established.  Removed old, faded foliage in later winter or early spring before new growth.  

Blue Dart features attractive, linear, blue to blue-green foliage.  This variety is well suited to garden beds and mixed containers.  A relatively low maintenance plant that is best cut back to the ground in late winter.  

The Jackamanni Superba is one of the most popular vines for its showy, deep violet-purple flowers.  They love well-drained soil that is slightly alkaline and love when the roots are sheltered from the sun.  They appreciate fertilizer frequently.  You can remove spent  blooms to promote continuous flowering.  Add these beautiful flowers to your garden to add vertical interest. 

Features large, velvety, deep ruby-red flowers.  They flower from late spring to early fall. Ideal for adding height in your landscape with a trellis or arbor.  They do best in moist, well-drained soil in full sun.  They like to be pruned back in late winter or early spring. 

This clematis is know for it's huge lavendar flowers reaching up to 9 inches wide.  They need an arbor, fence or trellis to allow climbing up to 10ft tall. Just like the other clematis, they thrive in full sun with their roots shaded.  A good moist-well drained soil and fertilization atleast once a season. 

Echinacea, also known as coneflowers,  are a compact perennial with a profusion of very large, single yellow flowers.  They bloom from early to late summer.  They thrive in full sun and are very tolerate of drought if accidentally neglected.  They attract pollinators, are deer resistant and have no serious pest or disease issues.  Average life span is 10 years. 

One of the most eye-catching of any coneflower.  The sunseekers vibrant colors stay rich and don't fade during the season.  They love full sun in well-draining soil. They appreciate early spring fertilization and the spent blooms should be pruned to encourage more flowering.  

This echinacea features large, semi-double flowers in deep rosy-red .  They make beautiful additions for a border or walkway or used in a pot.  The flowers are grown on thick stems.  They enjoy full sun and blooming will continue from summer through fall if dead flowers are pruned.  

Also known as cranesbill, Johnson Blue is one of the most popular geraniums.  It forms dense, spreading mounds of neatly cut leaves, topped with abundant clusters of large, saucer-shaped blue flowers.  This compact perennial remains attractive throughout late spring to midsummer.  They are perfect to use as a ground cover or adding to the front of your beds.  They are extremely easy to grow, low maintenance, love full sun and are virtually pest and disease free. The plant should be pruned back by half it's height to keep it looking tight and tidy for next season.

Sedum are extremely hardy, reliable and easy to grow. They provide color and interest to your garden from spring through the first snow of winter.  They are known for their distinctive fleshy foliage and star-shaped flowers that grow in clusters.  The first colors  emerge as green, then light-pink, then red and end in a bronze-red.  They prefer full sun and average to poor, well-drained soil.  There is no need to deadhead, but cut them back in early spring, as the new growth will appear from the ground.   

Hostas are also known as plantain lilies and often touted as the best shade-loving plants for the perennial garden.  This variety grows gorgeous glossy green leaves with light purple flowers.  It is suggested to be one of the best varieties for slug resistance. However, they are loved by deer. They do not tolerate dry soils and appreciate fertilized soil.   

Hostas are best utilized for shady spots in your landscape where they thrive with very little care or attention.  This variety can tolerate more sun than most if needed. The patriot hosta form a low-growing clump of leaves that unfurl to reveal a vibrant green center with a white border.  The leaves are large and round and come to a point.  In late spring or early summer, they will grow stalks of purple flowers.  If you do not care about the flowers, they can be cut to allow all of the plants energy to go to the foliage. These do best with moderately moist soil at all time that are watered at the base so slugs and snails aren't attracted.  They do best with fertilizers in the spring.  In late winter they go dormant and you will prune leaves to the ground with new growth emerging from the ground. 

Forbidden Fruit features bold, yellow-orange foliage with blue-green margins.  The bright yellow hue changes to a creamy white as the plant ages.  It will produce lavender flower stalks during summer.  It is another slug resistant variety.  Also enjoys moist, fertilized soil.  Remove old foliage before new leaves emerge in early spring. 

Prized for its foliage which remains attractive until first frost.  Another lovely addition to your shaded area.  It forms attractive, dense mounds of upright, heart-shaped blue-green leaves with wide gold margins in spring.  Lavender blooms with appear in midsummer.  Soil, watering and pruning requirements are the same.

One of the smallest hostas.  Forms a striking small symmetrical clump adorned with round, blue-green leaves bordered with a very wide, golden-yellow margin.  Lavender flower will appear in mid to late summer.  They are somewhat slug resistant.  Same soil, fertilizer and pruning requirements. 

Among the most popular reblooming daylilies.  It features compact, vigorous, fragrant, and profuse blooms over and extremely long blooming period.  They produce masses of rich, velvety, burgundy-red blossoms atop mounds or arching, blade-like leaves. The blossoms typically last no more than 24 hours and start from mid to late summer.  They are drought tolerant and have low care requirements.  They thrive have no serious pest or disease problems. Removing the spent blooms will encourage reblooming. 

An eye-catching daylily that produces blooms of bittersweet orange trumpets with a contrasting burnt-orange eyezone. 

Another popular reblooming daylily.  Has profuse blooms over and extremely long blooming period.  They produce canary yellow rounded blossoms atop mounds or arching, blade-like leaves.  Again, the blooms won't last more than 24 hours, opening in the morning and withering during the forthcoming night.  They begin blooming in early to late summer.  Same sun and soil requirements as other daylilys. 

A dense clump of grassy foliage with upright stems or magenta-purple trumpet flowers. Same soil and sun requirements.  Daylilys do spread by rhizomes under the ground and may need split apart every 3-4 years to keep desired size.