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Anemone × hybrida Wild Swan™ 'MACANE001'
Anemone × hybrida Wild Swan™ 'MACANE001'
Common Name: anemone

Anemone × hybrida Wild Swan™ 'MACANE001' is a long-blooming, compact, floriferous new anemone with lovely lavender coloration on the reverse side of the petals. Wild Swan begins flowering an average of two months earlier than other varieties and keeps on trucking until the end of the season. Flowers are held high and proud, allowing them to catch gently on the breeze. A graceful beaut to be sure! 

Height: 18 Inches
Spread: 18-24 Inches
USDA Hardiness Zone: 5-8

Aruncus dioicus
Aruncus dioicus
Common Name: goat's beard, bride's feathers

A fantastic native with large, fine-textured feathery blooms in late Spring. Though closely related to Spiraea, goat's beard more closely resembles a giant Astilbe. When happy, Aruncus can be a formidable garden plant, reaching a spread of 6 feet or more. It is lovely when used at woods edge and it can provide a dense screen beneath a high canopy.

Height: 4-6 Feet
Spread: 6 Feet
USDA Hardiness Zone: 5-9

Aster lateriflorus 'Lady in Black'
Aster lateriflorus 'Lady in Black'
Common Name: calico aster

Who can resist plants with great names? Aster 'Lady in Black' is an elegant 3-4' mound of purplish-black strappy leaves smothered in red-centered tiny white daisies in late summer and early fall. A stronger, more statuesque sister of Aster 'Prince' that will thrive in average soil in sun or part shade, but shows best foliage coloration in full sun. Thousands of flowers per planta butterfly's dream!

Height: 2-3 Feet
Spread: 3 Feet
USDA Hardiness Zone: 3-8

Carex laxiculmus Bunny Blue® 'HOBB'
Carex laxiculmus Bunny Blue® 'HOBB'
Common Name: Bunny Blue sedge

Bunny Blue® is a low growing, evergreen, native sedge with silver-blue foliage. Use as a ground cover or specimen plant for moist to average shady areas. 

Height: 8-12 Inches
Spread: 12-16 Inches
USDA Hardiness Zone: 5-9

Carex muskingumensis
Carex muskingumensis
Common Name: Muskingum sedge

A fine-textured sedge that resembles palm fronds? How strange! Naturally occuring in moist habitats such as low, swampy woods and wet meadows, this native cool-season sedge adds textural interest to any planting. 

Height: 2-3 Feet
Spread: 2-3 Feet
USDA Hardiness Zone: 4-8

Carex pensylvanica
Carex pensylvanica
Common Name: oak sedge

With its tough disposition and spreading habit, this native sedge makes an excellent shade groundcover. Fine texture and fountaining habit give this sedge a soft appearance that is lovely as an underplanting for bolder shade perennials or on its own as a shade lawn. Great in containers too! Easy to grow. Happiest in the company of oaks, but who isn't?

Height: 8-10 Inches
Spread: 12-18 Inches
USDA Hardiness Zone: 4-8

Chasmanthium latifolium
Chasmanthium latifolium
Common Name: northern sea oats

A versatile native grass with bamboo-like foliage and delightful nodding seed heads that rustle in the breeze from late summer to winter. It grows in most sites and is a quite vigorous groundcover when given consistent moisture and sun. It is better behaved in average garden conditions and in shade. A unique cut flower in fresh or dry arrangements.

Height: 3 Feet
Spread: 2-3 Feet
USDA Hardiness Zone: 5-8

Coreopsis 'Crème Brûlée'
Coreopsis 'Crème Brûlée'
Common Name: tickseed

A more vigorous version of 'Moonbeam' that fills in faster in the spring and has larger flowers that occur all along the stems rather than just above the foliage, giving a fuller overall appearence. Overwinters well.

Height: 18-24 Inches
Spread: 1-3 Feet
USDA Hardiness Zone: 5-8

Dryopteris × australis
Dryopteris × australis
Common Name: southern woodfern

Dryopteris x australis is a natural hybrid (D. celsa x ludoviciana) found in wild populations from Louisiana to Virginia, but is a superb garden plant as far north as Zone 5. It is taller than either parent and a formidable addition to the garden.

Height: 3-4 Feet
Spread: 2-3 Feet
USDA Hardiness Zone: 5-9

Echinacea purpurea
Echinacea purpurea
Common Name: coneflower

Lend a classic look to your garden with Pow Wow® White’s graceful, downward arching and bright white ray petals surrounded by bright yellow cones. This spectacular variety is extremely well-branched for profuse blooms and summer to frost flower power! Amazing in a sunny perennial border or wildlife garden. Easy to grow and very adaptable to heat, humidity, drought and poor soils.

Height: 20-24 Inches
Spread: 12-16 Inches
USDA Hardiness Zone: 3-8

Echinacea purpurea 'Ruby Star'
Echinacea purpurea 'Ruby Star'
Common Name: purple coneflower

Introduced by Jelitto, who gave us 'Magnus', Echinacea 'Ruby Star' is a slightly shorter plant with large flat topped flowers that are a deeper purple pink, almost ruby red, than most others. Plants are easy to grow, tough, and heat and drought tolerant once established. Their roots have famous medicinal qualities, they make great, long lasting, cut flowers and attract numerous butterflies and small birds.

Height: 2-3 Feet
Spread: 18-24 Inches
USDA Hardiness Zone: 3-8

Erigeron pulchellus var. pulchellus 'Lynnhaven Carpet'
Erigeron pulchellus var. pulchellus 'Lynnhaven Carpet'
Common Name: Robin's plantain

We love this form of E. pulchellus which has large grey-green foliage and a mat-forming habit. It thrives in a wide range of conditions and forms a tight groundcover that is less than 6" tall. An easy to grow, carefree native perennial perfectly suited for moderate sunlight to full shade. 

Height: 12-15 Inches
Spread: 18-24 Inches
USDA Hardiness Zone: 3-8

Iris cristata 'Tennessee White'
Iris cristata 'Tennessee White'
Common Name: dwarf crested iris

This delightful selection of our native crested iris came to us from Don Shadow in Winchester, TN. 'Tennessee White' is a vigorous spreader and prolific bloomer, covering the fan-like foliage with brilliant white flowers in spring, each accented with delicate yellow crests. Its late spring show starts earlier and lasts longer than the other selections we've tried.

Height: 6-10 Inches
Spread: 12-15 Inches
USDA Hardiness Zone: 5-8

Penstemon digitalis 'Husker Red'
Penstemon digitalis 'Husker Red'
Common Name: beardtongue

This native makes a stunning display with its brilliant white flowers against a backdrop of deep red foliage. Tough and easy to grow, it tolerates a wide variety of conditions including hot, dry sites. Our plants are now vegetatively propagated from our reddest, most vigorous selections.

Height: 24-30 Inches
Spread: 12-18 Inches
USDA Hardiness Zone: 3-8

Sedum reflexum 'Blue Spruce'
Sedum reflexum 'Blue Spruce'
Common Name: stonecrop

A dense mat of conifer-like blue foliage forms a tight, weed resistant groundcover in any sunny location. In June deep mauve pink stems rise to 10" and are topped with brilliant yellow flowers. 'Blue Spruce' grows quickly and is easy to maintain even in the most unwelcome of sites. Great for rock walls, green roofs, walkways and containers. Evergreen in warmer zones.

Height: 3-6 Inches
Spread: 12-24 Inches
USDA Hardiness Zone: 3-9

Solidago Little Lemon® 'Dansolitlem'
Solidago Little Lemon® 'Dansolitlem'
Common Name: goldenrod

This diminutive beauty is exceptionally compact with bright, light yellow flowers beginning in late summer and lasting well into fall. Great shelf life! It is versatile, easy to grow and combines well with purple and pink asters both in the garden and in a container. Great as a cut flower, it is also very attractive to butterflies.

Height: 12-18 Inches
Spread: 18-24 Inches
USDA Hardiness Zone: 4-9

Sorghastrum nutans
Sorghastrum nutans
Common Name: yellow prairie grass
A vigorous native warm season grass with bluish green foliage turning a translucent yellow-deep gold fall color and bearing beautiful panicles of copper. Excellent for cut flowers.
Height: 3-4 Feet
Spread: 2-3 Feet
USDA Hardiness Zone: 2-9