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A graceful and long lived native plant with very fine foliage, clusters of steel blue flowers in May and June on an upright, bushy plant. Excellent golden fall color. Thrives in full sun or part shade. No insect or pest problems with these babies. Found in Arkansas in 1942 by Leslie Hubricht.

This is not the fastest plant to get to size, but it is unquestionably one of the loveliest. The strong, almost shrubby plants carry 12"-18" racemes of 1" pure white pea-like flowers. Charcoal gray stems add appealing contrast. May to Mid-June flowering, easy to grow and very long-lived once established.

Elegant spikes of creamy yellow blooma grace tidy blue green foliage in early summer. Long-blooming and tough, a dazzling addition to the native plant palette. A hybrid of B. sphaerocarpa and B. alba, found by Rob Gardener of NC Botanical Gardens.

Autumn Fern is a colorful groundcover with pink fiddleheads that turn coppery orange as they unfurl. Fronds age to a lustrous dark green and remain well into winter. New growth continues through the season, giving a colorful tapestry effect of copper and green from Spring to late Fall.

A graceful and bold fern, this unique beauty is a sturdy garden plant with a distinctly upright vase-shaped habit. Even though found in tropical Mexico near Oaxaca, it has proven quite cold hardy in zone 5. It forms a large crown, which can become four or five feet across, and unlike many other wood ferns, it continues to produce new fronds throughout the growing season until frost. Evergreen in warmer zones. An outstanding garden plant!

This new selection of this Arkansas native comes to us from Dr. Allan Armitage's trials at the University of Georgia. It has lovely fine foliage like Amsonia hubrichtii and is a compact, well-branched and vigorous plant. In late summer it is covered with true purple flowers that attract plenty of butterflies. Found in rocky flood plains, Vernonia lettermannii is very tolerant of hot dry locations, yet can withstand brief periods of inundation.