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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

Juncus effusus
Juncus effusus
Common Name: soft rush

Juncus effusus is a clump forming wetland plant that is a striking vertical addition to any garden or container planting. Upright, fanning, deep green, rounded stems make a great accent in a container or water garden. Soft rush can be planted at the edge of a pond or in up to 6" of standing water. Inconspicuous golden flowers appear atop the stems in summer. Native to most of North America, soft rush provides food and shelter for birds and other wildlife. Distribution Map

Height: 3 Feet
Spread: 1-2 Feet
USDA Hardiness Zone: 2-9

Perovskia atriplicifolia 'Blue Steel'
Perovskia atriplicifolia 'Blue Steel'
Common Name: Russian sage

A seed cultivar with upright silver stems covered in a mist of lavender-blue flowers. The perfect plant to intermingle textures in flower borders, it is tough as steel and adds cool color through the late summer. A favorite of butterflies and bumblebees, avoided by deer, and able to withstand the baking and sweltering temperatures of summerwhat’s not to like?

Height: 28-34 Inches
Spread: 36 Inches
USDA Hardiness Zone: 4-9