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This decidedly hardy Agastache brings a new color palette with its long racemes of smoky blue violet flowers that never seem to stop coming. It remains compact in a container with an early pinch and is in flower from July to frost. It has survived wet and dry, and warm and cold winters in Pennsylvania where it has been in the ground since Spring 2000. Hardiness beyond zone 6 is unknown.

Definately a WOW! plant. Chartruse Coleus-like foliage is incredible on its own, but the blue bottlebrush flowers in mid summer top it off beautifully. Very hardy and will self sow. Benefits from a little shade in production to protect leaf color.

A marvelous long-blooming, bright white selection of swamp milkweed. Clear white flowers and dark green foliage make the colors of the hundreds of visiting butterflies glisten in the sunlight.

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.

A North Creek original, this selection of C. pubescens var. pubescens blooms non stop from mid-summer until October here with saucer-like flowers over low spreading, slightly fuzzy foliage. An easy self sowing plant, when happy. Likes hot, bright, well-drained spots, but is not fussy at all. An easy native for sun or part shade.

Winner of the 2001 RHS Award of Garden Merit, this Threadleaf Coreopsis is just a little bit shorter than 'Moonbeam'. 'Zagreb' has bright yellow flowers that sit atop tall, erect, lacey, somwhat mound forming, delicate (thread leaf) looking, green foliage that has an airy appearance. The flowers are abundant and bloom continuously throughout the entire summer. Removal of the dead blossoms encourages longer blooming and healthier flowers. Truly a colorful sight. Great in rock gardens and gardens with poor soil. Makes a good cut flower.

Smothered with yellow orange flowers, this Helenium will defiantly stand out in the garden! Great for cut flowers and the avid butterfly gardener. All sneezeweeds have three lobed petals which distiguish them from Rudbeckia and other yellow coneflowers. Brown, rust colored fruit appear in fall.