2011 New Perennials

Astilbe Color Flash Lime

This astilbe emerges with intense yellow leaves that soften to light green as the season progresses providing a flash of color in the shade. Also ideal for containers.

Astilbe Delft Lace

Plumes of pink with a hint of apricot that develop from striking deep salmon-red buds in midsummer on strong red stems. Lacy, deep blue-green waxy foliage with red highlights. Robust grower.

Astilbe Milk And Honey

'Milk and Honey' overflows with creamy white plumes that turn light pink as they age. The foliage is somewhat marbled with green and silver when young. Holds up well under sun and drought.

Campanula Freya

This new campanula is much more floriferous than other glomerata types with strong flower stems comprising about 2/3 of the height of the plant. 'Freya' will be the star of your garden next spring!

Canna King Humbert

Buttery yellow blooms highlighted by an orange splotched throat are framed by bright green leaves on this popular canna. King Humbert is a dependable and free blooming variety.

Clematis Bijou

The short nature of this new, very floriferous, dwarf clematis gives new options for its use: as nice mounding ground cover, at the feet of other clematis, in a hanging basket or as container plant.

Clematis Daniel Deronda

'Daniel Deronda' has very large (to 8 inches across!) flat, blue, star-shaped flowers and a long bloom season in summer. Also has beautiful seedheads.

Clematis Miss Bateman

Round pure white flowers with dark red showy anthers. Very free flowering plant. Beautiful along fences and arbors. Part shade is preferable.

Clematis Voluceau

Late large-flowered clematis. Velvety, deep red with yellow stamens. Flowers early summer to autumn. This is a top performer.

Delphinium Moonlight Blues

Just 2½-3' tall, half of this height is comprised of the sky blue flowers. Trim the main spike after it's done blooming and watch many side shoots develop and bloom just as beautifully as the first.

Dianthus Hearts Desire

This selection forms a low cushion of cheerful, compact mounds of blue-green foliage. Double flowers are bubblegum pink stained with ruby red and bursting with a sweet clove fragrance.

Dicentra Valentine

A new deep red flowering dicentra with fantastic burgundy stems. Foliage is dark green with silvery accents. A great naturalising non-invasive clump forming perennial.

Echinacea Hot Summer

'Hot Summer's' flower show is very varied: each blossom opens yellow-orange but gradually matures to orange and finally deep red as they age. Does not need staking; long bloom time!

Echinacea Mistral

An echinacea cultivar particularly distinguished by its extremely compact growth, red-purple flowers and very rich flowering. Does well in full sun. Great cut flower.

Echinacea Now Cheesier

This new coneflower is a better-branched yellow version. The 26" tall clumps are topped, starting in late June, with large flat flowers that open orange-gold and age to gold. Needs well-drained soil.

Echium Amoenum

Resembling our native liatris but blooming much earlier, 'Red Feathers' will continue into fall if spring bloom is deadheaded. Allow some flowers to mature into seed heads for reseeding.

Gentiana Cruciata Blue Cross

Named after the intersecting leaves that form a cross or star shape. This is an easy to grow and very tough gentian for the front of a border; try to plant it in a rockgarden with only stones for companions.

Geranium Crystal Rose

Bright flowers are long lasting and profuse appearing throughout the year with the main flush in the warmer months. They are held erect above the neat carpet of foliage that turns reddish in fall.

Geranium Espresso

Chocolate colored foliage all season long, contrasting beautifully with the pale pink flowers in spring. Easily grown in most well drained soils, even in shady, dry areas like under hardwood trees.

Heliopsis Tuscan Sun

Tuscan Sun is a new Proven Winner false sunflower with a truly unique height at only 16-20", the most compact habit available and more controllable in the landscape. Also a great container plant.

Helleborus Pink Frost

Red and white buds open light pink, aging to burgundy red; silvery green foliage. Prefers moist, well-drained soil. Flowers look out at you, some even up - not down as many of the other lenten roses.

Hemerocallis Moses Fire

A burning, deep red double daylily with a faint golden streak on the ruffled edges and tightly packed petals. An early and profuse bloomer, puts on a late second show. A winner, for sure.

Hemerocallis Early Bird Cardinal

A true breakthrough in daylily breeding, this is the first red, very early blooming daylily. It typically starts to bloom in mid-June which is several weeks earlier than most cultivars. Highly floriferous and robust.

Hemerocallis Eye On America

Starkly contrasting butter-yellow and plum-red combine in fascinating patterns to highlight crimped petals, 5" from tip to tip, and a deep golden eye. Rebloomer.

Hemerocallis Siloam Peony Display

Like a bouquet of peonies, this lovely cultivar produces an elegant display of fully double, peach colored, diamond dusted blossoms with ruffled petals in midsummer and again later in the season.

Heuchera Autumn Leaves

Truly a four-season show with pink-red and faint silver in spring, shades of tan in the heat of summer and a blaze of ruby red in the fall. Heuchera villosa and americana parentage.

Heuchera Berry Marmalade

It doesn't get much better than this! Grape and red berry variegation with black veins on ruffled leaves. Its speedy growth rate is another plus. Great color splash in containers as well.

Heuchera Paris

The best long blooming, reblooming and free-flowering heuchera we've ever seen. A single stem can reportedly bloom continuously for up to 2 months! Deadheading will promote rebloom. Good cutflower.

Heuchera Sugar Plum

Frosty plum-purple leaves in spring and fall make a full mound of evergreen foliage that look good all year. Foliage is silver in summer and winter. Heuchera villosa breeding gives it the bigger habit.

Heucherella Redstone Falls

A broad spectrum of copper to red and brown colored leaves throughout the season. Good also spilling out of a container in sun or shade. The first groundcover Heucherella spreading low.

Heucherella Yellowstone Falls

Yellowstone Falls has lovely chartreuse lobed leaves with deep crimson markings. The stems will trail 3 feet in a container making a wonderful hanging basket or a super groundcover.

Hosta American Hero

In support of military families across the US, a portion of the proceeds of each plant sold will be donated to Project EverGreen, a national non-profit organization and creator of the GreenCare for Troops program. This is a tough, durable hosta that reliably displays strong, bold variegation all season long. It is a sport of 'Revolution' with wider, dark green margins and a creamy white to pure white center, speckled with green. The thick leaves form a very dense clump, and as the plant matures they become somewhat twisted. Lavender flowers top the clump in midsummer.

Hosta Autumn Frost

'Autumn Frost' is a sport of the 2010 Hosta of the Year, 'First Frost', which in turn is a sport of the champion of blue hostas, 'Halcyon'. The leaves emerge frosty blue with a bright yellow margin that lightens to creamy white during the summer. It forms a medium-sized mound topped with light lavender flowers in mid to late summer.

Hosta Blueberry Muffin

This excellent new blue hosta is a strong grower and reliable performer in the landscape. It forms a medium sized mound of large, blue, rounded leaves that are rugose and puckered in unusual patterns. Late in the season, the foliage transitions to green. Attractive light mauve speckles appear on the petioles. Lavender flowers on proportional scapes just above the foliage in early summer.

Hosta Brass Ring

This attractive medium sized hosta displays broad, rounded, corrugated leaves of good substance. Yellow margins jet towards the green center of each beautifully variegated leaf. Light lavender flowers stand just above the foliage in midsummer.

Hosta Cherry Tomato

This unique miniature sport of 'Cherry Berry' displays improved vigor and leaf substance. Long, narrow lance-shaped leaves are creamy yellow to white with wide, dark green margins. Red pigment is concentrated in the lower part of the petioles, but continues in a narrow strip up the center of the back of each leaf.
The clump is accented by attractive purple flowers which are held on striking red scapes in mid to late summer. Its diminutive size makes this hosta an excellent choice for growing in troughs.

Hosta Clovelly

Named for the pebbled streets of Clovelly, England because mature leaves show some pebbling or dimpling on the surface. A medium to large sized hosta, it has one of the best ruffled leaf edges of any hosta. Pale lavender, tubular flowers are produced on 18-24" scapes in midsummer.

Hosta Dancing Stars

'Dancing Stars' PPAF has all the great qualities of its parent, 'Dancing in the Rain,' including a crisp white center and sharply contrasting blue-green margins. However, you'll appreciate that this new introduction is a stronger grower with wider margins and foliage of much thicker substance. The attractive foliage forms a large mound topped with light lavender flowers in midsummer.

Hosta Designer Genes

'Designer Genes' is incredibly striking in the spring as the brilliant yellow leaves emerge from contrasting deep wine red shoots. It quickly grows to form a medium sized mound of bright yellow leaves with showy bright red petioles. Compared to other yellow hostas, this variety holds its coloring longer. Later in the season, the foliage mellows to more of a chartreuse green color. Tall, red scapes carry the purple flowers in late summer.

Hosta Fragrant Queen

A new introduction in the 'Fragrant Bouquet' line, 'Fragrant Queen's' elongated heart-shaped leaves display wider, creamy to pure white margins, a darker green center, and are of better substance. In comparison to 'Sweet Innocence', it has a darker green center and a faster growth rate. It holds up well all season long and exhibits some sun tolerance. Large, fragrant, flashy near-white to light lavender flowers are produced above the foliage in late summer.

Hosta Grand Prize

A sport of the popular 'Grand Tiara'; considered by many to be the best in the 'Tiara Series'. Green leaves have very wide, vivid gold margins that brighten to cream in summer. Dark purple flowers appear on 24 inch scapes in midsummer.

Hosta Jurassic Park

Giant blue-green leaves can get up to 8 feet across. Slight puckering adds to the visual appeal. Pale lavender flowers in mid summer.

Hosta Lakeside Dragonfly

Medium green, broad lance-shaped leaves with a wide, white margin that jets irregularly into the center. 2 inch long, tubular, pale lavender flowers are produced on 24"-36" scapes in late summer.

Hosta Lakeside Paisley Print

This stunning hosta produces heart-shaped leaves with very wide, wavy, green margins. The narrow, creamy white markings in the center of the leaves shoot out from the cream colored petioles in a feathery pattern. Its thick substanced leaves make the perfect background for the cream scapes that carry the light lavender flowers in midsummer.

Hosta Luna Moth

Foolproof and easy to grow, this is a great selection for beginner gardeners or those who are just looking for a beautiful, worry-free hosta. 'Luna Moth' is a sport of the vigorous 'Parky's Prize' but with thicker substance and wider margins. Dark green, heart-shaped leaves emerge with light green margins which brighten to yellow in summer. This hosta grows quickly to form a nice symmetrical clump in the landscape. Lavender flowers are produced on perfectly proportional scapes in early summer.

Hosta Purple Haze

This is a very unique hosta with blue leaves held on purple petioles...the purple color continues into the veins of the leaf creating a "purple haze" on the center portion of the leaf surface. This color is very evident in spring and does fade as the season progresses. Good substance on nicely textured leaves that are topped with lavender flowers in midsummer

Hosta Rhino Hide

Leaves of extremely thick substance have wide, blue margins and a narrow, light green center that brightens to yellow. They are cupped and puckered, forming a medium to large sized clump in the landscape. White flowers top the scapes in early to midsummer.

Hosta Ripple Effect

This unique new hosta is a sport of 'June'. Its long, narrow, wavy, gold leaves have the same great substance of its parent. Newly emerged leaves have a very narrow blue-green margin that occasionally jets towards the golden yellow center. In summer, the foliage transitions to chartreuse with a green margin. This plant forms a low, horizontal mound in the landscape. In mid to late summer, pale lavender flowers are produced on light lavender to chartreuse scapes.

Hosta Sugar Daddy

Sport of 'Big Daddy' with round blue-green leaves with irregular white margins, streaking somewhat into leaf center. Lavender flowers in July.

Hosta Valleys Glacier

A sport of 'First Frost' with lovely heart-shaped steely blue leaves surrounded with a very wide creamy to white margin. Lavender flowers. Medium mound size at maturity.

Hosta White Feather

This hosta is quite unique in color. As it appears the leaves are completely white. With maturity, streaks of green begin to appear and lavender flowers rise from the top.

Hosta Yankee Blue

This vigorously growing blue hosta forms a full, symmetrical, wide mound that really makes a statement in the landscape. The elongated wedge-shaped leaves with wavy margins hold their blue color well into summer, eventually turning blue-green late in the season. Near-white flowers top the clump in midsummer.

Kniphophia Fire Dance

Native to South Africa, this is one of the shortest, prettiest and most reliably cold-hardy species in the genus. This is an improved cultivar with lovely coral-red and yellow bi-color flower spikes.

Lespedezathunbergi Gibraltar

Spectacular waterfall of deep pink vivid flowers on arching, cascasding branches. Tolerant of poor soil. Plant it where it can drape over a ledge or down a slope for a nice effect.

Lily Oriental Dbl Cut Ismael Pink

Green-backed buds pop open to reveal just a darker tinge of soft pink on the petal edges and a light speckling of spots. Provide all-day light shade or afternoon protection from the sun in hot regions.

Monarda Grand Parade

Short enough to be manageable, but tall enough to 'bee' seen! Grand Parade is an outstanding performer with glorious purple-pink flowers and clean green foliage with very good mildew resistance!

Nepeta Joanna Reed

With darker violet blooms and taller than others, very vigorous, long blooming and incredibly floriferous, stays tight when grown in full sun and it has great rebloom when cut back in July.

Oriental Lily Dbl Cut Magic Star

Combining the intense fragrance of their single sisters with rich colors and a double set of flower petals (sometimes even triple!), these Orientals are a miraculous addition to any garden.

Papaver Nudicaule Spring Fever

'Spring Fever' produces multiple stems at one time for a more impactful color show. Large, vivid flowers are displayed on compact stems. Avoid hot afternoon sun.

Peony Bartzella

'Bartzella' is an intersectional peony (garden peony crossed with a tree peony) with very large, bright yellow, spicy tree peony flowers and the foliage of an herbacious peony.

Phlox Shockwave

The shocking variegation ot this phlox changes from dark green with sunny yellow margins to lighter yellow margins as the season progresses; lavender pink flowers are an x-tra bonus.

Salvia Madeline

Madeline is a very floriforous salvia with brilliant violet blue hooded flowers which have a white lower lip that is edged in matching violet color. Cut back after the first flush for a good rebloom!

Tricyrtis Formosana

Reminiscent of orchids the upward-facing, star-like blossoms of this species vary from white to light pink or lilac. Subtle, but exotic specimens for woodland borders and shady house plantings.

Trollius Orange Crest

Globeflowers are extremely popular perennials, bursting into color in late spring and early summer. This compact selection has large flowers in a soft orange shade, with a darker orange centre. Sometimes called Buttercups, these grow well in a sunny or part-shaded border, also at the edge of a moist woodland. Flowers will last a few days when cut. Shear plants back after blooming to encourage a flush of new leaves to last through the summer. Clumps may be easily divided in fall or early spring.

Waterlily Inner Light

Double bloom stands above surface; mottled foliage. 'Innerlight' is a free-blooming variety with pale yellow petals and a luminescent center. Spreading 6-12 square feet or more it is an excellent selection for medium to large sized ponds. Plants bloom best when grown in full sun (6-8 hours).

Waterlily Mangkala Ubol

Fully double spectacular peach-orange flowers. Winner of several awards for its great performance. Covers 4-5 sq ft.

Waterlily Moondance

Moondance has a long blooming season. The flowers are very large and have a slight fragrance. Spreads 3-4 feet. Works in medium to large ponds.

Waterlily Steven Strawn

Outstanding cherry-red blossoms are held just above the rich green foliage, which is covered by dark specks. Very good performer.