2010 New Perennials

Achillea Summer Berries

Summer Berries, unlike most other Achilleas refuse to fade, even in punishing heat and sunlight. It is a cheery blend of magnificent colors on super-easy plants that thrive in any sunny spot.

Astilbe Color Flash

Color Flash is grown for its dramatic foliage color: Emerging brilliant electric green in early spring, maturing to burgundy, purple and green, in fall colors will turn vibrant gold, orange and russet.

Astrantia Star Of Billions

A superb modern variety of one of our oldest cottage garden plants. Hybrids are stronger than the older types and more tolerant of drier conditions. Long flowering; excellent cutflower!

Baptisia Solar Flare

A very vigorous, strikingly upright, vase-shaped Baptisia with blue-green foliage. Flowers initially open a pleasing lemon-yellow color, taking on a unique orange to violet blush with age.

Chasmanthium Latifolium River Mist

With a unique, very striking green and white variegated foliage and the oats for interest from late summer onward, this grass provides a vivid look to any garden. Also great as specimen plant.

Cimicifuga Chocoholic

Cimicifuga performs best in partial shade and moist, organically enriched soil. Its a wonderfully lacy, airy backdrop in the shady garden. Combines well with yellow or variegated foliage.

Clematis Haku Ookan

Haku Ookan is a very free flowering selection! Rich, mauvish-blue tepals combine with dark red anthers for a striking effect. Blooms early summer through early autumn! Does not fade in the sun.

Coreopsis Redshift

Redshift is a clump-forming variety that produces large 2 inch creamy-yellow flowers with a red ring around the center. In the cool fall these Tickseed "shift" in color towards more red.

Costmary

Give this new and old fashioned herb a try!
Also called bible leaf it has a delightful sweet smelling herb that has many uses. Costmary leaves were used as bookmarks, mostly in Bibles and hymnals. The fresh leaves can also be used much like geranium leaves by laying them in the baking pan before pouring in the batter. It makes a good addition to bath teas, and homemade astringents. The silverish foliage has a slightly minty aroma mixed with balsam that is refreshing.

Dicentra Burning Hearts

Long-blooming stems of heart-shaped, deep red flowers arch above delicate, tidy blue-gray, fernlike foliage. Compact and mounding this classic shade perennial adds color from spring to frost.

Digitalis Obscura

A relatively short, sterile variety. Very strong, upright stems carry spikes of pendulous, tubular, apricot yellow blooms with reddish brown markings for many month.

Echinacea Maui Sunshine

Huge, wide open, bright yellow flowers with wonderful orange-amber cones, sweetly scented. This is a powerhouse of a bloomer, with multiple blooms on every flowering stem.

Echinacea Meringue

This white to apple-green beauty will have you dreaming of light, foamy meringue peaks on top of a lemon cream pie. A longblooming, sturdy dwarf selection with consistent bloom counts.

Echinacea Tomato Soup

True works of art! Tomato Soup is the reddest Echinacea yet with gargantuan, 5 inch blooms in lusty, spiced scarlet. The plants themselves are well branched and vigorous.

Eremurus Cleopatra

Extremely showy and eye-catching tall spikes of coppery-orange with tons of starry florets make a great addition to the back of the border. Give a sunny spot and well-drained soil. Great cutflower.

Eryngium Purple Sheen

An eye catching architectural plant with exotic reddish-purple blooms that have a 'Prince of Wales Feather' emerging from the head. Plant with other drought resistant prairie plants. Terrific cut flower.

Fern Dryopteris Erythro Golden Mist

Similar to Autumn Fern, but the new growth is a unique shade of golden yellow. Best foliage color in part sun. Tolerates a wide range of growing conditions.

Geranium Double Jewel

Unique double, white flower with purple heart. Foliage is an intense dark green. Double Jewel is noticeably dwarf for a cultivar of Geranium pratense. Great for container or front of border.

Hemerocallis Bright Sunset

The large, 6" fragrant flowers of the early blooming Bright Sunset are burnt orange with pale midribs, deep orange halos and yellow-green throats.

Hemerocallis Forty Second Street

'Forty Second Street' is an eyecatching double daylily with 5" pastel cream petals and a wonderfully contrasting bright rose red eyezone above a yellow-green throat.

Hemerocallis Funny Valentine

The rose-red color of these big 5½" ruffled blooms is sunfast; the throat is bright green. Selected also for its superb beautiful arching blue-green foliage all season long. High bud count!

Hemerocallis Golden Zebra

Gold flowers over beautiful variegated foliage. When grown in the shade, the showy foliage will be green and white in color or green and yellow color when grown in the sun.

Hemerocallis Inwood

Inwood features very large, pale peachy-yellow flowers with a sharply contrasting plum-purple eye and matching picotee edge. Yellow-green throat. Slightly fragrant. Heavily budded rebloomer.

Heuchera Berry Smoothie

This new Coralbell looks as delicious as it sounds! Heuchera Berry Smoothie features large, vibrant pink leaves that include tones of purple-rose to rose-pink. Pretty rose-pink spring flowers too!

Heucherella Golden Zebra

Outstanding both in the coloring and the shape of the leaves. The lush foliage and a tight crown are further amenities. Excels as a ground cover or border edging; a standout in containers.

Heucherella Sweet Tea

A new exciting Heucherella, undeniably the most intensely colored one ever! Grows most vigorously and has the strongest colors when grown in partial shade (preferably afternoon shade).

Hibiscus Cranberry Crush

Marked by a pristine compact habit and substantial flowering ability over a long bloom period, this new Hibiscus produces flowers all up the flowering stems not just at the tops.

Hosta American Icon

American Icon is an impressive sport of Hosta 'Choo Choo Train'. It forms huge clumps up to 6' wide! This attractive, large mounding plant has rounded green leaves with a slightly rippled yellow margin. Pale lavender flowers top the clump in midsummer.

Hosta Dancing Queen

This attractive selection features broad, wedge-shaped leaves of a bright yellow with a wonderful rippled edge. Lavender flowers top the vigorous clump in midsummer.

Hosta Empress Wu

Huge dark green, deeply veined leaves of good substance can measure more than 1½ feet wide and long. Strongly upright habit, forming a very tall and wide clump. Pale reddish violet flowers appear just above the foliage.

Hosta Remember Me

Leaves emerge in spring bright yellow with a narrow, dusty green edge. By early summer, leaves have dark blue-green margins with some streaking into the large, snow white centers; appears white from a distance.

Hosta Summer Breeze

Dark green foliage with wide chartreuse margin. A sport of 'Summer Music'. Broadly ovate, slightly twisted leaves have snow white centers bordered by streaks of gold and chartreuse, and outlined with dark green margins. A work of art, each leaf looks hand painted!

Iris Ensata Lion King

Absolutely breathtaking, midsummer-blooming, moisture loving Iris! Long, sword-like leaves have prominent midribs, lending a tall and stately form. Thrives in acidic, organically rich, heavy moist soils.

Iris Germanica Megabucks

A striking color combination, excellent foliage, high bud count and perfect iris form make this ideal in a border planting.

Lespedeza Thunbergii

A fountain of rich pink blooms mid to late summer and into fall on this specimen that shows off well against a stone wall or in a shrub border. Semi-woody legume; should be cut back in April.

Lily Angelique

Angelique is a compact variety with short and sturdy stems - so it does not require staking. It is a beautiful plant for the mixed border or anywhere else its beauty and fragrance can be appreciated.

Ludwigia Sedoides

Diamond shaped leaves in swirling pattern. Grow in 4-12" deep water. Beautiful floating plant for the pond.

Paeonia Gay Paree

Gay Paree is a late season bloomer and a Japanese lactiflora type peony with brilliant blooms and glossy, deep green foliage that is very attractive and ornamental throughout the growing season.

Paeonia Suffruticosa Hanakisoi

Fragrant and elegantly ruffled, Hanakisoi is a wonderful cut flower! Tree Peonies have woody branches like a shrub that do not die back to the ground in winter and should not be trimmed back.

Papaver Marlene

Although a very short variety, the blooms of this papery Poppy won't be overlooked. Excellent container variety. Flowers appear from mid spring till early summer.

Phlox Becky Towe

Discovered in 1990 by Mrs June Towe in her Shropshire, UK garden; an excellent plant for pest and disease resistance, better flowers than any other variegated Phlox and great foliage.