2012 New Perennials

Achillea Peachy Seduction

A spreading, upright yarrow that is noted for its bright peach-pink flowers and compact size. Aromatic leaves have a somewhat spicy aroma that may persist in dried arrangments.

Ajuga Pink Lighting

Mint green, crinkly leaves with a creamy white edge provide colorful foliage all year. Short, bubblegum pink flower spikes bloom mid to late spring.

Anchusa Capensis Blue Angel

Vivid ultra-marine blue flowers on plants with a bushy habit. Tolerates hot sites with poor or dry soil and is extremely deer resistant. Sometimes called Summer Forget-Me-Not.

Anthemis Carp Karpatenschnee

White daisy flowers with yellow sunray centers and downy gray foliage that forms a nice cushion. Blooms throughout the summer. A choice, small camomile for the rock garden.

Aruncus Horatio

Divided golden-green foliage ages spectacularly and holds until at least November. Large panicles of creamy Astilbe-like plumes, pointed and bronze-tinted on bronzy stems.

Astilbe Cerise

Compact foliage topped with upright plumes of cherry red buds opening to hot pink flowers. Nicely fragrant and more tolerant of drought and sun than other astilbes.

Clematis Piilu

Blooms first on old wood, producing 3-4" double, light pink blossoms with a prominent, wide, dark purplish red bar. In cooler climates, this plant blooms continuously all season long.

Clematis Wildfire

This stunning large-flowered Clematis produces huge 6-8" violet- purple flowers with a reddish-purple bar. A small tuft of purple anthers and white filaments appear in the center of each blossom.

Dianthus Pop Star

Deeply fringed, double flowers -- lavender-pink with a dark eye -- sit above mounds of gray-green foliage and produce a strong clove scent.

Dicentra Formosa Spring Gold

A low mound of bright chartreuse-yellow leaves, topped by clusters of heart-shaped flowers in a soft rose-pink shade. Removing faded flowers will promote lots of new buds to form.

Digitalis Ferruginea Yellow Herold

Flowers are a pale yellow and have rust-colored veining in the throats. Bloom stalks can be as tall as 5' and are tightly packed with flowers. Makes a great cut flower.

Dracocephalum Altai Blue

Large, intense dark blue, hooded flowers from July into August. Forms a tight mound of lustrous, scalloped dark green foliage. Neat and tidy habit.

Echinacea Hybrida Daydream

Midsize plant with fabulous yellow to soft yellow flowers that bloom all summer long. Use en masse for the border, in a mixed bed, and as a cut flower.

Echinacea Leilani

Shines with clear, yellow flowers that bloom from summer to fall. It has a strongly upright habit that doesn't require any staking. The name "Leilani" means "royal child of heaven".

Echinacea Southern Belle

Blooms resemble a fancy party skirt and last for weeks before fading to a softer pink. The blooming period may very well be the longest of any hybrid introduced.

Edraianthus Grassy Bells

Showy umbels of petite, upturned, violet-blue bellflowers blooming from July through August. The foliage is tufted but grass-like. An easy to grow plant for the rock garden.

Erinus Alpinus Dr Haehnle

A short-lived, tufted perennial with inversely lance-shaped to wedge-shaped, sticky leaves. Bears short racemes of two-lipped bright flowers. Reseeds freely.

Gaillardia Arizona Apricot

Compact, uniform mound of bright green foliage is covered in large blossoms throughout the summer. Flowers have multiple rows of petals and are apricot with yellow tips and a darker orange center.

Gaillardia Arizona Red Shades

Produces masses of large, crimson-red blossoms from early summer all the way into early fall, even under hot and dry conditions. Short, compact size and uniform branching habit.

Geranium Pratense Hocus Pocus

The subtle light purple flowers with white centers and black anthers are large, up to two inches and extremely numerous starting in June and lasting through August.

Geum Chiloense Lady Strathede

A classic cottage garden perennial with semi-double bright yellow flowers. The flowers rise on slender stems 18 inches to 2 feet, which make them excellent for cut flowers.

Hemerocallis Primal Scream

Spectacular 7-8" glimmering tangerine orange, gold dusted blossoms and green throat on tall scapes. Tepals are narrow, twisted, and recurved with lightly ruffled edges.

Hemerocallis Raspberry Suede

Large 5" flowers are a unique shade of rich raspberry red and very sunfast for such a deep color. Pie crust edge, diamond dusted petals, and small chartreuse throat.

Hemerocallis Steeple Jackie

Trumpet-shaped, small 2" canary yellow flowers are produced in clusters on seven-way branched scapes carrying a total of 55-100 buds apiece!

Heuchera Plum Royale

Consistently plum purple colored foliage with a polished luster all season long. Dark stems carry wands of pale pinkish-white flowers in summer.

Heucherella Brass Lantern

Outstanding vigor combined with brassy gold and red spring color on maple shaped leaves. Spikes of white flowers on dark stems. Best color contrast with some shade.

Heucherella Solar Eclipse

Reddish-brown leaves have rounded lobes that are gently scalloped along the edges. A shocking, lime-green border precisely rings each leaf for a distinctive look.

Heucherella Solar Power

Lobed yellow-gold to lime green leaves are splattered with deep red. Forms a large mound of color in sun or part shade. This Heucherella takes higher light levels than other yellow specimens.

Heucherella Sunrise Falls

A vigorous, trailing Heucherella with large, yellow, maple-shaped leaves and red veins. Fall leaves have dramatic red tints. Makes a wonderful hanging basket or a super ground cover.

Hibiscus Berrylicious

Huge 8-9", mauve-lavender blossoms with a deep strawberry red eye have ruffled, overlapping petals. A long bloom season and flowers on all sides.

Hosta Broad Band

This showy large hosta forms a wide clump of attractive heart-shaped leaves with creamy yellow to creamy white margins that jet into the dark green center.

Hosta Cathedral Windows

Like a brighter version of 'Holy Mole', 'Cathedral Windows' quickly forms a large clump of rounded, bright gold leaves with very wide, dark green margins.

Hosta Devils Advocate

This big and beautiful sport of the classic 'Blue Angel' forms a giant, upright mound of blue-green leaves with green margins in spring. The variegation becomes showier as the season progresses, as the margins brighten to light apple green. Like its parent, this plant has large, heart-shaped leaves of heavy substance. It is a fast grower and reliable performer in the landscape.

Hosta Fireworks

A dwarf, narrow-margined form of "'Loyalist' with foliage of heavy substance. Narrow, stiff, upright leaves have deep green margins and creamy white centers.

Hosta Goodness Gracious

f you like Hosta 'Satisfaction', you will love this new sport with much showier, wider margins. It has all of the great qualities of its parent, including large, heart-shaped leaves and a wide spreading habit.

Hosta Heat Wave

A small to medium sized hosta. In spring, the leaves are chartreuse with wide, blue margins. In summer, the leaf center brightens to gold and the margins deepen to blue-green.

Hosta Hudson Bay

An improvement over its parent, 'Eskimo Pie', this new sport is a much showier, larger specimen and a stronger grower overall. The wider, brighter blue margin and apple green jetting contrast nicely with the creamy white center all season long. The leaves are of heavy substance, exhibiting good slug resistance in the landscape.

Hosta Irish Luck

Even beginners won't need luck to grow this vigorous beauty! What makes it so distinct is the incredibly shiny finish on the leaves, like a glossy lacquer painted on each leaf. They are very dark green with pie crust rippled margins, deep veining, and good substance. This hosta grows quickly to form an upright vase-shaped clump in the landscape. Due to its H. plantaginea parentage, it exhibits some sun tolerance and produces sweetly fragrant, lavender flowers well above the foliage in late summer.

Hosta Kiwi Full Monty

Improved 'Striptease' with rich blue-green margins. Leaf center transitions from chartreuse to creamy yellow to ivory. Occasionally, a thin white line is present where the leaf center and margin meet. Leaves are of good substance and glaucous. Forms an open mound of foliage. Lavender, funnel-shaped flowers emerge from rich violet buds on 32" scapes in midsummer.

Hosta Rare Breed

Rare tri-color leaves make this large hosta incredibly unique and showy. The colors change a bit with the seasons, starting off with a creamy white center and green margins. Where the center and margin meet, a beautiful shade of army green appears and the center brightens to crisp white.

Hosta Rockets Red Glare

A hosta collector's delight! Prominent red petioles with red pigment flowing about one third of the way up the midrib on both sides of the leaves are what make this hosta so desirable.

Hosta Secret Ambition

This new blue-green hosta has a heavy leaf substance and a wide yellow margin in spring, transitioning to creamy white in summer. Near-white flowers above the clump in mid to late summer. A small hosta that only gets 10-12 inches.

Hosta Sparkler

This new sport of Hosta 'Fireworks' makes a showy specimen in troughs or other small containers. It forms a miniature sized clump of slender leaves with very narrow, creamy white to white centers and dark green margins that jet into the center. The showy variegation offers terrific contrast. The leaves are of heavy substance, increasing their slug resistance.

Hosta Wheee

Extremely ruffled, cream-colored margins extend from the tip of each green leaf all the way down the petiole to the crown. Slug resistant!

Iiberis Absolutely Amethyst

Four-petaled flowers in terminal clusters bloom, often profusely, in spring over dark green leaves. Noted for being the first non-white flowered perennial candytuft. A Proven Winner Selection plant.

Iris Germanica Absolute Joy

Dwarf variety with dainty bright pink petals, fuchsia fall spot and intense coral pink beards. Quickly forms dense clumps.

Iris Germanica Anaconda

This award winning, ruffled pink-purple bitone iris is overlaid with silvery streaks and blotches. Slightly fragrant and makes an excellent cut flower.

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.

Ligularia Bottle Rocket

A dense mound of deep green, highly serrated leaves. In mid summer, numerous spikes of golden flowers rise from the center of the clump.

Lilium Orientalis Lodewijk

Dozens of white petals striped with bright lime green create a snowy starburst flower. It can take a year or two for this bulb to reach its full potential. Intoxicating fragrance.

Lilium Orientalis Sweet Rosy

Pinkish flowers with white highlights that have dark pink spots speckled along the center of the blooms. Layers of flower petals with a lovely fragrance

Lupinus Tutti Frutti

Tall, thick flower spikes come in a broad range of solid colors and bicolors including some color combinations never seen before. Especially lovely when grown in masses with similar varieties.

Paeonia Pink Parfait

Huge, double blooms with multiple layers of pink and cream petals are displayed on the bold, erect stems of this clumping perennial. Choice cut flowers.

Papaver Little Pattys Plum

A shorter-stemmed poppy with plum-lilac flowers. Plants reach a height of just 20 inches so they behave well when used in a border.

Penstemon Barbatus Red Riding Hood

Hummingbirds rejoice! 'Red Riding Hood' has an abundance of huge, white lipped, coral-red flowers from late spring through summer. A very showy, cold hardy Penstemon.

Physostegia Virginiana Pink Manners

Spikes of pale pink to white buds open to lavender pink flowers with a white throat. Like other Obedient Plants, the flowers remain in position when twisted on the stem.

Rhodiola Rhodanthia

This plant has short, succulent leaves on a thick, straight stem topped by red flower clusters. Edible and can be chopped finely and added to salads. Best used when they are young.

Rudbeckia Fulgida Little Goldstar

This plant forms a bushy, short clump of rich green foliage covered with a dome of closely spaced, starburst shaped, 2-2.5" golden yellow blossoms held just above the foliage.

Rudbeckia Triloba Prairie Glow

Pinwheels of blooms in glowing colors of mahogany, russet and gold. These 2 1/2" flowers last for many weeks from midsummer to mid fall attracting bees, butterflies and hummingbirds.

Salvia Sweet Sixteen

Long wands of vibrant rose-purple buds which open to larger, brighter, lavendar-pink flowers with a purple lip. Secondary branching on the lower stems extends the bloom time.

Waterlily Clyde Ikins

With remarkable color and huge flowers, this hybrid simply doesn't stop! Young plants are yellow, while mature plants develop into a stunning orange-peach at the height of summer. The flowers are one of the first to show each summer and stay open much later in the day than most varieties

Zinnia Grandiflora

A spectacular bedding and border perennial. This plant forms a ground-hugging cushion less than 6" tall and completely covered with yellow flowers summer to fall.