Plants
Viola 'Black Magic'
True to its name, the flowers on this stellar variety are a deep matted black with tiny yellow eyes. The plant blooms profusely in the spring and continues to bloom throughout summer. For a truly unique and dark look, plant ‘Black Magic’ in front of ’Obsidian’ Coral Bells (I’ve done so and it remains one of my favorite spots in my garden).
Tricyrtis 'Miyazaki Hybrids'
Also known as Toad Lily, Tricyrtis features one of the most unique flowers I have ever seen. The color of the flower is white to faint purple and is heavily splotched with dark purple, while the interior of the flower is faint orange and yellow. Plant this awesome specimen somewhere in the foreground of your shade garden where its outstanding flowers can be viewed up close.
Tricyrtis 'Miyazaki Hybrids'
Also known as Toad Lily, Tricyrtis features one of the most unique flowers I have ever seen. The color of the flower is white to faint purple and is heavily splotched with dark purple, while the interior of the flower is faint orange and yellow. Plant this awesome specimen somewhere in the foreground of your shade garden where its outstanding flowers can be viewed up close.
Tradescantia 'Zwanenberg Blue'
Triangular violet-blue flowers bloom en mass atop green, grass-like foliage. This variety offers a great blue color that provides nice color contrast with green hosta and looks great behind dwarf goatsbeard.
Tradescantia 'Zwanenberg Blue'
Triangular violet-blue flowers bloom en mass atop green, grass-like foliage. This variety offers a great blue color that provides nice color contrast with green hosta and looks great behind dwarf goatsbeard.
Tradescantia 'Concord Grape'
Spiderwort boats a lot of color for a shade plant, and ‘Concord Grape’ does it in style, featuring meduim size flowers of triangular
Tradescantia 'Concord Grape'
Spiderwort boats a lot of color for a shade plant, and ‘Concord Grape’ does it in style, featuring meduim size flowers of triangular
Veronica 'Royal Candles'
This excellent dward variety is both a customer and staff favorite. ‘Royal Candles’ produces show-stopping deep blue flower spikes that cover the entire plant and literarlly look like fuzzy blue candles. Excellent for edging and espcially great for use in containers.
Veronica 'Royal Candles'
This excellent dward variety is both a customer and staff favorite. ‘Royal Candles’ produces show-stopping deep blue flower spikes that cover the entire plant and literarlly look like fuzzy blue candles. Excellent for edging and espcially great for use in containers.
Veronica 'Giles van Hees'
A dwarf variety with giant blooms, ‘Giles van Hees’ features 6″ tall flower spikes covered in a rich rosy-pink. This variety will spread slowly, provide tons of nice color and works great in borders, as an edging for walkways or in the foreground of any garden bed.
Veronica 'Giles van Hees'
A dwarf variety with giant blooms, ‘Giles van Hees’ features 6″ tall flower spikes covered in a rich rosy-pink. This variety will spread slowly, provide tons of nice color and works great in borders, as an edging for walkways or in the foreground of any garden bed.
Scabiosa 'Butterfly Blue'
This 2000 Perennial Plant of the Year sports lacy lavender blue flowers 2″ in diameter. This selection will bloom the entire season if deadheaded and boasts perhaps to most consistent color of any perennial on the market. Also known as ‘Pincushion Flower,’ this perennial derives it common name from the stames that emerge from the center of the flower giving it the appearence of pins sticking in a pincushion. (Quick tip: plant ‘Butterfly Blue’ with Coreopsis ‘Moonbeam,’ Dianthus ‘Neon Star’ and a perennial grass for a low maintenece professional looking garden that provides plenty of color all season)
Scabiosa 'Butterfly Blue'
This 2000 Perennial Plant of the Year sports lacy lavender blue flowers 2″ in diameter. This selection will bloom the entire season if deadheaded and boasts perhaps to most consistent color of any perennial on the market. Also known as ‘Pincushion Flower,’ this perennial derives it common name from the stames that emerge from the center of the flower giving it the appearence of pins sticking in a pincushion. (Quick tip: plant ‘Butterfly Blue’ with Coreopsis ‘Moonbeam,’ Dianthus ‘Neon Star’ and a perennial grass for a low maintenece professional looking garden that provides plenty of color all season)
Salvia 'Marcus'
A nice tidy dwarf variety of salvia, ‘Marcus boasts a ton of color for its size, becoming almost entirely covered in attractive purple-blue flower spikes. Great for perennial borders of in the foreground of the garden, ‘Marcus’ also looks great in pots.
Salvia 'Marcus'
A nice tidy dwarf variety of salvia, ‘Marcus boasts a ton of color for its size, becoming almost entirely covered in attractive purple-blue flower spikes. Great for perennial borders of in the foreground of the garden, ‘Marcus’ also looks great in pots.
Pulmonaria 'Moonshine'
Also know as Lungwort, ‘Moonshine’ offers an attractive mound of rounded leaves that are almost completely speckled with silver, and boasts a profusion of blue flowers on one foot tall stems in spring. A nice shade speicmen with great long term value – when the flowers are spent, simply trim them back and ‘Moonshine’ makes for a great foliage plant.
Origanum 'Kent Beauty'
In my opnion this variety is the most beautiful of the ornamental oreganos. ‘Kent Beauty’ has a semi-mounded habit of oval silver-green leaves. The dainty flowers emerge en mass in spring into summer, starting out mauve and aging to deep pinks and purples. Great for use as a groundcover or espcially attractive when used it pots. I particulary like ‘Kent Beauty’ because when the flowers die and dry they retain every bit of their appeal and the dried flowers look great in floral arrangement.
Dianthus 'Neon Star'
This special little plant is perhaps our most popular perennial and there is little mystery why – outstanding deep neon pink flowers bloom all year atop an attractive mound of low growing, spiky blue-grey foliage. This variety comes highly reccomended by everyone I’ve talked to.
Perovskia atriplicifolia
Known as Russian Sage, and the 1997 Perennial of the year winner, this wonderful summer blooming perennial shows off spkies of rich blue flowers on tall stems graced by lacy, fragrant blue-grey foliage . Great for use in mass plantings or in the back of sun gardens, Russian Sage has extremely long lasting blooms and provides a exceptional backdrop for yellow bloomers such as Coreopsis or Rudbeckia. It dervies its name from a Russian General, hence the name Russian Sage, but despites it etemological history it is a great, hardy plant for Minnesota.
Phlox 'Junior Dance'
A great low-growing and mildew resistance phlox, ‘Junior Dance’ features huge flower clusters of light pink florets with white eyes.
