This clump-forming perennial features toothed, gray-green foliage and produces larger blooms than typical hybrids. It flowers abundantly over a long period, especially when lightly-sheared, creating a dense display of small blue-purple blossoms. The foliage is also pleasantly aromatic. Optimal Growing Conditions Hardiness Zone Zones 2-9 Water Needs Average Sun Needs Full Sun to Part Shade […]

With its compact, mounding shape and glowing plum-purple foliage accented by shimmering silver veining, this plant is a true showstopper in the garden. In mid-June, delicate white and pink blooms rise on airy stems, adding even more charm. Ideal for edging beds and borders, it also brings a splash of color to rock gardens. It’s […]

Campanula, otherwise known as bellflower, are attractive perennial garden plants with profuse, colorful flowers and a lengthy blooming period. They are also known as bluebells, but the name is misleading–campanula are available in many shades, including palest white, cherry red and deep purple. While it may not be practical to grow the giant campanula varieties […]

If you’re looking for a perennial that is long blooming, heat tolerant, resistant to pests and diseases, and easy to grow, then catmint is the plant for you! It has attractive gray-green foliage that emerges in neat, tidy mounds in April. By May, the plant fairly explodes with a profuse haze of soft lavender-blue flowers. […]

Blue Wonder is a fragrant, low, soft green/grey silvery foliaged catmint that forms a spreading mound with larger than usual lavender-blue blossoms in summer, from May to July. Easily grown in average, dry to medium, well-drained soils in full sun to part shade. Shearing off the spent flowers will promote rebloom on this tough, tolerant, […]

Nepeta Subsessilis ‘Blue Prelude’, known as Japanese Catmint, will flower for months in the spring and summer. Attracts pollinators with its fragrant leaves. It is first-year-flowering, a robust plant in the landscape with large flowers and medium controlled habit. Optimal Growing Conditions Hardiness Zone Zones 4a-9a Water Needs Medium Sun Needs Full Sun Appearance and […]