WHAT IF...we always grew what we've always grown? That would make our plant buyer happy but would also be pretty boring! Plant breeders are continually bringing new genetics to the market. We like to bring these new genes to you after we've tried them.
2026 Plant of the Year Selection
Blackhawks Big Bluestem
ANDROPOGON gerardii BLACKHAWKS Full Sun Grass
2025 PPA Perennial Plant of the Year
NATIVE, Naturally! Forbs & Grasses for 2026
American Spikenard
This shrub-like perennial thrives in part shade, moist woodland soil. The large leaves are ornamental, but it is the fantastic bunches of purple-red berries that follow panicles of tiny white flowers that make this plant special. The berries are edible for humans and birds, making this plant a perfect addition to a yard designed to attract songbirds. Perfect in the background of your shady pollinator garden
ARALIA
RACEMOSA
Part Shade Perennial
Downy Wood Mint
Blephilia ciliata , also called Ohio horsemint, occurs in dryish open woods and thickets, clearings, fields and roadsides. A clump-forming, mint family member that features mostly unbranched, square stems which rise to 30" tall. Blue-purple, two-lipped flowers appear in late spring to mid-summer in several tiered, whorled, globular clusters in an interrupted terminal spike, with each cluster resting upon a whorl of fringed bracts. Similar in appearance to the closely related monardas. Stem leaves are lightly-toothed, whitish-
BLEPHILIA CILIATA Part Sun Perennial
downy below and mildly fragrant when crushed.
Swamp Rose-Mallow
Swamp rose mallow is a 3-8 ft., water-loving shrubby perennial with numerous sturdy stems arising from a single crown. It will grow in full sun or partial shade and is salt tolerant. It flowers from July through August with 4-5 in. white or pink flowers. The flowers last only for one day, but they appear consistently until the end of the season. Blooms provide nectar to hummingbirds and a variety of insects. Plants host caterpillars of gray hairstreak, painted lady butterflies, skippers and several moths.
HIBISCUS
MOSCHEUTOS
Full Sun Perennial
Calico Beardtongue
Penstemon calycosus is a herbaceous perennial deserving of greater use in the garden because of its cultural adaptability. Calico Beardtongue tolerates a variety of conditions from filtered shade to full sun and well-drained, moist to dry soils. The snapdragon-like flowers ranges in color from light violet to purple. Plants can grow 1-3’ tall and roughly 2’ wide. The foliage is lanceshaped, semi–glossy, medium green, and has finely saw-toothed edges.
PENSTEMON CALYCOSUS Part Sun Perennial
Early Wild Rose
This is a thornless or near- thornless rose with blunt leaflets and smooth stems. Five-petaled flowers are pink to whitish. The shrub is 2-6 ft. tall with a dense, mounded habit. Spreads vigorously by root suckers once established. The hips are an excellent source of vitamin C. (Ontario Native Plants 2002)
ROSA
BLANDA Full Sun Perennial
Blue Sage
Salvia azurea , commonly called blue sage, is a clump- forming perennial that typically grows to 3-5’ tall (shorter if pruned). Whorls of 2-lipped, azure blue flowers bloom in spikes from mid- summer to fall atop stiff stems of grayish-green leaves. This deep-rooted perennial blooms in late summer and is attractive to bumblebees and hummingbirds. A drought tolerant plant.
SALVIA
AZUREA Full Sun Perennial
New PROVEN WINNER PERENNIALS for 2026
Dark Side of the Moon Astilbe
ASTILBE x
DARK SIDE OF THE MOON
PP35461
Part Shade Perennial An instant classic for the landscape! 'Dark Side of the Moon' is the only dark leafed Astilbe with purple flowers that's on the market. Rich deep chocolate burgundy leaves form an incredibly attractive mound of foliage. Emerging leaves are yellow with a dark margin with a glossy sheen that become completely dark as they age. Dark stems hold raspberry buds that burst forth with rosy purple flowers. This performs best both for growing and flowering in full sun in the north with adequate moisture but also grows in shade.
Pardon My Rose Bee Balm
MONARDA DIDYMA PARDON MY ROSE
PP34434
Full Sun Perennial
No room for the tall, bushy, traditional Bee Balm in your garden? Here is a compact selection that's easy to tuck into the front of your sunny border and combination containers. Reaching just a little over a foot tall at maturity, this compact selection forms a bushy, well-branched clump of medium green, semi-glossy foliage.
Pink Profusion Sage
SALVIA NEMEROSA PINK PROFUSION PP31435
Full Sun Perennial This Salvia nemorosa hybrid will impress you with the number of times it reblooms! Sheer back the spent flowers and enjoy again throughout the summer. Dark pink flowers are produced on darker pink calyxes on a perfectly rounded, dense and beautiful habit. This shorter stature Salvia will tuck in nicely to all sorts of places in your perennial garden, planted en mass makes a perfect edger.
New PERENNIALS for 2026
New Vintage White Yarrow
ACHILLEA MILLEFOLIUM NEW VINTAGE WHITE
PP25711
Full Sun Perennial
This Yarrow features a compact, upright growth habit and white flowers. Mature clumps will reach up to 14" tall and spread to fill a 12" area. The main bloom period occurs in early summer followed by reblooming through late summer.
Ambassador Ornamental Onion
ALLIUM x AMBASSADOR
Full Sun Perennial
Ambassador produces 6-inch balls of tightly packed, purple flowers. Terrific planted in groups or strung like lanterns through a perennial border. One of the last of the large alliums to flower, it blooms with the first wave of roses.
Frilly Knickers Japanese Anemone
ANEMONE x FRILLY KNICKERS
PP33416
Part Shade Perennial Anemone Frilly Knickers is the one we have been waiting for! Semi-double white flowers with the most adorably ruffled edges unfurl to reveal a surprise on their backside - a periwinkle lavender back and dark stems. This is a tough plant, growing to 24" tall in full flower and completely covered in flowers. the tough, leathery, olive-green leaves make for the perfect backdrop to the flowers. This is a great plant for the woodland edge, and all along the middle of any mixed border or sunny foundation planting.
Rapido Blue Bellflower
CAMPANULA CARPATICA RAPIDO BLUE
Full Sun Perennial
Rapido Blue is the earliest C. carpatica – up to 4 weeks earlier than other varieties. This showy Spring perennial is a versatile choice – suited to patio planters and gardens, as well as an indoor novelty potted plant.
Solar Jewel Coreopsis
COREOPSIS GRANDIFLORA SOLAR JEWEL
Full Sun Perennial Blooming from June to October, this amazing new Coreopsis provides armloads of brilliant flowers to enjoy both indoors and out. Solar Jewel's bright red, daisy-like blooms feature yellow-orange margins that stand out against the mounded, green foliage. Ideal for cutting, they also look fantastic planted in groups along a sunny border or in decorative containers.
FRESCO® Apricot Coneflower
ECHINACEA x FRESCO® APRICOT PPAF Full Sun Perennial A refreshing change in Echinaceas. The tall, narrow habit of this plant sets it apart from all others. Quite large, zinnia-like flowers top this new plant in spectacular fashion. Long lived in the garden.
KISMET® Yellow Coneflower
ECHINACEA x KISMET® YELLOW PPAF Full Sun Perennial Sunny, butter-yellow flowers. Naturally short with exceptional crown count. Unmatched popularity and approval coast to coast!
Poco White Coneflower
ECHINACEA x SOMBRERO® POCO WHITE US7982110 Full Sun Perennial Echinacea SOMBRERO POCO White is a compact, showy coneflower that brings classic beauty and pollinator appeal to sunny gardens. This standout variety features crisp white petals surrounding a golden-yellow cone, creating a clean and elegant look that brightens borders, containers, and cottage gardens. Reaching just 14-16 inches tall and spreading 16 18 inches wide, this dwarf echinacea is perfect for smaller garden spaces and front-of- border plantings.
Blind Date Boneset
EUPATORIUM PERFOLIATUM BLIND DATE
PP33416
Part Sun Perennial This native wetland species tolerates average soil. Chocolate-red foliage is topped with milky white flowers on four-foot stems in July. Full sun; moist to average soil. Combines easily with other varieties. An improved 'Milk and Cookies'.
Tempo Coral Grecian Rose
GEUM x TEMPO CORAL
PP27363
Full Sun Perennial Bright coral-red flowers are held in great numbers over this compact garden plant. The excellent quality foliage stay clean all summer long. Reblooms in the summer! The entire TEMPO Series feature a tight habit with short to medium stems and never become floppy. Does not need to be covered by other perennials like the older varieties do.
Dale's Strain Alumroot
HEUCHERA AMERICANA DALE’S STRAIN
Part Sun Perennial
Dale's Strain features leaves that emerge chartreuse with olive-green markings and mature to silvery-green with spruce-green veins. Tiny, pink, bell-shaped flowers.
Tokyo Coral Bells
HEUCHERA x CITY TOKYO
PP27363
Part Sun Perennial
A great summer shade accent, Heuchera 'Tokyo' surprises you with its show of red blooms in July. This large tight mound of lime green foliage has proven amazingly tough – beating out diseases and heat. The flowers arrive in July and last through October in Oregon.
My Fair Lady Hosta
HOSTA x
MY FAIR LADY
PP35524
Part Shade Perennial Upright Hosta with cascading tri-colored foliage. Deep blue-green leaves have apple-green jetting around creamy yellow centers. Large white flowers are held on upright proportionate scapes. Begins blooming in early summer.
Eye Liner Pseudata Iris
IRIS PSEUDATA EYE LINER
PPAF
Part Shade Perennial A robust and vigorous interspecific Iris sure to catch your eye when in bloom! Pearlescent flowers have yellow eye zones, edged with a violet margin that radiates along the veins of the petal. Flowers are held above the foliage on proportionate scapes. A hybrid of I. pseudocorus and I. ensata . I. pseudata keep the size and intensity of each parent, but as an interspecific cross add sterility, more contained garden performance, and new flower colors and patterns.
Big Green Tractor Golden-ray
LIGULARIA x
BIG GREEN TRACTOR
PP35810
Part Shade Perennial Formerly known as L. 'Tractor Seat’. An L. japonica hybrid. A very large Ligularia perfect for making a dramatic statement in the shade garden. Deep green leaves are massive reaching 16" across at maturity. A serrated margin surrounds each dissected leaf for a standout foliage presence. Golden yellow flowers have long petals. Best performance in morning sun or filtered shade; flowering will be diminished in deep shade.
Coral Sunset Peony
PAEONIA x
CORAL SUNSET
Full Sun Perennial ‘Coral Sunset’ is an herbaceous (soft-stemmed) peony. It is a shrubby perennial that, each year, will typically grow 30-32” tall by June. Large semi-double flowers feature coral pink outer petals with rose overtones and gold center stamens. Flowers appear in early season Excellent cut flower. Wissing-Klehm, 1981
Pretty in Pink Bethlehem-sage
PULMONARIA x
PRETTY IN PINK
PP31284
Part Shade Perennial Lungwort are one of the classic shade perennials, and what better way to celebrate spring than with an explosion of pink flowers? Large, bright rose-pink flowers stay consistently pink and are produced in large flower clusters over a low and wide habit. Dark green leaves are lightly to moderately speckled with silver, so you can enjoy the interesting foliage after it has finished blooming. This plant will thrive in part shade to full shade as long as you provide moisture.
Grape Crush Aster
SYMPHYOTRICHUM NOVAE-ANGLIA GRAPE CRUSH Full Sun Perennial Bringing refinement to fall blooming Asters, 'Grape Crush' produces a large, very round mound with densely packed flowers. We have observed no lodging in our trials, a phenomenal achievement for fall blooming Asters. Very rich, dark purple flowers are produced above dark green foliage in early fall to midfall. A perfect finale to the growing season! PP33612
Purple Carpet Wild Thyme
THYMUS PRAECOX PURPLE CARPET Full Sun Perennial
A highly desirable and popular groundcover, forming a dense low mat completely covered in lavender-purple flowers throughout summer, attractive fine and fragrant foliage the rest of the season; needs a dry and sunny location, can take light foot traffic
Penny Primrose Picotee Violet
VIOLA x PENNY
PRIMROSE PICOTEE
Part Sun Perennial
Yellow flowers with whiskers and petal edges colored purple. Hardy, heat tolerant, compact, vigorous, free- flowering plants. Penny Primrose Picotee violas provide gorgeous, reliable autumn, winter and spring flowers, which are larger than most violas. Flowering time and plant growth is uniform across all colors.
Penny Pro Orange Violet
VIOLA x PENNY PRO ORANGE
Part Sun Perennial
Bright orange flowers with subtle whiskers. Hardy, heat tolerant, compact, vigorous, free- flowering 6 in. plants. Penny Pro Orange violas provide gorgeous, reliable autumn, winter and spring flowers, which are larger than most violas.
New GRASSES for 2026
Fire Dragon Silver Grass
MISCANTHUS SINENSIS MYSTAL FIRE DRAGON
PP30374
Full Sun Grass Fire Dragon Maiden Grass is a distinct
improvement on Flame Grass, as it exceedingly showy fall colors that range from bright red to dark orange. In late summer, the green blades are topped with silver plumes that are produced on rigid stems that resist flopping.
Blood Brothers Switch Grass
PANICUM VIRGATUM BLOOD BROTHERS
Full Sun Grass Compared to other Red Switch Grass on the market, this new grass has a deeper, more dramatic color. Blue- green leaves are almost completely overshadowed by the wine purple coloration, forming a strictly upright habit of foliage. Tan flower heads appear in late summer. Use this grass for a splash of foliage color in your sun garden. A sport of 'Heavy Metal'. From Valleybrook Gardens in British Columbia.
Praline Fountain Grass
PENNISETUM ALOPECUROIDES PRALINE
PP30724
Full Sun Grass
Pennisetum 'Praline' is another of the five sterile ornamental grass hybrids developed at the University of Georgia. The 2' tall x 3.5' wide clumps are adorned with tan plumes throughout the summer months. Pennisetum 'Prailine' is the smallest of the sterile hybrids, so it will fit better into smaller gardens.
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