All Plants
| Type | Botanical Name | Native | Common Name | Description | Height | Light Req. | Zone | Add to My List |
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| Tree/Shrub | KALMIA latifolia ‘Hoffman’s K’ | Mountain Laurel | A selection from a pink-blooming wild population, similar to the species. Slow-growing, broadleaf evergreen shrub; dark-green, glossy leaves. Pink flower buds open in late spring to cupped white to pale-pink flowers with purple dots. Avoid windswept sites. Attracts butterflies/hummingbirds. |
3-5 feet | Part Shade/Shade | 5 | ||
| Tree/Shrub | KALMIA latifolia ‘Minuet’ | Mountain Laurel | A dwarf form of the evergreen shrub with pink buds that open to white flowers with a dramatic maroon-red band on the inside edge. Late May/June. Deer/rabbit tolerant. |
3 feet | Part Shade/Shade | 5 | ||
| Tree/Shrub | KALMIA latifolia ‘Nipmuck’ | Mountain Laurel | Intense red buds, soft pink flowers in late spring on the shiny dark-green evergreen foliage. Some twisting branches. Attracts butterflies/hummingbirds. |
3-5 feet | Part Shade/Shade | 4 | ||
| Tree/Shrub | KALMIA latifolia ‘Ostbo Red’ | Brilliant red buds open to pale pink flowers over evergreen foliage late May to early June. |
Part Shade/Shade | 4 | ||||
| Tree/Shrub | KALMIA latifolia ‘Tiddlywinks’ | Rosy-pink buds open to pale pink flowers with deeper pink banding on this compact Mt. Laurel. More compact with deep green foliage that is persistant through the winter if planted in a protected spot away from winter sun and wind. |
Part Shade/Shade | 5 | ||||
| Perennial | KIRENGESHOMA palmata | Yellow Waxbells | Bushy plants with palm-shaped leaves and waxy pendant yellow flowers in August. |
30-36 inches | Part Shade/Shade | 4 | ||
| Perennial | KNAUTIA macedonica | Macedonian Scabious | Deep velvety red pincushion flowers on thin and airy stems from early summer until fall. Attracts butterflies Deer and drought tolerant |
12-24" | Full sun | 5 | ||
| Perennial | KNIPHOFIA ‘Border Ballet’ | Red Hot Poker | A hybrid seed strain with “pokers” in shades of cream, pink, orange and red over basal rosettes of stiff, grass-like foliage. |
18-24 inches | Sun | 5 | ||
| Perennial | LAMIUM ‘Anne Greenaway’ | Deadnettle | The foliage emerges in shades of green, chartreuse, and silver. The buds form at the ends of stems opening to mauve-pink flowers that sprinkle the plant with additional color throughout May and June. |
6-8 inches | Part Shade/Shade | 3 | ||
| Perennial | LAMIUM maculatum ‘Lemon Frost’ | Deadnettle | Gold foliage and pink flowers really glow in the shade. |
4-6 inches | Part Shade/Shade | 3 | ||
| Perennial | LAMIUM maculatum ’Shell Pink’ | Deadnettle | This vigorous and tough ground cover has green heart-shaped leaves centered with silver stripes. Orchid pink flowers bloom through the season. |
6-10 inches | Part Shade/Shade | 3 | ||
| Perennial | LAMIUM maculatum ‘White Nancy’ | Deadnettle | Excellent groundcover with bright silvery leaves and white flowers. Attracts bees and butterflies Drought tolerant Deer and rabbit resistant |
4-6 inches | Part Shade/Shade | 3 | ||
| Annual | LAMPRANTHUS blandus ‘Pink Vygi’ | Pink Vygie | Small toothed succulent leaves with red dots are upright to trailing. Free blooming through summer with clusters of bright pink flowers. |
18-20 inches | Sun | Succulent | ||
| Annual | LANTANA ‘Bandana Cherry’ | Lantana | Large umbels of hot pink flowers centered with yellow and peach on a compact plant. Heat and drought tolerant. |
12-24 inches | Tropical | |||
| Annual | LANTANA ‘Bandana Pink’ | Mounding and bushy with bright pink flowers sporting a yellow eye, as the flowers age they turn completely pink. |
Full sun | |||||
| Annual | LANTANA ‘Confetti’ | Lantana | Upright-growing with flowers that are a combination of pink, salmon and red. |
2-3 feet | Tropical | |||
| Annual | LANTANA ‘Pink Caprice’ | Pink on the lower half, yellow on the upper half of every flower head on this mounding to slightly trailing plant. Hummingbird magnet |
Full sun | |||||
| Annual | LANTANA ‘Radiation’ | A mix of glowing red and orange. Hummingbird magnet |
Full sun | |||||
| Conifer | LARIX decidua ‘Pendula’ | Weeping Larch | Height depends on staking. Graceful pendulous form. We had them trained over the entrance to the nursery, evoking much comment. The deciduous foliage turns a beautiful gold in the fall. |
Large (over 12 inches/year)over 12 feet in ten years. | Sun/Part Shade | 3 | ||
| Conifer | LARIX decidua ‘Prag’ | European Larch | Soft green needles grow on this airy shrub, turning bright gold in fall. The branching forms a rounded shape good for smaller gardens. |
4-6 feet | Full sun | 2 | ||
| Conifer | LARIX decidua ‘Puli’ | Weeping Larch | A flat ground cover form. If staked, a narrow weeping tree similar to L. ‘Pendula’, but with denser and lighter green foliage. |
Large (over 12 inches/year)over 12 feet in ten years. | Sun/Part Shade | 3 | ||
| LARIX kaempferi ‘Blue Ball’ | Dwarf Larch | Low mounding form with soft blue-green foliage. |
Dwarf (3-6 inches/year)3-6 feet in ten years. | |||||
| Conifer | LARIX x marschlinsii ‘Umhausen’ | A dwarf Larch that sheds its needles in the fall. Very slow growing with gold and green needles that turn bright gold in fall. |
Full Sun/Part Shade | 5 | ||||
| Annual | LAURUS nobilis | Bay Laurel | Evergreen, sturdy and fragrant. Because it is slow growing, it makes an excellent container plant. Leave the pot outside during summer and bring it inside for the winter in colder zones. |
3-4 feet in a container | Sun/Part Shade | Tropical | ||
| Perennial | LAVANDULA angustofolia ‘Imperial Gem’ | Lavender | Floriferous and more compact with tidier and less leggy stems of a rich purple. Loads of flowers for most of the summer. Attracts bees & butterflies Deer & rabbit resistant Drought tolerant |
8-12" | Full sun | 5 | ||
| Perennial | LAVANDULA angustifolia ‘Munstead’ | English Lavender | A compact hardy cultivar with lavender flowers through the summer. |
12-16 inches | Sun | 5 | ||
| Perennial | LAVANDULA ‘Hidcote’ | English Lavender | Aromatic silver-gray foliage with deep blue-purple flower spikes all summer. Plant in very well drained soil, do not prune back until spring. |
20-22 inches | Sun | 5 | ||
| Perennial | LAVANDULA intermedia ‘Phenomenal’ | English Lavender | A new hardy lavender tolerant of both heat and cold. Purple flowers in early summer. |
2-3 feet | Sun | 4 | ||
| Annual | LEDEBOURIA socialis | Silver Scilla | Bulbous plant with spotted leaves and flowers in spring looking just like Grape Hyacinth. |
4-6 inches | Sun/Part Shade | Tropical | ||
| Annual | LEONOTIS leonurus | Lion's Ear | Brilliant orange, narrow tubular flowers in tiers on sturdy stems. Blooms late summer to fall. |
36-48 inches | Full sun | |||
| Perennial | LEONTOPODIUM alpinum | Edelweiss | Silvery low fuzzy mats with small white star-like flowers in the summer. Fantastic in the rock garden in well drained soil. |
6-8 inches | Full sun | 3 | ||
| Tree/Shrub | LESPEDEZA bicolor ‘Yakushima’ | Shrub Bushclover | A very dwarf cultivar that forms a tight little mound of small rosy purple pea-like flowers in Aug/Sept. |
12-18 inches | Sun/Part Shade | 4 | ||
| Tree/Shrub | LESPEDEZA thunbergii ‘Spilt Milk’ | Shrub Bushclover | Beautifully variegated leaves with cream and white stripes and flecks on dark green backgrounds. Fuchsia/purple pea-like blossoms in summer to early fall that bees love. Needs good drainage; becomes drought tolerant. |
4-5 feet | Sun/Part Shade | 4 | ||
| Perennial | LEUCANTHEMUM ‘Becky’ | Shasta Daisy | Flowers are large single white daisies with a yellow eye, valued in the garden and excellent for cutting. Divide plants every 2 to 3 years to maintain vigour. Removing faded flowers regularly will greatly increase the blooming time. |
18-24" | Full sun | 4 | ||
| Perennial | LEUCANTHEMUM ‘Snowcap’ | Compact and very hardy producing single white daisies and shiny green foliage for months. |
Full sun | 4 | ||||
| Perennial | LEUCOSCEPTRUM japonicum ‘Silver Angel’ | Japanese Shrub Mint | Long, toothed silver foliage on a large, clump-forming perennial. Topped with yellow, bottlebrush flowers in late autumn. |
30-36 inches | Part Shade | 4 | ||
| Perennial | liatria spicata ‘Floristan White’ | A strong vertical accent with fluffy white flowers all along the tall stems over grassy foliage. |
Full Sun/Part Shade | 3 | ||||
| Perennial | LIATRIS spicata | Fluffy deep purple flower heads line the tall and sturdy stems over fine grassy foliage. Great for meadow plantings and wetter areas. |
Full Sun/Part Shade | 3 | ||||
| Perennial | LIATRIS spicata ‘Alba’ | Spike Gayfeather | Spikes of white buttons in summer over grassy foliage. The butterflies love this selection of the native gayfeather. Attracts butterflies and bees, butterflies and hummingbirds Deer resistant Drought tolerant |
2-3 feet | Sun/Part Shade | 3 | ||
| Perennial | LIATRIS spicata ‘Kobold’ | Spiked Gayfeather | Spikes with lavender buttons on a much smaller plant. The best butterfly plant! |
14-16 inches | Sun | 3 | ||
| Perennial | LIGULARIA ‘Bottle Rocket’ | Ligularia | Mustard yellow flowers are held on chocolate-brown stems at the top of the clump of foliage with thicker, very large, serrated leaves. The flowers are held like a bouquet in the center of the clump, and there are more flowering stems per plant as compared to the other ‘rocket’ forms. |
28-34" | Part Shade/Shade | 4 | ||
| Perennial | LIGULARIA dentata ‘Britt Marie Crawford’ | Big Leaf Ligularia | Large, dark chocolate maroon leaves with purple reverse are striking. Large orange-yellow daisies in late summer. |
30-36 inches | Part Shade | 4 | ||
| Perennial | LIGULARIA dentata ‘Othello’ | Ligularia | A bold perennial for moist loactions bearing large, rounded green leaves with purple undersides. In june tall stems appear bearing large golden daisy-like flowers. Deer resistant Good cut flower Attracts butterflies |
36-42" | Part Shade/Shade | 3 | ||
| Perennial | LIGULARIA dentata ‘Pandora’ | Very similar to ‘Britt Marie Crawford’ but half her size! Compact deep bronze foliage with bunches of bright hyellow daaisy-like flowers. Happy when kept consistently moist. |
Part Shade/Shade | 3 | ||||
| Perennial | LILIUM martagon ‘Claude Shride’ | Martagon Lily | Dark red flowers with reflexed petals and orange centers. |
3-4 feet | Sun/Part Shade | 3 | ||
| Perennial | LILIUM martagon ‘Sunny Morning’ | Martagon Lilies | Downward facing flowers with strongly recurved petals in a sunny yellow with speckling in side. Each stem carries many flowers. |
30-36" | Full Sun/Part Shade | 3 | ||
| Perennial | LILIUM tigrinum ’Splendens’ | Tiger Lily | Scarlet-red pendant blooms have recurved petals speckled with burgundy. Flowers early to midsummer. |
3-4 feet | Full Sun/Part Shade | 3 | ||
| Perennial | LIMONIUM lat. ‘Dazzle Rocks’ | Sea Lavender | Big pouffs of lavender-purple, long-lasting cut and dried flowers for gorgeous bouquets summer into fall. Drought tolerant Attracts bees & butterflies Good cut flower |
16-20" | Full sun | 4 | ||
| Perennial | LINARIA purpurea | Toadflax | Slender spikes of lavender flowers look like miniature snapdragons Blooms in June. |
28-30 inches | Sun | 3 | ||
| Tree/Shrub | LINDERA benzoin | Spice Bush | A true harbinger of spring blooming early in the season offering food for the awakening pollinators from the small yellow flowers that have a sweet fragrance. Later red fruit is produced on female shrubs. Both fruit & foliage emit a spicy scent when crushed. Attracts birds and butterflies Deer resistant Tolerates wet, clay soils |
6-10 feet | Sun/Part Shade/Shade | 4 |