All Plants
| Type | Botanical Name | Native | Common Name | Description | Height | Light Req. | Zone | Add to My List |
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| Tree/Shrub | AESCULUS parviflora | Bottlebrush Buckeye | A large shrub with great foliage and white bottle-brush flowers in July. Wide-spreading, it will form a dense thicket. |
8-12 feet | Sun/Part Shade/Shade | 4 | ||
| Tree/Shrub | AESCULUS neglecta ‘Erythroblastus’ | Horse Chestnut | Magnificent silvery cream spring foliage turns lime green by midsummer. Slow-growing southeast native. |
30-40 feet | Sun | 5 | ||
| Annual | AGAPANTHUS praecox ‘Zambezi’ | Variegated foliage of green & gold. Large blue flower heads. |
Full sun | Overwinter Indoors | ||||
| Annual | AGAPANTHUS ‘Twister’ | Large flower heads of white and pale lavender. |
Full sun | Overwinter Indoors | ||||
| Annual | AGAPANTHUS ‘Lapis’ | Dwarf variety with bright blue flowers on sturdy stems. |
Full sun | Tropical | ||||
| Perennial | AGASTACHE ‘Blue Fortune’ | Anise Hyssop | Long-lasting lavender-blue flower spikes all summer. Foliage is fragrant. Great pollinator plant. Not long-lived, but reseeds reliably. |
2-3 feet | Sun | 4 | ||
| Annual | AGAVE americana ‘Marginata’ | Century Plant | Gray-blue succulent strap-like foliage with bright yellow margins. |
4-6 feet | Tropical | |||
| Annual | AGERATUM ‘Lemon Lime’ | Floss Flower | Rich lavender flowers highlighted by green and lime foliage. Attracts butterflies |
14-16" | Full sun | |||
| Perennial | AJUGA Feathered Friends ‘Parrot Paradise’ | Bugleweed | Three colors on a single plant! Stunning tri-color leaves of bright yellow, orange, and red on this new ultra-hardy hybrid Ajuga, plants are topped in spring with beautifully contrasting cobalt-blue flowers. |
6" | Sun/Part Shade | 3 | ||
| Perennial | AJUGA ‘Princess Leia’ | Bugleweed | Green and white variegated foliage with deep purple flowers in spring. Attracts butterflies & hummingbirds Deer resistant |
4-6" | Part Shade/Shade | 4 | ||
| Perennial | AJUGA reptans ‘Black Scallop’ | Bugleweed | A cultivar with shiny, very dark burgundy scalloped foliage. Short spikes of deep blue blooms cover the plant in the spring. Slow-spreading to 3 feet wide. |
4-6 inches | Sun/Part Shade | 4 | ||
| Perennial | AJUGA reptans ‘Blueberry Muffin’ | Carpet Bugle | Forms a dense mat of rounded green leaves that start out with a nice bronze flush than covered with blueberry-colored flowers in summer. |
6-8 inches | Sun/Part Shade | 4 | ||
| Perennial | AJUGA reptans ‘Burgundy Glow’ | Bugleweed | Lovely tri-color foliage is burgundy, white and green. Flowers blue. |
4-6 inches | Sun/Part Shade | 4 | ||
| Perennial | AJUGA reptans ‘Metallica Crispa’ | Bugleweed | Distinctly curled leaves of dark bronze. Unlike other Ajuga, it’s not a rapid spreader. |
4-6 inches | Sun/Part Shade | 4 | ||
| Perennial | ALCEA ‘Blackberry Ripple’ | Ruffled double and semi-double blooms in a mix of deep purple and white. |
Full sun | 3 | ||||
| Perennial | ALCEA ‘Purple Rain’ | Hollyhocks | A true perennial form of Hollyhocks that bear tall stems of deep purple for most of the summer. |
5-6 feet | Full sun | 5 | ||
| Perennial | ALCEA rosea ‘Black Knight’ | Hollyhock | New introduction in the ‘Spotlight’ series. Black-purple single flowers; blooms first year and truly perennial (unlike the old-fashioned biennial varieties). Cut to ground after bloom. |
5-6 feet | Sun | 3 | ||
| Perennial | ALCEA rosea ‘Radiant Rose’ | Hollyhock | Rose-pink single mallow flowers on tall, sturdy stems. This selection is from the perennial Spotlight series. |
5-6 feet | Full sun | 3 | ||
| Perennial | ALCHEMILLA alpina | Lady's Mantle | A dwarf form with sprays of chartreuse flowers. |
6-8 inches | Sun/Part Shade | 3 | ||
| Perennial | ALCHEMILLA sericata ‘Gold Strike’ | Lady’s Mantle | Low tufts of grey-green scalloped foliage, with umbels of bright gold flowers late spring to early summer. |
12-14 inches | Sun/Part Shade | 3 | ||
| Perennial | ALLIUM ‘Bubble Bath’ | Large lavender balls of flowers over blue-green foliage give a big impact in the sunny garden. Attracts butterflies and bees. |
Full sun | 4 | ||||
| Perennial | ALLIUM cernuum | Nodding Onion | Clumps of flat, narrow, grass-like leaves and tiny bell-shaped, pink to lilac pink (occasionally white) flowers which appear in loose, nodding clusters. |
12-18 Inches | Sun/Part Shade | 4 | ||
| Perennial | ALLIUM ‘Little Sapphire’ | A later blooming ornamental onion with deep purple balls of flowers mid to late summer. Rabbit & deer resistant |
Full sun | 4 | ||||
| Perennial | ALLIUM ‘Millenium’ | Ornamental Onion | Profuse 2” rosy purple umbels on strong stems in mid to late summer. |
16-20 inches | Sun | 4 | ||
| Perennial | ALLIUM ‘Mount Everest’ | Ornamental Onion | Creamy white, 5-inch globes top long stems from late spring to summer. Splendid grown against a dark background, and like all of the big alliums, it makes an impressive cut flower. Deer Resistant |
44-48" | Full sun | 4 | ||
| Perennial | ALLIUM schoenoprasum ‘Forescate’ | Giant flowering chives | A large-flowered selection of Common Chives, forms a low mound of grassy leaves, with rose-purple flowers in late spring. Flowers and leaves are edible. Nice as a cut flower, fresh or dried. Attracts hummingbirds and butterflies. Clumps are easily divided in spring or fall. Deadhead to prevent self-seeding, as they will revert to regular chives. […] |
12-18 inches | Full Sun/Part Shade | 2 | ||
| Perennial | ALLIUM senescens ‘Blue Eddy’ | Compact and swirling blue-green foliage topped in summer with lilac colored balls. A great plant for rock gardens. Attracts butterflies and bees Deer and rabbit resistant |
Full sun | 4 | ||||
| Perennial | ALLIUM senescens ssp. ‘Glaucum’ | Circle Onion | Flat blue-green corkscrew shoots form a distinctive clump. Pink flowers in late summer. |
6-8 inches | Sun | 4 | ||
| Perennial | ALLIUM senescens ‘Mongolian Gem’ | Curly Onion | Handsome blue-green, strap-like leaves are followed in late summer with 18″ stems of decorative, 2″ balls of lavender-pink flowers, growing from clusters of small bulbs which have had medicinal use throughout Europe, Siberia, Northern Asia. Bronzy-yellow fall foliage. |
18" | Full sun | 3 | ||
| Annual | ALOCASIA calodora ‘Persian Palm’ | Elephant Ears | Large bright green leaves with an undulating edge. |
3-4 feet | Full Sun/Part Shade | Overwinter Dormant Indoors | ||
| Annual | ALOCASIA odora ‘Maui Splash’ | Elephant Ears | Large green leaves are splashed with gold. |
24-36 inches | Part Shade | Overwinter Dormant Indoors | ||
| Annual | ALOCASIA ‘Regal Shields’ | Elephant Ears | Shiny, deep green tropical leaves with a burgundy underside. |
24-30 inches | Full Sun/Part Shade | Overwinter Dormant Indoors | ||
| Annual | ALOE ‘Green Sand’ | Aloe | Thick succulent foliage speckled with white to pink bumps even along the edges. |
10-12 inches | Sun/Part Shade | Succulent | ||
| Annual | ALOE ‘Snow White’ | Aloe | Thick succulent green foliage is heavily speckled with white. |
10-12 inches | Sun/Part Shade | Succulent | ||
| Annual | ALSTROEMERIA Colorita ‘Fabiana’ | Peruvian Lily | Palest yellow with deep red streaks and variegated foliage. When dead-headed will continue to bloom throughout summer. Good cut flower Attracts hummingbirds |
8-12" | Full Sun/Part Shade | Overwinter Dormant Indoors | ||
| Annual | ALTERNANTHERA ‘Red Threads’ | Joseph's Coat | Mounding; unusual slender leaves; forms a densely-branched, textured carpet in shades of deep burgundy. Deer resistant. |
8-12 inches | Sun/Part Shade | Tropical | ||
| Perennial | ALYSSUM montanum ‘Mountain Gold’ | Basket of Gold | Masses of yellow blooms over evergreen silver-gray foliage in spring. Forms a low-spreading mound. Needs good drainage. Great for rock gardens. Attracts bees Deer resistant |
4-6 inches | Sun | 2 | ||
| Tree/Shrub | AMELANCHIER ‘Autumn Brilliance’ | Serviceberry | A large multi-stem shrub or small tree with white flowers in very early spring. Foliage is blue-green turning red in the autumn. Red berries in summer mature to purple and are edible. Excellent native for groves or border. |
20-25 feet | Sun/Part Shade/Shade | 3 | ||
| Perennial | AMSONIA ‘Blue Ice’ | Bluestar | A new, long-blooming form with dark blue flowers. Habit is dense and mounding. |
14-16 inches | Sun/Part Shade | 4 | ||
| Perennial | AMSONIA ciliata ‘Hubrichtii’ | Bluestar | Thread-like leaves and very pale blue flowers in June-July. Awesome yellow fall color for weeks. |
22-24 inches | Sun/Part Shade | 4 | ||
| Perennial | AMSONIA ‘String Theory’ | A threadleaf and compact version of the industry standard Amsonia hubrichtii. Light periwinkle blue flowers in late spring, flowering later than ‘Storm Cloud’. Golden-orange fall color. Deer resistant. Heat and humidity tolerant. Can go several years between divisions. |
18-22 inches | Full Sun/Part Shade | 4 | |||
| Perennial | AMSONIA tabernaemontana ‘Storm Cloud’ | Bluestar | In this cultivar the stems emerge near black in the spring! Typical blue flowers cover the plant in early summer. Forms a wide mound. |
24-30 inches | Sun/Part Shade | 5 | ||
| Annual | ANACAMPSEROS rufescens | Sand Rose | Slowly creeping branched stems and fleshy leaves spirally arranged along the stem, exposed to full sun, they become reddish-brown to purple. Flowers range from pink to rose-purple and appear on stalks in late spring and summer. |
3-4" | Full Sun/Part Shade | Succulent | ||
| ANACYCLUS depressus | Atlas Mountain Daisy | A mini-daisy for the rock garden with white flowers in summer over ferny gray foliage. |
4-6 inches | |||||
| Perennial | ANCHUSA capensis ‘Blue Angel’ | Bugloss | Bright blue forget-me-not flowers over shrubby plants with fuzzy foliage. Blooms early summer with brilliant cobalt-blue flowers. |
12-14 inches | Sun | 3 | ||
| Perennial | ANDROMEDA polifolia ‘Blue Ice’ | Bog Rosemary | Low-growing mound of evergreen icy blue foliage blanketed by masses of nodding, bell-shaped, small, pink flowers in early spring. Compact, spreading habit. Great in rock gardens and as groundcover along stream margins. |
1 foot | Sun/Part Shade | 2 | ||
| Grass | ANDROPOGON gerardii ‘Blackhawks’ | The upright foliage starts dark green but begins to turn purple in late summer as nights cool and will be almost black by Autumn. |
Full sun | 3 | ||||
| Grass | ANDROPOGON gerardii ‘Red October’ | Big Bluestem | Foliage starts deep green with some red highlights, as the season progresses the color becomes more and more red increasing to deep burgundy. Late season brings fluffy flower heads that are shades of red. |
5-6 feet | Full sun | 3 | ||
| ANDROSACE sempervivoides ‘Susan Joan’ | Rock Jasmine | Small rosettes of silvery foliage topped with clusters of light pink flowers maturing to rose. Blooms in spring. |
2-4 inches | |||||
| Perennial | ANEMONE ‘Dawn Breaker’ | Bright pink Anemone that blooms in late spring on compact plants. |
Full Sun/Part Shade | 5 |