All Plants
| Type | Botanical Name | Native | Common Name | Description | Height | Light Req. | Zone | Add to My List |
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| Tree/Shrub | RHODODENDRON prinophyllum ‘Marie Hoffman’ | Roseshell Azalea | A triploid form of the Vermont native species with larger, clear pink fragrant flowers in May. |
4-6 feet | Sun/Part Shade | 3 | ||
| Tree/Shrub | RHODODENDRON schlippenbachii | Royal Azalea | Upright growing with the leaves in whorls around stems. Beautiful, fragrant soft pink flowers in spring just before the leaves. Doesn’t always bloom for us, but the foliage is worth it. |
6-8 feet | Part Shade/Shade | 4 | ||
| Tree/Shrub | RHODODENDRON viscosum | Swamp Azalea | A native azalea with delicate, fragrant lavender-pink blooms that open in June. Habit is loose and open. Great for wet locations. |
3-8 feet | Part Shade | 3 | ||
| Tree/Shrub | RHODODENDRON viscosum ‘Pink Mist’ | Swamp Azalea | A form of a native azalea with delicate pink blooms. Fragrant flowers in June. Upright habit. |
8-10 feet | Sun/Part Shade | 4 | ||
| Tree/Shrub | RHODODENDRON yakusimanum ‘Yaku Princess’ | Evergreen Rhododendron | Apple-blossom pink buds open to blush white flowers in clusters. Buff colored indumentum under olive leaves. Habit is low and dense. |
3-4 feet | Part Shade/Shade | 5 | ||
| Tree/Shrub | RHODODENDRON viscosum ‘Lemon Drop’ | Swamp Azalea, Deciduous Azalea | Peach-hued buds open to small butter-yellow tubular flowers with a subtle lemon fragrance, in July. Attracts many pollinators. Red-orange fall color, and red stems for winter interest. Salt tolerant. |
5-7 feet | Part Shade | 4 | ||
| Tree/Shrub | RHODODENDRON viscosum var. montanum | This swamp azalea bears loose clusters of fragrant white flowers growing best in consistently moist soil. |
Part Shade | 4 | ||||
| Tree/Shrub | RHODODENDRON ‘Yukon’ | A small-leaved evergreen with clusters of white flowers that can show a pale pink blush. |
Full Sun/Part Shade | 3 | ||||
| Tree/Shrub | RHUS aromatica ‘Gro-Low’ | Gro-Low Fragrant Sumac | Excellent for bank control. Fast-growing groundcover. Glossy green foliage turns scarlet to orange in the fall. |
18-30 inches | Sun/Part Shade | 4 | ||
| Tree/Shrub | RHUS copallina ‘Lanham Purple’ | Shining Sumac | Purple-red leaves and stems with fabulous bright red fall color. Good for naturalizing large areas. Spreads. Drought/salt tolerant. |
8-10 feet | Sun/Part Shade | 5 | ||
| Tree/Shrub | RHUS typhina ‘Tiger Eyes’ | Cutleaf Sumac | Bright yellow cutleaf foliage contrasts with fuzzy purple-pink stems. Slow-spreading and great fall color. |
6-8 feet | Sun/Part Shade | 4 | ||
| Tree/Shrub | ROBINIA pseudoacacia ‘Frisia’ | Golden Black Locust | Leaves golden yellow all season. Very showy accent in the garden. |
30-40 feet | Sun | 4 | ||
| Tree/Shrub | ROBINIA pseudoacacia ‘Twisty Baby’ | Black Locust | Unique shrub or small tree has eye-catching twisted branches and leaves. In spring, branches are draped with lovely white flowers that are edible! |
8-10 feet | Sun/Part Shade | 4 | ||
| Perennial | RODGERSIA pinnata ‘Superba’ | Rodger's Flower | Bold pinnately compound to palmate leaves tinged with red in the spring. Plumes of pink flowers in midsummer. Deer & rabbit resistant Good cut flower |
3-4 feet | Full Sun/Part Shade | 4 | ||
| Tree/Shrub | ROSA ‘Blanc de Coubert’ | Rugosa Shrub Rose | Fragrant double white flowers over typical rugose foliage. Repeat bloomer. |
4-5 feet | Sun | 4 | ||
| Tree/Shrub | ROSA ‘Charles Darwin’ | English Shrub Rose | Blooms are yellow-gold in color, with a strong, delicious fragrance; a sturdy shrub with broad, spreading growth. Repeat bloomer. |
4-5 feet | Sun | 5 | ||
| Tree/Shrub | ROSA ‘Charlotte’ | English Shrub Rose | Exquisite soft yellow, lightly fragrant flowers that start off beautifully cupped, then open to rosettes. Repeat blooms from late spring to frost. |
4 feet | Sun | 5 | ||
| Tree/Shrub | ROSA Easy Elegance ‘My Girl’ | Deep pink buds open to ruffled semi-double blossoms with spot free foliage on compact plants. |
Full sun | 4 | ||||
| Tree/Shrub | ROSA ‘Ice Cap’ | Shrub rose | Pure white ruffled blooms that are cupped and rounded on a compact shrub in summer. Very disease resistant. |
24-30 inches | Full sun | 5 | ||
| Tree/Shrub | ROSA rugosa ‘Lotty’s Love’ | Rugosa Shrub Rose | A hardy First Edition rose with very large, cinnamon-scented semi-double mauve blooms. Everblooming. Typical disease-resistant Rosa rugosa foiage. |
3-4 feet | 3 | |||
| Tree/Shrub | ROSA ‘Moonlight Romantica’ | Shrub Rose | Strong fragrance from large peachy-yellow fully double flowers. Reblooms from spring to fall. Very disease resistant Attracts butterflies |
5-6 feet | Full sun | 5 | ||
| Tree/Shrub | ROSA ‘New Dawn’ | Climbing Rose | Fragrant, double blush-pink blooms through the summer over glossy, disease-resistant foliage. |
10-12 feet | 5 | |||
| Tree/Shrub | ROSA rugosa | Rugosa Shrub Rose | Flowers are single pink and fragrant followed by orange-red hips. Has great hardiness and durablility. |
3-4 feet | Sun | 2 | ||
| Tree/Shrub | ROSA rugosa ‘Alba’ | Rugosa Shrub Rose | The white form of the hardy rugosa rose. Same great fragrance and large hips. |
3-4 feet | Sun | 2 | ||
| Tree/Shrub | ROSA ‘Sunrise Sunset’ | Shrub rose | A low, spreading shrub rose bear in abundance bright fuchsia flowers with a contrasting orange center. Very disease resistant |
24-36 inches | Full sun | 4 | ||
| Annual | ROSMARINUS ‘Tuscan Blue’ | Tuscan Blue Rosemary | Upright hedge of aromatic, needle-like evergreen foliage excellent in culinary and medicinal applications. Profuse clear blue flowers. Can be kept as a houseplant. |
6 feet | Sun | 8 | ||
| Tree/Shrub | RUBUS cockburnianus | White-stemmed Bramble | Self-fertile; flowers from June to July, and the inedible seeds ripen from August to September. Arching branches provide winter interest. |
9 feet | Full Sun/Part Shade | 5 | ||
| Tree/Shrub | RUBUS cockburnianus ‘Golden Vale’ | Ghost Bramble | Grown for foliage rather than fruit, this cultivar has bright gold leaves through the summer on arching canes. Stems are a great silvery pink in winter. Cut to the ground in the spring to maintain size. |
4-6 feet | Sun/Part Shade | 5 | ||
| Tree/Shrub | RUBUS thibetanus ‘Silver Fern’ | Ghost Bramble | White stems and silver tomentose foliage. Clusters of red/purple flowers are followed by black, blackberry-like inedible fruits. The stems also provide winter interest. |
30-36 inches | Sun/Part Shade | 5b | ||
| Perennial | RUDBECKIA ‘American Gold Rush’ | Black-eyed Susan | The foliage is thin, fuzzy and shows no signs of fungus even in wet or humid conditions. Compact plant produces a dome of yellow daisy flowers from summer through fall. |
20-24" | Sun/Part Shade | 3 | ||
| Perennial | RUDBECKIA fulgida ‘Deamii’ | Black-Eyed Susan | Similar to R. ‘Goldstrum’ with slightly smaller golden yellow blooms and taller habit. |
30-36 inches | Sun | 3 | ||
| RUDBECKIA fulgida ‘Goldsturm’ | Black-Eyed Susan | Bushy clumps provide a profuse display of dark cones, golden-orange daisies from midsummer through fall. Seedheads provide winter interest and food for birds. Excellent for cutting. May reseed. |
24-26 inches | Sun | 3 | |||
| Perennial | RUDBECKIA fulgida var. speciosa ‘Prairie Blaze’ | Black-Eyed Susan | A very floriferous, more compact variety with golden yellow blooms in the summer. |
14-16 inches | Sun | 4 | ||
| Perennial | RUDBECKIA ‘Glitters Like Gold’ | Black-Eyed Susan | Clean foliage that is resistant to septoria leaf spot. 3″ gold flowers appear summer through fall. Not fussy and will grow anywhere except in wet soils. Loved by butterflies and pollinators. |
24-36 inches | Full sun | 3 | ||
| Perennial | RUDBECKIA ‘Goldblitz’ | Black-eyed Susan | Very resistant to leaf spot with bright flowers all summer long. The best low maintenance perennials. Attracts bees & butterfies Deer resistant Drought tolerant |
24-28" | Full Sun/Part Shade | 4 | ||
| Perennial | RUDBECKIA laciniata ‘Herbstonne’ | Cutleaf Coneflower | Late flowering coneflower with masses off golden-yellow daisies with dark brown cones. Sturdy stems and cut-leaf foliage make this a stand out perennial for the back of the border. |
4-7 feet | Sun | 3 | ||
| Perennial | RUDBECKIA maxima | Great Coneflower | Large, silver-blue leaves. Late, light yellow flowers and very large brown cones. Looks like something out of Dr. Suess! |
6-7 feet | Sun | 4 | ||
| Perennial | RUDBECKIA subtomentosa ‘Little Henry’ | Sweet Coneflower | Numerous light yellow daisies with rolled, quill-like petals on strong upright stems in late summer. Shorter and less floppy than similar R. ‘Henry Eilers’. |
3-4 feet | Sun | 4 | ||
| Perennial | RUELLIA humilis | Wild Petunia | Native perennial Petunia for dry or shallow soils that is well suited to rock gardens. It has lovely purple trumpet flowers in midsummer. Rare, although it shouldn’t be! Light purple flowers appear between June and July. |
8-12" | Sun/Part Shade | 4 | ||
| Annual | RUSSELIA equisetiformis ‘Coral Fountain’ | Coral Plant | Bright orange trumpet-shaped blooms in profusion on cascading stems. Attracts hummingbirds & butterflies |
24-36" | Full sun | Overwinter Indoors | ||
| Perennial | SAGINA subulata ‘Aurea’ | Gold Irish Moss | Bright gold-green mats of tight moss-like foliage. White flowers. Best foliage color with morning sun and afternoon shade. |
2-4 inches | Sun/Part Shade | 4 | ||
| Tree/Shrub | SALIX alba ‘Flame’ | Flame Willow | Grown for its brilliant red winter stems. Cut back annually. To 35’ if unpruned. |
30-40 feet | Sun/Part Shade | 3 | ||
| Tree/Shrub | SALIX candida ‘Iceberg Alley’ | Sageleaf Willow | Powdery, silver foliage adds texture and contrast when combined with other shrubs. Rounded form; blooms in spring with silver catkins, red stamens and nectar for pollinators. Tolerant of moist soils and a good choice for rain gardens. Deer resistant. Attract bees/hummingbirds. |
3-6 feet | Full Sun/Part Shade | 2 | ||
| Tree/Shrub | SALIX chaenomeloides ‘Black Cat’ | Pussywillow | Extra large, deep black catkins on a large shrub works well as a screen or barrier. In spring the catkins start out pink and turn to deep black. Wonderful cut flower Deer resistant Tolerates wet soil |
10-12 feet | Full Sun/Part Shade | 4 | ||
| Tree/Shrub | SALIX rosmarinifolia | Rosemary Willow | Needle-like gray-green foliage reminiscent of rosemary on a large shrub. Makes a nice standard. |
12-15 feet | Sun | 4 | ||
| Annual | SALVIA ‘Amante’ | Hybrid Sage | Bright fuchsia flowers with dark calyxes on tall stems. Hummingbird and bumblebee magnet |
40-48 inches | Full sun | |||
| Annual | SALVIA ‘Amistad’ | Hybrid Sage | Salvias are pollinator magnets with long, narrow, tubular blooms that hummingbirds love! Whorls of large deep purple flowers all summer on a semi-shrubby plant. |
4-6 feet | Sun | Tropical | ||
| Perennial | SALVIA Color Spires ‘Azure Snow’ | Garden Sage | Forming a compact clump of deep violet blue and white bicolor flowers with attractive dark green foliage. |
18-20" | Sun | 3 | ||
| Perennial | SALVIA Color Spires ‘Indiglo Girl’ | Meadow Sage | Indigo blue flowers are held in dark calyxes on a bushy mound of foliage. Attracts bees, butterflies & hummingbirds Good cut flower Drought tolerant Deer & rabbit resistant |
20-22" | Full sun | 3 | ||
| Annual | SALVIA ‘Ember’s Wish’ | Hybrid Sage | A sport from S. ‘Wendy’s Wish’ with large coral red tubular blooms through the summer. |
3-4 feet | Tropical |