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Category Archives: Perennials

Baptisia Twilite Prairieblues

Baptisia, Twilight Prarieblues PP19011 Blanketed with hundreds of eye-catching, sense-drenching, purple-violet bicolor blooms. May through mid-June, this beauteous baptisia, bred at the Chicago Botanic Garden, is blanketed with hundreds of bicolor blooms. Eye-catching, sense-drenching purple-violet flowers with lemon-yellow center keels

King of Hearts Dicentra

Long blooming bleeding heart with tight clustered flower buds. Save space in your garden for this exuberant dicentra. With three species in its parentage, this bleeding heart often exceeds our expectations—longer in bloom, with more defined, fully formed pink hearts,

Cortaderia Pink Pampas

Give your garden the powerful and dramatic feeling of height. Customer Favorite! This sensuous ornamental grass has huge, silky, sand-pink plumes reaching 2 ft. long atop 6-7 ft. stalks from early summer to mid-autumn. Dramatic in large dried arrangements.

Beacon Silver Lamium

Silvery ground cover for dry shade. Our top choice for problem areas in the garden. This ground cover lends beautiful cover under our old holly tree at Fordhook Farm. Perfect for keeping out weeds and highlighting shady corners, the silvery

Little Quick Fire Hydrangea

Hydrangea Paniculata, Little Quick Fire Nonstop, mind-blowing blooms. Creamy white flower spikes kindle into deep pink with fiery carmine highlights on red stems on neat, compact plants before other varieties, from early summer and clear through to September. The flower

Midnight Prairieblues Baptisia

Baptisia, Midnight Prairieblues PP#20432 Great plant for vertical accent in any garden, Baptisia Midnight Prairieblues was developed by Dr. Jim Ault at the Chicago Botanic Garden in Glencoe, Illinois. The plant is shorter than regular false indigo, 3-4 feet high,

Dahlia Fordhook Garden Mix

Extra colorful and tidy, plants are exceptional in foliage and bloom. This collection boasts a unique mix of tall, darker-leafed dahlias with single to double blooms in a mix of scarlet-red to orange-salmon. Upright plants with outfacing blooms and dark

Big Top Gold Heuchera

Heuchera, Big Top Gold PP 21775 Huge leaves up to 8″ in size. Robust mounds flaunt the largest leaves and flowers of any of the villosa hybrids. Leaves are up to 8″ in size , extra showy and curly, and

Helleborus Ballardiae Cinnamon Snow PPAF

A lovely ornamental, winter-blooming hellebore. Dark foliage frame stems loaded with early blooms, suffused with tints of warm rose and cinnamon. Cinnamon Snow looks great in pots and in garden beds mixed in with ferns and other hellebores.

Echinacea PowWow White

Dense branching with white coneflowers. Let the (flower) show begin! The sensational explosion of 3-4″ pure white flowers with golden centers dazzles from early to late summer. The 20-24″ plants are remarkable for their dense branching, producing more flowers than

Black Sprite Centaurea

Centaurea, Black Sprite PPAF Unique purple-black spidery blooms. Very striking purplish black blooms appear like shiny, spidery starbursts. Compact plants have gray-green silvery foliage. Very easy to grow in full sun with other daisies. Drought tolerant and prefers well-drained soil.

Bottle Rocket Ligularia

Ligularia, Bottle Rocket PPAF Richly saturated 12” yellow spikes on chocolate stems dazzle in the border. One luminous leopard plant. With richly saturated 12” yellow spikes on chocolate stems, ‘Bottle Rocket’ adds dazzle to the dampest shady sites from spring

Graham Thomas Rose

One of the best and most widely grown roses. Gorgeous Hall of Fame English rose with rich yellow cupped flowers, large bright green leaves and dreamy tea rose scent. Ranging in color from pink to peach, plump buds arrive in

Fama White Scabiosa

Incredible, unstoppable summer bloomer. Fama White’s perfectly white 3-4″, “pincushion” flowers embellish tall sturdy stems, floating serenely 20″ above the silvery-blue foliage. Great in vases. Deadhead to keep the flowers blooming. Very hardy.

Carillo Red Penstemon

Flowers, a fierce, gorgeous shade of red, make a stunning impression. Fire in the border! With flowers a fierce, gorgeous shade of red, ‘Carillo Red’ makes a stunning impression in the sun-soaked perennial border. Blooming from late spring until late

Abraham Darby Rose

Repeat bloomer with dazzling color and fragrance. A 1985 introduction that continues to dazzle with its fruity and fresh fragrance. Thickly doubled rose is very large with cupped petals shading apricot to yellow, later tinged pink. Remarkably repeat-blooming and an

Illumination Flame Digiplexis

Foxglove cross with luminous reddish-orange flowers is a marvel of color and shape. Welcome a new dimension in the land of flowers. Like a foxglove from a particularly lovely dream, this cross of digitalis (foxglove) and isoplexis (a foxglove cousin),

Rosy Jane Gaura

Breakthrough bicolor is drought tolerant. We are enchanted by this delectable new bicolor beauty—a breakthrough debut in the graceful gaura palette. From summer till fall, 24″ tall plants produce a glorious display of white flowers prettily edged with pink picotee.

Fire Spinner Delosperma

Delosperma, Fire Spinner PPAF South African variety features multi-colored flowers. South African variety produces a delirious spring-summer tapestry of multicolored flowers over spreading mats of apple-green evergreen foliage. Most prolific in spring, 2-4” variety’s vibrantly-hued flowers—with inner bands of purple-pink

Autumn Fern

Shows fall colors in the spring. Dryopteris erythrosora is known as the “Autumn Fern”; this beauty is at its best in the spring, “autumn” describing its colors as foliage color changes with season. New growth emerges metallic coppery green, turns