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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
