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Ornamental leaves of green and gold can be a significant beacon of cheer in winter. This evergreen shrub can grow 10' tall and wide if left unpruned; pruned, it can form a bright, variegated screen. Fairly inconspicuous, silvery flowers sweetly scent its environment in fall. Minimum temperature: 0° F Featured on Great Plant...

Elegant deciduous shrub with a twiggy upright growth habit. 'Miyama Beni' blooms with masses of deep red blooms in late spring. Fall leaf varients of red, yellow and purple. The species is native to the open woodlands of Japan where it thrives in moist organic-rich soil with an acidic pH; making...

Low and spreading, this selection has green leaves with a silken grey covering that catches the dew, and bright orange, gorgeously blaring trumpets that hummingbirds endlessly delight in. Given a chance, it will cascade beautifully over a rock wall or edging. It is indeed drought-tolerant but will look more full with occasional summer...

An amazing red trumpet show in late summer blooms amongst greener leaves than some (some more gray-green). 1' T x 2' W weed-suppressing mat, perfect for any sunny, dry garden or over a walled terrace. This is a Siskiyou and Sierra Nevada native! Minimum temperature: 0° F

This northern California resident blooms early through mid-autumn. Vermillion-orange trumpets and silver-green leaves dazzle everyone, especially hummingbirds. Whew! It takes my breath away! This is a prime example, in the parlance of the art academy, of what is called "the interaction of color!" (Homage here to Joseph Albers) Its joyful in...

Silvery, soft foliage on a shrubby, woody-based plants with narrow, flared, light salmon-pink flowers — a lovely combination, more demure than the bright orange Epilobiums. But hummingbirds appreciate them, too. Works well with rocks, gravel, slopes, and over walls.... Drought-tolerant but enjoys some summer water. Prune hard in late winter. Mature size:...

Large yellow flowers concentrate to orange toward the cup tips, blooming early spring through mid-late spring at least, and often throughout the rest of the summer. This is one of the most prolific and long-blooming of the Epimediums. Toothed and elongated heart-shaped leaves last most of the year and both...

Emerging heart-shaped leaves are flushed with burgundy below springtime racemes of rose-pink flowers with white spurs and cups. Evergreen or semi-evergreen depending upon your locale. Mature size: 15 in T x W Minimum temperature: -20° F

The spring foliage is green but with the onset of colder temperatures becomes nearly black, and when it spreads, a sea of intriguing black! The yellow flowers, small nodding stars with orange veining are held above the leaves in spring — beautiful against the dark foliage. Mature size: 10 in T,...

Toothed, heart-shaped leaves emerge red and turn a deep, velvety, chocolate-purple with purple-rose and white flowers held above the leaves in spring; flaring white spurs and purple-pink sepals make this "jester's hat." The leaves will gradually turn green by spring's end; there's a lot happening with this one! Deciduous. Mature size: 12...

These pale rose-purple flowers bloom mid-spring and have radically inward-curving spurs. Blooms are held aloft on long reddish stems above small, smooth-edged, green, heart-shaped leaves. Deciduous. Mature size: Minimum temperature: -20° F

An 8-inch tall spreading evergreen*, E. leptorrhizum has light lavender-pink flowers with long, widely-arching spurs. Especially dainty in flower and leaf, this Epimedium's new narrow leaves emerge blushing pink — a fine-textured, subtle ground cover, blooming in spring. Minimum temperature: -20° F *Foliage is cut back for shipping in the late fall...

From Chile, this very low, creeping, dense, and somewhat rubbery plant has finely cut, glossy, evergreen leaves and small yellow flowers in early and midsummer. Only 1 – 2 inches tall and 2 feet wide, it forms a nice cushion and a tidy edging for an alpine garden or rockery. Minimum temperature: 0° F

The species is a New England and Midwestern native, and this cultivar boasts royal purple rays surrounding yellow centers on a "daisy" flower that thickly covers this low , mounding, compact perennial — in short, it is a purple dome. Bloom time is late summer to fall, enriching the autumn garden with its wonderful...

Valuable for their gold-centered bright blue ray flowers and long bloom in late summer to fall, this should be one of the staples in your perennial garden. This particular blue veritably glows in the lowering fall light! Tough and pretty. Mature size: 2 – 4 ft tall x 2 – 3 feet wide. Minimum temperature:...

Low basal foliage undergirds a bevy of lavender-pink flowers in late summer and fall. 2 ft tall and clumping. Minimum temperature: 0° F