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Single red flowers (from deep crimson to cerise-pink) blooming continuously from spring to frost on new wood. Average soils; vigorous; disease-resistant; nearly thornless; good-looking foliage. Mature size: 5 feet tall x 4 feet wide. Minimum temperature: -10° F

A vigorous cultivar with yellow fully double flower heads. The blooms are borne majestically on 6 feet tall stems; clump-forming to 3-5 feet. It's impressive to have something so exuberant towering in your garden. Found often along streams, moist woodlands, or sloughs in mid to late summer along streams, moist woodlands, or...

From a seedling in a garden in Stanwell, Middlesex, England, this one has THE quintessential rose fragrance. Like rosewater; like rose incense; like ROSE! Medium-sized soft pink double blossoms open continuously over several months seeming to get richer in color as the season progresses. If you're lucky, it can produce flowers up...

'Rotlaub' (red leaf) has dark chocolate-brown to coppery-red leaves (similar in shape to that of chestnut leaves) making this one of the best foliage plants for moist shade. Three-foot-tall stems terminate in a creamy-white, flowery plume. It's slow to propagate but the drama it creates makes it all worthwhile. Try it...

Red-orange spring leaf color becomes glossy-green in summer, followed by absolutely brilliant reds in fall. A deciduous tree, broadly pyramidal, hands-down handsome. Mature size: 30-40 ft wide x 15-25 ft tall Minimum temperature: -20° F Featured on Great Plant Picks: https://www.greatplantpicks.org/plantlists/view/1795

Pendent, vivid rosy-purple bracts and tiny pink flowers bloom in late summer on cascading stems; this is a gem for the rock garden. Mature size: 10 in T x W Minimum temperature: 0° F

October to November, beautifully fragrant apricot-scented flowers perfume the whole garden! A fast-growing evergreen cross between O. heterphyllus and O. fragrans, it's a perfect screen or hedge that takes well to pruning. The dark green leaves have fine spines on their edges to deter pesky marauders, solicitors, or intruders of whatever stripe....

With periwinkle-blue flower spikes all summer amongst a fragrant cloud of gray-green foliage, 'Walker's Low' will attract both hummingbirds and butterflies. It will cascade beautifully over an edge, be it a wall or pot, function as a taller ground cover or try it in a mass planting for a billowy effect. It's most content with...

Blush-pink lily-esque flowers have narrow, wavy, recurving petals. They are the epitome of elegance! Endemic to South Africa, they come from grassy, acidic marshes that experience summer rainfall—a clue to their cultural requirements. 18" tall. Minimum temperature: 5° F

One of the first native shrubs to bloom in our woods with pendant racemes of either male or female flowers on this dioecious plant. The first leaves are a spritely upright pair, like vertical wings, with white flower 'earrings' dangling just below—an elegant and pretty herald of spring. Female plants produce...

Nearly black, shiny, narrow, strappy leaves are an exotic foil for other colors: bright yellow-green (Carex Bowles Golden), cream/light green (Iris pallida 'Aurea Variegata'), other blacks (Iris chrysographes).... Lilac flowers on spikes appear early to late summer and the resulting fleshy black fruits remain all winter. 6–12 inches tall and...

Deep reddish-purple bracts continue the show long after cerise pink flowers have faded. Bees absolutely love it - more than almost anything else in the garden - and deer and drought aren't a problem. Mature size: 2 feet tall and happily spreading. Minimum temperature: -20° F

The finest of grasses, these pretty, light green, silky tufts catch the light and sway in the breeze. Seedheads appear in summer as feathery pinkish tufts. Mexican Feather Grass is good in containers, as the foreground in a grass garden, or a dense slope cover. (Some self-sowing.) Drought-tolerant; beautiful and flowing! Especially...

Grassy leaves in a tight clump follow pink flowers with narrow, wavy, recurved petals; blooms early October through November—a South African fall delight, delicate in appearance, and supremely elegant. In its native environment, it occurs in grassy, acidic marshes that experience summer rainfall. Its home is Lesotho, Swaziland and KwaZulu-Natal where...

Spidery, lily-like flowers form large umbels and bloom white to dark pink with "diamond dust" on the petals. Their petals are narrow, wavy, and elegantly recurving. They open late summer and early autumn, blooming first on naked stems, then the leaves emerge. What a welcome blast of beauty they are when...

A coarse pattern of pale green 2-foot fronds emerges from pinkish-purple buds. Fertile leaflets form panicles of maroon, bead-like structures containing the spores, hence the name Bead Fern. It spreads to create a tropicalesque ground cover that is tolerant of wet sites. 16 inches tall. Minimum temperature: -30° F Ships only while dormant