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Starting in mid-summer and blooming well into fall, this unusual, 15"-tall sedge generates striking, green-tipped, white bracts surrounding bitty flowers. The bract-flower combination looks like bright stars sailing over the tops of tall rushes. The flowers attract insect pollinators, which is unusual for plants in this primarily wind-pollinated family. Native...

A profuse bloom of bright, golden-yellow ray flowers with fluted petals and jagged edges make a tidy mound. Cut back in mid or late summer for rebloom. Appreciated by butterflies. PP18,789 Mature size: 1 – 1.5 ft T & W (Pictured with Erigeron 'W.R.', pale lavender blooms, and Erigeron 'Darkest of All', deep lavender blooms.)...

Felted, wavy, gray-green leaves make a dense, evergreen, nearly ground cover shrub that has, like many Cistus, the affable quality of suppressing weeds. Sunset's plentiful saturated pink flowers open in spring and summer and can last into fall. From southern Europe. Mature size: 2–3 ft T x 4-5 ft W Minimum temperature: 5° F

2-inch, spurred, fish-shaped flowers dangle below the length of leafy stems. Blooms freely most of the summer among leaves of solid medium green, providing an excellent backdrop for these unusual pure white flowers. Native to Nepal and China. Particularly robust for the genus. Foliage may be removed for shipping. Plants...

From the Andes to Patagonia, D. spinosa is a slowly growing, upright evergreen shrub. Very dark green glossy and spiny leaves are reminiscent of Holly but the flower is an unlikely but enticing waxy, tubular, bright orange pendent bloom seemingly dipped in yellow—a much better take on the candy corn effect....

Finely-petaled large yellow ray flowers with a flat, gold center disk, bloom in August and September. They can reach heights of 3–6 feet where the birds and butterflies will find them. Their overall texture is fairly coarse and would be especially effective as a distant planting, an easily read bright spot from...

Clusters of small, papery orbs with yellow centers bloom through midsummer above silvery-gray, soft narrow leaves. It clumps but also spreads by stolons to naturalize where conditions are advantageous. In most wildflower gardens something is needed for contrast and substance. This would be it! But do make certain its bed...

A West Himalayan (Afghanistan, and northwest India) sub-alpine bulb with springtime blooms of soft pink to buff-lavender trumpet-like flowers with recurved, narrowly spoon-shaped petals ascending on a stout stalk. After flowering, the blooming bulb dies and basal bulblets produce the new growth for the next season, reminiscent of a Cardiocrinum... though short and...

Very sweetly-scented small white flower clusters bloom in early spring on this handsome, neat, large rounded shrub. Long, narrow, leathery dark green leaves contrast beautifully with the white flowers. The shrub is dense enough to form an excellent, if somewhat slow-growing screen or hedge, but place it near enough to...

'Seika' meaning "sacred fire" in Japanese is aptly named given its predominant burgundy-red foliage year round with an infiltration of dark green leaves glowing through. It's dense and small, about 2 – 2.5' tall, with a 2' spread. The more sun, the more red and the more dense. Its natural habit is...

Spiny, 7-inch long, evergreen deep green leaves allow axillary clusters of tiny, very fragrant, creamy-white flowers from early to late-autumn. Handsome and dense (alas, like too many), it's suitable for an always good-looking focal point or as part of a screen. ("Osme" means fragrant, and "anthos" means flower in Greek.) It's...

A darling South African, Oxalis hirta blooms big with one-inch, yellow-throated, rich rose-pink trumpet flowers. Surprisingly drought-tolerant, it needs no summer water because fall and winter are its time for blooming atop its soft cushion of soft green leaves. Fall rains bring it to life, giving you color when you're experiencing...

Dense, fluffy, magenta-purple flowers emerge right before our asters to welcome in the fall. The saturated purple is incredible in the orange evening light of western late summer. Performs beautifully as a backdrop for goldenrods (Solidago), Echinacea, and Lobelias. It does self-sow, so remove flower heads before seeds develop if you...

Opposite, narrow, sawtooth leaves climb 3–5 foot stems toward white, pendent blooms summer to early fall. This is the perfect atmospheric, evocative plant that could make you think it's raining pretty white fuzzy caterpillars. Or it might make you think of frosty catkins. Or.... As I said, it's highly evocative. Minimum...

Opposite, narrow, sawtooth leaves climb toward white, pendent blooms in mid-summer through mid-autumn. This is the perfect atmospheric, evocative plant that could make you think it's raining pretty, white, fuzzy caterpillars. Or it might make you think of frosty catkins. Mature size: 3-5 ft T, clumping Minimum temperature: -20° F

Nice medium-green leaves with pointed tips. The narrow new stems are a showy red that matures to mahogany-colored bark on older branches. Always a clean and attractive specimen. This manzanita will accept more shade and some summer water without keeling over. Formerly sold as A. 'Klamath River' (IB 679) Found by Sean...