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The horizontality of this pretty, soft, light to medium green shrub-of-a-redwood emphasizes its fan-like branching pattern. 1 ft tall by 4 ft wide in 10 years. Minimum temperature: -5° F

Rich green with a dusting of grey, feathery, aromatic foliage culminates in creamy button flowers in mid and late summer—an elegant aristocrat of the genus. It makes a pretty but serviceable matrix in an herb garden or sunny perennial bed. Trim when flowers are spent and lean, well-draining soil is the order...

Twice blooming: early July, then early October! These ray flowers seem like a rosette of matches (striking!) with quill petals that are yellow at the shaft, and red at the "spoon" end. Prolong your July fireworks with these. Mature size: 2 ft T x 3 ft W rounded clump. Minimum temperature: -20° F

A selection from the Polly Hill Arboretum, MA, four-inch white blooms cover this elegant tree from early to mid-summer. The bark is the same patchy, multi-colored bark we love in Stewartias, but the growth habit is more spreading than the species. Its autumn color is lovely, and with more sun is...

Dark green leathery leaves show off fragrant white flower clusters in spring and metallic blue berries often appear simultaneously showing off against red stems. Excellent for garden structure, for a hedge, or for a lower screen. Mature size: 5’ T x 5’ W Minimum temperature: 0° F

This exquisite hybrid, between Clematis flammula and C. viticella, is one of the most heavily scented Clematis- with a fragrance redolent of marzipan. Star-like white flowers have tips with brush strokes of violet that bloom profusely from midsummer to fall. Ideally, it needs rich, well-drained soil but will tolerate being planted...

With mid-spring, brilliant white, heart-shaped flowers amid golden leaves, this bleeding heart is like a springtime freshet in the shade garden. Its beauty, reliability, and vigorous growth will be immensely gratifying. Mature size: 30 inches tall x 36 inches wide Minimum temperature: -25° F

A tough and extraordinarily long-blooming perennial, 'Fran's Delight' is compact with pretty silver foliage and copious amounts of dainty lavender flowers with a prominent deep purple blotch on the bottom petals. Almost continuous blooming, with 8 inch flower spikes, from late April to late November! Mature size: 6 in tall x 12 in wide Minimum...

Puffs of greens and creams offset this Astrantia's ruby-red bracts with darkening tips on the underside. Prized for both cut and dried flowers, masterwort attracts pollinators and leaves your garden abuzz with activity. Late spring blooms on stems to 2 ft T. Hardy to -30. Mature size: 2 ft tall x 1 ft wide....

A rounded, deciduous shrub, snowberry is a North American native with matte, pale green leaves and tiny, pink, bell-shaped flowers in June and July. Its hallmark white berries follow, not edible, but do remain attractive on otherwise bare winter branches because birds don't really care for them either. This is a pretty, light...

An evergreen ground cover with scaled, whip-like branches sprawls languidly and interestingly. It's studded with small, bright red, fleshy cones that resemble little strawberries. Native to alpine regions of Tasmania, it's six inches tall, and will spread up to three feet if planted in favorable conditions, namely sun and moist...

Slowly growing with short, glossy, bright green, needle-like leaves and small, bright pink flowers blooming spring to fall. 2" tall and mat-forming. Minimum temperature: -40° F

Fragrant clusters of pale lilac flowers bloom in late spring on upward branching stems. 3-inch, ornamental, elliptical, silvery fruit, moon-like in appearance (hence Lunaria) follow. Native to woodlands of Eastern Europe and Russia. These pictures were taken in situ in the woods of Slovenia in April of 2017. Mature size:...

Lacey leaves, finely and deeply dissected, emerge pink in spring then become orange-red with bright green petioles in summer and, finally, bright red and orange in fall. This 2' mounding, deciduous, dwarf tree is very slow growing so would work well in a pot or perhaps on a small mound. Kawaii means...

Deep magenta flowers with blue anthers appear in late spring held high over ground-hugging rosettes of dark green, oblong leaves. From moist areas in the mountains of the Balkan peninsula. Mature size: to 18 inches tall Minimum temperature: -20° F

This is a non-vining, bushy clematis. Give it support if you want it to be upright, or allow it to meander amongst its neighbors. From summer through early fall, individual blooms open violet-blue, then get pale lilac centers, and finally fade to a soft blue. Group 3 – Flowers only on new wood....