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A lovely North European wildflower and early spring bloomer. Fuzzy flower heads emerge before the foliage is fully opened. Continual blooms with silky petals with thick golden stamens soak up the sun for well over a month before turning into phenomenal fuzzball seed heads. Long-living plant with variation in bloom color. Plant...

Apple-green and ruffly flowers with a yellow throat nest amid puckery leaves. This primula perseveres through several weeks on 10" tall plants. Green flowers can add just the zing that some companion plants lack, and the texture alone is worth the planting. Intrigue your friends and neighbors. Originally a woodland dweller, a polyanthus...

Blooming in May and June, 'Valentine' sends its message a little late, but you won't mind waiting for a second Valentine's Day. Suspended gracefully along arching burgundy stems above bronzy, blue-green leaves, the red and white hearts are big and bright. The foliage is vigorous with plum-colored new growth. There's a lot going...

In early spring a luscious profusion of dark lavender-purple pea flowers cover rounded plants. This is a choice under-utilized gem. Mature size: 1 ft T x 2 ft W Minimum temperature: -20° F

'Dublin Bay' is a low climbing rose (only about 10 feet tall and 5 feet wide) with velvety deep red flowers over a long season on sturdy stems and above dark green glossy foliage. It is the red, red rose! Minimum temperature: -10° F

Blue-gray leaves mix well with many other neighbors, and the fuzzy, wine-red, bottle-brush flowers that bob above the foliage enliven the garden from spring through mid-summer. An earlier bloomer than most Sanguisorbas, the pollinators will appreciate this one! Moist, heavy soil is just fine. Mature size: 2-3 ft T & 1-2...

From its namesake in England, Hever Castle, this buddleia has fragrant, pale purple flowers with orange throats May to frost, blooming on new wood. Rest assured, it is NOT self-seeding. The foliage is oblong gray-green, and silver beneath: with the pale bloom, an altogether soft coloring. Prune hard after the...

For a stately fall-blooming perennial this bright orange and yellow beauty won't let you or the bees and hummingbirds down. Mature size: leaves form a 4 x 4 ft mound; flower spikes reach 5-7 ft T. Minimum temperature: 0° F

This most ornamental clover has large, magenta-purple, upright, conical blooms opening from purplish silver buds in early to late summer. It attracts bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds! A nitrogen-fixer, it can also break up dense soil, so clay is okay! It's also a great bank cover, preventing erosion. Put succinctly, it's a prolific bloomer...

A large, resin-scented evergreen shrub with dense clusters of white/yellow flowers in late summer. Deer resistant & loved by bees. Native to Washington, Oregon, California, and Baja California. Mature size 9 ft T x 12 ft W Minimum temperature: 0° F

A beauty with lilac standards and violet blue falls sometimes with marbling. A deep violet halo encircles deep yellow signals and white styles. Mid-season bloom. Mature size: 3.5 ft T Minimum temperature: -20° F

1-inch orchid-like dark purple flowers appear summer-fall. Soft, dark green, serrated leaves. Foliage may be removed for shipping. Plants will regenerate new foliage from the tuberous root system. Mature size: 2 ft T x 3 ft W Minimum temperature: 20° F

Endemic to the Mount Talmalpais area of California. Plant height is variable, in its native range, it can be found growing as a small and mounding bush to a 6-foot shrub. Attractive white flowers are a magnet for hummingbirds and early pollinators. Mature size: under evaluation Minimum temperature: ° F - under evaluation

Evergreen, C. peregrina has fern-like leaves that also smell sweetly of fern. It has an exotic look but is eminently useful as a bank stabilizer or a colonizer in areas of very poor soil. The yellowish-green spring flowers don't amount to much, but the nutlets that they give way to are interesting...

Whorls of hooded, jaunty yellow flowers adorn this golden-hued shrub midsummer to frost. Felted, large, sage-like leaves turn lime-green with age. Resists nibbling by deer and is drought-tolerant; one tough customer. Mature size 3 ft x 3 ft Minimum temperature: 0° F Photo: "Phlomis chrysophylla" by Valérie75 is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0. Image...

This west coast native has reddish-pink bark, a leathery felted leaf with sometimes a pinkish margin, and blackish fruit. It's great for hedges, screens, or to help create an evergreen anchor for your garden. 15'x15' and good-looking!Minimum temperature: 0° F