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Those who live in actual deserts know: Evening is that delightful time you wait for all day, biding your time until the heat of the day wanes and the colors of the sky grow deep and mellow.Desert Eve™ varieties are bred for excellent vigor, compact growth and big flower heads, up to 4” across. They’re perfect for landscape, container or vase. Foliage is ferny and fragrant.Achillea Desert Eve™  ‘Deep Rose’Big umbels of deep rose-pink florets.Achillea Desert Eve™ Red Im

About the Rock Star AwardOur Rock Star award honors ECG employees who demonstrate a sustained high level of performance and inspire others.Rockin’ the hardware this month is our latest winner, Clayton Kidwell. Clayton joined ECG in 2018 and is now an Assistant Grower on the plant care crew at our Pensacola location. He’s also cross-training in another important discipline, seed-sowing and germination. Here’s what his peers and managers had to say in nominating him.“My rockstar vote this mon

This Maiden Grass Needs No Rescuing!Miscanthus sinensis has been a star on the world’s garden stage for well over a century. It’s the best-selling, most-recognized ornamental grass species you can grow.That long history also means many generations of breeding for desirable traits.One of the most recent additions to our lineup. ‘Fire Dragon’(PP30374) lives up to its name with a fiery fall flourish of vivid red and orange blades. Silvery flower plumes rise as high as seven feet, safely above

Calamagrostis xacutiflora 'Karl Foerster' was the first ornamental grass to be named Perennial Plant of the year. It deserves the spotlight. Whether it’s a stand-alone planting taking a solo, or harmonizing with the chorus in a mass mixed planting, it’s a versatile performer that makes a designer look like a genius. Calamagrostis xacutiflora ‘Karl Foerster’Do we really have to describe it? Very well: Lustrous deep green foliage all season, from late spring to winter. Strongly upright, with

We grow over two dozen varieties of this multifaceted, cosmopolitan genus. Why so many? Because no two are alike. Let’s inventory their assets and characteristics.Size: Our fountain grass offerings range from awww!-some cuties like ‘Little Bunny’, a mere 10 – 12” tall, all the way up to statuesque six-footers in the Royal Collection.Foliage: Name it! At one end of the color spectrum is the bright chartreuse of P. alopecuroides 'Yellow Ribbons’. On the dark side are the Royals, with big, rippling