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This perennial is anything but traditional and every bit a classic.Easy growing and elegant, Astilbe lights up shade gardens with beautifully vibrant, eye-catching spires. Rather than one solid flower, colorful plumes are clusters of blooms that open gradually for a feathery effect along the spike. This unique structure inspires the common name, false spirea.Tooth-edged compound leaves are a perfect pairing to the showy blooms, with their bright green tones often brushed in bronze. Blooms persis

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. Achillea 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.‘Deep Rose’ Big umbels of deep rose-pink florets. Red Improved PP22333 Rich red blooms with g

Are there body parts in your gardens? Not exactly, we hope -- but there are some very fine plants named for anatomical features. And they won’t cost you an arm and a leg.Digitalis “Foxglove”Right at your fingertips!Some say the Latin genus name, which refers to fingers, i.e., digits, was back formed from an old common name. “Fingerhut” is German for “finger hat,” a sewer’s thimble. An alternate explanation is that the lovely tubular flower resembles the finger of a glove, with the tip removed.Yo