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Elevate with Ever-Color® - Carex oshimensis Evercolor® Series

Elevate with Ever-Color® - Carex oshimensis Evercolor® Series

Posted by Emerald Coast Growers on Oct 1st 2025

Looking for a dependable, great-looking sedge that performs well at every step — from the greenhouse to the garden? The Carex EverColor® series from Fitzgerald Nurseries is exactly that. These eye-catching sedges are colorful, compact, and incredibly low maintenance, making them a top choice for both growers and retailers. pictured above: Carex o. Evercolor® 'Everest' PP20955 Deep green blades flanked with snowy white edges. Matur
Easy to Grow, Hard to Beat - Stokesia laevis

Easy to Grow, Hard to Beat - Stokesia laevis

Posted by Emerald Coast Growers on Sep 19th 2025

Stokesia laevis is a rugged, low-maintenance perennial that thrives in a variety of conditions—perfect for both busy growers and new gardeners. It’s a pollinator magnet! Large, frilly flowers make it a customer favorite too. With its hardy nature and beautiful blooms, it's a reliable seller year after year. Pictured above:  Stokesia laevis, Wide, cornflower blue blooms. Mature height 12-18" Native to southeastern North America, but cold hardy for Zones 5-9,
Switch On Year-Round Interest with Native Powerhouse - Panicum virgatum

Switch On Year-Round Interest with Native Powerhouse - Panicum virgatum

Posted by Emerald Coast Growers on Aug 7th 2025

Easy to grow and remarkably versatile, Panicum virgatum, commonly known as Switch grass, is a warm-season ornamental grass that thrives in USDA Zones 4-10. It emerges as days lengthen and temperatures rise, offering attractive flowering spikes and color-changing foliage that last through summer and fall. Even in winter, its sturdy, upright form adds seasonal interest while providing essential habitat for small birds. Thanks to ongoing breeding, modern Panicum varieties now offer expand
Astilbe ~ A Pretty, Popular Perennial

Astilbe ~ A Pretty, Popular Perennial

Posted by Emerald Coast Growers on May 21st 2025

With cool, elegant beauty alone or in combinations, Astilbe enhances the garden from spring to late fall. Easy growing Astilbe lights up shade gardens with beautifully vibrant, eye-catching spires. Rather than one solid flower, colorful clusters of blooms 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 bronz
Built for Heat, Calamagrostis a. var. brachytricha Caspian

Built for Heat, Calamagrostis a. var. brachytricha Caspian

Posted by Emerald Coast Growers on May 15th 2025

Feather reed grasses offer some of the most recognizable and sought after flower plumes in the ornamental grass kingdom. Reliable and attractive, this easy to grow genus offers multi-seasonal beauty that makes Calamagrostis a must have element for exceptional landscape designs. Although the rest of the genus starts the show in early spring, warm season Caspian swoops in mid to late summer with a dramatic display of big fluffy flowers. Swoon! A blooming Calamagrostis for

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