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Everywhere you plant ‘Early Sunrise’ turns to sunny golden glory. No wonder it’s a multiple award-winner -- a gold medalist on three continents!● AAS Flower Award (USA)● RHS Award of Garden Merit (UK)● Fleuroselect Gold Medal (Europe)This high-performing, award-winning variety lives up to its name, flowering earlier than most of its native American species. The cheerful double flowers are bound to put a smile on your face. Their disposition is as sunny as the sites where they love to grow.Flower

Jumpin’ Jack jumped for joy when he saw not one, not two, but three varieties of Festuca on current Availability. Consistently among our best-selling genera, “fescue” is a compact, easy-care, multi-purpose, cool-season grass that fits a multitude of situations, from borders to mixed containers to green roofs. What’s your pleasure?Boulder Blue’This classic variety features cute, compact tufts of wiry/spiky blue foliage. Selected in Colorado, so you know it can handle heat. Height 6 – 10

About the Rock Star AwardOur Rock Star award honors ECG employees who demonstrate a sustained high level of performance and inspire others.This month, we stop the music to recognize Theresa “Teddy” Davis, a team leader specializing in perennial cuttings. Theresa Davis joined Emerald Coast Growers in 1997. For two decades and more, she’s earned the respect and admiration of her peers. Here’s what they had to say when they nominated her as our latest Rock Star.“I’d like to nominate Theresa “T

In the “language of flowers,” which is spoken not by flowers but by people, Coreopsis says “constantly cheerful.” Which fits perfectly: The golden-yellow double flowers of this native American genus are bound to put a smile on your face. Their disposition is as sunny as the sites where they love to grow. ‘Early Sunrise’ lives up to its cultivar name: On your bench or in the garden, it jump-starts your season by blooming earlier than others in the species. And its flowers are borne aloft on stur

Every ornamental grass makes a garden statement.The Royal Collection issues proclamations.It’s time to plant big, bold, fast-growing, traffic-stopping Royal Collection grasses – and stand back, these varieties don’t dawdle! Royal Pennisetum varieties thrive on warm weather and full sun. Nobly bred by award-winning Dr. Wayne Hanna, these bold black beauties fill big-ticket containers with remarkable style and speed.Lined up by height for a Royal Family portrait, they’d arrange themselves thusly: