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Advance your perennial program with a host of low-maintenance, easy-to-grow Hosta varieties. Available in a broad spectrum of sizes, forms, and gorgeous foliage colors, this landscape essential is one of the top-selling genera in North America.Don't miss this hot commodity! Great growers and gardeners know warm season planting allows time for full, mature development before winter rest. Next spring, you'll reap the rewards of planning and planting ahead with fat, retail-ready gallons bursting f

These easy-to-grow grasses set the landscape, and sales, ablaze with blades that emerge green and transform into fiery autumnal shades.Miscanthus s. Mystal™ 'Fire Dragon' PP30374Upright, vigorous green foliage transitions in autumn to a range of vivid, reliable reds and oranges. In late summer, abundant silvery flower plumes rise high above the graciously curved foliage. Left uncut, the smoky white plumes provide long-lasting winter interest.Mature height 6' - 7'Zones 4 - 9 Both varieties

Icy cool, variegated, Carex morrowiiIt looks, grows, and sells like a grass, but it's actually a sedge, in the Cyperaceae family.Easy to grow.Adaptable to a wide range of conditions.Versatile! Useful as a border, groundcover, or in containers. Well suited for full sun to part shade, both varieties are hardy for Zones 5-9. Carex m.'Ice Dance'Wide, graceful leaves with prominent creamy-white margins.Height: 12-18"Carex m. 'Ice Ballet'  PP20228Green-centered leaves with crisp, clean white ed

Unwrap a rich, golden, native genus that sparkles in the sunlight and sways in the slightest breeze.Amsonia xButterscotch® is a Midwestern selection that one-ups the standard with improved vigor, abundant blooms, and better disease resistance.Emerging in spring, "Blue Star" soon settles into its role as a bushy foliage plant, with finely divided foliage swaying seductively on reddish 3' stems. Early summer brings a flush of steel blue perennial blooms that cover uniform, willowy green foliage. C

Known variously as creeping phlox or moss phlox, early flowering Phlox subulata is a familiar friend, often among the first blooms of spring. Its cheerful, five-petaled blooms crawl over slopes and spill over walls, providing a welcome blanket of color to winter-weary gardens and gardeners.We hear you: It’s hard to even imagine spring, let alone plan for it, while the dog days are raging, hot, and humid. But this really is the time to do just that.A crop of Phlox subulata planted in late summer/