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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/

Coming soon to a mailbox near you!Our hot-off-the-press 2023-2024 edition features an appealing assortment of hot new Fresh Picks. With six brand-new ornamental grasses and grass-like plants, and twelve unique perennials and succulents, our complete collection has grown to an impressive offering of more than 700 selections. You are sure to find favorites you've trusted for years and interesting new options just waiting for a space at your place.Designed with the user in mind, our complete c

Native perennial plants are all the rage, and the demand for water-wise, easy-care succulents shows no sign of letting up. Or maybe you're into flowering houseplants. These sizzling sales categories meet beautifully in the genus Lewisia. Like other American phenomena, Lewisia found fame overseas sooner than here at home. It is celebrated in Europe not just as a sturdy garden inhabitant, but also as a low-maintenance flowering house plant.Rosette-shaped flowers appear in spring through early sum

What can it be?Hemerocallis 'Stella de Oro' & 'Happy Returns'!The cheerful daylily, native to the Far East, has been a breeder's favorite for over a century. The genus name means "beauty for a day," each flower's lifespan.Out of tens of thousands of varieties, 'Stella de Oro' and 'Happy Returns', both bred in the USA, are the favorites of gardeners and designers worldwide. Even beginners know them by name. They're the real must-have daylilies for retailers and growers. Hemerocallis 'Ha

Oh, yeah...Everywhere! We grow so much 'Pennisetum xadvena 'Rubrum' – bench after bench, whole greenhouses full of it – that we sometimes wonder where it all goes. And then we take a drive, anywhere in North America, and there it is!‘Rubrum’ barely needs an introduction. It’s that gorgeous annual grass you see wherever you go. There it is -- waving burgundy blades and matching foxtail flowers in big containers on Main Street, in landscapes public and private, surrounding fountains and flag