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Watch your portfolio grow!Duranta erecta Cuban Gold™“Dewberry” is a tender, shrubby upright plant, perfect for containers or border edging. It’s a shining standout among our “soft side” selections. Bright golden foliage brightens up the scene wherever it’s deployed. Clustered light blue/lavender flowers appear in late summer and continue into fall.Native to the Americas, from Mexico south, Duranta has been selected as aTexas Superstar® plant. Height: 10 – 18”. Hardy in Zones 10 – 11. Make a mod

Amsonia xButterscotch™ brings a fresher, richer, healthier glow to a famous native perennial genus.Like A. hubrichtii, Butterscotch™ is in constant graceful motion in the slightest breeze. It, too, has starry blue flowers in spring. And like its more famous sibling, its billowy masses of fine, rich green foliage segue to a beautiful golden autumn color.So how is it different? Let us recount the ways:■ Leaf Color: Butterscotch’s slim leaves take on a deeper, richer golden hue in fall.

We’re all for wildlife. But as gardeners and landscapers know, deer and rabbits can wreak havoc on a beautiful border. So, how do you keep Bambi and Bugs at bay while welcoming pollinators? Plant Monarda! Pollinators love this charming native American genus – and so will your customers!But don’t settle for just any Monarda: We offer two long-blooming, mildew-resistant series that come in a variety of colors. M. didyma Balmy™ SeriesBred for compact habit, heavy flowering from spring throug

Here’s a native genus that took a long time to find its way into America’s gardens. Once there, it’s never looked back.Gaura produces prolific quantities of delicate blooms, in white, pink or bicolor. Borne on slender stems, they’re in constant motion in the slightest breeze. The foliage consists of small, lanceolate leaves that may be rich green, variegated or red. Belleza™ Dark PinkWell-branched, with short flower stems loaded with dark pink bloooms.Height 12 – 18”‘Crimson Butterflie

Echinacea purpurea and hybridsOf all the native plants that have gone from America’s prairies to the world’s gardens, few have a history to rival that of the purple coneflower.For many years gardeners had two choices: Pinky-purple, and Not-quite-white. Then came 2002, when breeder Jim Ault of Chicago introduced the first orange and yellow hybrids. That was the genus’s Big Bang, and like the universe, it’s still expanding.Now, you can have your “purple” coneflowers in myriad hues, solids and bi c