Award-winner Helenium 'Moerheim Beauty' is highly prized by gardeners for its extremely long blooming season and its unique and outstanding color. It features deep, rich, dark orange-red petals surrounding a prominent chocolate brown center disk rimmed with gold and covered with golden pollen that attracts butterflies. The large flowers, up to 3 in. across, are a feast for the eye! Grows up to 4 ft. tall (120 cm). Very attractive as cut flowers, it has a good resistance to most insects and diseases

Probably the most widely grown cultivar of Crocosmia, award-winning Crocosmia 'Lucifer' produces decorative clumps of erect pleated leaves and brilliant wands of fiery scarlet red tubular flowers which bloom for 5-8 weeks from mid to late summer. Extremely showy, this South African native is a magnet for hummingbirds and butterflies. Its vibrant blossoms give way to seedpods that persist into fall and attract hungry birds.

Cultivated since the 19th century, award-winner Alchemilla mollis (Lady's Mantle) provides a lovely finish to a border or a path edge and blends beautifully with most perennials. This clump-forming perennial forms dense, leafy mounds of scallop-edged, toothed, densely hairy, light green leaves which nicely retain moisture beads after the rain.

Widely appreciated by gardeners, award-winning Campanula lactiflora 'Prichard's Variety' (Milky Bellflower) is a perennial that produces profuse, rounded clusters of rich violet-blue, trumpet-shaped flowers, adorned with a white center. Borne on sturdy stems clad with narrow, pointed leaves, they offer their spectacular floral display from midsummer to early fall. A great asset for beds and borders, this elegant cottage favorite will add interest to your sunny or partially shaded garden.

Primarily grown for the look of its beautiful foliage and flowers, Salvia verticillata 'Purple Rain' is a popular hardy Salvia that is welcomed in many gardens. This attractive perennial features upright reddish stems, often gracefully arching, lined with interesting whorls of rosy-purple bracts highlighted with small violet-blue flowers. Appearing in early summer, the flowers bloom abundantly for weeks if deadheaded. They rise above a bushy mound of large, lyre-shaped, fuzzy, green leaves. Striking in the garden when in bloom, this Salvia brings color and form to the early summer border.

Among the most popular reblooming Daylilies, multiple award-winner Hemerocallis 'Stella de Oro' ranks very high! Why? It is compact, vigorous, fragrant and enjoys profuse blooms over an extremely long blooming period. This Miniature Daylily produces masses of golden trumpets, up to 2.75 in. wide (7 cm), with ruffled edges and small green throats atop mounds of arching, blade-like leaves. This diploid Daylily is dormant (deciduous). Blooming from early summer to fall, this clump-forming deciduous perennial grows up to 11 in. tall (28 cm) and spreads slowly via rhizomes to 12 in. (30 cm). Won multiple prestigious awards including the Silver Stout Award.

Hemerocallis 'Autumn Accent' is a very late-season Daylily that produces an abundance of large, 5.5 in. wide (14 cm), brilliant crimson-red flowers with contrasting lime-green throats. Blooming in late summer to fall, this clump-forming deciduous perennial grows up to 38 in. tall (96 cm) and spreads slowly via rhizomes to 18-24 in. (45-60 cm). This diploid Daylily is dormant (deciduous).

Considered by most growers as the loveliest Globe Thistle, Echinops ritro 'Veitch's Blue' is an excellent rebloomer that produces abundant, dark violet-blue flowers at the end of gracefully curving, branched, silvery stems. Blooming from mid-summer to early fall, the bold and ornamental, steel blue globe-shaped flowers (the size of a golf ball) rise above the foliage of sharply divided, dark green leaves, covered in down beneath. Adds outstanding contrast, interest, and color to the summer garden while being trouble-free and low maintenance.

Providing architectural height to borders, Macleaya microcarpa 'Kelway's Coral Plume' is a vigorous, spreading perennial that produces tall, upright stems clad with rounded and lobed, gray-green leaves with downy white undersides. In summer, they are topped by large, airy panicles of tiny coral-pink flowers resembling hazy plumes. Both foliage and flowers are excellent for cutting.