An ideal Korean Lilac for small gardens, Syringa meyeri 'Palibin' is a dense, compact, low-spreading, deciduous shrub that gets covered with a profusion of sweetly-fragrant upright panicles of lilac-pink single flowers in late spring to early summer. Smaller than the species, its broadly-ovate, dark green leaves are extremely resistant to powdery mildew and remain attractive in summer. They take an attractive reddish bronze color in fall, extending the season of interest of this outstanding lilac shrub. One of the most dwarfed or slow-growing of all lilacs. Meyer Lilac is especially urban tolerant.

A superb border plant, Thalictrum aquilegiifolium 'Album' (Meadow Rue) is favored for its lacy, refined, bluish-green foliage resembling Columbine and its dense panicles of pure white fluffy flowers rising elegantly above the foliage. On display in late spring to early summer, they give way to ornamental clusters of pendulous, wing-like seeds, therefore providing an extended season of interest. Low maintenance, disease and trouble free, this bushy plant adds marvelous accents in the landscape. Fits beautifully in any beds, borders, cottage gardens, wildflower gardens or meadows. Great for cutting too!

Native to Europe, Aquilegia Vulgaris, known as Columbine has escaped gardens and naturalized in parts of North America. Bushy and clump-forming, this attractive perennial has delicate blossoms in shades of blue, violet, pink, or white with spreading sepals and short-hooked spurs. They rise with natural grace in a mound of thin, leafy stems in late spring to early summer. Leaves are gray-green, rounded, and divided into lobed leaflets. A wide array of cultivars is available in commerce, featuring flowers that are single or double, short-spurred or spurless, in a variety of colors ranging from blue to violet to white to pink to red. They all are elegant additions to the shade garden!

A beautiful dwarf Lupine, Lupinus 'Gallery White' (Lupine) is a popular selection featuring showy, erect spikes of densely packed, sweetly scented, pure white flowers in late spring - early summer. Rising on sturdy stems above bushy clumps of palmate, bright green leaves, the flowers open up from the bottom over several weeks, hence providing a long blooming period. 'Gallery White' can produce up to 10-12 flower spikes on each plant. Hummingbirds and butterflies are endlessly attracted to them. - as are most onlookers! Vigorously grows up to 15-18 in. tall (37-45 cm) and 12-14 in. wide (30-35 cm). Lupines are short-lived perennial plants, but they will self-sow in optimum growing conditions.

Native to eastern North America, Phlox divaricata (Woodland Phlox) is a semi-evergreen, spreading wildflower which creates mats of abundant, open clusters of slightly fragrant flowers in mid to late spring. Each scented, saucer-shaped flower features five, flat, notched, petal-like lobes in shades of lilac, rose or blue. Borne at the tip of hairy and sticky stems, they rise enthusiastically above the lance-shaped foliage. A creeping perennial, Phlox divaricata grows only 9-12 in. tall and wide (22-30 cm) and can form large colonies over time, creating a beautiful flower carpet.

Lighting up the shade garden year-round, Heuchera 'Paris' is an outstanding re-blooming variety of Coral Bells with a foliage of lobed, rounded, silvery leaves highlighted with dark green veins. In late spring to midsummer, panicles of large, bell-shaped, deep-rose-colored flower on slender stems rise up to 14 in. (35 cm) above the semi-evergreen foliage. Long-lasting, each single stem blooms continuously for up to 2 months until frost. This Heuchera is prized by gardeners for its drought, heat and humidity tolerance. This clump-forming perennial forms basal mounds, up to 7 in. tall (17 cm) with a spread of 14 in. (35 cm). This sturdy performer is not only easy to grow, but also requires little maintenance and is pest and disease free!

Geranium 'Rozanne' is an exceptional, unique, and unsurpassed geranium selection. There are not enough superlatives to describe this fabulous perennial. Robust and vigorous, with one of the longest flowering periods of all hardy geraniums and rare blue-colored flowers of great decorative beauty, it is an ideal element of the garden, patio, or balcony. A prolific bloomer, it continuously produces masses of large violet-blue flowers with attractive purple-violet veins and small white centers for months of color from late spring to the first frost.