Adding verve to the garden with its striking and unusual coloring, English Rose Lady Emma Hamilton (Ausbrother) features breathtakingly cupped, double blossoms (45 petals) that open from dark red buds with dashes of orange and mature to a wonderful mix of tangerine, orange and yellow. They offer a stunning contrast against the foliage that opens deep red, lightens to bronze, and slowly becomes dark blue-green with age. This rose exudes a strong intense fruity fragrance with hints of pear, grape, and citrus fruits. Excellent repeat bloomer.

Noted for its depth of color, size of bloom, and length of the flowering season, award-winning Geranium 'Orion' is a spreading perennial with masses of very large, 2 in. across (5 cm), cup-shaped, vibrant mauve-blue flowers with a small white eye. Each of the overlapping, almost round petals is veined in iridescent purple. The blossoms are held on slender stems high above the foliage of deeply lobed mid-green basal leaves. Robust and vigorous, with one of the longest flowering periods of any hardy geraniums and rare blue-colored flowers.

Papaver somniferum 'Lauren's Grape' (Opium Poppy) is an upright annual boasting large, rich purple-plum bowl-shaped flowers, up to 5 in. across (12 cm). Showy black blotches are present at the base of the petals, providing additional beauty. Blooming for weeks in summer, the ravishing blooms sit on top of sturdy stems clad with deeply-lobed, silvery to blue-green leaves. They are followed by decorative seed pods that can be used in dried flower arrangements, or left in the garden for the visual interest they bring. Easy to grow, deer resistant, this Opium Poppy will give a color punch to your beds and borders.

Providing architectural height to borders, Digitalis purpurea 'Excelsior Hybrid' is a popular and remarkable strain of Foxgloves boasting tall spikes of pendulous, funnel-shaped blossoms in a lovely range of pastel colors including pink, lavender, and white. Arranged all around the spike, the blooms of this eye-catching biennial or short-lived perennial display throats copiously spotted with maroon or purple. Blooming profusely from late spring to mid-summer, they are attractive to hummingbirds, which hover near the tubular blossoms, and to birds that flock to the seedheads in the fall. The plant forms a low rosette of coarse, hairy leaves in the first year, bursting into flower the second spring, then setting seed and usually dying. Offering a long-lasting floral display, this eye-catching plant naturalizes well, as it self-sows freely, and creates lovely colonies in the landscape.