Totally gorgeous, Dahlia 'Apricot Desire' produces fully double soft apricot flowers, blending to pale yellow at the base of their broad petals. The delicate flowers, up to 4-6 in. wide (10-15 cm), rise atop sturdy stems and resemble delicate waterlily flowers. They contrast brilliantly against the dark green foliage and will steal your heart! Grows up to 3-4 ft. (90-120 cm)

Bred in Belgium, Dahlia 'Nepos' is a breathtaking Waterlily Dahlia with delicate lilac-pink florets that fade to white towards their base. The flowers, up to 4-6 in. wide (10-15 cm), rise atop sturdy stems and make brilliant cut flowers. Perfect for borders, this prolific bloomer has a compact habit that makes it ideal for containers too. Blooming massively from July until Frost, this dahlia grows up to 24-36 in. tall (60-90 cm)

Dahlia 'Thomas Edison' is an eye-catching Dinner Plate Dahlia with huge and magnificent, deep purple blossoms. The fully double flowers, up to 8 in. wide (20 cm), are borne atop strong, sturdy stems. Blooming prodigiously from midsummer until frost, this dahlia grows up to 3-4 ft. tall (90-120 cm). It looks amazing when mixed with bright red or tangerine dahlias or grown among tall ornamental grasses. Great for bouquets and stunning at the back of the border.

With a glorious dark foliage set against masses of apricot-pink flowers that have a small red ring surrounding their dark-brown centers, Dahlia 'Happy Single First Love' is a particularly striking Dahlia. The single flowers, up to 4 in. wide (11 cm), blend nicely with other plants and add welcomed color and form to the late season garden. Blooming massively from midsummer until Frost, this dahlia grows up to 24 inches (60 cm) and is an excellent choice for beds and borders, patio, deck, or balcony.

Flowering profusely in a riot of cheerful colors, Helenium 'Loysder Wieck' or 'Carnival' features masses of attractive blossoms with slender in-rolled yellow ray florets, revealing their caramel-coffee underside, thus creating a unique mix of glowing hues contrasting with the prominent chocolate center cones. This fabulous perennial provides 6-8 weeks of splashes of color, from midsummer to fall, when many other perennials are starting to fade. Grows up to 36-40 in. tall (90 - 100 cm).

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

Well-behaved, Persicaria amplexicaulis 'Alba' is upright, clump-forming perennial boasting narrow spires densely packed with small, bell-shaped, white flowers held on long, graceful wands over a long season. Blooming from midsummer to fall, they rise well above the foliage mound of large, oval, pointed, mid green leaves.

Long-lived and drought tolerant, award-winner Sedum 'Purple Emperor' is a lovely sight in the landscape with its masses of rosy-pink flowers, densely packed in large umbrella-shaped flower heads, and showing off atop bright reddish-purple stems clad with dark purple, fleshy leaves. Vigorous, hardy, carefree, good-looking, with a season of interest lasting more than 6 months from early summer until well into winter, this standout perennial grows up to 18-24 in. tall (45-60 cm) and is rabbit and deer resistant.

Highly popular, Eupatorium maculatum (Atropurpureum Group) 'Gateway' (Joe-Pye Weed) is loved by gardeners for its large, densely packed clusters of mauve-pink flowers, up to 8 in. wide (20 cm), atop sturdy reddish-purple stems. Fragrant, the blossoms are attractive to bees and butterflies in search of nectar. The foliage is also very handsome with its lance-shaped, dark green leaves radiating from the stem to form a whorl of 3-4 leaves.'Gateway' is noted for being more compact than the species, growing shorter and bushier with tighter and thicker flower heads. This is a strong growing perennial which provides a wonderful garden presence and makes a great background plant