If cold winters zap your garden dreams, it’s time to plant some tougher options. Trust this EZ Scape™ with its durable performers and bold flowers and foliage.

Featured Plants

Rainbow Rhythm® 'Storm Shelter' Daylily
Luminary® 'Ultraviolet' Phlox
'Cat's Pajamas' Catmint
BOBO® Panicle Hydrangea
Ginger Wine® Ninebark

Seasonal Progression

Beat the heat and the blah it brings to the garden with this EZ Scape™. This selection of plants will thrive, flower, and impress all throughout brutal heat. The variety of vastly different flower and foliage sizes will provide visual texture all throughout the year, ensuring your garden never feels blah.

Environmental Requirements

Light

Full Sun

Moisture

Moderate

Soil

Loose, Well-drained

Zones

3, 4, 5, 6, 7

Plants in this EZ Scape™

Rainbow Rhythm® 'Storm Shelter' Daylily with flowers that are pink and purple with yellow centers
Rainbow Rhythm® 'Storm Shelter' Daylily (Hemerocallis hybrid)

RAINBOW RHYTHM® Daylilies (Hemerocallis)

Drought Tolerant • Low Maintenance • Easy to Grow

Height: 18-36″
Spread: 18-24″
Zones: 3-9
Plant Ratio: 2
Primary Season of Interest: Summer
Care Tips: A tough, adaptable perennial that will grow in almost any soil. Plant in full sun for optimum flowering performance.

Luminary® 'Ultraviolet' Tall Garden Phlox hot pink flowers in a garden border
Luminary® 'Ultraviolet' (Tall Garden Phlox)

LUMINARY® Tall Garden Phlox (Phlox paniculata)

Rebloomer • Pollinator Friendly • Nativar • Summer Interest

Height: 30-36″
Spread: 24-32″
Zones: 3-8
Plant Ratio: 1
Primary Season of Interest: Summer
Secondary Season of Interest: Fall (Rebloom)
Care Tips: Grows best in consistently moist, well-drained soil and full sun. Thrives with regular fertilization. Provide good air circulation.

Abundant purple blooms atop 'Cat's Pajamas' Catmint lining a garden border
'Cat's Pajamas' Catmint (Nepeta)

'Cat's Pajamas' Catmint (Nepeta)

Rebloomer • Pollinator Friendly • Deer & Rabbit Resistant

Height: 12-14″
Spread: 18-20″
Zones: 3-8
Plant Ratio: 3
Primary Season of Interest: Spring
Secondary Season of Interest: Summer and Fall (Rebloom)
Care Tips: Prefers full sun and average, well-drained soil of low to average moisture. Plants respond well to shearing to promote rebloom.

Bobo white hydrangea in a garden

BOBO® Panicle Hydrangea (Hydrangea paniculata)

Space saving • Extremely floriferous • Award winner

Height: 2.5-3′
Spread: 2.5-3′
Zones: 3-9
Primary Season of Interest: Summer (flowers)
Secondary Season of Interest: Fall (color change)
Care Tips: Will perform well in a range of sun exposures – a minimum of four hours of direct light and up to all day sun. Adapts to most soils, except those that remain wet. Yearly spring pruning is recommended. Cut back by 1/3.

Ginger Wine shrubs

GINGER WINE® Ninebark (Physocarpus)

Outstanding color • Disease resistant • Adaptable

Height: 5-6′
Spread: 5-6′
Zones: 3-7
Primary Season of Interest: Summer (foliage color)
Secondary Season of Interest: Spring (flowers)
Care Tips: Will perform best in full sun – a minimum of six hours of direct light and up to all day sun. Adapts to most soils. Regular pruning is not recommended, as it retains the most graceful habit when untouched. Can benefit from periodic rejuvenation pruning.

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Firefly Peach Sky yarrow plants with numerous peachy blooms
'Firefly Peach Sky' Yarrow (Achillea)
Midnight Masquerade purple flowers above dark green-purple foliage
'Midnight Masquerade' Beardtongue (Penstemon)
Rock and grow maroon sedum
ROCK 'N GROW® 'Midnight Velvet' (Sedum)
Polar Gold yellow tinted tree
POLAR GOLD® Arborvitae (Thuja occidentalis)
SCENTARA Double Blue Lilac in a field
SCENTARA DOUBLE BLUE® Lilac (Syringa)