Use this powerful trio of shrubs for cut flowers as the foundation for your floral arranging dreams. Step outside from summer until fall and you’ll have stems to harvest. This EZ Scape™ starts its brilliant show with colorful emerging abelia foliage and sweet smelling honeysuckle flowers. Later in the season, the abelia produces bell-shaped blooms in clusters at the end of each stem. A few stems make a sweet, delicate arrangement, but they also complement larger displays easily. Later, you’ll add lovely roses to the mix, fragrant and abundant. In an arrangement, they are perfectly supported by the foliage from the honeysuckle or abelia. This trio works well as a sweet, simple cut flower palette on its own and makes a great base to add more shrubs and perennials to.
If drought tolerance is a non-negotiable feature for your garden, this EZ Scape™ might interest you. Altogether, this collection of plants has an airy aesthetic, but tough-as-nails performance. Delicate features and cool colors are a visual respite in hot, dry climates. You’ll love seeing this collection of long, cool blue stems, tiny leaves, and dainty flowers flourishing even when there hasn’t been a drop of rain in weeks.
Help your garden endure hot summer days with plants that beat the heat. Perennials in this EZ Scape™ all do well (once established) in gardens with low or inconsistent moisture. DOLCE® Heuchera is the first to show interest in spring with bright leaf color that lasts all season long. RAINBOW RHYTHM® Daylilies will carry the torch next with bight floral display in summer. ROCK ‘N LOW® Sedum have nicely complementing foliage texture to go along with sprays of yellow flowers in summer. PRAIRIE WINDS® Grasses are the season closer boasting good foliage texture and attractive seedheads.
Don’t let the summer heat get your garden down. Use this mix of perennials to add season long interest and weather the hottest months of the year. Paint the Town Dianthus will be the early season superstars. Semi-evergreen foliage will add interest through winter before being covered in flowers in late spring, with sporadic rebloom adding color through summer. AMAZING DAISIES® will burst into bloom in the heat of the summer and persist for many weeks, with deadheading extending bloom. PRAIRIE WINDS® grasses will add texture before they bloom in late summer. Leave standing through winter for added garden interest.
If birds delight you just as much as plants, combine your great loves with this EZ Scape™. In summer, tubular honeysuckle flowers draw hummingbirds in for a feast. In cold weather, it invites birds to linger with berries and tasty seed heads. For the human visitor, delights abound throughout the growing season. Profuse flowers and peppy color cover this low-growing garden for months!
Maximize the bloom power of your landscape with this simple combo of perennials. The Paint the Town Dianthus and White Diamonds Bleeding Heart will lead the way in spring with a carpet of blooms along the front of the border. White Diamonds will continue blooming through the heat of the summer and into early fall, with Paint the Town Dianthus showing sporadic rebloom. LUMINARY® Phlox will anchor the garden with a showstopping display in summer, and rebloom adding color into early fall.
For bold splashes of color in high heat gardens, use this EZ Scape™. You’ll get to enjoy waves of brilliant color starting in spring with azaleas. In summer, a slew of perennials take the stage with bright colors and interesting bloom shapes. This variety of plants interacts in a dynamic way, with the warm and cool tones blending together nicely. A butterfly bush offers full-size blooms on a compact frame, anchoring the back of the planting. It’s fragrant, floriferous, and irresistible to butterflies. Altogether, these heat-lovers create a low-maintenance landscape that stays lively and colorful even in the toughest summer conditions.
Provide seeds to feed the birds with this mix of perennials. DECADENCE® False Indigo (Baptisia) will be up first in spring, showing color in late spring to early summer. DESIGNER THREADS® Coreopsis bring fine texture and a profusion of blooms through summer, leaving behind seedheads in late summer and fall. The round blooms of Summersong® Firefinch® Coneflowers will serve as landing pads for bees and butterflies beginning in midsummer. ROCK ‘N GROW® Sedum will add foliage interest starting in spring, before flowering in mid to late summer and leaving being attractive seedheads for fall and winter interest.
This recipe matches fine foliage textures of varying colors and successive bloom times. ‘Cat’s Pajamas’ Nepeta will get things going in late spring with long spikes of purple-blue flowers. Cutting back after bloom will ensure rebloom through the rest of the year. PYROMANIA® Red Hot Poker support the recipe with grass-like foliage to start the season, before adding tall flower spikes in midsummer. AMAZING DAISIES® will burst into bloom in the heat of the summer and persist for many weeks, with deadheading extending bloom.
Using a mixture of perennials with successive flowering periods is a great way to keep pollinators happy in your garden all season long. ‘Cat’s Pajamas’ Nepeta will get things going in late spring with long spikes of purple-blue flowers. Cutting back after bloom will ensure rebloom through the rest of the year. PYROMANIA® Red Hot Poker support the recipe with grass-like foliage to start the season, before adding tall flower spikes in midsummer. The succulent foliage of ROCK ‘N GROW® Sedum will complement the fine textures of the Nepeta and Kniphofia before being covered in blooms in late summer.
Using a mixture of perennials with successive flowering periods is a great way to keep pollinators happy in your garden all season long. KALEIDOSCOPE™ Delosperma will provide a season long groundcover, with flowers in late spring and early summer. LIVING LARGE® Salvia will bloom in early and midsummer to extend color. ROCK ‘N GROW® Sedum will add foliage interest starting in spring, before flowering in mid to late summer and leaving being attractive seedheads for fall and winter interest. PRAIRIE WINDS® Ornamental Grasses will fill in through summer with fine texture before appearing with elegant seedheads in fall. If left standing, PRAIRIE WINDS® Grasses will provide winter interest.
This recipe delivers season‑long beauty and nonstop pollinator appeal with a thoughtfully timed mix of perennials. It begins in early summer as Allium ‘Serendipity’ rises with globe-shaped lavender blooms buzzing with bees. As summer heats up, LUMINARY® Tall Garden Phlox and ‘Treasure Trove’ Rudbeckia take center stage, offering waves of fragrant, colorful flowers. Late in the season, ROCK ‘N GROW® Sedum carries the show into fall with rich, nectar‑packed blooms and sturdy texture. Together, these plants create a dynamic sequence of color, interest, and habitat—keeping your garden lively and blooming from early summer well into autumn.
A pollinator-friendly mix that delivers continuous color from late spring through fall. At the front of the border, Dicentra SUN JEWELS™ (Alpine Bleeding Heart) begins the show in late spring and reblooms throughout summer. It’s followed closely by fragrant Lavandula angustifolia ‘Summer Serenade’ (English Lavender), flowering from late spring into the height of summer. In early summer, Allium ‘All the Buzz’ adds vertical interest with globe-shaped blooms that attract bees and butterflies. Anchoring the back of the border, Rudbeckia ‘Treasure Trove’ bursts into bloom by midsummer, carrying vibrant color well into fall. Together, these perennials create a season-long haven for pollinators.
Thrive in the southern heat with this combo of colorful perennials. The evergreen foliage of FRUIT PUNCH® Dianthus will keep year long interest along the front of the border. Flowers that appear across the top of the habit in spring are icing on the cake. In summer MEANT TO BEE® Agastache will burst into bloom with large, floriferous habits. FALL IN LOVE® ‘Sweetly’ Anemone will add bright pink flowers in fall, appearing for many weeks. PRAIRIE WINDS® Ornamental Grasses add fine texture throughout the entire growing season and provide winter interest.
Using a mixture of perennials with successive flowering periods is a great way to keep pollinators happy in your garden all season long. This combo begins in spring with bright flower colors of FRUIT PUNCH® Dianthus and MAGIC SHOW® Veronica. Both plants will rebloom sporadically throughout the rest of the growing season. PYROMANIA® Kniphofia will take center stage in summer when spikes of flowers emerge from their grass-like foliage. The round blooms of COLOR CODED® Coneflowers will serve as landing pads for bees and butterflies beginning in midsummer.
This shade loving combo is built on fantastic foliage for a full three seasons of interest. ‘Heaven Scent’ Polemonium and ‘Pink-a-Blue’ Pulmonaria will lead the way in spring with clusters of pink and blue flowers. The spotted silver foliage of ‘Pink-a-Blue’ will only get bigger and better as the season progresses, with the long broad leaves playing the perfect match to the fronds of ‘Crested Surf’ Painted Fern. The DRESSED UP® Heuchera will add a third leaf shape with a dense habit of ruffled foliage.
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