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• ‘Bela Lugosi’ is a stunning Purple Daylily!

  Daylily ‘Bela Lugosi’ Daylily seems to take a while to get going, but once it does, it is stunning! Being a Designer Daylily means that a plant has been selected as a highly performing plant with exceptional bloom performance, substantive, vibrantly colored... Posted Sep 20 2010, 03:40 PM by jeff-nhn with | with no comments Filed under: Featured Plants, Perennial, ground cover, daylilies, daylily, container plant, Designer Daylily, Bela Lugosi Daylily

• The 'Gypsy Dancer' Coral Bells has Incredible Flower Power!

  Coral Bells 'Gypsy Dancer' is known for its incredible flower power. It features dainty spikes of pink bell-shaped flowers rising above the foliage from late spring to early summer; blooms through most of June and July. Its attractive crinkled... Posted Sep 10 2010, 08:20 PM by barb-nhn with | with no comments Filed under: Perennial, shade, ground cover, burgundy, rock gardens, coral bellls, pink flowerowers, Coral Bells Gypsy Dancer

• The Colorful ‘Stoplight’ Heucherella has Charm and Personality!

  Heucherella (Foamy Bells) ‘Stoplight’ will cause you to stop in your tracks! You will be amazed at its colorful and charming beauty. ‘Stoplight is the most dramatically colored of all Foamy Bells. It boasts radiant yellow leaves that have a large, dark... Posted Sep 10 2010, 10:41 AM by jeff-nhn with | with no comments Filed under: Featured Plants, Perennial, Deer Resistant, ground cover, hummingbird plant, foamy bells, Heucherella Stoplight

• Use Saxifraga 'Touran Neon Rose' as a Ground Cover

  Saxifraga 'Touran Neon Rose' is a good choice for the partially shaded screen garden, wall or alpine trough. It forms a low evergreen cushion or mound of bright green leaves, bearing short stems of upfacing, cup-shaped bright-pink flowers in spring... Posted Sep 01 2010, 08:12 AM by barb-nhn with | with no comments Filed under: Perennial, Deer Resistant, ground cover, evergreen, clumps, bright pink flowers, saxifraga, Touran Neon Rose Saxifraga

• Add Dramatic Color to Your Borders and Walkways with 'Zing Rose' Dianthus

  Surviving cold winters and enjoying cool climates, the Dianthus 'Zing Rose' produces showy, deep rose-red blooms that cover the dark green, evergreen foliage from mid summer to early fall. The edges of each of the 5 flower petals are serrated... Posted Aug 28 2010, 08:22 AM by barb-nhn with | with no comments Filed under: Perennial, Deer Resistant, compact, container, ground cover, easy to grow, clump, dianthus, deadhead, Zing Rose Dianthus, cool climate, rose-red color

• The Hardy Lamium 'Pink Chablis' is a "Keeper"!

  Lamium 'Pink Chablis' displays a frothy confection of silver and green foliage with cotton candy pink flowers. Not only is this lamium heat tolerant, but I have found that it survives harsh winters year after year! This is one perennial plant... Posted Aug 21 2010, 08:47 AM by barb-nhn with | with no comments Filed under: Perennial, shade, ground cover, pink flowers, containers, compact growth, lamium, Pink Chablis Lamium

• Use the Hardy 'Silverine' Hens and Chicks for a Ground Cover

  With its symmetrical heads of fleshy, silvery-green, pink-tinged leaves, 'Silverine' Hens and Chicks is a garden jewel! The foliage of 'Silverine' has a graduated reddish-purple color at the base of the plant and pointed silvery-green... Posted Aug 16 2010, 03:05 PM by barb-nhn with | with no comments Filed under: Perennial, ground cover, succulent, slow growing, clusters, hens and chicks, reddish purple, chicks, hens, small stalk, pink flower, Silverine Hens and Chicks

• The 'Janice Brown' Daylily is an Absolute Must in Any Garden!

  The Daylily 'Janice Brown' is a high ranked Designer Daylily™. This daylily had to pass a stringent series of tests, proving itself to be more beautiful, longer blooming, hardy, vigorous and pest resistant than average varieties. 'Janice Brown'... Posted Aug 13 2010, 08:07 AM by barb-nhn with | with no comments Filed under: Perennial, ground cover, borders, containers, daylily, edging plant, eyezone, Janice Brown Daylily, pink ruffled petals

• Enhance your Combination Containers with Brunnera King's Ransom!

  Brunnera 'King's Ransom' produces leaves that have a creamy yellow margin with a light "frosting" over the remainder of the leaves, giving the plant a silver and gold appearance. In the spring, dainty blue flowers float above the... Posted Aug 07 2010, 06:14 PM by barb-nhn with | with no comments Filed under: Perennial, Deer Resistant, ground cover, moist soil, blue flowers, full shade, brunnera, creamy yellow, Brunnera King's Ransom, combination containers

• The Daylily 'Irish Envy' Flowers Last up to 16 Hours!

  Daylily 'Irish Envy' is not your everyday yellow daylily! Daylily 'Irish Envy' is known for its long lasting flowers that last for up to 16 hours. This early summer bloomer is a reblooming variety, so you will enjoy an encore of more blooms... Posted Aug 05 2010, 04:34 PM by barb-nhn with | with no comments Filed under: yellow, edging, ground cover, easy to grow, borders, black walnut tree, daylily, carefree, long lasting flowers, heavy bloomer, juglone, dry soils, mixed containers, Irish Envy Daylily

• Corydalis ‘Blackberry Wine’ is easy to grow and long blooming!

  Corydalis ‘Blackberry Wine’ features compound, fern-like, blue-green leaves with 3-lobed leaflets and axillary racemes of fragrant, tube-shaped wine-purple flowers (to 3/4” long). This plant typically forms a mound of foliage to 10” tall and 18” wide... Posted Jul 04 2010, 01:51 PM by barb-nhn with | with no comments Filed under: Perennial, border, ground cover, fragrant, hanging baskets, rock gardens, long bloomer, Corydalis Blackberry WIne, corydalis, heat and humidity tolerant, resistant to rabbits, plum-violet flowers

• Besides having Showy Foliage, the Brunnera ‘Emerald Mist’ is Deer Proof too!

  Reliable and dependable, the Brunnera ‘Emerald Mist’ is a vigorous and colorful new shade plant that deer won't eat! It is an obvious improvement of Brunnera 'Langtrees' with more pronounced silver spots that connect to form a silver collar... Posted Jun 29 2010, 01:10 PM by barb-nhn with | with no comments Filed under: Perennial, shade, ground cover, vigorous, blue flowers, deer Resistant shrub, brunnera, Emerald Mist Brunnera

• The ‘Brunswick’ Blueberry plant can be used for erosion control!

  Being a berry that is firm and flavorful, the ‘ Brunswick’ Blueberry is small, sky-blue in color, and grows on a lowbush blueberry plant. The flavor of ‘Brunswick’ Blueberry is similar to wild blueberries . The shrub grows 1-2 feet in height and becomes... Posted Jun 09 2010, 05:16 PM by jeff-nhn with | with no comments Filed under: Featured Plants, Shrub, ground cover, fall color, blueberries, self pollinating, Brunswick Blueberry, pruning Brunswick blueberries

• Create a colorful and interesting groundcover with Hens and Chicks ‘Red Beauty’

  'Red Beauty' Hens and Chicks consists of one large rosette (the "hen") and many smaller rosettes (the "chicks") which can be pulled up and replanted elsewhere to start new plants. They grow 3-4 inches high with a spread of... Posted Jun 01 2010, 06:28 AM by barb-nhn with | with no comments Filed under: ground cover, full sun, rosettes, slow grower, hens and chicks, red beauty hens and chicks, red tips, gritty soil

• The ‘Loesener’ Bittersweet is a vigorous growing vine

  The ‘Loesener’ Bittersweet is a vigorous, twining vine with small inconspicuous flowers which precede abundant yellow and red berries. Often male and female flowers are borne on same plant. The flowers turn to berries that are round, green at first, then... Posted May 23 2010, 06:04 AM by barb-nhn with | with no comments Filed under: ground cover, spread, berries, vigorous, vines, invasive, loesener bittersweet, bittersweet, twining