Stunning Silver And Orchid Foliage on a Hardy PerennialGhost Lamium (spotted deadnettle) is an evergreen perennial with outstanding ornamental features. Plant a few where you’d like an impressive groudcover, or use them for a stand-out edging plant along borders. Ghost Lamium has amazing color and texture, perfect for your yard, or in a container on your patio.Your Ghost Lamium may be small in stature but possesses a magnificent ornamental nature. Its foliage is the main attraction, with heart-shaped leaves an adorable feature of this lush, evergreen perennial. Each dainty leaf’s silver-hue stands out amid more commonly colored plantings, impossible to miss even amid tall, colorful plants. The leave’s serrated edges and tiny veins are highlighted with various shades of green. The overall effect of your Ghost Lamium is of foliage that is a natural masterpiece in any setting. As if this weren’t enough, Ghost Lamium produces a spring bloom of petite, purple blossoms that repeat throughout the summer. The effect of the tiny spots of lavender against the green edged, silver leaves is breathtaking! Ghost Lamium will grow about 1 foot high with a 2 foot spread. It’s quite hardy and a wonderful choice when you need something fast growing or in areas where it’s a bit shady or dry. It’s deer resistant and even bunnies will pass it by. It’s a plant you can put in place and will quickly spread out. It can be left to grow naturally, or you can trim it back in winter for a neater appearance. There are few perennials with the exquisite color and texture of Ghost Lamium. Not only is it an incredibly beautiful groundcover, but is even terrific at choking back weeds wherever it’s planted. If you’re seeking a uniquely colorful groundcover that maintains some color even during the winter months, Ghost Lamium is the perennial for you this year!* Re-blooming evergreen* Drought and heat tolerant* Adaptive to a variety of conditions* Great for containers* Deer and rabbit resistant.
Category: Blue or Purple Flowering Perennials
Angelonia Angelface Wedgewood Blue
The Angelonia Angelface Wedgewood Blue, Angelonia hybrid ‘Anwedgim’, has been bred for flower performance as well as a great upright branching growth habit.This large and beautiful blue flower has a garden performance that makes an exciting addition to your summer flowering collection.Angelonias in containers make full blooming specimen plants that are great for the patio and yard. Planted in the landscape, Angelonias will WOW gardeners with their beautiful shape and structure and will flower well into the fall.Angelonia are often called Summer snapdragons for good reason as they love the heat and will flower most all summer, though they often take a break in the heat if high summer.No deadheading required, easy and rewarding, just keep up regular fertilizing and watering.This plant can be a perennial in zones 9-11. In zones 3-8 it is an annual only.* Fragrant foliage* Drought tolerant* Deer resistantPick your colorā¦.
Periwinkle
Petite Lavender Blooms All SeasonPeriwinkle, Vinca minor, is also known as Trailing Myrtle, Dwarf Periwinkle and Creeping Myrtle. This species of Periwinkle is one of the most popular and widely used ground covers. Trailing stems with smooth, evergreen leaves (to 1.5″ long) root at the nodes as they go along the ground and quickly spread to form an attractive ground cover.Tubular, lavender blue, phlox-like flowers (to 1 inch across) appear in the leaf axils in spring and continue to flower intermittently throughout summer into fall. Foliage will mound up to 6″ tall.Periwinkles are used as a versatile ground cover and provide good cover for bulb beds. Effective on slopes or banks to stabilize soils and prevent erosion. Easily grown in average, dry to medium wet, well-drained soil in full sun to part shade. It tolerates full shade, but it prefers moist, humusy soils in part shade. Plant 12-18″ apart to cover large areas. This evergreen perennial is similar in all ways to Vinca Major except the flower is a little smaller.* Lavender Blue Flowers Throughout the Season* Evergreen Viny Groundcover* Dry or Moist Soils in Part Shade .
Liriope Big Blue
Hardy, evergreen groundcover with summer flowers and winter interest.Big Blue Liriope, Liriope muscari ‘Big Blue’, is an arching, grass-like perennial that produces spikes of dense, lavender flowers throughout summer. The flowers transition to black berries that persist into winter for additional decorative appeal. The Big Blue Liriope is a tough little plant, terrific as a groundcover or for use in difficult areas where a reliable splash of color is desired.Why plant a common groundcover when you can have a Big Blue Liriope in your yard! With evergreen foliage, lovely flowers…and even berries for winter interest, Big Blue Liriope is sure a winner!* Summer flowers* Winter interest* Deer and rabbit resistant* Heat, humidity and drought tolerant (once established)* Urban tolerant* Evergreen* Foot traffic tolerant* Fast growing* Adaptive to a variety of soils* Great in containers.
Summer Beauty Allium
Substance, beauty and pest control for the summer gardenDo you want to know the biggest complaint we’ve heard about Summer Beauty Nodding Onion Allium (Allium angulosum ‘Summer Beauty’)? “I love it so much I have to be careful not to overuse it”!In April its mounding grass-like foliage gives good substance to the just-waking garden. Late June and July welcome pretty round lilac flowers that cover the plant like drumsticks. If you don’t deadhead it you get to see the show change as the flowering stems turn reddish yellow, contrasting with the dark green foliage. Then, when winter comes barreling on, leave the flowers to dry on their stems for a beautiful textural show the rest of the season.Summer Beauty is a team player. It blends well with so many other colorful flowers, has a soft roundish form that compliments other plants in the garden (whether in bloom or not!), and is sterile so that it doesn’t create extra work by seeding itself around and growing where you don’t want it.We’ve heard reports that the subtle onion scent keeps aphids away from your flowerbed, too!Summer Beauty Allium will help you have a long-lived, stylish, healthy garden. Order your today!* Great form* Pretty flowers* Hardy and carefree once established * Doesn’t reseed* Natural aphid control.
Twister Lily of the Nile
The first bicolor agapanthus!African Lily sounds so exotic. It calls to mind lush jungles and hidden flowers that are rare and enchanting. The reality is that African Lily is one of the easiest and most hardy plants you can grow in zone 7-11. So hardy, in fact, that in places where these beauties thrive they are used in freeway dividers and as foundation plantings. This doesn’t distract from their beauty. It makes the even more attractive for their easy care.Typically seen is shades of lavender or white, the new Twister African Lily (Agapanthus africanus ‘Twister’) turns these stalwarts on their head with a stunning new look. This is the first bicolor agapanthus! The individual trumpet-shaped flowers are true-blue at their base fading to white at their tips.Each 8” flower-head is made up of dozens of the individual flowers in the form of a ball. These 8” umbels are held three and four feet high over the thick, daylily-like leaves. A mass planting of Twister is unlike anything you’ve ever seen.Plant them in groups, as a border or in a pot. They are beautiful in almost any situation. They make striking cut flowers too!Add a touch of the exotic to your garden this year. Buy your Twister African Lilies now!* The first bicolor African Lily – Blue and white flowers* Sun loving evergreen * Also known as Twister lily of the Nile* Heavy blooms all season – All year in zones 9-10!.
Brunnera Emerald Mist
Silver in the ShadeBrunnera Emerald Mist, Brunnera ‘Emerald Mist’ PPAF, is an improved version of Brunnera ‘Langtrees’ with more pronounced silver spots that connect to form a silver collar around the perimeter of the leaf.The heart shaped leaves also have a light silver dusting over the entire leaf surface, which gives it a unique metallic look.The baby blue forget-me-not flowers accent the showy foliage in the spring. ‘Emerald Mist’ PPAF is an outstanding deer resistant perennial for the shade garden!Brunnera is a woodland plant that should be grown in full shade, but in the north, morning sun is tolerated, and in the south, dense shade is necessary.It will grow the fastest and strongest in rich soil that is consistently moist, and it does not need a lot of care once established.Cut back the old foliage of ‘Emerald Mist’ in the spring rather than in the fall. It will become a sure garden pleaser!* Large Silver Spots on Heart Shaped Leaves* Deer Resistant* Grows in Dense Shade.
Sweet Kate Spiderwort
The Spiderwort ‘Sweet Kate’, Tradescantia, has a brilliant gold leaf form. This new import from the UK is taking the gardening world by storm! The brilliant golden foliage (brightest in full sun) is highlighted with a procession of deep blue flowers from late spring until fall.When the stems of spiderworts are cut, a viscous stem secretion is released which becomes threadlike and silky upon hardening, like a spider’s web. That is how it got its name. ‘Sweet Kate’ opens broad and flat in the heat of the day, then wither and curl under to be replaced the next morning by a new batch of blooms. The foliage of spiderworts looks very similar to a daylily’s.If flowering slows, behead ‘Sweet Kate’, and it will start to regrow and flower all over again. Being a vigorous grower, each plant becomes a true masterpiece. Fantastic in shade gardens and combos; thrives in sun to partial shade.* Deep blue flowers* Gold foliage* Shade.
Brunnera Looking Glass
The truest blue of any garden flower True blue is an elusive color for gardeners to find for their gardens. There are many flowers that are called blue but veer to lavender or purple. Siberian Bugloss (Brunnera macrophylla ‘Looking Glass’) is perhaps the truest blue of any garden flower. This is a beautiful plant (with a not-so-beautiful name!) that is easy to care for and gives so much back in the form of flowers and foliage.Brunnera ‘Looking Glass’ is grown as much for its heart-shaped leaves as it is for its forget-me-not flowers. Not tolerant of dry soils, bugloss love steady water and will reward you by reseeding and stretching its reach in your garden. It quickly fills in bare spots and fills in empty patches under the shade trees. (Light shade is the best for brunnera.)By late summer the leaves – coarse and hairy – can look a little shabby. A quick, hard cut back will reinvigorate them for a nice fall show.If you are looking for a perennial plant that will give you an excellent show all season – both with heart-shaped leaves and true blue flowers, then you will love Brunnera ‘Looking Glass’!* Lovely heart-shaped leaves* True blue flowers in the shade* Reseeds easily.
Blue Boa Anise Hyssop
The perfect finishing touch for your garden! Like an expensive string of pearls or a fancy feather boa, Agastache Blue Boa provides that certain ‘something special’ to your garden beds and borders. Blue Boa is a lovely gentian-blue-leaning-to-lavender color that complements every other color in your garden. Many long-time landscape designers claim that every garden should be bordered in blue, instead of green or white, and very flew plants with blue flowers are as excellent for bedding as agastache.Agastache in general is a healthy perennial that is covered in flower spikes from early summer to late fall. Blue Boa particularly is an award-winning cultivar that is tremendously heat and humidity tolerant and will bloom for you early and often.The 5” tall flower spikes are a haven for hummingbirds, butterflies and other pollinators but not palatable to rabbits and deer. The scented leaves are very palatable to humans, though, and are great for flavoring drinks!Agastache Blue Boa is very easy care and will reliably return year after year for you. All they really ask for is a sunny spot with great drainage. Try them in a big garden pot, too!Don’t let another season go by without the beautiful blue spikes of Agastache Blue Boa topping off your garden. Order yours today!* Fragrant * Birds, butterflies and bees love the flowers * Tolerates hot, dry sites * Great in containers * Deer and rabbit resistant.