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Blizzard has exceptionally long stems easily stretching to 18" or more. Growing tall and upright, Blizzard can reach heights of six feet and requires staking or additional support.
Large, robust plant. Decorative, deeply cut foliage with maple-leaf appearance, rich color, and sturdy branches. Ideal for late summer and fall arrangements. Primarily grown for use as cut flower foliage, the vigorous, drought- and heat-tolerant plants are also suitable for containers and landscaping. The abundant color and tall stature make Mahogany Splendor a lovely backdrop in the garden or patio.
Can be propagated from cuttings to overwinter indoors!
Sweetly fragrant at 3’ tall, the blooms are white with a slight cream center, really long blooming and often abuzz with pollinators. A wonderful cutting flower and garden bloomer from June through September.
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Beatrix Farrand's American Landscapes: Her Gardens and Campuses, by Balmori, Kostial-McGuire, & McPeck.
A helpful reminder to visit the garden, this 2”x3” magnet features a beautiful photo of spring blooms and our iconic garden gates, designed by Beatrix Farrand in 1912.
Butterfly Weed is a long-blooming, drought-tolerant, wildlife-friendly perennial. Its showy, bright orange flowers bloom in flat-topped clusters, June-August. The nectar is attractive to bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds; it has special value for native bees.
A perfect chalice-shaped bloom, this new variety from England is a rare form with fused petals that create the bowl, accented in the center with a tuft of gold stamens. Tall and graceful, it attracts native bees and is easy to grow, deadhead for neatness and constant bloom all summer.
In the 2005 show season the American Dahlia Society gave the longtime favorite 'Kelvin Floodlight' more awards than any other giant Formal Decorative Dahlia. Stunner with monster 10–12″ flowers, which are a clear, penetrating pale yellow. It's one of the easiest Dahlia tubers to grow and the ideal choice for your first giant Dahlia. Decorative form.
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Preserved by a Kentucky farm family since the 1930s. A tall, lavender rose beauty, 5-6” flowers, 5-6’ plant.
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This is a potted tuber
A miniature pompom variety, smaller plants can reach up to 36” when mature.
This striking family heirloom with its ruby flowers on dark stems is SO easy to grow and store that it’s been a pass-along plant in Wisconsin since the early 1900s. Ball, 3”, 4-5’, heat-tolerant.
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Gloxiniflora Foxglove Mix will add amazing vertical texture and bright color to your landscape. A favorite in cottage gardens, this mix is great for shade.
Handsome, ornamental plants with 4-5 foot feathery plumes of filigreed blue-green, copper-tipped leaves and lacy, golden flower umbels. A stunning addition to flower beds and a major nectar and pollen host for many butterflies (especially Swallowtails) and beneficial insect species. The aromatic, sweetly anise scented leaves are delicious in salads and make a lovely, soothing tea. Self sows.
This new freely blooming variety is compact and blooms early too. It has charming soft yellow flowers with single or collarette rounded petals.
The blooms are 4 inches across on 'Italian White' Sunflower, with a deep chocolate eye, slightly ruffled white petals, and a ring of primrose between the two. These very sturdy, well-branched 5 to 7 foot plants produce an incredible number of blooms over a very long season, giving you enough to fill every vase in the house without robbing the garden of fresh, gleaming color. The long stems make these great flowers for cutting, and they are exceptionally tolerant of dry soils.
Meticulously propagated from cuttings, these plants will flower all summer long and make a beautiful statement in your garden. Like all Salvias it will attract a huge number of pollinators to your yard, and it makes a wonderful cut and dried flower. Can tolerate a dry summer without worry and is a very low maintenance addition to a beautiful border bed. (Our horticulturist planted these in her home garden last year, and they survived the drought unscathed and bloomed well into early November!)
Pink Popsocks' frilly pink flowers, most with powderpuff centers, are mixed with single and semi-double forms, blooming all summer if cut for bouquets. Delicate-looking but resilient and trouble-free, they are a nod to vintage varieties of the 1920s.
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Cafe au Lait’s mature height is 36-48" tall.
Ivanetti Dahlia is a delectable flower that grows with rich, deep-maroon blooms all season long. Ivanetti has long, strong stems that make it an excellent cut flower. A medium-sized ball variety that is sure to rock your garden or landscape.
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This is a potted tuber.
Plants grow 4-5’ high producing petite 2-2.5” flowers.
Although soft baby pink when it first opens, this 1950s classic quickly matures into a vivid, vibrant, and vivacious rose-pink highlighted with silver. Absolutely pops in the garden and bouquets. Cactus, 5-6”, 4-5’.
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The dahlia "Thomas Edison" is a popular dinnerplate dahlia known for its large, deep purple blooms. It's a classic variety, bred in the U.S. and introduced in 1929, and is still considered one of the best purple dinnerplate dahlias available. These dahlias are robust and produce many flowers throughout the season, making them a good choice for borders or cut flowers.
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Recommended by the Association of Specialty Cut Flower Growers. High yields of long, sturdy stems with 4–6", fully double, dahlia-like blooms. Excellent vase life. Vigorous plants hold up well in summer heat and rain. Low susceptibility to powdery mildew. Cut-and-come-again flower, yielding multiple cuts over the season.
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Produces an abundance of ball-shaped flowers, reaches 42” at mature height.
Campanula Glomerata is an extremely long-lived perennial. Superba is a compact, clump-forming plant that features lance-shaped, medium-green foliage and produces clusters of stunning, 1 inch in diameter, deep-purple, violet flowers with a glistening almost metallic sheen. Campanula Superba blooms throughout the season, but the bellflower flowers appear most in early summer attracting hummingbirds, bees and butterflies. Reaching 20 inches in height, Superba has intensely colored, violet flowers and stiff stems that make it a delightful cut flower.
Large, robust plant. Ablemoschus manihot is not a true hibiscus, but resembles the same leaf and flower shape as its common name. Elizabeth Lawrence wrote of this in 1942, "on sultry mornings, flowers of Hibiscus Manihot Sunset look as cool as lemon ice." This rare flower of soft yellow with a dark burgundy eye unfurls from teardrop-shaped buds. Its lobed leaves resemble maple leaves, and later in the season, its large seedpods are covered with silky white hairs that catch the light and glisten. Watered during dry spells, they will flower abundantly until frost. An 1894 catalog lists this tropical beauty.
Lightly fragrant, long and tubular white flowers dangle in dense clusters from atop the tall stems. This plant starts blooming in late July or August. Flowers close in full sun.
A ball dahlia with bright orange blossoms of symmetrically arranged florets. Supremely cheerful; one of our favorites. Vigorous plants grow up to 5' tall yielding an abundance of 3-4" blooms.
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A larger dahlia, mature plants can reach up to 4’ with 3-4” flowers and need to be staked.
Balsam ‘Tom Thumb Mix’ is a dwarf mix, growing to 12 to 16 inches tall. A shade lover, it will grow in full to part sun as well, but it won’t perform best in full sun in the summer. Plants bloom all summer long and do best in rich, well drained soil. Balsams reseed readily. It prefers moderate to moist conditions in rich and well-drained soils. It is effectively used in beds and borders as well as containers. Attracts bumble bees.