The Garden

A living catalog of everything growing here. Pick a plant to dig into its story, quirks, and what keeps it happy.

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Upright clumps of fleshy, toothed green leaves topped with branched clusters of small yellow star-shaped flowers.

Aizoon Stonecrop

Phedimus aizoon

A non-creeping, clump-forming stonecrop with fleshy leaves and branched clusters of yellow flowers in early summer.

Tall spike of large red and white bicolor bell-shaped penstemon flowers.

Arabesque Red Penstemon

Penstemon hartwegii Arabesque® Red

An award-winning penstemon covered all summer in large, bell-shaped red-and-white blooms that hummingbirds adore.

Astilbe

Astilbe 'Rock and Roll'

A shade-garden classic with big, fluffy plumes of clear-white flowers on reddish stems in early summer, above a mound of glossy, fern-like foliage.

Avens

Geum chiloense 'Mrs. Bradshaw'

A cheerful, low-maintenance perennial with semi-double scarlet-orange flowers on wiry stems above mounding rosettes of dark green leaves from late spring through summer.

Bee Balm

Monarda didyma 'Balbalmose'

Balmy™ Rose — a knee-high, mildew-resistant bee balm topped all summer with shaggy crowns of rose-pink flowers that hummingbirds, bees and butterflies can't resist.

Bigleaf Hydrangea

Hydrangea macrophylla

The classic mophead hydrangea, prized for its huge rounded flower clusters in summer that turn blue in acidic soil or pink in alkaline soil. A shade-friendly shrub that blooms on old wood.

Black Cohosh

Actaea racemosa

An upright native woodland perennial that sends tall, candle-like spires of fluffy white flowers high above attractive ferny foliage.

Dense mound of glossy, ruffled jet-black Heuchera leaves with rosy-purple undersides.

Black Pearl Coral Bells

Heuchera Primo® 'Black Pearl'

An award-winning coral bells with a dense mound of glossy, ruffled jet-black leaves and airy sprays of white flowers — happy in sun or shade and a 2018 Perennial of the Year.

Calendula

Calendula officinalis 'Geisha Girl'

A cheerful, easy-to-grow annual with edible gold, orange, and red flowerheads that bloom from spring into summer.

Tomatoes ripening on the vine on a leafy plant (representative photo).

Carbon Tomato

Solanum lycopersicum 'Carbon'

A richly flavored black heirloom beefsteak with meaty texture and dark, olive-shouldered fruit that resists cracking.

Catmint

Nepeta x faassenii 'Junior Walker'

A compact, mounding perennial that billows with aromatic grey-green foliage and a seemingly endless supply of lavender-blue flower spikes — drought tolerant, deer resistant, and beloved by bees.

A mounded coral bells in a white container, its heavily ruffled leaves in shades of bright cherry red and deep mahogany, against a white porch railing.

Cherry Truffles Coral Bells

Heuchera Dolce® 'Cherry Truffles'

A compact coral bells with heavily ruffled leaves that open bright cherry red and mature to rich mahogany, topped with airy light-pink flowers — happy in sun or shade.

Clustered Bellflower

Campanula glomerata 'Superba'

Dense spherical clusters of rich violet-purple bell-shaped flowers crown upright stems in late spring and early summer — a bold, wildlife-friendly perennial for cottage gardens and borders.

Dahurian Rhododendron

Rhododendron dauricum

A hardy, early-blooming deciduous rhododendron that covers its bare twigs in bright rosy-purple flowers in late winter to early spring, before the leaves appear.

Daylily

Hemerocallis lilioasphodelus

An easy, fragrant species daylily with clear lemon-yellow trumpet flowers in early summer, held on slender scapes above arching clumps of strap-shaped foliage.

Dianthus

A classic cottage-garden mainstay — low cushions of slender blue-green foliage topped by fringed, clove-scented flowers in pink, white and red from late spring into summer.

Dill

Anethum graveolens

Aromatic annual herb with feathery blue-green foliage and flat-topped golden-yellow umbels, essential in the kitchen and beloved by pollinators and black swallowtail butterflies.

A low, dense mound of dark green two-needle pine foliage planted along a house foundation.

Dwarf Mugo Pine

Pinus mugo 'Pumilio'

A slow, dense dwarf conifer that forms a low spreading mound of dark green needles — a classic choice for foundations and rock gardens.

Eastern Redbud

Cercis canadensis

A small native understory tree that erupts in clouds of rosy pink-purple flowers along its bare branches in early spring, followed by heart-shaped leaves.

Egyptian Walking Onion

Allium × proliferum

A perennial onion that 'walks' across the garden as its top-heavy bulbil clusters tip the stalks over and root themselves — all parts are edible, from tender spring shoots to pungent underground bulbs.

Emerald Arborvitae

Thuja occidentalis 'Emerald'

A narrow, conical evergreen prized as a low-maintenance hedge, screen, or specimen with dense, year-round green foliage.

Giant Solomon's Seal

Polygonatum biflorum var. commutatum

A bold native woodland perennial with tall, arching stems lined with broad leaves and rows of dangling, greenish-white bell-shaped flowers.

Globe Blue Spruce

Picea pungens 'Glauca Globosa'

A slow-growing dwarf conifer that forms a tidy mound of intensely silvery-blue needles, bringing year-round color and structure to small gardens and rockeries.

Golden Mop False Cypress

Chamaecyparis pisifera 'Golden Mop'

A slow-growing dwarf conifer with bright golden, thread-like foliage that mounds into a soft, mop-like shape.

Corsican hellebore with leathery, toothed evergreen leaves and clusters of pale yellow-green cup-shaped flowers.

Green Hellebore

Helleborus argutifolius

An evergreen hellebore with leathery, toothed foliage and pale yellow-green cups that nod through the bleakest part of winter.

Greenstem Forsythia

Forsythia viridissima

One of the first shrubs to bloom each spring, smothering bare arching stems with bright yellow trumpet-shaped flowers before the leaves emerge — a bold, reliable herald of the new season.

Hardy Fuchsia

Fuchsia magellanica

A graceful, fountain-shaped shrub festooned with dangling scarlet-and-purple lantern flowers from summer through first frost — the hardiest of the fuchsias and an irresistible draw for hummingbirds.

Husker's Red Penstemon

Penstemon digitalis 'Husker's Red'

A tough native beardtongue grown for its dramatic maroon-red foliage and stems, topped in early summer by airy panicles of white, pink-blushed tubular flowers that bees and hummingbirds work over.

Japanese Holly

Ilex crenata

A dense, fine-textured evergreen shrub with small glossy leaves and black berries — an easygoing, shearable boxwood alternative for hedges and foundation plantings.

Japanese Maple 'Crimson Queen'

Acer palmatum 'Crimson Queen'

A compact, weeping laceleaf maple with deeply dissected crimson-red foliage that cascades in a graceful mound — one of the most ornamental small trees for a garden.

Japanese Maple 'Inaba-shidare'

Acer palmatum 'Inaba-shidare'

A vigorous laceleaf Japanese maple whose deeply dissected leaves emerge deep purple, hold purple-red through summer, and blaze bright red in fall over a graceful cascading mound.

Japanese Maple 'Tamukeyama'

Acer palmatum 'Tamukeyama'

A vigorous weeping laceleaf Japanese maple with deeply dissected crimson foliage that resists summer fade and cascades into a broad, graceful mound — one of the most heat-tolerant red cutleaf maples.

Japanese Pieris

Pieris japonica

A broadleaf evergreen shrub prized for coppery-red new growth and drooping chains of fragrant, white urn-shaped flowers in spring.

A young, upright Japanese red pine with soft needles brightly variegated in yellow and creamy white, set among blue spruce and other conifers.

Japanese Red Pine 'Golden Ghost'

Pinus densiflora 'Golden Ghost'

A variegated Japanese red pine whose soft needles are banded in yellow and creamy white, forming a bright, broadly upright accent — considered one of the best of the variegated pines.

Japanese Snowball

Viburnum plicatum

A large deciduous shrub famous for the showy, white pom-pom flowers that line its branches each spring.

Japanese Spiraea

Spiraea japonica

A tough, compact deciduous shrub smothered in flat-topped clusters of rosy-pink flowers through summer, beloved by butterflies and easy to grow almost anywhere.

Karen Azalea

Rhododendron 'Karens'

A compact, cold-hardy evergreen azalea that explodes in a cloud of fragrant lavender-pink double flowers in mid-spring — one of the hardiest and most reliable azaleas for northern gardens.

Leopard Plant

Ligularia dentata

A bold, moisture-loving shade perennial grown for big rounded leaves and clusters of orange-yellow daisy flowers on dark stems in late summer.

Flat-topped clusters of small crimson-magenta yarrow flowers above ferny green foliage — a representative red Achillea millefolium.

New Vintage Red Yarrow

Achillea millefolium 'New Vintage Red'

A compact, well-behaved yarrow with flat heads of rich crimson-red flowers that hold their colour, blooming late spring through summer above aromatic ferny foliage — short enough that it never flops.

Obedient Plant

Physostegia virginiana

A native perennial with showy spikes of pink, purple, or white flowers — each bloom can be nudged into place and stays put.

Orpine

Hylotelephium telephium

An upright succulent perennial whose fleshy stems are crowned in late summer with dense clusters of pink to ruby flowers.

Parsley

Petroselinum crispum

A Mediterranean culinary herb grown worldwide as a biennial — fresh, bright, and indispensable in the kitchen, and an important host plant for black swallowtail butterflies.

Several large, lavender-blue, bell-shaped Campanula persicifolia flowers on slender stems growing from a rosette of narrow bright-green leaves.

Peachleaf Bellflower

Campanula persicifolia 'Takion Blue'

A compact, easy-care perennial with erect stems bearing large, outward-facing lavender-blue bell flowers in early summer above a neat mound of narrow, bright green leaves.

Broad mound of large, well-rounded chartreuse Heuchera leaves in a garden bed among silvery and burgundy foliage.

Pistachio Ambrosia Coral Bells

Heuchera Primo® 'Pistachio Ambrosia'

A vigorous coral bells with big, well-rounded chartreuse leaves that brighten shade, topped through summer with pink flowers loved by pollinators.

Cluster of dusky purple cherry tomatoes with metallic green striping on the vine.

Purple Bumble Bee Tomato

Solanum lycopersicum 'Bumble Bee Purple'

A striking cherry tomato in dusky purple with metallic green stripes — sweet, meaty, and high-yielding.

Ribbon Grass

Phalaris arundinacea 'Picta'

A bright, indestructible spreading grass whose upright blades are striped lengthwise in crisp white and green — a vigorous groundcover for sun or shade, damp ground or dry.

Rose of Sharon

Hibiscus syriacus 'Notwoodthree'

A deciduous shrub with large, tropical-looking blue blooms — sold as Blue Chiffon® — that flower from spring into summer.

A sprawling cucumber plant in a garden bed with a long, slender green cucumber on the vine.

Shintokiwa Cucumber

Cucumis sativus 'Shintokiwa'

A vigorous Japanese cucumber with long, slender, thin-skinned fruit that stays sweet, crisp, and bitter-free even when large.

Mound of fleshy blue-green succulent leaves, the plant that produces flat pink flower heads in fall.

Showy Stonecrop

Hylotelephium spectabile

A drought-tough succulent whose flat heads of pink, star-shaped flowers light up the late-summer garden and feed pollinators.

Compact mound of semi-glossy iridescent silver Heuchera leaves with a rosy blush, topped with vibrant pink flowers.

Silver Gumdrop Coral Bells

Heuchera Dolce® 'Silver Gumdrop'

A compact coral bells with shimmering, iridescent silver leaves that take on a rosy blush late in the season, topped with vibrant pink flowers — a bright spark for the shade garden.

A clump of dense, upright spikes of small blue-purple speedwell flowers.

Spiked Speedwell

Veronica spicata

An upright, clump-forming perennial topped with dense spikes of star-shaped blue flowers that bees and butterflies love.

A truss of small yellow-orange cherry tomatoes ripening on the vine.

Sunrise Bumble Bee Tomato

Solanum lycopersicum 'Bumble Bee Sunrise'

A high-vigor cherry tomato with sweet, yellow-and-red bicolor fruit — one of the sweetest in the Artisan collection.

Suyo Long Cucumber

Cucumis sativus 'Suyo Long'

An heirloom Chinese cucumber with long, ribbed, sweet, bitter-free fruit that thrives in hot weather — about 61 days.

Flat-topped clusters of small pink yarrow flowers above ferny green foliage — a representative pink Achillea millefolium.

Tutti Frutti Yarrow

Achillea millefolium 'Tutti Frutti'

A colour-shifting yarrow series whose big flat flower heads open one fruity shade and age to another — apricot, pink, cherry and red all at once — above aromatic, fern-like foliage.

Fruit developing on a tomato plant, with green tomatoes and flowers on the vine (representative photo).

Ukrainian Purple Tomato

Solanum lycopersicum 'Ukrainian Purple'

A sweet, savory heirloom plum tomato in purply-black, with meaty, crack-resistant fruit that's excellent for sauce.

Unagi Cucumber

Cucumis sativus 'Unagi'

A glossy, spineless, seedless slicing cucumber that produces crisp, straight fruit in abundance — ready in about 55 days.

Weeping Blue Spruce

Picea pungens 'Pendula'

A dramatic, sculptural conifer with silvery-blue needles and branches that cascade downward, taking whatever shape it is trained to — narrow and upright or low and sprawling.

Woodland Sage

Salvia nemorosa

A clump-forming hardy perennial sending up dense spikes of violet-blue flowers in early summer — a magnet for bees that reblooms readily when deadheaded.

A wide bed of threadleaf tickseed covered in masses of small golden-yellow daisy-like flowers above airy green foliage.

Zagreb Tickseed

Anacis verticillata 'Zagreb'

A compact threadleaf tickseed that forms airy mounds of fine foliage topped with cheerful gold, daisy-like flowers all summer.

Zinnia

Zinnia elegans 'Benary's Giant Lilac'

A towering cottage-garden annual with large, fully double lilac blooms on long stems all summer — a butterfly magnet and one of the finest fresh-cut flowers in the garden.