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King Edward Yarrow
Achillea tomentosa 'King Edward'
- Height: 6"
- Width: 1'
- Full sun
- Blooms late spring to midsummer
- Low growing plant perfect for edging gardens, attracts pollinators
- deer and rabbit resistant
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Italian Bugloss
Anchusa azurea 'Dropmore'
- Height: 3' tall when in bloom
- Width: 1.5'
- Full to part sun
- Blooms late May-September
- Attracts bees. Prefers well drained soil. Remove spent flowers for more blooms.
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Grandmother's Garden Columbine
Aquilegia vulgaris 'Grandmother's Garden'
- Height: 2.5' tall in bloom
- Width: 1'
- Full sun
- Blooms mid-May to July
- Heirloom variety, used in old fashioned cottage gardens
- Will reseed if you allow seed heads to remain on plant
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Common Milkweed
Asclepias syriaca
- Height: 3-4'
- Width: 2'
- full sun
- Blooms: June-August
- Native wildflower. Crucial food and host plant for monarch caterpillars. Attracts bees and butterflies. Remove seed pods if you do not wish it to self sow in your garden.
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Butterfly Weed
Asclepias tuberosa
- Height: 2'
- Width: 2'
- Full sun
- Blooms June-August
- Food plant for monarch butterflies, attract pollinators and hummingbirds. Remove dead blooms to keep it blooming. Does not like to be moved once established.
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New England Aster Mix
Aster novi-anglii mix
- Height: 3'
- Width: 2'
- full sun
- Blooms: August to October
- Flowers can be a mix of shades from white to deep purple.
- Native wildflower, attracts bees and butterflies, good cut flower. Cut plant back in midsummer to make it grow fuller, less floppy, and produce more blooms.
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Rock Cress
Aubrieta grandiflora mix
- Height: 6"
- Width: 12-18"
- full sun to light shade
- Blooms: spring
- Flowers can be shades of pink or purple
- Low growing, mat forming plant makes a great groundcover for the front of the garden. Needs well drained soil.
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Cloth of Gold
Aurinia saxatilis 'Gold Rush'
- Height: 8"
- Width: 12-18"
- full sun
- Blooms: spring
- A low growing plant perfect for a groundcover at the front of the garden. Attracts butterflies. Cut back after blooming.
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Snowbank False Aster
Boltonia asteroides 'Snowbank'
- Height: 4-5'
- Width: 2'
- full sun
- Blooms: late summer to late fall
- Native wildflower. Produces clouds of white daisy flowers that attracts bees and butterflies. Great cut flower. A tall plant for the back of the flower garden.
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Bells Blue Peach-leaved Bellflower
Campanula persicifolia 'Bells Blue'
- Height: 1-3'
- Width: 18"
- full sun to part shade
- Blooms: May-July
- Good cut flower. Deer resistant. Attracts hummingbirds. Remove dead flowers to encourage more blooms to grow.
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Cerastium tomentosum
Snow in the Summer
Grows 6" tall and 2' wide
Full sun
Blooms May-June
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Spotted Bellflower
Campanula punctata f. rubriflora
- Height: 1'
- Width: 2' or more, spreads
- full sun to part shade
- Blooms: June-July
- Spreads via underground runners, great for filling in bare areas that you want covered.
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Jupiter's Beard
Centranthus ruber 'Pretty Betsy'
- Height: 2'
- Width: 18"
- full sun
- Blooms: May-August
- Attracts bees, butterflies and hummingbirds. Heirloom cottage garden plant.
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Micro Chips Mix Maiden Pinks
Dianthus deltoides "Micro Chips Mix'
- Height: 6"
- Width: 1'
- full sun
- Blooms: May-August
- A low growing plants that looks great in the front of a garden. A cottage garden favorite!
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Vampire Maiden Pinks
Dianthus deltoides 'Vampire'
- Height: 6"
- Width: 12-18"
- full sun
- Blooms: May-July
- Attracts butterflies and hummingbirds. Short, mat forming plants that look great at the front of the garden.
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Pink Shades Fringed Pink
Dianthus superbus 'Pink Shades'
- Height: 18"
- Width: 1'
- full sun to part shade
- Blooms: May-September
- Attracts bees and butterflies. Remove faded flowers to encourage more blooming.
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Giant Shirley Mix Floxglove
Digitalis purpurea 'Giant Shirley Mix'
- Height: 4' in bloom, 1' when not in bloom
- Width: 1'
- full sun to part shade
- Blooms: May-July
- Remove spent flowers for possible reblooming. Good cut flower. Deer resistant. Poisonous to humans and pets if eaten.
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Purple Coneflower
Echinacea purpurea 'Bright Star'
- Height: 3'
- Width: 18"
- full sun
- Blooms: July-September
- Native prairie wildflower. Attracts butterflies and bees. Great cut flower! Remove faded flowers to keep it blooming.
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White Coneflower
Echinacea purpurea 'White Swan'
- Height: 3'
- Width: 18"
- full sun
- Blooms: July-September
- Native prairie wildflower. Attracts butterflies and bees. Great cut flower! Remove faded flowers to keep it blooming.
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Globe Thistle
Echinops ritro 'Veitch's Blue'
Grows 2.5' tall and 1' wide
Full sun
Blooms June-July
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Monarch Mix Blanket Flower
Gaillardia aristata 'Monarch Mix'
- Height: 2'
- Width: 18"
- full sun
- Blooms:
- Native prairie wildflower. Attracts bees and butterflies. Great cut flower. Remove faded flowers to keep the plant blooming.
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The Bride Gaura
Gaura lindheimeri 'The Bride'
- Height: 2 1/2'
- Width: 18"
- full sun
- Blooms: July-September
- Native prairie wildflower. Attracts bees and hummingbirds.
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Mrs. Bradshaw Avens
Geum chiloense 'Mrs. Bradshaw'
- Height: 18" when in bloom
- Width: 1'
- full sun to part sun
- Blooms: July-August
- Great cut flower!
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Red and Gold Helen's Flower
Helenium autumnale 'Helena Red and Gold Mix'
- Height: 3'
- Width: 18"
- full sun
- Blooms: July to October
- Native wildflower. Attracts bees and butterflies. Great cut flower. Remove faded flowers to keep plant blooming.
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Ox Eye Daisy
Helianthus helianthoides 'Ox Eye'
- Height: 3-5'
- Width: 2-3'
- full sun
- Blooms:
- Native wildflower. Great cut flower. Attracts butterflies. A bold tall plant for the back of the garden. Remove faded blooms to keep plant blooming. Grows well in clay soil
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Summer Nights False Sunflower
Heliopsis helianthoides 'Summer Nights'
- Height: 4'
- Width: 3'
- full sun
- Blooms: July to September
- Native wildflower. Attracts bees and butterflies. Great cut flower! Remove faded blooms to keep plant flowering. Foliage and stems have a lovely reddish tinge.
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Summer Sun False Sunflower
Helianthus helianthoides 'Summer Sun'
- Height: 4'
- Width: 3'
- full sun
- Blooms: July-September
- Native wildflower. Attracts bees and butterflies. Great cut flower. Remove faded blooms to keep plant blooming.
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Palace Purple Coral Bells
Heuchera americana 'Palace Purple'
- Height: 2' tall in bloom
- Width: 1'
- full sun
- Blooms: sun to part shade
- Native wildflower. Attracts hummingbirds. Great cut flower. Flowers can also be dried by cutting entire flower stem and hanging upside down in bunches in a well ventilated area until dry.
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Red Knight Pincushion Flower
Knautia macedonica 'Red Knight'
- Height: 2'
- Width: 1'
- full sun
- Blooms: July-August
- Attracts bees and butterflies. Good cut flower.
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Russell Mix Lupine
Lupinus 'Russell Mix'
- Height: 3' tall in bloom, 18" not in bloom
- Width: 18"
- full sun
- Blooms: June-August
- Native wildflower. Attracts bees and butterflies. Remove faded blooms and plant may rebloom.
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Rose Campion
Lychnis coronaria atrosanguinea
- Height: 2 1/2' in bloom, 1' not in bloom
- Width: 1'
- full sun to part shade
- Blooms: July -August
- Plant will reseed if flowers are left on plant after fading. Heirloom cottage garden plant grown for many centuries.
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Haage's Cross
Lychnis haageana 'Haage's Cross'
- Height: 1'
- Width: 1'
- full sun
- Blooms: June-July
- Attracts hummingbirds and butterflies.
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Apricot Delight Evening Primrose
Oenothera odorata "Apricot Delight'
- Height: 2'
- Width: 2'
- full sun to part shade
- Blooms: July-October
- Scented blooms open in the evening and attract butterfly and moth pollinators.
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Blue Balloon Flower
Platycodon grandiflorus 'Blue'
- Height: 2 1/2'
- Width: 1'
- full sun
- Blooms: June-August.
- Good cut flower. Remove faded blooms to encourage reblooming. Plant gets its Balloon Flower nickname from the fact that its unopened flower buds look like puffy little balloons.
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Pink Balloon Flower
Platycodon grandiflorus 'Fuji Pink'
- Height: 18"
- Width: 1'
- full sun to part shade
- Blooms: June-August
- Remove faded flowers to keep plant blooming. Plant gets its Balloon Flower nickname from the fact that the unopened flower buds look like puffy little balloons.
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Red Coneflower
Ratibida columnifera
- Height: 2 1/2'
- Width: 2'
- full sun
- Blooms: July-October
- Native prairie wildflower. Attracts bees and butterflies. Good cut flower.
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Amethyst Blue Sage
Salvia nemorosa-sylvestris 'Amethyst Blue'
- Height: 2'
- Width: 18"
- full sun
- Blooms: May-September
- Attracts bees and butterflies. Remove faded blooms to keep plant blooming.
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Oriental Blue Skullcap
Scutellaria baicalenesis 'Oriental Blue'
- Height: 1'
- Width: 1'
- full sun to part shade
- Blooms: July-September
- Used in traditional Chinese herbal medicine for a variety of treatments.
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Polaris Shasta Daisy
Leucanthemum x superbum 'Polaris'
- Height: 3'
- Width: 2'
- full sun
- Blooms: June-July
- Attracts bees and butterflies. Great cut flower! Remove faded blooms to keep plant blooming.
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Lamb's Ear
Stachys lanata
- Height: 2' in bloom, 1' not in bloom
- Width: 2'
- full sun
- Blooms: July-September
- Attracts bees and hummingbirds. The fuzzy leaves were once used as bandages for wounds.
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Painted Daisy
Tanacetum coccineum 'Double Mix'
- Height: 2'
- Width: 18"
- full sun
- Blooms: June-July
- Attracts bees, butterflies and hummingbirds. Good cut flower. Remove faded blooms to encourage reblooming.
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Meadow Rue
Thalictrum aquilegifolium
- Height: 3' tall in bloom, 2' not in bloom
- Width: 2-3'
- Prefers part sun to dappled shade
- Blooms: May-June
- Native wildflower. Attracts bees. Dislikes dry soil, keep watered when dry.
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Silverado Foamflower
Tiarella wherryi 'Silverado'
- Height: 1'
- Width: 1'
- shade to part shade
- Blooms: May-June
- Native woodland wildflower. Dislikes being dry, keep watered during hot summer.
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Antique Rose Mullein
Verbascum phoeniceum 'Antique Rose'
- Height: 2'
- Width: 18"
- full sun
- Blooms: May-August
- Remove faded blooms to encourage more blooming. Good cut flower.
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Pink Goblin Veronica
Veronica spicata 'Pink Goblin'
- Height: 18"
- Width: 18"
- full sun
- Blooms: July-September
- Removed faded blooms to keep blooming. Attracts bees, butterflies and hummingbirds. Good cut flower.
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