Short, upright spikes of purple flowers rebloom over a long season. Compact, bushy plants with crinkled, deeply veined foliage. Borders, solitary and mixed containers.

Feathered Friends™ 'Cordial Canary' Bugleweed (Ajuga) ground cover takes everything you love about 'Chocolate Chip' Bugleweed and turns it gold! Bright gold foliage shines from spring through fall and is accompanied by cobalt-blue flowers in the summer. This vigorous ground cover quickly grows as a thick mat, suppressing weeds along the way. The Feathered Friends™ series offers winter hardy bugleweeds that provide year-round color. They're low maintenance and grow happily nearly anywhere they are planted, including beneath trees, in containers, or on banks and slopes. Partner them with other colorful foliage plants for a multi-seasonal, vibrant display!

(Bugleweed) FEATHERED FRIENDS™ ‘Fancy Finch’ Ajuga is the industry’s first orange tri-colored small-leaved variety. The striking foliage of this evergreen ground cover provides excellent texture and glowing color to shady areas and sets off the cobalt blue blooms that appear in spring. The foliage will be orange with more sun exposure and will be shades of orange, yellow and lime-green in the shade. ‘Fancy Finch’ Ajuga grows 4-6″ high and will spread 9-18″ wide and is best grown in part to full shade in moist, well-drained soil. Use as a border or ground cover plant in the shade garden. ‘Fancy Finch’ compliments other shade plants such as Brunnera, Heuchera, Hosta and Pulmonaria. The FEATHERED FRIENDS™ collection of Ajuga offer never before seen colors, consistent vigor and hardiness in zones 4-9.

Amorpha canescens, commonly called called lead plant, is a Missouri native that typically occurs in open woodlands, glades and prairies. This pea/bean family member is a somewhat ungainly, deciduous shrub growing 1-3' tall and featuring slender, dense, 4-8" spike-like clusters of tiny, bluish-purple flowers with gold anthers which bloom in May-June. It also features alternate, pinnately compound leaves with grayish green leaflets and densely hairy twigs.

Antennaria plantaginifolia, commonly called pussytoes, plantain-leaved pussytoes, plantain-leaved everlasting and ladies' tobacco, is a Missouri native perennial which typically grows in acid soils on dry or rocky slopes, prairies and glades throughout the State. It is a stoloniferous, mat-forming, woolly plant, with all of the leaves and flower stalks being woolly and grayish. Somewhat non-showy, fuzzy, whitish flower heads tinged with pink bloom in spring. Flowers are crowded into terminal clusters (corymbs) atop small-leaved flowering stems rising to 10" high from a basal rosette of paddle-shaped leaves (to 3" long). Plants are dioecious (male and female flowers on separate plants), with male flowers typically appearing on shorter flower stalks.

Grow in fertile, preferably moist but well-drained soil in partial or full sun. Plants are deciduous, so they will lose their leaves in mid-fall and form new leaves mid- to late-winter.

Masses of brilliant violet-blue flowers with white corollas and golden-yellow stamens on attractive, well-rounded, 14 in. tall plants. Winter hardy to zone 3.

Prefers morning sun and afternoon shade. Provide moisture-retaining, but not water-logged soil with added humus. May go dormant in hot summer months. Cultivate soil around base in late fall.

Arisaema triphyllum, commonly called Jack-in-the-pulpit, is a spring woodland wildflower usually growing 1- 2' tall. Flower structure consists of the spadix (Jack) which is an erect spike containing numerous, tiny, green to purple flowers and the sheath-like spathe (pulpit) which encases the lower part of the spadix and then opens to form a hood extending over the top of the spadix. The outside of the spathe is usually green or purple and the inside is usually striped purple and greenish white, though considerable color variations exist. Two large green, compound, long-petioled leaves (1-1.5' long), divided into three leaflets each, emanate upward from a single stalk and provide umbrella-like shade to the flower. The fleshy stalk and leaves lend an almost tropical aura to the plant. Flowering plants initially produce only male flowers, but become hermaphroditic as they further age (male flowers on upper part of spadix and female on lower part). Most plants in a colony will vanish by mid-summer (become dormant), but the mature, hermaphroditic flowering plant will produce a cluster of red berries in mid to late summer which becomes visible as the spathe withers.

This species is closely related to the Common milkweed, A. syriaca, with which it sometimes hybridizes at the eastern limits of its distribution. These species are similar in appearance and growth form (tall and robust), but can be distinguished by the layer of fine white hairs on A. speciosa and flowers that look like small crowns. Unlike A. syriaca, A. speciosa does not form large clones.

Bringing refinement to fall blooming Asters, 'Grape Crush' produces a large, very round mound with densely packed flowers. We have observed no lodging in our trials, a phenomenal achievement for fall blooming Asters. Very rich, dark purple flowers are produced above dark green foliage in early fall to midfall. A perfect finale to the growing season!

Bringing refinement to fall blooming Asters, 'Pink Crush' produces a large, very round mound with densely packed flowers. We have observed no lodging in our trials, a phenomenal achievement for fall blooming Asters. Rose pink flowers are produced above dark green foliage in early fall to midfall. This variety is shorter than 'Grape Crush'. A perfect finale to the growing season!