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Paeonia – High Noon Tree Peony
Winner of the prestigious American Peony Society’s Gold Medal award, the Society’s highest honor
Paeonia – Pink Tree Peony
Its blossoms bring ethereal, exotic beauty. Very rare and limited.
Paeonia – Red Tree Peony
Wonderfully scented, crimson blossoms.
Paeonia Morning Lilac Itoh Peony
Expect at least 50 flowers on one mature plant. Bloom period can last up to 6 weeks!
Penstemon digitalis – Smooth White Beardtongue
An important food source for pollinators.
Perovskia atriplicifolia – Russian Sage
Multiple award winner with lavender-blue flowers and fantastic silver foliage.
Phlox divaricata – Blue Moon Wild Sweet William
Sweetly fragrant easy care shade perennial.
Phlox paniculata – Garden Phlox
Missouri native with fragrant flowers for months.
Phlox pilosa – Prairie Phlox
Native perennial, makes a fantastic ground cover in sunny areas.
Polemonium reptans – Jacob’s Ladder
Top Missouri native ground cover for shady areas.
Prunus x cistena – Purple Leaf Sand Cherry
Red and purple foliage. Deer resistant.
Pycnanthemum muticum – Blunt Mountain Mint
Top choice to attract butterflies and more, multiple award winner.
Pycnanthemum tenuifolium – Slender Mountain Mint
2020 Native of the Year.
Ratibida pinnata – Gray Head Mexican Hat
Fun Missouri native perennial.
Rhus aromatica – Fragrant Sumac
Rugged native Missouri and Illinois ground cover shrub for tough spots.
Rhus Gro Low Fragrant Sumac
Rugged ground cover shrub with beautiful leaves. Perfect for fixing erosion issues.
Rudbeckia – American Gold Rush Black-Eyed Susan
2023 Perennial Plant of the Year, winner of top 3 horticulture awards.
Rudbeckia fulgida – Shining Black-Eyed Susan
Birds love this Illinois and Missouri native's seeds.
Rudbeckia hirta – Black-Eyed Susan
An easy to grow Missouri native.
Rudbeckia laciniata – Cutleaf Coneflower
A Missouri native and Monarch magnet!
Rudbeckia maxima – Cabbage Leaf Coneflower
Majestic flowers and powder blue foliage.
Rudbeckia missouriensis – Missouri Black-Eyed Susan
An important food source for butterflies and hummingbirds, Mo native.
Salix – Tortusa Corkscrew Willow
Twisty stems and leaves create an interesting mid size tree.
Salix x blanda – Wisconsin Weeping Willow Tree
Graceful pendulous stems, fast growing.
Salvia – Blue By You Meadow Sage
2024 Perennial Of The Year, a vast improvement over old varieties.
Salvia – Rose Marvel Meadow Sage
Largest flowers in its class, perennial.
Salvia azurea – Blue Sage
Azure blue flowers midsummer through fall. MO and IL native.
Sambucus canadensis Bob Gordon – Elderberry
Showy lace cap flowers on this easy native shrub.
Sambucus canadensis Elderberry
Showy lace cap flowers on this easy native shrub.
Scutellaria incana – Downy Skullcap
Fun Missouri and Illinois native.
Sedum ternatum – Three-Leafed Stonecrop
Hard working Missouri and Illinois native ground cover for hot areas.
Spirea Gold Thread
Gold ferny leaves add great color and texture.
Sporobolus heterolepis – Prairie Dropseed
Popular Missouri native grass that smells like popcorn.
Syringa Beauty of Moscow, Lilac
Highly fragrant double flowers.
Viburnum – Blue Muffin Arrowwood Viburnum
Award winner. Showy blue berries follow large white flowers.
Viburnum – Brandywine Possumhaw Viburnum
The most beautiful berry display in the plant kingdom.
Viburnum – Summer Snowflake Doublefile Viburnum
Longest blooming Viburnum. Berries beloved by birds.
Viburnum dentatum – Arrowwood Viburnum
Excellent Missouri native shrub. Showy blue berries follow large white flowers.
Weigela Midnight Sun
Small showy shrub perfect for the front of border.
Weigela Sonic Bloom Pink – Repeat Blooming Weigela
Bright pink flowers. Repeat blooms all season.
Weigela Sonic Bloom Wine
First-ever! Repeat blooming Weigela with dark foliage.
Weigela Spilled Wine
Low-maintenance, showy shrub.
Weigela Tuxedo
Snow white flowers of dark foliage.
Weigela Vinho Verde
Interesting leaves on a tidy deer-resistant shrub.
Achillea – Moonshine Yarrow
Long time favorite with silvery foliage, sun loving perennial.
Achillea – New Vintage Rose Yarrow
Superior variety, vast improvement over older selections.
Achillea – New Vintage White Yarrow
Superior variety, vast improvement over older selections.
Ajuga – Princess Leia Bugleweed
Striking green and white shade perennial, evergreen ground cover.
Allium Warrior – Bunching Onion
Edible, hardy, pretty, delicious!
Amelanchier – Spring Glory Serviceberry
A tidy well-formed tree with beautiful white flowers.
Amsonia ciliata – Fringed Blue Star
Missouri native with soft sky blue blossoms.
Anemone – Snow Angel Windflower
A vigorous bloomer with multitudes of pure white blossoms.
Anemone virginiana – Thimbleweed
Pearly white flowers and interesting seed heads for the sun or shade garden, MO and IL native perennial.
Asclepias Incarnata – Cinderella Swamp Milkweed
A beautiful selection of our Missouri native.
Asclepias syriaca – Common Milkweed
Essential host plant for Monarch caterpillars. Mo Bot Garden's Plant of Merit winner.
Asclepias tuberosa – Butterfly Milkweed
#1 best selling Missouri native perennial.
Asimina triloba – Pawpaw Tree
2022 Tree Of the Year, Missouri's Official State Fruit Tree
Astilbe – Go Go Red Reblooming False Spirea
First Reblooming Red Astilbe! Long-lived Shade perennial.
Buddleia – Black Knight Butterfly Bush
12" florets loaded with countless shades of pink petals.
Buddleia – Prince Charming, Butterfly Bush
A flower color rarely seen.
Buddleia – Pugster Blue Butterfly Bush
Multiple award winner. Plump full-sized flowers on dwarf shrubs.
Buxus Green Tower, Boxwood
Ideal tall evergreen hedge for small spaces.
Caryopteris – Pavillion Pink Bluebeard Shrub
Cinderella Pink flowers late summer into fall.
Colocasia – Distant Memory Elephant Ears
4-5' near jet-black elegant leaves.
Colocasia – Redemption Elephant Ears
Dramatic color combo on huge leaves.
Colocasia Pharaohs Mask Elephant Ears
Create your own exotic world with this enchanter.
Colocasia Thailand Giant Elephant Ears
A behemoth that grows as big as a car in one summer! Sun, tender. Bulbs can be lifted and stored over winter.
Coreopsis – Golden Sphere Tickseed
Prolific bloomer.
Coreopsis – Lightning Bug Tickseed
An adorable cutie with season long firefly color. Sun loving perennial.
Coreopsis pubescens – Star Tickseed
Missouri and Illinois native perennial. Easy!
Dianthus – Mighty Mini Miss Rose Pinks
Spicy perfumed blossoms spring - fall on 2-4" tall perennial evergreen ground cover.
Dianthus Everlast Pink To White Carnation
Spicy perfume and endless blossoms, perennial.
Echinacea – Cara Mia Yellow Coneflower
Gorgeous flowers all summer until frost.
Echinacea – Cheyenne Spirit Coneflower
Fabulous colors, winner of major awards.
Echinacea – Double Scoop Watermelon Deluxe Coneflower
Classic City Award Winner described as an Oscar and a Tony award rolled up into one.
Echinacea – Pow Wow Wildberry Coneflower
Major award winner.
Echinacea – SunSeekers Golden Sun Coneflower
Brilliant yellow blossoms all season.
Echinacea – SunSeekers Pumpkin Pie Coneflower
Spicy orange blossoms all season.
Eragrostis spectabilis – Purple Lovegrass
Its misty display captures all eyes, perennial native grass.
Eupatorium – Euphoria Ruby Joe Pye Weed
A superior selection of the beloved Joe Pye Weed.
Gaillardia – Mesa Bright Bicolor Blanket Flower
Brilliant nonfading color all season.
Gaillardia – Spin Top Copper Orange Blanket Flower
Fascinating fluted orange petals.
Geranium sanguineum Album – White Bloody Cranesbill
So darn easy to grow, and so darn pretty. Rare and choice perennial.
Geranium sanguineum- Elke Cranesbill
Sun, shade, deer, rabbits, bad soil, who cares! It grows just about anywhere. Rare and choice.
Helenium autumnale – Sneezeweed
Missouri native perennial for sunny spots.
Heliopsis – Sunstruck Perennial Sunflower
Striking foliage and flowers. Sun loving perennial.
Hibiscus moscheutos – Swamp Rose Mallow
Among the largest flowers produced by a native perennial.
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