Asarum canadense is the Canadian wild ginger with bell-shaped brownish-purple flowers and heart-shaped leaves.

Salvia 'Caradonna' is a classic and the best purple sage for the garden.

'Pandora's Box' is a miniature hosta with white-centred leaves and a dark green margin.

Knautia 'Thunder and Lightning' forms mounds of lush variegated foliage with deep magenta pinchusion flower heads for months on end.

Primula Belarina 'Cream' has enormous heads of fragrant spring double flowers in creamy white.

Primula Belarina 'Pink Ice' has enormous heads of fragrant spring double flowers that open white and then develop icy pink tones.

Centranthus ruber has long-lasting magenta-pink to reddish pink flowers over bluish foliage.

Callirhoe involucrata is an extremely showy, midwestern US native with luscious, glowing, magenta flowers with white centres.

Bletilla striata 'Albostriata' has variegated foliage with creamy white edges. Flowers are magenta pink.

Hosta 'Stained Glass' has brilliantly shiny golden foliage surrounded by a two inch wide dark green margin. Sun tolerant and fragrant.

Hosta 'Diana Remembered' is a variegated cultivar of the fragrant hosta species plantaginea.

Hosta 'Blue Mouse Ears' is the most popular of all mini hostas and TOTALLY adorable!

Echium amoenum has short, red, feathery exclamation marks for the hot border that will excite hummingbirds from miles around.

Agastache foeniculum is a long-blooming perennial great for summer colour and bees and butterflies.

Carex pensylvanica is a fine-textured sedge for shadier spots, including dry shade, as an underplanting or lawn alternative.

Penstemon 'Cha Cha Lavender' offers tubular lavender purple and white flowers all summer long.

Lavandula 'Super Blue' has grey-green foliage smothered with large, mauve-blue lavender blossoms on fat spikes.

Allium 'Millenium' forms fantastic two inch spheres on tall stems like rose-purple balloons floating in the summer garden.

Tolerant of dry sites, Calamintha nepeta 'White Cloud' has masses of white flowers atop aromatic foliage for months.

Pulmonaria 'Trevi Fountain' has silver-spotted foliage with profuse clusters of large cobalt-blue flowers.

Calamagrostis brachytricha is a superlative clump-forming grass with bright green leaves and thick plumes of silver-pink.

Heliopsis 'Burning Hearts' boasts bicolour yellow and red daisies atop tall black stems with purple foliage.

Hosta 'Sun Mouse' is a twin to 'Blue Mouse Ears' except that it is brilliant yellow.

Primula Belarina 'Valentine' has enormous heads of fragrant spring double flowers in bright red.

Tanacetum densum var. amani forms evergreen, textured mats of soft, feathery, silver foliage and bright yellow button-like flowers.

Helenium 'Potter's Wheel' produces red petals with yellow edges around dark centres.

Darmera peltata or umbrella plant is a slowly spreading, shade-loving, foliage plant that is a great solution for moist to wet spots.

Chrysanthemum Mammoth 'Yellow Quill' has lemon yellow quilled petals around a golden yellow centre.

Iris Louisiana 'Count Pulaski' has fragrant blooms of bronze, apricot, cream, and gold. A boggy plant for the sunny garden.

Papaver 'Princess Victoria Louise' is a gorgeous oriental poppy with peachy pink flowers and bold black centre.

Pulmonaria 'Moonshine' has silver-white leaves edged in dark green with small, pale, blue-white flowers .

'Rainforest Sunrise' is an exciting sport of Hosta 'Maui Buttercups' with dramatic dark green borders and radiant gold centres.

Iris Louisiana 'Red Velvet Elvis' has lightly ruffled, fragrant blooms in red with a hint of yellow. A boggy  plant for the sunny garden.

Lonicera caerulea 'Aurora' is a haskap or honeyberry selected for its high production of large, sweet berries.

Chrysanthemum Mammoth 'Coral Daisy' is a long-lived perennial with large, semi-double,coral-pink flowers.

Papaver orientale 'Beauty of Livermere' has very frilly scarlet-red flowers with a dark centres and splotches.

Geranium x cantabrigiense 'Intense' is a low mounding cranesbill with masses of hot pink flowers above aromatic foliage.

Heliopsis helianthoides var. scabra 'Luna Roja' has daisy-like flowers in bright yellow-orange to fire-engine red.

Tiarella 'Angel Wings' has deeply lobed green foliage with dark maroon veining and pink buds opening to pink to white flowers.

Salvia greggii 'Cool Cream' has evergreen aromatic foliage and long-blooming white flowers with a pink flush.

Clethra alnifolia 'Ruby Spice' is a compact shrub with pink and white bottlebrush flowers that are fragrant and nectar-rich.

Primula Belarina 'Carmen' is a fragrant primrose with very large, fully double, ruffled red flowers and green foliage.

Clethra alnifolia 'Hummingbird' is a compact shrub with white bottlebrush flowers that are fragrant and nectar-rich.

Asclepias perennis is a butterfly milkweed with white and pink flowers.

Antennaria plantaginifolia is a cold hardy, ground covering pussytoes with silver-green leaves and fuzzy, white and pink flowers.

Calamintha nepeta 'Marvelette Blue', the lesser calamint, has aromatic foliage and clouds of light purple and blue flowers.

Primula Belarina 'Baltic Blue' offers fully double, ruffled, soft to mid blue flowers with darker striping.

Primula Belarina 'Beaujolais' offers fully double, ruffled, warm grape purple flowers.

Primula Belarina 'Candy Frost' offers fully double, ruffled, deep lavender pink and white flowers.

Primula Prima Belarina 'Goldie' offers fully double, ruffled, golden yellow flowers with strong fragrance.

Primula Belarina 'Sweet Apricot' offers fully double, ruffled, warm apricot flowers.

Lonicera caerulea 'Boreal Beast' is a haskap or honeyberry said to have remarkable flavour either fresh or frozen.

Lonicera caerulea 'Boreal Blizzard' is a haskap or honeyberry with delicious fruit 2-3 times larger than other cultivars!

Lonicera caerulea 'Boreal Beauty' is a haskap or honeyberry with very large, rounded fruit with delicious flavour.

Polemonium 'Bressingham Purple' is a Jacob's ladder with purple foliage and purple flowers that smell like grape Hubba Bubba!

Viola walteri 'Silver Gem' is a fantastic trailing, ground-covering violet with silver foliage and reblooming purple flowers.

Aster x frikartii 'Monch' is one of the best of all asters with a long season from summer to fall of bluish lavender flowers.

Among the best of the blue Agastache, 'Black Adder' has blue flowers and deep purple blue bracts for a bicolour effect.

Asclepias tuberosa is a hot orange butterfly milkweed native to the Eastern North America where it feeds monarch butterflies.

Aster 'Lady in Black' forms tall stems clad in burgundy foliage that erupt with hundreds of small white and pink flowers in fall.

The evergreen Himalayan maidenhair fern, Adiantum venustum, forms delicate and elegant, slowly expanding mats.

Adiantum x mairisii is a delicate hybrid with black stems and lacy, bright green fronds. Sure to delight in the shade garden.

Woodwardia unigemmata has shimmering copper new growth that turns green with age on huge fronds to 6 feet long!

Lobelia cardinalis 'Black Truffle' has burgundy foliage and tall spires of red, hummingbird-attracting flowers.

A hummingbird magnet with red tubular flowers, Crocosmia 'Lucifer' is the best of the genus.

Aralia 'Sun King' has bold, golden foliage offering a tropical look from an extremely hardy plant.

Muhlenbergia 'Undaunted' or ruby muhly grass offers clouds of ruby red flowers in late summer and fall.

Crocosmia 'Colombus' has bright yellow tubular flowers in summer. A magnet for hummingbirds.

Geranium macrorhizum 'Bevan's Variety' has bright pink flowers. Plants are tolerant of dry shade.

Oxalis griffithii 'Pink Double Flower' is a rare form with shamrock-like leaves and pink double flowers.

Iris chrysographes 'Black Form' has pure black iris flowers.

Agastache rupestris has narrow, grey-green, root beer-scented foliage on bushy mounds topped by apricot-orange tubular flowers in summer.

Astilboides tabularis is one of the best of all foliage plants for a dramatic focal point in the shade.

Papaver 'Patty's Plum' has large, dusky purple flowers with deep, dark central stamens surrounded by near-black spots.

Persicaria 'Red Dragon' has dramatic purple and silver lance-shaped leaves marked with a mint chevron.

Cautleya gracilis (syn. Cautleya lutea) is a hardy shade ginger with tropical foliage & yellow orchid-like flowers in summer.

Cautleya spicata is a hardy shade ginger with yellow orchid-like flowers emerging from red buds in summer.

'Blue Moon' is an extremely fast growing and super hardy Wisteria for zone 3(!) that blooms up to three times a year.

Agastache 'Tango' is a dwarf cultivar with big flower power in firey orange for containers or the front of the border.

Athyrium 'Pearly White' is a Japanese painted fern with silvery-grey fronds with each leaflet centred with silver-white.

Salvia 'Black and Blue' produces truly vibrant cobalt blue flowers with black sepals by the thousands all season long.

Salvia 'Ember's Wish' has large, bright coral-red flowers are produced all summer long atop scented foliage. Plant, stand back, and watch the hummingbird madness begin.

Penstemon 'Cha Cha Cherry' offers tubular bright bright red flowers all summer long.

Sedum telephium 'Marina' is a large upright stonecrop with large, glaucous blue foliage. One of the bluest of all stonecrops.

Monarda punctata is a rare and unusual beebalm with pink-flushed bracts and red speckled yellow flowers.

Euphorbia griffithii  'Fireglow' emerges like fiery tongues from the dark spring soil.

Eomecon chionantha or snow poppy is a rhizomatous perennial that bears small pure white poppy-like flowers.

Asclepias incarnata 'Cinderella' has dense clusters of small rose pink and white vanilla-scented flowers that attract butterflies.

Penstemon strictus is a tall, dramatic species to about 30 inches with bold blue and purple tubular flowers.

Salvia pachyphylla has broad, two-toned spikes consisting of lavender-purple flowers emerging from warm purple bracts all summer long.

Rudbeckia maxima has huge powder blue leaves and towering stems of black-eyed Susan flowers.

Papaver orientale 'Raspberry Queen' has ruffly, glowing raspberry pink flowers with interior black blotches.

Osteospermum 'Purple Mountain' is a super hardy African Daisy with warm lavender purple daisies with yellow centres for months on end.

Campanula 'Sarastro' is a fragrant and floriferous bellflower with dark purple-blue bell-shaped flowers on branching stems.

Nipponanthemum nipponicum or Nippon daisy is a little-known yet easy-to-grow, fall-flowering daisy.

Wisteria frutescens 'Amethyst Falls' is a daintier, better behaved version of the Chinese wisteria for small spaces.

Senecio candicans 'Angel Wings' is a "wow" plant with large, silver-white, ruffled, velvety leaves with toothed edges.

Osteospermum 'Avalanche' is a super hardy African daisy that blooms from spring until fall with masses of large, dazzling white daisies.

Penstemon rostriflorus is a large, long-lived beard tongue 2-3 feet tall producing tons of scarlet red tubular flowers from late July until frost.

Salvia 'Amistad' is a hummingbird magnet with large, grape purple flowers emerging from black sepals from early summer until frost.

Salvia 'Love and Wishes' is a bold and beautiful sage with large, purplish magenta flowers emerging from dusky purple sepals.

Papaver 'Picotee' has large, white petals with a distinctive orange frilled edge.

Papaver orientale 'Turkenlouis' has fringed, vermillion-orange, crepe-papery flowers.

Rudbeckia occidentalis 'Green Wizard' is for esoteric gardeners who like odd plants, especially those without petals!

Crocosmia 'Harlequin' has red and orange buds opening to warm yellow flowers creating a bicolor to tricolor effect.

Salvia gauranitica 'Black and Bloom' Nectar Blue is an improved, earlier blooming form of 'Black and Blue' with vibrant cobalt blue flowers with black sepals.

Nepeta 'Cat's Pajamas' is a compact catmint forming low mounds of blue flowers with rosy purple sepals right down to the ground.

Geum Tempo Rose produces a multitude of semi-double flowers in shades of dark rose pink.

'Carmin Brilliant' is a stunning Crocosmia with carmine-pink flowers, scarlet-orange on the reverse and with cheery, yellow throats.

Phygelius 'Moonraker' is a South African fuchsia-like sub-shrub with soft creamy yellow, tubular flowers all summer long.

Angelica gigas produces giant, crimson-purple, umbrella-shaped flowers on dark stalks nearly two metres high!

Syringa meyeri Flowerfesta Purple is a reblooming, dwarf lilac producing larger-than-average purple, very fragrant, dense panicles.

Gaura lindheimeri Walberton's 'Silver Fountain' has variegated foliage and spikes of pink buds opening to white flowers.

Iris ensata Dinner Plate 'Ice Cream' has periwinkle-blue flowers with white margins. Blooms can reach 8 inches wide!

Iris sibirica 'Concord Crush' has bright blue, double flowers that bloom for a long period of time and may rebloom later in the season.

Iris sibirica 'How Audacious' has gorgeous multi-coloured flowers of violet, yellow, and white.

Primula vulgaris 'Oakleaf Yellow Picotee' is a primrose that has unusually lobed leaves and umbels of bright yellow, orange, and red flowers.

Blue flower heads of the ultra-compact Eryngium planum 'Blue Hobbit' are surrounded by large frilled blue bracts.

Nepeta 'Neptune' is a compact catmint forming a low mound of intense blue to almost purple full sized flowers.

Filipendula rubra 'Venusta' is a tall herbaceous perennial with cloud-like clusters of small, fragrant pink flowers.

Iris sibirica 'Kaboom' has large, bi-colour, double blooms of violet-blue and contrasting creamy centres with purple veining.

Papaver orientale 'Fruit Punch' is an Oriental poppy seed strain with large ruffled petals in hot pink, orange, plum, and red.

Crocosmia masoniorum is a giant montbretia with blazing-orange flowers. A magnet for hummingbirds and butterflies.

Iris sibirica 'So Van Gogh' has a bicolour palette of yellow and blue-purple flowers with purple veining throughout.

Iris sibirica 'Drink Your Tea' has earthy tones of pale apricot, orange-brown, and yellow-gold with yellow veining.

Iris sibirica 'Mad Hat' has sensational flowers in a mix of of violet and lavender with red-violet veining and yellow signals.

Iris sibirica 'On Mulberry Street' has magnificent flowers in a mix of of blue, violet, creamy-white, and  yellow with purple veining.

Anthirrhimum sempervirens 'Drew's Folly' is a hardy perennial snapdragon with dusty pink flowers and fuzzy dark green foliage.

Buddleja 'Buzz Hot Raspberry' is a dwarf, sterile butterfly bush that blooms continuously with fragrant, hot-raspberry-pink flowers.

Buddleja 'Buzz Midnight' is a dwarf butterfly bush that blooms continuously with fragrant, dark purple flowers.

Philadelphus 'Snowbelle' is a hardy shrub with deliciously fragrant, double white flowers.

Hibiscus 'Blue Bird' is a rose of Sharon with single, vase-shaped, violet-blue flowers and dark reddish-purple centres.

Crocosmia 'Emily Mackenzie' offers extra large, dark orange flowers with yellow throats each surrounded by a red ring.

Hydrangea macrophylla 'Firefly' is a compact, bigleaf hydrangea with semi-double blooms of reddish pink and cream.

Hydrangea paniculata Little Fresco has incredible flower power for such a compact plant.

Salvia 'Wendy's Wish' blooms from spring to summer with large, magenta flowers and scented foliage. A hummingbird magnet.

Iris sibirica 'Jerry Murphy' is a Siberian Iris with multi-hued creamy-pink standards and gold, bronze, apricot and red falls.

Iris sibirica 'Unbuttoned Zippers' is a Siberian Iris with multi-hued creamy-pink standards and gold, apricot, blue and purple falls.

Papaver orientale 'Harlem' is an Oriental poppy with double-ruffled red petals, dark purple eyes and interior black blotches.

Echinacea Sunseekers 'White Perfection' is a semi-double coneflower with green and creamy-white flowers.

Iris ensata Dinner Plate 'Cupcake' has white flowers with delicate purple and yellow centres. Blooms can reach 6 inches wide!

Iris ensata Dinner Plate 'Tiramisu' has large, 6 inch wide, double white blooms speckled and edged in lavender with yellow centres.

Iris ensata Dinner Plate 'Jell-O' has large, 6 inch wide, double purple blooms with white veining and yellow centres.

Primula vulgaris 'Oakleaf Magenta' is an unusual primrose with lobed leaves and umbels of magenta-red flowers.

Dicliptera suberecta is commonly known as the firecracker or hummingbird plant with nectar-filled, deep orange flowers.

Echinacea Doublescoop 'Cranberry' is a coneflower with cranberry red blooms on big double pompoms.

Echinacea Doublescoop 'Mandarin' is a coneflower with deep orange, double pompom blooms.

Hosta 'Tortilla Chip' is a sun tolerant, fragrant plantain lily with chartreuse to golden-yellow leaves.

Papaver 'White Ruffles' is a compact Oriental poppy with large, ruffled white flowers and black centers.

Asclepias verticillata is a rare eastern North American native known as the whorled milkweed.

Hibiscus 'Inner Glow' is a perennial with large, pink and lavender flowers complemented with green dissected  foliage.

Nepeta 'Picture Purrfect' is a compact catmint forming a low mound of large, purple-blue flowers from early summer to early fall.

Deutzia 'Yuki Cherry Blossom' is a fuzzy deutzia shrub with pink cherry-blossom-like flowers and green foliage with fall colours.

Symphoricarpos doorenbosii 'Pinky Promise' is an ornamental shrub known as snowberry valued for its late season pink berries.

Vaccinium vitis-idaea 'Red Candy' is a dwarf, compact lingonberry or partridgeberry with white flowers and tasty, tart red fruit.

Echinops ritro ssp. ruthenicus 'Platinum Blue' is a globe thistle with thistle-like leaves, silver stems and blue spheres of starry flowers.

Abelia 'Kaleidoscope' has long-lasting, fragrant flowers and variegated foliage in yellow, green, orange and red.

Iris sibirica 'Colonel Mustard' has large, bi-colour, double blooms of mustard to yellow and violet-purple bars.

Asclepias curassavica 'Monarch's Banquet' is a tender variegated milkweed with nectar-rich blooms in bright orange-reds all summer long.

Adiantum raddianum 'Fragrantissimum' is an evergreen maidenhair fern with arching black stems and light green aromatic fronds.

Persicaria amplexicaulis 'Pink Elephant' is a compact mountain fleece with long blooming wands of pink flowers.

Penstemon 'Flock of Flamingos' offers tubular, two-tone pink flowers all summer long.

Iris ensata Dinner Plate 'Blueberry Pie' has large, 6 inch wide, purple blooms with violet strokes and yellow centres.

Phlox paniculata 'Orchid Green' is a tall garden phlox with large, fragrant white flowers and lime-green picotee edging.

Phlox paniculata 'Orchid Yellow is a tall garden phlox with large, fragrant pink flowers and lime-green to yellow edging.

Aster ericoides 'Snow Flurry' is a cold hardy heather aster with masses of late season nectar-rich white flowers.

Packera obovata is a daisy relative that forms a great ground cover for sun or shade with cheerful yellow flowers.

Origanum 'Gilt Trip' is an ornamental oregano with lilac flowers, mauve calyxes and aromatic, chartreuse-yellow foliage.

Salvia 'Back to the Fuchsia' has fragrant two-lipped flowers in dark fuchsia-pink tones with aromatic, dark green foliage.

Salix integra 'Flamingo' is a fast-growing willow with spectacular colour from variegated white, green and pink foliage.

Hydrangea paniculata Early Evolution is a sweet, extremely dwarf panicle hydrangea with early masses of clustered flowers.

Hydrangea paniculata Skyfall is stunning compact cultivar with large, conical heads of elongated, creamy white petals.

Iris ensata Dinner Plate 'Tum Tim Gros' has large, 6 inch wide, lavender pink flowers accented with lavender veins.

Arachniodes simplicior 'Variegata' is an Indian Holly fern with a yellow streak running down its gorgeous waxy, dark green, evergreen fonds.

Gaura lindheimeri 'Siskiyou Pink' is a butterfly gaura with delicate pink flowers on arching stems and dark green foliage.

Vancouveria hexandra, the white inside-out flower, is a lovely shade perennial and ground cover native to southwestern BC.

Crocosmia 'Walberton's Bright Eyes' is a cute little montbretia perfect for small gardens or the front of the border.

Crocosmia 'Fire Jumper' has orange-red buds opening to pale orange flowers highlighted with orange-red.

Hydrangea macrophylla 'Akadama' has amazing flowers that open deep pink and age to red.

Coreopsis tripteris is a 6 foot high tickseed producing masses of bright yellow flowers from summer to fall.

Aquilegia canadensis 'Little Lanterns' is short in stature but free-flowering with red and yellow flowers popular with hummingbirds.

Helianthus maximiliani is a towering perennial that can reach 9 feet high with spires of bright yellow daisies.

Monarda fistulosa has pink to lavender flowers popular with bees, hummingbirds, and butterflies and aromatic foliage.

Verbena stricta offers beautiful spikes of densely-packed lavender flowers from early summer to fall.

Salvia gauranitica 'Purple and Bloom' is an anise-scented sage with purple tubular flowers and black sepals.

Hibiscus syriacus 'Red Heart' is a rose of Sharon with large, single, saucer-shaped, pure white flowers with red centres.

Alpinia galanga, or galangal, is a tropical plant grown for its pungent, culinary rhizomes and beautiful creamy-white flowers.

Aster novae-angliae 'Grape Crush' is a New England aster with purple flowers with orange eyes.

Eupatorium maculatum 'Gateway' is a Joe-Pye weed with late-blooming, large, mauve-pink flowers.

Lavandula angustifolia 'Blue Jeans' has beautiful grey-green foliage smothered in violet blossoms over a long season.

Monarda 'Judith's Fancy Fuchsia' is a tall, highly mildew-resistant beebalm with fragrant, fuchsia flowers and aromatic foliage.

Nepeta grandiflora 'Summer Magic' is a compact and sturdy catmint with fragrant, violet flowers from summer to early fall.

Helianthus 'Suncatcher' is a dwarf perennial sunflower with large, yellow flowers and dark centres.

Penstemon grandiflorus  'Prairie Jewel' is a beardtongue with tall stems of lavender-pink to deep purple flowers and green-blue foliage.

Primula vulgaris 'Oakleaf Blue' is an unusual primrose with lobed leaves and purple-blue flowers with yellow centres.

Psephellus simplicicaulis 'Bellina Pink' or corn flower is a drought-tolerant ground cover with pink pincushion flowers.

Geum Tempo 'Coral' is a compact avens that produces a multitude of semi-double coral-red flowers.

Penstemon Nova 'Pearl' offers tubular white flowers on upright stems all summer long.

Nepeta 'Chartreuse on the Loose' is a compact catmint with lavender-blue flowers and contrasting yellow-green foliage.

Heliopsis 'Red Shades' is a false sunflower with daisy-like blooms in orange and red tones with black stems and foliage.

Heliopsis 'Variegata Oriole' is a false sunflower with daisy-like yellow blooms with brown eyes and variegated foliage.

Heliopsis 'Yellow Spider' is a false sunflower with semi-double yellow flowers with red centres and dark red foliage and stems.

Geum coccineum 'Orange Pumpkin' is a long-blooming, red avens with unique, fully double, orange flowers.

Asclepias tuberosa 'Deep Red' is a North American butterfly milkweed with nectar-rich, dark orange flowers.

Achillea 'Coronation Gold' is an award-winning yarrow with masses of flat-topped, golden yellow flowers.

Papaver orientale 'Pink Pearl' is an Oriental poppy with double-ruffled, lavender-pink petals and longer lived foliage.

Hibiscus 'Ardens' is a rose of Sharon with semi-double, lilac-pink flowers, darker centres and maple-like green foliage.

Hibiscus 'Duc de Brabant' is a rose of Sharon with fully-double, purple-red flowers, darker centres and maple-like green foliage.

Lavandula angustifolia 'White Summer' has icy-white blooms with a touch of blue and very fragrant, silver-grey foliage.

Abutilon 'Nabob' produces masses of large, rich red, pendulous lanterns from spring through fall.

Hydrangea macrophylla Cherry Explosion is an exceptionally hardy cultivar with a profusion of cherry-red lacecaps.

Hydrangea macrophylla 'Double Down' is a unique, double flowered, mophead with blue or pink flowers.

Hydrangea paniculata Little Spooky is perhaps the most compact of all paniculata at just 2 feet high and wide!

Hydrangea paniculata Magical Lime Sparkle offers dense, conical flower heads in cream and green.

Hydrangea arborescens 'Candybelle Marshmallow' is a dwarf smooth hydrangea with domed palest salmon pink mopheads.

Weigela 'All Summer Peach' is a compact reblooming shrub with glowing peach, pink, and yellow tubular flowers.

Weigela 'All Summer Red' is a compact reblooming shrub with bright red tubular flowers from spring until autumn.

Hydrangea arborescens 'Pink Pinchushion' is a pink smooth hydrangea with domes of fuzzy pink and white fertile flowers.

Dryopteris x remota is one of the earliest ferns to emerge in spring and exceptionally drought tolerant.

Dryopteris x complexa, the robust male fern, is a huge fern that can reach five feet high and wide hardy to zone 2.

Eos is the Greek goddess of the dawn. Everything about this geum is bright. The flowers are flaming orange and the foliage is gold.  'Eos' has a compact habit and is a natural for sunny containers and for the front of the border in the garden. Easy and carefree. Best foliage colour in full sun but in soils with reasonable moisture.

Caltha palustris 'Plena' is a cold-hardy, moisture-loving, Marsh marigold with green leaves and double, button-shaped, yellow flowers.

Asclepias tuberosa 'Hello Yellow' is an Eastern North American Butterfly milkweed with nectar-rich yellow flowers that feeds Monarch butterflies.

Dryopteris tokyoensis, commonly called Tokyo wood fern, is an erect, vase-shaped, deciduous fern.

Salvia 'Amante' is a stunning hybrid with dramatic black stems and calyces with hot red and magenta flowers.

Festuca 'Beyond Blue' is one of the bluest of all fescues and for that matter all grasses!

Festuca 'Cool as Ice' produces clumps of fine blue-green foliage whose blue intensifies as the season progresses.

Agastache cana Sonoran Sunset forms short, full, stocky plants to 16 inches tall and wide boasting masses of fragrant raspberry purple flowers atop fragrant foliage.

Scabiosa Flutter 'Deep Blue' has larger, deeper blue flowers than 'Butterfly Blue'. Popular with butterflies.

Scabiosa Flutter 'Rose Pink' has large pink pincushions all summer long perfect for humans and butterflies.

Agastache 'Morello' is a dramatic hummingbird mint with huge, dense infloresences of deep burgundy rose flowers.

Scabiosa Flutter 'Pure White' produces glistening, pure white pompoms from spring through summer.

Carex flacca 'Blue Zinger' is an evergreen sedge with startling, steel-blue, pleated foliage.

Agastache Coronado Red is a long-blooming hummingbird mint with brilliant, fiery, orange-red, tubular flowers from late spring until fall.

Agastache 'Mango Tango' is a compact, long-blooming hummingbird mint with dusky rose and peachy orange flowers.

Prunus fruticosa x cerasus 'Cupid' is a super hardy, dwarf, late harvesting cherry tree/shrub with very dark, sweet fruit.

Prunus fruticosa x cerasus 'Juliet' is a dwarf, late harvesting cherry tree/shrub with very dark red fruit.

Prunus fruticosa x cerasus 'Romeo' is a dwarf late harvesting cherry tree/shrub with dark red fruit.

Prunus fruticosa x cerasus 'Valentine' is a dwarf late harvesting cherry tree/shrub with bright red fruit.

Penstemon digitalis Dakota 'Burgundy' is a beard tongue with lavender-pink tubular flowers and burgundy foliage.

Scabiosa columbaria 'Vivid Violet' offers large, glowing violet-pink pincushion flowers popular with butterflies.

Euphorbia characias ssp. wulfenii is an architectural plant with blue-green, evergreen foliage and electric green bracts.

Aster Island 'Bahamas' offers deep hot pink flowers with bright yellow centres.

Aster Island 'Barbados' has late season light purple flowers and bright yellow centres.

Agastache 'Guava Lava' is a hummingbird mint with coral-orange flowers and mauve-pink calyxes.

Miscanthus sinensis 'Rigoletto' is a gorgeous variegated maiden grass.

No other coneflower is the colour of ripe cantaloupe! Echinacea 'Supreme Cataloupe' is one unique cultivar!

Geranium 'Rozanne' has purple-blue flowers from June until frost! One of the best of all hardy geraniums.

Virginia blue fern (Phlebodium aureum) offers amazing silver blue foliage for mild climates or as a striking houseplant.

Osmunda cinnamomea, the cinnamon fern, has lush green vegetative fronds and cool rusty orange sporophytic fronds.

'Pocahontas' is a dwarf Japanese anemone with tons of pink double flowers over compact foliage.

Hosta 'Frosted Mouse Ears' is a variegated version of the ever popular 'Blue Mouse Ears'.

'Lucky Mouse Ears' is a cute miniature Hosta that joins 'Blue Mouse Ears' and the rest of the clan with yellow-edged blue leaves.

Lavandula 'Phenomenal' is a HUGE lavender for big spaces in the garden.

Panicum 'Northwind' is a Perennial Plant of the Year forming stately bluish green exclamation points for the garden.

Lavandula Platinum Blonde is a variegated creamy yellow and green lavender with classic purple flowers.

Anemone Wild Swan is a profilic plant with continuous bloom from June until frost with large, white flowers backed with light purple.

Helianthus 'Lemon Queen' is an excellent border perennial with four foot tall stems topped with pale yellow daisies in summer.

Persicaria polymorpha or giant fleece flower is a HUGE perennial for the back of the border with months of white flowers.

Daphne 'Eternal Fragrance' has sweet, tropical, baby powder perfume and constant bloom from April to November.

'Chocolate Shogun' is an Astilbe with a difference: clumps of fern-like, chocolate-coloured foliage with upright, plumes of pale pink flowers.

Mitraria coccinea has firey orange flowers and evergreen foliage on red stems perfect for the shadier parts of the garden.

Sanguisorba obtusa forms low mounds of attractive grey-green pinately-compound leaves with serrated edges topped with arching, bottlebrush-like spikes of soft-pink flowers.

Eryngium 'Big Blue' is one of the best sea hollies with masses of blue, thistle-like thimbles.

Echinacea 'Rainbow Marcella' offers tangerine-orange and raspberry pink flowers around dark cones.

'Snow Angel' breaks the Heuchera mold with decoratively marbled and speckled green and white variegated foliage.

Echinacea 'Cherry Fluff' is a double coneflower with lime green and pale pink flowers on compact plants.

Tricyrtis 'Taipei Silk' is a gorgeous hybrid with glossy dark green leaves and spectacular multi-coloured flowers.

Actaea (syn. Cimicifuga) 'Black Negligee' has lacy black foliage and wands of fragrant, white flowers in late summer.

Rhododendron 'Cherries and Merlot' has leaves amazing burgundy-purple-red undersides and red flowers.

Papaver 'Heartbeat' produces large, deep red flowers with black centres.

Bowiea volubilis is a cool oddity with an onion-like bulb that sits on top of the soil and grows lacy climbing stems.

Phlomis russeliana is a tall and stately Jerusalem sage with mounds of fuzzy foliage and stems with clusters of buttery yellow flowers.

Actaea (Cimicifuga) 'White Pearl' has dissected green foliage and exceptionally long spires of fragrant white flowers in late summer.

Giant chain fern (Woodwardia fimbriata) is the largest fern in North America with 8 foot long fronds!

Crytomium falcatum 'Rochfordianum' is a distinctive, glossy, evergreen, fern with serrated, holly-like pinnae.

Iris sibirica 'Miss Apple' has sweetly fragrant and boldly-coloured flowers in burgundy-red, gold, purple, lavender, and reddish purple.

Echinacea Kismet Red is a compact, upright coneflower producing a bounty of large, bright red flowers with orange-red cones.

Heuchera 'Forever Red' is the reddest of all coral bells.

Miscanthus sinensis 'Encore' is an early-blooming and reblooming maiden grass.

Papaver orientale 'Royal Wedding' has ruffly, pure white flowers with interior purple-black blotches.

Kniphofia caulescens is a broad-leaved evergreen red hot poker with blue-grey foliage held on a short woody trunk.

Delphinium New Millennium 'Blue Lace' blooms with dense spikes of sky blue flowers with a touch of lavender pink.

Delphinium New Millennium 'Pagan Purples' blooms with dark royal purple flowers.

Iris sibirica 'Charming Billy' has sweetly fragrant and boldly-coloured flowers in rich violet purple, pink, gold,  and lavender-blue.

Geum Pretticoats Peach is a gorgeous avens with highly ruffled, double flowers in shades of peach, pink, yellow, and cream.

Echinacea Kismet White is a compact, upright coneflower producing a bounty of large, pure white fowers with yellow and green cones.

Echinacea Prima Ginger is a compact, upright coneflower with soft orange flowers aging to an apricot pink with orange cones.

Iris sibirica 'Paprikash' is a stunning cultivar with cinnamon red, golden yellow, lavender pink, and apricot flowers.

Delphinium New Millennium 'Black Eyed Angels' blooms with dense spikes of frilly, pure white, single flowers with pure black centres.

Delphinium New Millennium 'Cobalt Dreams' blooms with dense spikes of frilly, royal blue to cobalt blue, single flowers with white centres.

Delphinium New Millennium 'Pink Punch' has dense spikes of frilly, mulberry pink, single flowers with white, black or pink centres.

Delphinium New Millennium 'Purple Passion' blooms with dense spikes of frilly, warm, rich, purple, single flowers with white centres.

Papaver 'Harvest Moon' produces large, tangerine orange, single to double flowers on tall stems.

Allium 'Serendipity' forms two inch spheres on tall blue-green stems like rose-purple balloons floating in the summer garden.

Iris sibirica 'Tipped in Blue' is a showstopper with its soft violet-blue and yellow flowers.

Brunnera 'Alexandria' is the all-silver version of the giant 'Alexander's Great' with heart-shaped silver leaves and blue flowers.

Tiarella cordifolia 'Running Tapestry' is a spreading cultivar with red-veined heart-shaped leaves that redden over winter.

Ligularia 'BBQ Banana' has exciting chocolate-brown-to-bronze leaves and yellow daisy-like flowers.

Echinacea Sombrero 'Tres Amigos' produces incredible tricoloured flowers in peachy-coral, rose, and magenta-burgundy.