Cool Plants

Here are some plants that we have in stock and that we think looks great in your garden right now. Want to know more about these plants? Visit our plant database or click on the plant titles below.

Daphne Transatlantica ‘Eternal Fragrance’

Daphnes are well known for their intensely fragrant flowers. A profusion of blush pink blossoms in clusters adorn its compact form over many months providing long-lasting beauty and fragrance in the garden. A tidy landscape shrub for group plantings or containers. Remains evergreen in temperatures above 0° Fahrenheit, deciduous elsewhere.

• Light need: Partial to Full Sun
• Water need: Water regularly – weekly, or more often in extreme heat or containers.
  

Heuchera ‘Caramel Coral Bells’

New leaves emerge bright gold and mature to peachy-orange. Soft but showy color adds warmth and contrast to mixed containers and woodland plants. Thrives in the high heat and humidity of the south. Sun tolerant in cool northern gardens.

• Light need: Full Sun to Part Shade
• Water need: Moist, Well-Drained Soil
  

Echinacea Purpurea ‘Green Jewel’

Fairly compact in habit, an ideal height for sunny borders and growing in mixed containers. The large and fragrant blooms have a row of light-green petals surrounding a large central cone of deep green.

• Light need: Full Sun, Full Sun to Part Shade
• Water need: Well-drained soil

Juncus ‘Curly Wurly’

Aptly named, this unique rush with glossy green, pencil-thin stems that spiral outward from the clump in all directions. A great deer-resistant accent plant that collectors dare not do without. This low maintenance plant prefers to be sited in a bog or other very moist environment in partial shade. Evergreen in mild winter areas.

• Light need: Partial Sun
• Water need: Very moist environment
  

Carex Testacea

Green to coppery brown foliage with hints of orange leaves in fall and winter make this sedge a superb selection for the year-round garden. Carex testacea self-sows, but is polite about it. In fact, I welcome the babies to either transplant to another place in the garden, or give to other gardeners.

• Light need: Full shade to partial sun
• Water need: Moist, well-drained soil

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