Top New Items for 2024-2025

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These plants are among the finest new varieties and selections introduced to the market. They will be available to the wholesale trade starting in 2024 and will reach garden centers by 2025.

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'Pinky Pie' Agastache

Hummingbird Mint

Height: 18-20" | Spread: 24-26" | Zones: 5-9 | Full Sun

'Pinky Pie' Hummingbird Mint offers long-lasting flowers from midsummer to early fall. Apricot buds open to lavender pink blooms with colorful calyxes extending the display. This drought-resistant hybrid attracts hummingbirds and pollinators.

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'Bobblehead' Allium

Ornamental Onion

Height: 30-32" | Width: 20-24" | Zones: 4-8 | Full to Part Sun

Allium ‘Bobblehead' is a robust perennial with larger blooms and an earlier bloom time than ‘Serendipity'. Globe-like pale lilac flowers appear in midsummer. Glaucous blue-green foliage with a twist offers high deer and rabbit resistance.

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'Golden Anniversary' Baptisia

False Indigo

Height: 3-3½' | Spread: 3-3½' | Zones: 4-9 | Full to Part Sun

Introducing the first Baptisia with indigo blue flowers and golden yellow foliage. Its ball-shaped habit with ovate leaves on sturdy stems produces long spikes of indigo blooms in early summer. A long-lived perennial, perfect as a landscape focal point.

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MONARCH® 'Cherry Royale' Buddleia

Butterfly Bush

Height: 4-4½' | Spread: 4½' | Zones: 5-10 | Full Sun

Exceptionally floriferous with wide, 8-inch-long bright rose pink flower panicles. More pink than 'Prince Charming.' Heat and drought tolerant when established. Popular with pollinators, providing an excellent food source for butterflies.

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DESIGNER THREADS™ 'Golden Needles' Coreopsis verticillata

Threadleaf Coreopsis

Height: 18-20" | Width: 20-22" | Zones: 5-9 | Full to Part Sun

Golden yellow flowers contain sharp maroon central eye zones. Like ‘Creamy Calico', flowers are clear bi-color and do not contain any flecking or bleeding in the petals. Flowers are notably large for C. verticillata at 2” wide.

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KALEIDOSCOPE™ 'Razzle Dazzle' Delosperma

Ice Plant

Height: 20-24" | Width: 20-24" | Zones: 5b-10 | Full Sun

'Razzle Dazzle' offers large, brilliantly colored bi-color flowers and improved cold hardiness. Heat and drought tolerant, these low-maintenance plants feature evergreen foliage and reliably overwinter in Zone 6. Ideal for groundcover, they provide year-round evergreen interest.

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'White Diamonds' Dicentra

Fern-leaved Bleeding Heart

Height: 14-16" | Width: 16-20" | Zones: 3-9 | Full to Part Sun

Pure white blooms from spring to frost, with finely textured glaucous blue-green foliage. Best in full sun and well-drained soils. Companion to 'Pink Diamonds'.

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'Touch of Blush' Heliopsis helianthoides

False Sunflower

Height: 18-20" | Width: 16-20" | Zones: 4-9 | Full to Part Sun

Named for the pink tones on new foliage, enhancing white variegation on dark green leaves. Semi-double yellow flowers with dark cones. More compact than ‘Tuscan Sun'.

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DRESSED UP® 'Prom Dress' Heuchera

Coral Bells

Height: 8-10" | Width: 16-18" | Zones: 4-9 | Full Sun to Shade

Each sizeable pewter leaf is heavily ruffled, with dark charcoal veins and violet-flushed new leaves. Long-lasting foliage looks great through autumn.

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SUMMERIFIC® 'Cookies and Cream' Hibiscus

Hardy Hibiscus, Rose Mallow

Height: 2½-3' | Width: 3½-4' | Zones: 4-9 | Full to Part Sun

Matte black foliage and pure white 6-7” flowers. Compact and sturdy, blooms appear from top to bottom of the stem. Full sun enhances foliage color.

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SHADOWLAND® 'Sound of Music' Hosta

Hosta

Height: 30-32" | Width: 60-66" | Zones: 3-9 | Full to Part Shade

Giant hosta with heavily corrugated, variegated leaves. Chartreuse centers mature to creamy white in summer. Near white flowers appear in early summer.

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'Half Pint' Panicum virgatum

Switch Grass

Height: 3' | Spread: 1½-2½' | Zones: 4-9 | Full Sun

This compact Switch Grass, reaching 3' tall, features a dense, upright habit and dark rosy red seedheads in fall. Its compact nature suits new landscape applications, with excellent weather tolerance, remaining standing through heavy winter snows.

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BEJEWELED™ 'Pink Pearls' Penstemon barbatus

Bearded Penstemon

Height: 16-20" | Width: 20-24" | Zones: 4-8 | Full Sun

This midsize Bearded Penstemon offers vibrant colors, dense habits, and large flowers. Strong stems hold bright blooms. Lance-shaped dark blue-green foliage looks good all season. Thrives in full sun with good drainage. 'Pink Pearls' has medium pink tubular flowers in late spring and early summer.

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BEJEWELED™ 'Rose Rhinestones' Penstemon barbatus

Bearded Penstemon

Height: 14-16" | Width: 20-24" | Zones: 4-8 | Full Sun

This midsize Bearded Penstemon offers vibrant colors, dense habits, and large flowers. Strong stems hold bright blooms. Lance-shaped dark blue-green foliage looks good all season. Thrives in full sun with good drainage. 'Rose Rhinestones' has deep rose pink tubular flowers appear in late spring and early summer.

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GARDEN GIRLS® 'Dream Girl' Phlox paniculata

Tall Garden Phlox

Height: 30-36" | Spread: 20-24" | Zones: 3-8 | Full to Part Sun

'Dream Girl' features bright lavender pink flowers with white eyes. It has a vigorous, dense, vase-shaped habit, blooms later than other Tall Garden Phlox, and offers excellent rebloom. Thrives in hot, humid summers with dark green foliage into fall.

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LIVING LARGE™ 'Big Sky' Salvia

Perennial Salvia

Height: 28-32" | Width: 28-32" | Zones: 3-8 | Full Sun

A super-sized Perennial Salvia with violet blue flowers and a dense rosette of large green leaves. Later to bloom than other Perennial Salvias.

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PRAIRIE WINDS® 'Brush Strokes' Schizachyrium scoparium

Little Bluestem

Height: 32-36" | Width: 22-26" | Zones: 3-9 | Full Sun

Stems stand vertical like bristles on a paintbrush, bending gracefully with the wind. Powder blue stems turn wine-red in early fall. Fine texture in summer, providing winter interest.

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'Apple Slices' Spigelia marilandica

Spigelia

Height: 18-22" | Width: 16-18" | Zones: 5b-9 | Full Sun to Part Shade

This native wildflower attracts Hummingbirds with its red and orange tubular flowers in late spring and early summer. Grows from sun to shade and is long-lived. Self-cleaning flowers, more floriferous in full sun.

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TOTALLY STOKED™ 'Riptide' Stokesia laevis

Stoke's Aster

Height: 24-26" | Width: 32-36" | Zones: 5-9 | Full Sun

Moderately sized Stoke's Aster with dense habits and rich dark green foliage. Numerous flowers from early to late summer. Proven to thrive in southern heat and humidity. 'Riptide' features 2½-3” periwinkle blue flowers.

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'Cotton Candy' Thalictrum

Meadow Rue

Height: 38-42" | Width: 18-24" | Zones: 5-8 | Full to Part Sun

This elegant Meadow Rue has a dense pillar of foliage topped with wispy lavender flowers in late spring. Well-balanced with flowers just above the foliage, perfect for adding height to small spaces. Deer and rabbit resistant.