2024 Appropriate Plant List

These plants live well in our average/ modestly drained soils.    They are climate durable in our region and are not socially over aggressive. 

When you come to know the growth rate and growth habit of each plant. Creating plant combinations will be satisfying as you place the young plants together and watch them enjoyably grow into each other  from youth to maturity.     Also, and so important is the value of best gardening practices, they will benefit the plantings relationships through the years. 

These characteristics support the development of endless plant combinations using the following plants:

 Achillea hybrid ‘Hella Glashoff’ 

Achillea ptarmica ‘Peter Cottontail’ 

Asclepias incarnata 

Asclepias verticillata 

Allium angulosum ‘Summer Beauty’ 

Allium hybrid ‘Big Beauty’ 

Allium hybrid ‘Chivette’ 

Allium schoenoprasum ‘Forescate’ 

Agastache hybrid ‘Blue Fortune’ 

Agastache nepatoides 

Agastache rugosa albiflora 

Amsonia orientalis ‘Blue Ice’ 

Amsonia taberneamontana salicifolia 

Amorpha canescens 

Anemone vitifolia robustissima 

Anemone cylindrica 

Anthericum ramosum 

Arnoglossum plantagineum 

Aruncus hybrid ‘Horatio’ 

Aster hybrid ‘Twilight’       (now called Eurybia x herveyi ‘Twilight’) 

Aster oblongifolius ‘October Skies’      (now called Symphyotrichum oblongifoliium ‘October Skies’ ) 

Baptisia australis minor 

Baptisia hybrid ‘Purple Smoke’ 

Baptisia leucantha   

Baptisia sphaerocarpa  

Boltonia hybrid ‘James Crockett’ 

Bouteloua curtipendula 

Calamagrostis acutiflora ‘Karl Foerster’ 

Calamintha nepeta ssp. Nepeta 

Coreopsis palmata 

Coreopsis verticillata ‘Golden Showers’ 

Coreopsis verticillata   ‘Zagreb’ 

Dalea purpurea 

Dalea candida 

Deschampsia ‘Gold Tau’ 

Echinacea purpurea ‘Virgin’    Include Dwarf White Swan with this plant 

Echinacea purpurea ‘Prairie Splendor’ 

Echinacea purpurea ‘Rubin Glow’ 

Echinacea pallida  and  simulata 

Eupatorium hybrid ‘Little Joe’      (now Eutrochium dubium ‘Little Joe’) 

Eupatorium maculatum Atropurpureum      

Eupatorium fistulosum alba              (now called Eutrochium fistulolsum ‘Ivory Towers’) 

Gentiana andrewsii 

Geranium hybrid ‘Tiny Monster’ 

Geranium sanguineum ‘Max Frei’    many good sanguineums 

Geranium hybrid ‘Orion’ 

Geranium sobiliferum 

Geranium wlassovianum 

Inula magnificum 

Limonium latifolium 

Lobelia siphlitica   and siphlitica Alba 

Lythrum alatum 

Molinia caerulea ‘Paul Pederson’    ‘Hiedenbraut’     ‘Moorehexe’    

Molinia caerulea ssp. Arundinacea ‘Transparent’ 

Monarda bradburiana 

Monarda x hybrid ‘Judith’s Fancy Fuchsia’ 

Nepeta hybrid ‘Early Bird’  

 Nepeta hybrid ‘Junior Walker’ 

Nepeta subsessilis   

Parthenium integrifolium 

Panicum virgatum ‘Northwind’ 

Panicum virgatum ‘Hieleger Hain’  and ‘Ruby Ribbons’ 

Panicum ‘Cape Breeze’ 

Penstemon digitalis ‘Huskers Red’   'Dark Towers’   and ‘Pocahontas’ 

Perovskia atriplicifolia ‘Little Spire’     ‘Blue Steel’      

Phlox hybrid ‘Forever Pink’    and  ‘Minnie Pearl’ ,    Fashionably Early series  

Rudbeckia  ‘Viette’s Little Suzy’  and ‘American Goldrush’ 

Rudbeckia speciosa 

Rudbeckia subtomentosa 

Rudbeckia hybrid  ‘Little Henry’ 

 

 

Salvia azurea 

Salvia x sylvestris ‘East Friesland’        

Salvia x sylvestris ‘Wesuwe’ 

Salvia x sylvestris ‘Crystal Blue’ 

Salvia x sylvestris  ‘Snow Hill’ 

Schizachrium scoparium ‘Little Luke’, ‘Jazz’   and ‘Blue Heaven’ 

Seslaria autumnalis 

Seslaria hybrid ‘John Greenlee’ 

Silphium morhii 

Silphium terebinthinaceum 

Solidago sphaerocephala ‘Golden Fleece’ 

Solidago ‘Whichita Mountain’ 

Sporoblolus heterolepis  

Sporobolus airoides 

Stachys officinalis  ‘Hummelo’ 

Stachys officinalis ‘Rosea’ 

Stachys officinalis ‘ Summer Crush’ 

Vernonia lettermanii  ‘Iron Butterflly’ 

Vernonia hybrid  ‘Summer Swan Song’ 

Veronica hybrid ‘Eveline’ 

Veronica hybrid ‘Good Night Irene’ 

Veronica hybrid  ‘Very VanGogh’ 

SEDGES

Carex pensylvanica 

Carex plantaginea 

Carex brevior 

Carex remota 

Carex sprengelii 

Carex stricta 

Carex woodii 

Carex swanii 

Carex blanda 

Carexz montana 

Carex albicans 

Carex granularis 

Carex grisea 

Carex bromoides 

Carex humilis ‘Hexe’ 

Carex shortiana 

Carex muskingumentsis 

Carex ‘Little Midge’ 

Carex pellita 

 SHADE PLANTS

Pulmonaria longifolia selections 

Senecio obovatus 

Smilacina racemosa 

Polygonatum commutatum 

Hostas    

Epimedium 

Asarum canadense 

Aster divaricatus         (now called Eurybia divaricata  ) 

Aster macrophyllus     ( now called Eurybia macrophylla) 

Caulophylum thalictroides 

Thalictrum dioicum 

Heuchera villosa 

Dryopteris marginalis 

Polystichum acrostichoides