Plants for New American Gardens
These plants possess beautiful flowers, eye-catching foliage, and perhaps even striking sedpods — maing them favorites for the dramatic gardens designed in the New American style.
Plants for New American Gardens
These plants possess beautiful flowers, eye-catching foliage, and perhaps even striking sedpods — maing them favorites for the dramatic gardens designed in the New American style.
PERENNIALS AND BIENNIALS
SPRING
Ajuga reptans (bugleweed, carpet bugle)
Alchemilla spp. (lady's mantles)
Bergenia cordifolia (heart-leaf gergenia)
Epimedium x youngianum (barrenwort, bishop's hat)
Heuchera micrantha 'Palace Purple' (purple-leaf coralbells)
Stachys byzantina (lamb's-ear)
SUMMER
Acanthus spp. (spiny bear's breeches)
Achillea spp. (yarrows)
Angelica archangelica (wild parsnip, archangel)
Artemisia spp. (white sages, wormwoods)
Aruncus spp. (goat's beards)
Aster x frikartii (Frikart's aster)
Astile spp. (astilbes)
Baptisia australis (blue wild indigo)
Coreopsis verticillata (threadleaf coreopsis)
Crambe cordifolia (colewort)
Cynara cardunculus (cardoon)
Eryngium amethystinum (amethyst sea holly)
Filipendula rubra (queen-of-the-prairie)
Gaura lindheimeri (white gaura)
Hemerocallis hybrids (daylily)
Heuchera micrantha 'Palace Purple' (purple-leaf coralbells)
Hibiscus moscheutos (rose mallow, swamp mallow)
Hosta species and hybrids (hostas)
Stachys byzantina (lamb's-ears)
Verbena bonariensis (Brazilian verbena)
Yucca filamentosa (Adam's needle, needle palm)
LATE SUMMER AND FALL
Anemone x hybrida (Japanese anemone)
Artemisia spp. (white sages, wormwoods)
Aster x frikartii (Frikart's aster)
Boltonia asteroides (white boltonia)
Ceratostigma plumbaginoides (leadwort, plumbago)
Cimicifuga simplex (Kamchatka bugbane)
Echinacea purpurea (purple coneflower)
Echinops ritro (globe-thistle)
Eupatorium fistulosum (Joe-Pye weed)
Gaura lindheimeri (white gaura)
Heuchera micrantha 'Palace Purple' (purple-leaf coralbells)
Ligularia stenocephala (golden ray)
Perovskia atriplicifolia (Russian sage)
Rudbeckia fulgida 'Goldsturm' (orange coneflower)
Salvia pratensis (meadow sage, meadow clary)
Sedum x telephium 'Autumn Joy' (autumn joy stonecrop)
Sedum x 'Vera Jameson'
Solidago hybrids (goldenrods)
Stachys byzantina (lamb's-ears)
ANNUALS
Centaurea cineraria (dusty miller, silver lace)
Cleome hasslerana (spider flower)
Cosmos spp. (cosmos)
Gomphrena globosa (globeflower, globe amaranth)
Helianthus annuus (sunflower)
Heliotropium arborescens (heliotrope)
Melampodium paludosum (melampodium, black-foot daisy)
Nicotiana sylvestris (great-flowering tobacco)
Nicotianaia langdorfii (green-flowered tobacco)
Nigella damascena (love-in-a-mist)
Ocimum basilicum 'Purple Ruffles' (sweet basil)
Perilla frutescens (beefsteak plant, perilla, shiso)
Ricinus communis (castor oil plant, castor bean)
Sanvitalia procumbens (creeping zinnia)
Tegetes tenuifolia (signet marigold)
Tithonia rotundifolia (Mexican sunflower)
Zinnia angustifolia (narrow-leaf zinnia)
BULBS
SPRING
Crocus chrysanthus (snow crocus)
Crocus x vernus (Dutch crocus)
Fritillaria imperalis (crown imperial)
Iris reticulata (reticulated iris)
Narcissus spp. and hybrids (daffodils)
Tulipa x hybrida (hybrid tulips)
SUMMER
Allium spp. (ornamental onions)
Crocosmia x crocosmiflora (montbretia)
LATE SUMMER AND FALL
Canna x generalis (canna lily)
ORNAMENTAL GRASSES
Calamagrostis acutiflora 'Stricta' (feather reed grass)
Carex morrowii (Japanese sedge grass)
Carex stricta 'Bowles Golden' (Bowles golden grass)
Chasmanthium latifolium (northern sea oats)
Cortaderia selloana 'Pumila' (dwarf pampas grass)
Deschampsia caespitosa (tufted hair grass)
Elymus arenarius 'Glaucus' (blue wild rye, blue lyme grass)
Festuca ovina 'Glauca' (blue fescue)
Helictotrichon sempervirens (blue oat grass)
Imperata cylindrica 'Red Baron' (Japanese blood grass)
Miscanthus sinensis (eulalia grass, silver grass)
Molinia caerulea (moor grass, purple moor grass)
Ophiopogon planiscapus 'Nigrescens' (black mondo grass)
Panicum virgatum (switch grass)
Pennisetum alopecuroides (fountain grass)
Pennisteum oriental (Oriental fountain grass)
Pennisteum setaceum (purple fountain grass)
Phalaris arundinacea var. picta (ribbon grass)
