Plant Stories

EVERSILVER™ creeping germander will creep its way into your heart

Letitia flannel plant: A gorgeous verbascum that behaves!

Let Bellina Cornflower Dance Her Way Into Your Plant Palette

Salvia ‘Ultra Violet’ Delights the Eye and the Pollinators

SILVER TOTEM™ Buffaloberry: A Sentinal to Watch Over the Low-water Garden

Scott’s Sugarbowls: A Mounding Clematis for Gardeners and Pollinators!

Oenothera fremontii ‘Shimmer’: A Cheery Nativar Evening Primrose

SteppeSuns® Sunset Glow Penstemon: Don’t Let The Sun Set Without This Gem in Your Garden

Sea Foam Sage Brings Frothy Texture to the Landscape

Melinis nerviglumis: Raise a Glass to Pink Crystals® Ruby Grass

Delosperma Granita® Orange Ice Plant: The Icing on the Cake

Artemisia ‘Leprechaun’: The Backbone of a Garden

Dwarf Leadplant- A Great Plains native that feeds itself with a little help from its friends!

The Ground Cover Geranium; Dalmation Pink Cranesbill

Lavandula angustifolia ‘Wee One’ is a Perfectly Petite Lavender

Shangri-La Is Found at Last in Salvia moorcroftiana x indica

Make Room for ‘Thin Man’ Golden Prairie Grass; Sorghastrum nutans

A Big Beauty with History; Sungari Redbead Cotoneaster

A Tale of Three Veronicas

A Gem for your Garden: Autumn Sapphire sage

The toughest ice plant yet – Alan’s Apricot!

A classy little draba with a big heart

Bring on the butterflies with Moroccan pincushion flower

Mini Man viburnum – the accidental shrub

A grass worthy of applause – Standing Ovation little bluestem

Look into the Flame (Red Mountain® Flame Ice Plant, That Is)

Blue Jazz Pinon Pine – A Cool Note for a Hot Garden

Big, beautiful bluestem – WINDWALKER big bluestem

Daisy on the dry side – Engelmann’s daisy

Cute but tough – Silky rock jasmine (Androsace)

Field of green – Arenaria ‘Wallowa Mountains’

The power of pretty – Coral Baby penstemon

Bring on the hummers with WINDWALKER royal red salvia

Penstemon “primo” (desert penstemon or desert beardtongue)

Yearning for Tuscany? Try Woodward columnar juniper

Autumn Amber three leaf sumac: A spreading shrub for urban landscapes

UNDAUNTED® Ruby muhly

Gold on Blue – not your typical zinnia

Bring on the butterflies (Buddleja)

True blue native wildflower (Scutellaria)

Hummingbirds Appear at Red Rocks – Standing Room Only (RED ROCKS® Penstemon)

Spanish Gold® Broom

A glow of gold from the prairie – Prairie Lode Sundrops

Planting hope for a cure for breast cancer (Carolyn’s Hope)

New gardener? Try Mexicali penstemons

Mint on fire! (Hummingbird trumpet mint)

Unsung Hero of Winter Gardens: Mountain Mahogany

Hardy manzanitas: Welcome winter beauty

Tales of Turquoise Tails Sedum

Landscape Plants for Fire Safety

Summertime blues- Narbonne blue flax

A conservation success story: Tennessee purple coneflower

Big, bold and beautiful: Curly leaf sea kale

The Manzanita Leader: Chieftain Manzanita

Fire Spinner® – a flame in the garden

Summer forget-me-not (Anchusa)

Ruby Voodoo: A rose profoundly perfumed

Evergreen elegance: weeping white spruce

A rush of Denver Gold (Columbine)

Baby Blue rabbitbrush

Avalanche – a summer snowstorm

Blue grama goes blonde (Bouteloua)

Bulletproof beauty (Erodium)

Plant of a different feather: partridge feather

Out of Africa – again! (regal torchlily)

One hot yucca for one hot spot (Hesperaloe)

Spring blooms, autumn hips (redleaf rose)

Red Feathers in the Garden: Echium amoenum

Vermilion Bluffs® Mexican sage: red hot for hummers!

Coronado® Red hyssop: red and radiant

Kick up your heels with Silverheels horehound!

Lavender Ice: cool off with this hot new plant

Korean Feather Reed Grass- Feathers for your Garden!

Denver Daisy dazzles

Horticultural Heirloom: Kintzley’s Ghost®Honeysuckle

Red Birds in a tree: a feast for the eyes (and the birds)

LITTLE TRUDY®: long-awaited compact catmint

Beautiful Bells for the Border: Mongolian Bells® Clematis

Saint Theresa Seedless grape: glorious grape

Seven-Son flower: be the first on your block!

An irresistible penstemon to add to your garden (Shadow Mountain)

Purple winter savory: savory in any season

Hot Wings® Tatarian maple: a tree for all seasons

Red Mountain®: roll out the red carpet

From Grand Mesa, It’s Kannah Creek® Buckwheat!

Scarlet sensation: Bridges’ penstemon

PLATINUM sage: precious treasure

Giant sacaton: a grass for texture and beauty

Fernbush: fantastic!

Ruby Moon hyacinth bean: let this vine twine

Moon carrot: interesting, unusual, and fun!

VALLEY LAVENDER plains verbena: gem of the prairie

Wild Thing and Furman’s Red sage: double delight

Mojave sage: a sage for all seasons