(Grassleaf Sweet Flag, Variegated Sweet Flag)

Variegated sweet flag Ogon sweet flag is a semi-evergreen perennial that originates from Japan. It is grown for its neat clumping habit and grass-like foliage, which is aromatic when crushed. The cultivar ‘Variegatus’ has attractive variegated leaves of green streaked with ivory. This perennial is easy to grow if provided with rich evenly moist soil and full to partial sun. Plant in boggy gardens or in fertile beds and borders. These plants will not tolerate deep standing water.

(Japanese Bugbane)

Robust, weeping, bottlebrush-like plumes of fragrant white flowers top this tall perennial's stems from midsummer to early fall. Japanese bugbane is a woodland perennial that forms a clump, and is native to Japan and extreme eastern Asia. This species tends to flower later than other bugbanes grown in gardens.

The glossy light to medium green leaves are compound - having three leaflets each and attached in groups of three on a leaf stalk. The individual leaflets are oval but are irregularly toothed....

(White Pearl Bugbane)

Nodding, bottlebrush-like plumes of fragrant, creamy-white flowers top the stems of 'White Pearl' from midsummer to early fall. It is a selection of Japanese bugbane, a woodland, clumping perennial native to Japan and parts of extreme eastern Asia. It blooms later than other bugbane species and cultivars.

The glossy, light to medium-green leaves are compound - having three leaflets each - and are borne in groups of three on each leaf stalk. The individual leaflets are oval and irregularly toothed....

(Doll's Eyes, White Baneberry)

Jagged leaves and an upright, red stem that carries tiny berries with black "eye dots" are the delightful ornamental features of the white baneberry. This herbaceous perennial is native to the deciduous woodlands of southeastern Canada and the United States east of the Great Plains. The root system is both fibrous and partially of rhizomes.

In spring the compound leaves emerge from the soil. A bright yellow-green when young, the leaf comprises several pointed oval leaflets with attractively jagged...

(Misty Blue White Baneberry, White Baneberry)

Pale, powdery blue-green leaves and an upright, red stem that carries tiny berries with black "eye dots" are the delightful ornamental features of 'Misty Blue'. White baneberry is a herbaceous perennial is native to the deciduous woodlands of southeastern Canada and the United States east of the Great Plains. This cultivar was selected by staff at the Mt. Cuba Center in northern Delaware and introduced in 2009. The root system is both fibrous and partially of rhizomes.

In spring the compound...

(Black Baneberry, Black Bugbane)

Tall, bottlebrush-like spikes of fragrant white flowers top this tall perennial's stems from midsummer to early fall. Black bugbane is a woodland perennial that forms a clump, native to the eastern United States.

The glossy dark green leaves are compound - having three leaflets each and attached in groups of three on a leaf stalk. The individual leaflets are oval but are irregularly toothed. Depending on climate, each stem forms a very long flowerspike from midsummer to as late as early fall....

(Black Bugbane, Purpleleaf Bugbane)

Bottlebrush-like spikes of fragrant white flowers top the dark stems of ‘Atropurpurea’ from midsummer to early fall. It is a selection of Black bugbane, a woodland, clumping perennial native to the eastern United States.

The leaves are glossy and compound - having three leaflets each - and are borne in threes on each leaf stalk. The individual leaflets are oval and irregularly toothed. They are purple-tinted in spring, and fade to green in summer, while the stems remain dark. Depending on climate,...

(Bishop's Goutweed)

Bishop's Goutweed is a fast-spreading Eurasian groundcover that has become naturalized across the whole of North America. It spreads via rhizomes (rooting underground stems) and has green compound leaves with three to nine leaflets. The equally weedy garden variety, 'Variegatum', is the most common form in cultivation and has leaves mottled with ivory.

In mid-spring to summer, goutweed produces umbels of tiny white flowers that are insect-pollinated and produce lots of brown seeds that spread...

(Bishop's Goutweed, Snow-on-the-Mountain, Variegated Bishop's Goutweed)

Snow-on-the-Mountain is a rapidly spreading groundcover that is native to Europe and western Asia and has rampantly naturalized in North America. 'Variegatum' has three to nine widely divided, white and light green aromatic leaves that travel by way of fibrous roots and rhizomes. In mid spring to summer it produces umbels of tiny white flowers that turn to seed that will eagerly broadcast itself and freely germinate. (Removing seed heads when possible curtails unwanted volunteers from germinating)....

(African Lily, Agapanthus)

Agapanthus is a small genus of some six species of tender or frost-hardy herbaceous perennials from temperate and subtropical southern Africa. They are grown for their summer display of showy violet-blue, purple or white flower clusters on tall stems.

These evergreen or deciduous perennials have attractive green strap-like foliage that grows from thick, fleshy rhizomes (underground stems). The rhizomes spread to form dense clumps. The dome-shaped, umbel-like clusters of flowers stand...