(Redosier Dogwood, Variegated Dogwood)

This selection of a dogwood native to eastern North America, ‘Variegata’ has the vivid red stems of its parent and adds dark-green leaves that are edged by broad white margins. An upright, deciduous shrub, it produces many stems from its base at ground level, making a thicket shaped as a leafy mound. It spreads by stems that root where they touch the ground and by stems that arise from the roots. One plant some becomes a colony. Some gardeners restrain and shape this dogwood by digging up the rooting...

(Bailey's Redosier Dogwood)

Widely planted for its fine, bright red winter stem color, Bailey's redosier dogwood is a large, multi-stemmed shrub that originates from regions throughout North America. In late spring to early summer it produces many flatted clusters of white flowers followed by small, white, oval fruits that are attractive to birds. In fall, its medium green leaves turn rich burgundy red.

Redosier dogwood grows best in sites with full sun to partial shade and fertile, average to poorly drained soil. It suckers...

(Western Redosier Dogwood)

Redosier dogwood is a multi-stemmed, large, deciduous shrub with upright branches and a spreading, suckering habit. This hardy North American native is grown for its colorful young stems of light to dark red that turn red-brown as they age. In late spring to early summer it produces many flatted clusters of white flowers followed by small, white, oval fruits that are attractive to birds. In fall, its medium green leaves turn burgundy red.

This shrub grows best in sites with full sun to partial...

(Western Redosier Dogwood)

Redosier dogwood is a multi-stemmed, large, deciduous shrub with upright branches and a spreading, suckering habit. This hardy North American native is grown for its colorful young stems of light to dark red that turn red-brown as they age. In late spring to early summer it produces many flatted clusters of white flowers followed by small, white, oval fruits that are attractive to birds. In fall, its medium green leaves turn burgundy red.

This shrub grows best in sites with full sun to partial...

(Redosier Dogwood)

Redosier dogwood is a multi-stemmed, large, deciduous shrub with upright branches and a spreading, suckering habit. This hardy North American native is grown for its colorful young stems of light to dark red that turn red-brown as they age. In late spring to early summer it produces many flatted clusters of white flowers followed by small, white, oval fruits that are attractive to birds. In fall, its medium green leaves turn burgundy red.

This shrub grows best in sites with full sun to partial...

(Canary Feathers Fumewort, Yellow Fumewort)

Offering sunny flowers and a long bloom season that rival those of Corydalis lutea, this sterile hybrid perennial does not share that species' penchant for self-sowing. Its dense spires of relatively large yellow blooms appear in abundance from spring to fall atop calf-high mounds of feathery blue-green foliage. Each bloom has a gaping yellow-blotched mouth and a tubular back-facing spur. No seeds are produced.

This hardy perennial grows most vigorously in partial shade and moist, well-drained,...

(Hollow Wort)

Eurasian in origin, this low herbaceous perennial has dainty leaves and showy pink, purple, red, white, or yellow flowers that light up the shade garden in spring. The conical clusters of two-lipped, long-spurred flowers are borne atop one to several compact stems that arise from a large hollow perennial tuber in early or mid-spring. Ferny, deeply cleft, compound leaves clothe the lower reaches of the stems. A few forms have shallowly lobed leaflets. The flowers give rise to elongated capsules filled...

(Curveleaf Fumewort, Fumewort)

A beautiful but hard-to-please plant, this herbaceous perennial from the high plateaus of central China needs moderate summers to succeed. Growing from a cluster of fat storage roots, it forms clumps of ferny-leaved, calf-high stems topped by cylindrical sprays of 6 to 18 sky-blue flowers. Flowering begins in late spring and continues until fall if conditions remain moist and cool. The blooms have two outfacing lips and a broad upcurved spur. Plants go dormant and may perish in summer heat and drought....

(Curveleaf Fumewort, Fumewort, Rosthorn's Curveleaf Fumewort)

A beautiful but hard-to-please plant, this herbaceous perennial from high altitudes in northern Sichuan needs moderate summers to succeed. Growing from a cluster of fat storage roots, it forms clumps of ferny-leaved, calf-high stems topped by conical sprays of 6 to 18 fragrant sky-blue flowers. Flowering begins in late spring and continues until fall if conditions remain moist and cool. The blooms have two outfacing lips and a broad upcurved spur. Plants go dormant and may perish in summer heat and...

(Blue Heron Fumewort, Curveleaf Fumewort, Rosthorn's Curveleaf Fumewort)

A beautiful but hard-to-please plant, this herbaceous perennial from high altitudes in northern Sichuan needs moderate summers to succeed. Growing from a cluster of fat storage roots, it bears conical sprays of 6 to 18 fragrant sapphire-blue flowers above clumps of ferny gray-green leaves. The calf-high flower stems debut in late spring and continue until fall if conditions remain moist and cool. The blooms have two outfacing lips and a broad upcurved spur. Plants go dormant and may perish in summer...