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Perennials - Season Long Bloom Time These gems give you flower power throughout the gardening season! They are the glue that keeps the sunny garden from never missing a beat. Like all the perennials we offer, these were picked for their excellent durability.
Bloody Crane’s Bill
(Geranium sanguineum) 2002 Great Plants Perennial of the Year! Bowl-shaped, magenta flowers cover the plants in late spring and early summer, shearing may reward you with a later rebloom. Deeply cut foliage is mounding in habit turning blood red in autumn. This hardy perennial reminds us of mountain meadows and woodland edge gardens.
Little Trudy Catmint (Nepeta x Little Trudy)
Plant Select® 2008 This selection was made from one of our growers for its low spreading and long blooming habit. Well branched stems of rippled, soft gray foliage hug the ground for an 18 inches to 24 inches wide mound when this plant matures. Profuse lavender flower stalks 8 inches to 12 inches tall cover the plant from early to late summer. Deer resistant. Click here to watch our VIDEO about Little Trudy Catmint.
Six Hills Giant Catmint (Nepeta faassenii x ‘Six Hills Giant’) Light purple flowering mounds up to 3 feet tall by 3 feet wide make a handy deer deterring statement in the xeric garden during summer. Use these as flowerbed windbreaks - even one plant can create a protective spot for a less wind or heat tolerant plant. Massed thickly around “deer delight” plants, these are quite a protection! Control seeding into beds by deadheading spent flowers and/or mulching.
 Sweet Dreams Catmint (Nepeta subsessilis 'Sweet Dreams') 
New! This features beautiful spikes of lightly scented lavender trumpet shaped flowers rising above the foliage from June to August which emerge from distnictive pink flower buds. It's attractive pointy leaves remain dark green throughout the season. Attracts butterflies, bees, and hummingbirds and like all catmint deer will avoid it! Dead-heading is recommended as it will reseed. Effective in mass plantings, herb gardens, containers and sunny gardens.
Size Cost Premium $8.00
Walker’s Low Catmint (Nepeta faassinii x ‘Walker’s Low’) Perennial Plant Association Plant of the Year for 2007. This is no stranger to Wyoming conditions! Compact mounding gray green leaves topped by lavender blue flowers recurring from late spring through autumn. This 10-14 inch tall sterile hybrid won’t reseed around the garden. Full sun to part sun and like it’s bigger brother, deer resistant!
Chocolate Flower (Berlanderiera lyrata) Plant Select® 2004 Light yellow daisy type flowers top the 18 inch plant. The flowers bear the fragrance of Hershey's chocolate early in the morning and towards evening! Could it be our customers are addicted to chocolate? Click Here to watch our VIDEO about Chocolate Flower.
Big Sky Sunrise Echinacea Sturdy, basal branching plants produce a profusion of flower stems, each of which carries a large, bright lemon-yellow 3-4 inch fragrant, drooping petaled bloom.
 Magnus Superior Echinacea (Echinacea purpurea 'Magnus') 
New! This is an oldie but a goodie and very durable, it was the perennial plant of the year in '98 and for good reason! This is an easy to grow echinacea that produces beautiful deep purple flowers from July to the end of September. Great for the cut flower garden or as a backdrop to the perennial bed. As with all echinacea's - attracts butterflies!
New! This has an extended flowering period from late June until first frost, it starts blooming two week sooner than most other echinacea's. Rose pink flowers are a large 4 to 6 inches wide and are held above a compact well branched plant. Smaller is stature than most other echinacea. A 2007 Fleuroselect Gold Medal winner!
 Solar Flare Echinacea (Echinacea 'Solar Flare')
New! This is a new addition the Big Sky series, noted for it's compact growth and electric Kool-aid red 5" flowers. Solar Flare is a prolific bloomer that starts the show in early summer extending into autumn. Butterflies will love you but deer won't!
Size Cost Premium $8.00
Summer Sky Echinacea This is a prolific bloomer of huge, 5 inch very fragrant bicolor flowers of light orange with a rose halo around an orange cone on 48 inch tall stalks in 18-24 inch wide clusters of stems.
Cheerful, bright pink, 3 to 3 1/2 inch flowers with 1 1/2 inch long, uplifted petals. Blooms all summer into early fall. Deep rooted, very adaptable plants.
New! Yes, it blooms the color of tomato soup and holds that delicious color for up to 10 days before softening giving us a kaleidoscape of colors. This is the brightest red echinachea on the market and will bloom from mid summer to early autumn on sturdy well-branched stems! Fragrant blossoms make a terrific cut flower. Expect the butterflies in multitudes!
This one is yellow and a summer blooming native from the Ozarks. Our grower reports Zone 3 hardiness so his seed source must be from an especially selected area.
Corsican Violet
(Viola Corsica) Plant Select® 2003 Lovely bright purple violet from the Mediterranean with 1 inch flowers from spring to fall. Tolerates drought but blooms best through summer with supplemental water. The 8 inch tall by 6 to 8 inch wide plants only survive winter in protected spots, but moderate seeding occurs in watered beds for a casual wild garden look.
Denver Daisy
(Rudbeckia “Denver Daisy’) This is a unique Great Plains native that has bright yellow 1 inch flowers on 8 inch leafless stems. One of the longest blooming times of all perennials, May - October! Great for the xeric garden!
‘First Love’ Dianthus
(Dianthus ‘First Love’) ‘Plant Select® 2001 Intensely fragrant clustered flowers change from white to deep rose (the opposite of fading!) while blooming from spring to frost (with dead heading). This selection is perennial and so much more graceful than a sweet William because the flower clusters are not in tight stiff helmets. 15-18 inches height allows cut flower use while the 12 inch wide clump forming basal foliage is pleasing in the winter garden. Casper Mountain tested!
New! This is a perfect addition to the sunny garden, rock garden or around the deck. Frosty Fire will charm you with it's double, Chinese lacquered red blooms above mounds of blue-green foliage. If deadheaded, this charmer will bloom from early summer to autumn. Attracts butterflies but not deer!
Arizona Apricot Gaillardia ( Gaillardia 'Arizona Apricot') New! This is an All America Selection winner for 2011! The 3" petals have golden edges circling apricot centers. Like it's sister plant Arizona Sun, Arizona Apricot is as tough as nails, compact, with a bloom time from early summer to autumn.
Arizona Red Shades Gaillardia
(Gailardia aristata 'Arizona Red Shades') New! This one blooms with brick red flowers from June to September. Arizona Red Shades has the same bloom power as its sister plant Arizona Sun and loves the heat and dry conditions! Perfect for borders, containers or the mixed sunny garden perennial bed.
Arizona Sun Gaillardia (Gaillardia aristata ‘Arizona Sun’) This spectacular performer in All American Selection test trials, is a real shorty; at only 8-10 inches tall and 10-12 inches wide, it even fits in pots and planters! Flower style is traditional with mahogany red petals edged in bright yellow blooms throughout the summer.
Mesa Yellow Gaillardia (Gaillardia x grandiflora Mesa Yellow) New! This is a 2010 Flueroselect Gold Medal Winner and an All American Selection and for good reason! The flowers are 3 inches across with butter cone centers with overlapping yellow petals. Compact and tidy, this selection will not get floppy and fall over. It has a longer bloom season with more blooms than the species. Perfect for the cut flower garden, mixed perennial bed and even containers. It will bloom this year. Drought tolerant once established.
Goldstrum Daisy (Rudbeckia fulgida ‘Goldstrum’) Perennial Plant Association plant of the year 1999.This oldie is still a goodie for the perennial bed - a consistent easy to grow perennial with large deep yellow flowers with a bronzy-black cone center. Very tolerant of our conditions. Blooms all summer.
Jupiter’s Beard (Centranthus ruber) This durable plant stands up to wind and handles dry clay but will also thrive in more moisture as long as the soil drains well. The rose-red blooms last from late spring through summer. Give it room as it will grow to 24 inches tall and 30 inches wide and will reseed a bit for a natural look. Also this charmer can go around the corner from heat into partial shade successfully to help tie different parts of the landscape together! Butterflies love it but rabbits don't. Click Here to watch our VIDEO about Jupiters Beard.
 Lemon Balm ( Melissa officinalis) 
New! Well....not exactly new - it's been in cultivation for about 2000 years! This '07 Herb of the Year provides delightful lemon scented foliage that can be used for flavoring teas, salads, ice cream and fruit cups! It is reported that crushed leaves rubbed on the skin will ward off skeeters! It blooms with white small flowers from May - August. Tolerant of most soils.
Size Cost Standard $4.00
Mojave Sage (Salvia pachyphylla) Plant Select 2005! Intensely aromatic silver-green foliage sets off the persistent mauve bracts and the accompanying large blue flowers on this woody evergreen western desert native. Plant in Full Sun in soil with good drainage and enjoy the show from June to hard freeze. The butterflies and hummingbirds will also visit.
Powis Castle Artemisia
(A. arborescens “Powis Castle”) Another great deer deterrent accent in the garden and it works as a windbreak within a planting area as well! This silvery foliaged sterile hybrid (can’t seed) looks delicate, seldom blooms, hales from a limestone-based area of England and is perfectly at home here! Rabbit and Deer resistant.
Prairie Sunshine
Hymenoxys
(Tetraneuris scaposa) This is a unique Great Plains native that has bright yellow 1 inch flowers on 8 inch leafless stems. One of the longest blooming times of all perennials, May - October! Great for the xeric garden!
Rozanne Geranium Perennial Plant Association Plant of 2008! Very large violet blue, white centered flowers from early summer to frost top mounds of slightly marbled deep green foliage. This Blooms of Bressingham selection is special because the flowers are larger, the blue deeper and the plant more heat tolerant than similar varieties. More added perks: reddish-brown fall foliage color, rejuvenation by shearing to 3 inches and butterfly attraction. Add compost to the soil for best performance.
Silver Mound (Artemisia shmidtiana ‘Silver Mound’) Neat, soft silver foliage on a compact mounded plant.Excellent as a border plant or the rock garden.
New! This one features masses of creamy white flowers with a dusky pink blush from early spring to summer. It is useful as a small scale groundcover or in mixed borders. Deer resistant.
Size Cost Premium $8.00
Tequila Sunrise Coreopsis (Coreopsis ‘Tequila Sunrise’) Coreopsis, the golden darlings of the summer garden! It has 18 to 24 inch tall golden-yellow classic coreopsis daisy-like blooms that are carried above 12 to 15 inch width clumps of dark olive-green foliage. It is variegated with cream and yellow. If you think that is striking, wait until fall - when the foliage turns deep rich mahogany to really accent a full sun garden. Deadhead to encourage reblooming.
Bright golden flowers with unique, fluted, tubular petals on this cultivar. Long-blooming; more vigorous than 'Nana'. It is deer resistant.
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Prairie Splendor Echinacea
(Echinacea pupurea 'Prairie Splendor') 
Tennessee Echinacea (Echinacea Tennesseensis(
Tomato Soup Echinacea (Echinacea purpurea 'Tomato Soup') 
Yellow Echinacea (Echinacea paradoxa)
Frosty Fire Dianthus
(Dianthus x allwoodii 'Frosty Fire') 
St Ola Cranesbill (Geranium cantabrigiense 'St Ola') 
Zamphir Coreopsis (Coreopsis auriculata 'Zamphir')
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