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Garden Giants

Tall Perennials (over 5’ in height) help to create scale and proportion in gardens of all sizes. They can be elegant, with bold and beautiful flowers or architectural with wonderful foliage and fluffy seed heads.

They spice up borders, create drama and screening, and can be the show stoppers you’ve been looking for! Grow up instead of out with tall perennials and give these larger-than-life, easy-to-grow, hardy plants a try!

ACTAEA racemosa (Fairy Candle)
ACTAEA simplex (Snakeroot)
ALCEA (Hollyhock)
ANGELICA gigas (Garden Angelica)
ARUNCUS dioicus (Goatsbeard)
ASTER novae-angliae
(New England Aster)
ASTER puniceus
(Purple-stemmed Aster)
BOLTONIA asteroides Snowbank
(Snowbank False Aster)
CENTAUREA macrocephala
(Armenian Blanketflower)
DELPHINIUM Pacific Giant Hybrids
DELPHINIUM New Millennium Hybrids
DIGITALIS purpurea Excelsior Hybrids
(Excelsior Hybrids Foxglove)
DIGITALIS purpurea Pam’s Choice
(Pam’s Choice Foxglove)
EUPATORIUM maculatum
(Joe-Pye Weed)
EUPATORIUM maculatum Gateway
(Gateway Joe-Pye Weed)
EUPATORIUM purpureum
(Sweet Joe-Pye Weed)
EUPATORIUM rugosum Chocolate
(Chocolate Snakeroot)
FILIPENDULA rubra &
FILIPENDULA rubra Venusta
(Queen-of-the-Prairie)
HELENIUM autumnale
(Autumn Helen’s Flower)
HELENIUM autumnale Red/Gold Hyb.
(Red/Gold Helen’s Flower)
HELIANTHUS strumosus
(Woodland Sunflower)
HELIANTHUS x Lemon Queen
(Lemon Queen Sunflower)
HELIOPSIS helianthoides
(False Sunflower)
HIBISCUS moscheutos Lord Baltimore
(Lord Baltimore Hibiscus)
HIBISCUS X Peppermint Schnapps
(Peppermint Schnapps Hibiscus)
HIBISCUS X Summerific Berryawesome
(Berryawesome Hibiscus)
LIATRIS aspera
(Rough Blazing-star)
LIATRIS ligulistylis
(Meadow Blazing-star)

LIATRIS pycnostachya
(Prairie Blazing-star)
LIGULARIA przewalskii
(Cutleaf Ligularia)
LIGULARIA stenocephala The Rocket
(The Rocket Ragwort)
PERSICARIA polymorpha
(White Fleeceflower)
RUDBECKIA maxima
(Great Coneflower)
RUDBECKIA nitida Autumn Sun
(Autumn Sun Coneflower)
RUDBECKIA subtomentosa
(Sweet Coneflower)
RUDBECKIA s. Henry Eilers
(Henry Eilers Sweet Coneflower)
RUDBECKIA triloba
(Brown-eyed Susan)
SILPHIUM laciniatum (Compass Plant)
SILPHIUM perfoliatum (Cup Plant)
SILPHIUM terebinthinaceum
(Prairie Dock)
SOLIDAGO rigida (Stiff Goldenrod)
SOLDIAGO speciosa
(Showy Goldenrod)
THALICTRUM dasycarpum
(Purple Meadow-rue)
THALICTRUM rochebrunianum
(Lavender-mist)
VERNONIA fasciculata (Ironweed)
VERONICASTRUM virginicum
(Virginia Culver’s Root)
VERONICASTRUM v. Fascination
(Fascination Culver’s Root)

FERNS

OSMUNDA cinnamomea
(Cinnamon Fern)
OSMUNDA regalis (Royal Fern)

GRASSES

ANDROPOGON gerardii
(Big Bluestem)
Red Bull
Red October
CALAMAGROSTIS acutiflora
(Reed Grass)
Avalanche
Karl Forester

CALAMAGROSTIS x acutiflora
El Dorado (Eldorado Reed Grass)
CALAMAGROSTIS Canadensis
(Bluejoint Grass)
MISCANTHUS sinensis
(Silver Grass)
Adagio
Blondo
Cabaret
Dixieland
Graziella
Huron Sunrise
Little Dot
Malepartus
Morning Light
Oktoberfest
Sarabande
Silver Feather
Silver Spider
Variegatus
MISCANTHUS sinensis
(Porcupine Grass)
Gold Bar
Gold Breeze
Strictus
MISCANTHUS sinensis Gracillimus
(Maiden Grass)
MISCANTHUS sinensis Purpurascens
(Flame Grass)
MOLINIA arundinacea Skyracer
(Skyracer Moor Grass)
PANICUM virgatum
(Switch Grass)
Dallas Blues
Heavy Metal
Hot Rod
Northwind
Prairie Sky
Red Ray (Rotstrahlbusch)
Shenandoah
SACCHARUM ravennae (Plume Grass)
SORGHASTRUM nutans (Indian Grass)
SORGHASTRUM n. Indian Steel
(Indian Steel Indian Grass)
SPARTINA pectinata (Prairie Cordgrass)