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STARTING MONDAY AUGUST 25TH
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We have a variety of plants marked 35%–50% off right now - Rose of Sharons, viburnum, roses, rhododendrons, fruit trees and a variety of perennials. If you’ve been thinking about adding something new and filling any holes in your garden, this is a perfect time to stop by and take a look.
Check out our current list of plants on sale.
(L to R) Coreopsis, Rudbeckia, Agastache & Allium
Late summer brings a shift in the garden. Some perennials begin to fade, but many late-blooming shrubs and perennials are just getting started. Here’s how to keep your landscape thriving through the month and into fall.
Deadhead and lightly prune to keep annuals looking fresh.
Add a diluted liquid fertilizer when watering to encourage continued blooms.
Fertilize trees and shrubs through the end of August. This helps strengthen them before dormancy.
Avoid fertilizing beyond August to prevent tender new growth before frost.
Cut back spent perennials; some may reward you with a second flush of blooms.
Deadhead flowering perennials to prolong their show.
Stake any top-heavy or rain-weary plants.
Harvest warm-weather crops regularly to encourage more production and prevent them from going to seed.
Now’s the time to sow cool-season crops: lettuce, spinach, arugula, carrots, beets, beans, kale, and peas for fall harvest.
Stay vigilant, crabgrass and blackberry thrive in summer heat and can spread quickly.
Echinacea purpurea illustration by karen blackerby logan
Echinacea comes from the Greek word echinos meaning hedgehog or sea-urchin in reference to the spiny central cone.
Echinacea purpurea
Beauty, Biodiversity, and What to Plant
Walk through any summer garden center and it’s hard to miss the bright, joyful faces of Echinacea, or coneflowers. From fiery oranges to soft whites and vibrant reds. Beyond their colorful appeal, coneflowers tell an important story about biodiversity, adaptability, and the relationship between native plants and modern hybrids.
At our nursery, we grow several species of Echinacea from seed, including:
Echinacea purpurea – the classic purple coneflower
Echinacea pallida – with pale, drooping petals
Echinacea paradoxa – a rare yellow species
Starting plants from seed introduces new genetic combinations, which increases the plant’s ability to adapt to changing conditions and resist disease. These natives offer long-term benefits to pollinators, wildlife, and the resilience of the garden itself.
Their color palette is more limited, primarily pinks and yellows, but their ecological value is profound. Native coneflowers are also long-lived, drought-tolerant once established, and deeply rooted in local ecosystems.
Echinacea White Swan
Echinacea Sombrero Salsa & Sangrita
The other side of the spectrum are the hybrids. These cultivars, mostly derived from Echinacea purpurea, have been carefully bred for color, size, and form. Today, you’ll find Echinacea in shades of:
Reds (Salsa Red)
Oranges (Adobe Orange)
Greens (Green Twister)
Whites (White Swan)
And even bicolors that blend two tones in a single bloom
We sell countless hybrids that the horticultural industry has created from mostly Echinacea purpurea. Hybrids are typically propagated asexually through cuttings or tissue culture to maintain consistency in appearance. This can make them less genetically diverse, and potentially less adaptable, especially under stress from disease or climate extremes but boy are they beautiful. When carefully sited and well-maintained, they’re a stunning and reliable part of any garden design.
We carry the Sombrero series, like Salsa Red and Adobe Orange which are two of our favorites. We love many of the Echinacea hybrids like Green twister and White Swan.
*If food for pollinators is your number one reason for planting Echinacea, either plant the native species or pick the single hybrids. The doubles are not believed to be good food for pollinators. Many of the doubles are sterile and produce no seed.
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SOMBRERO SERIES
(Continues to be one
of our favorites!)
Salsa Red
Adobe Orange
Hot Coral
Lemon Yellow
Rosada
Summer Solstice
Tres Amigos
Sangrita
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SUNSEEKER SERIES
(Tall with beautiful flowers that
often transition to other colors as
they mature. Some can be
double.)
Rainbow
Salmon
Perfection
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Green Wizard
(The flower petals are
yellow-green
on the tips and
bleed into a pale
pink closer to
the cone.)
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Old Fashioned Hybrid
Ruby Giant
(Quite tall with
large pink flowers)
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Ruby Giant
Green Twister
(Very hardy)
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New this year!
We are testing for hardiness.
Dark Shadows Wicked
Orange You Awesome
The Fuschia is Bright
One in a Melon
Summer Song
Fire Finch
Baja Burgundy
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Pollinator Magnet: Coneflowers attract a wide variety of butterflies, bees, birds, and other beneficial pollinators, making them a valuable addition to any ecologically minded garden.
Winter Interest & Wildlife Support: Leave the spent flower heads standing through winter. Their signature seed-filled cones provide an important food source for birds, especially finches. In early spring, simply cut the stems back to the ground to encourage fresh growth.
Medicinal Tradition: Long used in herbal medicine, Echinacea is believed to support the immune system and may help reduce the duration of colds and flu. Their distinctive blooms are often associated with healing and wellness in both gardens and apothecaries.
A hardy herbaceous perennial, Echinacea is native to the Midwestern prairies of the United States and thrives in a wide range of conditions.
Adaptable and resilient, it tolerates drought, heat, humidity, and even poor soils once established.
Best grown in full sun with average to dry, well-drained soil, it doesn’t need rich soil to flourish.
Coneflowers are low-maintenance and rarely troubled by pests or disease. They require little to no fertilizer.
Expect a vibrant display of blooms in mid-summer, with some varieties continuing into fall.
There are over 400 species of sedums, in the family Crassulacea. They are known for their succulent foliage and drought tolerance. Sedums are easy to grow, hardy perennials that come in a range of sizes, colors and shapes and flower beautifully. Plant them in full sun and well drained soil and they will be happy campers. Some even do fine with afternoon shade.
Sedums grown at our on site production location
Creeping Sedum: Groundcover that can spread up to 3 feet. This low growing sedum usually spreads quite wide like a carpet. Many of them have little rosettes for foliage which look like flowers but are actually foliage. The Sedum major is a great example of foliage that resembles flowers.
Tall Sedum: Upright habit that can reach 2-3’ tall and wide. These taller sedums are like small shrubs. They can even work as hedges.
Trailing Sedum: Used in containers, hanging baskets or spill over rock walls.
Vineyard Gardens usually divides Sedums into the low growing, spreading type referred to as rock garden sedums and the taller more upright type many of which are in the species spectabile, which means showy.
Sedum rupestris Angelina: A rock garden spreader with yellow foliage and yellow flowers.
Sedum reflexum Blue Spruce: Great in rock gardens and have bluish gray foliage.
Sedum Steel the Show: This sedum is the perfect ground cover for a sunny garden. It has bright blue green foliage.
Sedum dasphyllum Major: A rock garden type whose foliage looks like tiny little blue flowers.
Sedum Sunsparkler Series: This series is medium size and the foliage ranges from plum purple to green with cream variegation.
We carry Dazzleberry, Plum Dazzler, Cherry Tart, Lime Zinger, Firecracker and Blue Elf.
Sedum Munstead Dark Red: A spectabile type that grows 15-18” tall with greenish foliage and dark red flowers.
Sedum Mojave Jewels Saphire: A plum colored upright sedum.
Sedum Night Light: Flower color in shades of yellow to gold. 22-26” tall; 30-36” spread.
Sedum in a planted container
Flowering yellow sedum with Butterfly Bush and Hydrangea paniculata
Agastache (left corner) infront of the herb garden
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Agastache foeniculum will grow 2-3′ tall in full sun and well drained soil. Numerous species of bees and butterflies are attracted to it’s purple-blue flowers.
ANISE HYSSOP / HUMMINGBIRD MINT
Agastache foeniculum is a native edible perennial flower that is extremely long blooming and one of the best for pollinators. It’s tubular flowers are highly attractive to bees, butterflies and hummingbirds. It is a member of the mint family and produces aromatic foliage. Agastache will grow best in full sun and prefers dry to medium soil. It is not suitable to wet areas or flooding.
Agastache foeniculum
Agastache foeniculum Blue Fortune
Agastache foeniculum
There are four cultivars of Agastache foeniculum we sell as perennials. All four will come back year after year. They have a spike of blue / lavender flowers in midsummer and fragrant foliage that repel deer. They also are known for reseeding and spreading in your sunny garden.
Agastache Black Adder
Agastache foeniculum cultivars
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- Black Adder
- Blue Fortune
(RHS Award)
- Golden Jubilee
(yellow foliage)
- Little Adder
(dwarf blue cultivar)
Agastache Little Adder
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There are many other Agastache species and hybrids we carry. Even though the literature and the catalogs tout them as zone 5 plants we have not had good luck with them perennializing. If our winters were a typical zone 5 winter, where the ground freezes and stays frozen all winter they would survive but with our freeze thaw cycles all winter long they do not usually survive. Therefore, we treat them as annuals. These Agastache start blooming in early summer and continue to bloom until a killing frost, which is often not until Thanksgiving or later.
Agastache auriantica ‘Apricot Sprite’ : We grow these from seed and they are a great season extender. It is the perfect orange color for fall.
Agastache Kudos series : A hybrid Agastache developed at the famous Terra Nova nurseries and is more compact than the species. It comes in many colors: Mandarin, Ambrosia, Coral, Gold and Slivery Blue and Blue Boa. Plant these in the summer for a long fall season of color. They are great season extenders. A bonus, their minty foliage is not eaten by deer.
Agastache ‘Rosie Posey’ & ‘Peachie Keen’ : Walters Gardens introductions that we still have in stock. These are shorter, more mounded plants that want a sunny location and are drought tolerant once established. Easy to grow.
Agastache ‘Mango Tango’
Agastache ‘Guava Lava’ and ‘Queen Nectarine’ : Two new Walters Gardens introductions we have ordered for 2024 (a Proven Winner variety). New for next year!
Agastache Mango Tango
Agastache Kudos Coral
Agastache Apricot Sprite
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Agastache is a versatile perennial, with many uses in the landscape. Here are a few ideas:
Plant a compact variety in a rock garden in combination with creeping succulents, thyme, stonecrop, dianthus, ice plant (Delosperma), and blue fescue.
Adorn a curbside strip with agastache and other long blooming, low water perennials such as lavender, catmint, yarrow, beardtongue (Penstemon) and fountain grass (Pennisetum).
Place a large decorative ceramic container near a deck or patio and plant with a compact variety of agastache alongside other plants with similar cultural needs such as lantana, gazania, African daisy (Osteospermum), ‘Angelina’ sedum, or New Zealand flax (Phormium).
Naturalize in a meadow setting with other flowering natives such as black-eyed Susan, gayfeather (Liatris), purple coneflower (Echinacea), salvia, milkweed, and asters to attract hummingbirds, butterflies and insect pollinators.
Plant an herb garden with anise hyssop (Agastache foeniculum) and some of your culinary favorites such as oregano, marjoram, sage, rosemary, thyme, mint, and lavender.
Mass along a slope, alternating groupings of other long blooming drought-tolerant plants such as lavender, Russian sage (Perovskia), salvia, sea holly (Eryngium) or tickseed (Coreopsis).
For late season color, plant agastache alongside asters, goldenrod, salvia, Joe pye weed, silvergrass (Miscanthus), stonecrop (Sedum), and little bluestem (Schizachyrium scoparium).
Agastache foeniculum
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Scentsation Honeysuckle
Late season blooming vines brighten your autumn landscapes just as the summer flowers are waning.
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These flowering vines are lush with often very fragrant flowers that are beloved by butterflies and hummingbirds.
Goldflame Honeysuckle
Scentsation Honeysuckle
Goldflame Honeysuckle
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Wisteria is a high-climbing, long-lived vining plant with cascades of blue to purple flowers that look spectacular hanging from a pergola or archway. Wisteria only blooms on new wood so pruning is a secret to it’s success.
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Clematis viticellas are the smaller flowered clematis such as Roguchi and Betty Corning. They are both fragrant, very floriferous and excellent climbers attaching with tendrils .
Autumn Clematis is an evergreen woody high-climbing vine with late-season blossoms and wonderfully fragrant blooms!
Sweet Autumn Clematis
Varieties available
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paniculata
Roguchi
Betty Corning
Robert Brydon
Sweet Summer Love
Rouge Cardinal
Diamond Ball
Pink Mist
Roguchi Clematis
Clematis Rooguchi seed pod
Roguchi Clematis
Clematis Mrs. Robert Brydor
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Lily illustration by karen blackerby logan
Lilies are colorful, star-shaped flowers that add elegance and fragrance to any garden. They come in an endless range of colors, shapes, heights and bloom times. When blending the right varieties together you can enjoy lilies throughout the entire growing season, from spring to first frost. Popular lily species, include Daylilies, Orientals & Asiatics.
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Daylily
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Daylilies are grown via tuberous roots and have multiple stems.
Daylilies [illustration by karen blackerby logan]
Varieties available
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Hemerocallis altissima
Regal Flare
Tetrinas Daughter
Golden Prize
Gulf Stream
Ruffled Apricot
Indian Hill dbl
Buttered Popcorn
Sea Wampum
Seaside Sun Glow
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Oriental Lilies are native to Japan and developed from only a few species . They are heavily scented, with much larger flowers, and bloom later than most other types of Lilium.
Oriental Lilies
Stargazer Lily [illustration by karen blackerby logan]
Varieties available
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Lillium Casa Blanca
Lillium Honeymoon
Lillium Black Beauty
Stargazer Lilies
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Asiatic lilies are grown via bulbs and only have single stems,
Tiger Lily
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Kniphofia (Torch Lilies) produce spikes of upright, brightly colored flowers above the foliage, in shades of red, orange and yellow. They produce abundant nectar attracting bees and hummingbirds.
Kniphofia Flamanco Mix
Kniphofia Solar Flare
Clerodendrum trichotomum
In mid-summer and fall Clerodendrum adds a striking show when other woody plants are not in bloom!
Clerodendrum trichotomum (Harlequin Glory-Bower) is the only Clerodendrum hardy this far north. A deer resistant, flowering, deciduous shrub that begins blooming mid-summer with fragrant soft white flowers. The flowers have a sweet delicate aroma and are large enough to make a statement. A great addition to a late season garden when many other shrubs are not in bloom.
In the fall, Clerodendrum has a wonderful effect. The flowers turn into a very interesting seed pod, bright purplish-blue berries adorned by thick star-shaped red calyces. In addition, the foliage changes into a beautiful yellow fall color. A show stopper indeed!
Clerodendrum has large heart shaped leaves which produce a peanut odor when crushed.
Clerodendrum is a large shrub that grows between 8-10’ tall.
Stands best alone because it takes over. Plant it where it has plenty of room to spread and colonize. It will spread as far as you let it but it can be controlled.
Full sun to part shade. Clerodendrum prefers full sun for best shape and flowering but can tolerate and flower in partial shade. In partial shade, it’s already loose habit will be even more open.
Clerodendrum trichotomum in the spring/early summer
Clerodendrum trichotomum in the summer
Clerodendrum trichotomum in the fall.
Clerodendrum
Clerodendrum
