This is quite an incredible plant in both size and stature.  It has tall, strong cane-like stems sprouting large, pendulous, terminal sprays of creamy-yellow flowers.  The foliage is flurry of palmate leaves that are light green and clefted almost to center.  It has a bushy habit.

• Height: 7’-8’ x Spread: 8’
• Full sun
• Zone 5-8

This exceptional perennial grows across a wide range of zones and is one of the most adaptable native species. Often, when first planted, Baptisia has only several stems and appears sparse. However, the clump goes from a slow start to really flourishing within three years, when it reaches full size. Because Baptisia clumps expand to a diameter of approximately four feet with a shrub-like habit, these dimensions should be considered when plants are placed in the landscape. It grows best in full sun, but can survive partial shade. If the plant is grown in shade, staking may be in order to prevent flopping. It is drought tolerate, once established.

• Height: 2’-4’ x Spread: 2’-2 ½’
• Full sun
• Zone 3-9

False or Cumberland Rosemary is a very rare plant known only from several counties in Tennessee and Kentucky where it grows on gravelly river banks which are seasonally flooded and then left dry in the summer. This NATIVE plant looks like a semi-prostrate rosemary that is semi-evergreen. They are wonderfully and strongly scented in a sweet camphor smell.  It has white to palest lavender-blue flowers that appear in midsummer. It is best to plant Conradina in well-drained soil or pure sand in full sun. Use it for its fine bristly texture where a low plant is needed. It would be very effective at the edge of a retaining wall where passers-by might brush against the foliage releasing its pleasant scent.

• Height:  1’ x Spread: 3’
• Sun to light sun
• Zones 5-7

‘Pink Beauty’ is a Boltonia (also commonly called false aster) cultivar that is noted for its late summer bloom of pale pink flowers. It is a tall, rhizomatous perennial that grows in a clump to 3-5’ tall. Features linear, lance-shaped, grayish-green leaves (to 5” long) on erect, usually branching stems. Tiny, pale pink, 3/4” daisies (pink rays with yellow center disks) in loose panicles literally cover this aster-like plant with a profuse bloom in August and September.

• Height: 3’-5’ feet  x  Spread: same
• Full sun
• Zone 5-8

Foxglove has a long tradition in the American cottage garden.  In particular, this yellow foxglove has been very popular for generations of gardeners.  It is a clump-forming perennial that is native to woods and stream banks from central Europe to Turkey and Siberia.  It has large, tubular, funnel-shaped, pendulous, soft yellow flowers (to 2” long) with interior brown markings bloom in late spring to early summer in wands over a foot long.   The plant is upright and leafy-stemmed rising to 2-3’ tall. Finely-toothed, medium green leaves about 10” long and 2” wide appear in rosettes and alternate up the stems larger to smaller from the bottom up. Individual flowers resemble the snipped-off fingers of a glove or a gnome’s hat.  Specific epithet is in reference to the large flowers of this species. Digitalis leaves are highly toxic to humans if ingested. Synonymous with Digitalis ambigua.

• Height: 2’- 3’ x Spread: 1’ – 1 ½’
• Full sun – part shade
• Zone 3-8

Long spikes of lovely flowers in shades of carmine-red, pink, creamy-yellow or white grace this cottage garden favorite. This biennial Digitalis comes from southern Europe and has some 20 species, mostly perennials. They grow either in sun or partial shade, which makes them ideal plants for woodland gardens. Foxgloves are easy and make excellent cut flowers if picked when the blooms are half open. Their real strength is in their dramatic and richly colored vertical accents.  Botanical architecture that is nearly impossible to duplicate with another genus.

• Height: 4’- 5’ x Spread: 1’ – 2’
• Full sun - part shade
• Zone 3-8