What’s in bloom

Sundrops is a cheerful native perennial known for its glowing yellow blooms, tidy low‑growing habit, and long summer flowering season. Unlike many spring‑blooming perennials that fade quickly, Sundrops keeps the color coming for weeks, opening fresh flowers in succession from late spring into midsummer.

Storm Cloud Bluestar is a standout native perennial prized for its spring star‑shaped blooms, dramatic emerging foliage, and dependable, season‑long presence in the garden. One of the earliest perennials to awaken each year, it sends up striking near‑black stems topped with deep green leaves, creating a bold contrast long before its soft blue flowers appear.

Iron Butterfly is an Arkansas native perennial celebrated for its fine, thread‑like foliage and vibrant late‑season purple blooms. Flowering from late summer into fall, it adds striking texture and color to the garden just when many plants begin to fade, drawing in butterflies, bees, and other late‑season pollinators.

Wild Bergamot Bee Balm is a native perennial celebrated for its soft, lavender blooms and its important role in supporting pollinators. Flowering from early to mid-summer, it brings a relaxed, natural beauty to the garden, with tufted blossoms that seem to dance above the foliage and attract bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds alike.

Cercis canadensis, commonly called eastern redbud, is a deciduous, often multi-trunked understory tree with a rounded crown that typically matures to 20-30’ tall with a slightly larger spread. It is particularly noted for its stunning pea-like rose-purple flowers which bloom profusely on bare branches in early spring (March-April) before the foliage emerges.

Helleborus, commonly known as Lenten Rose, is a long lived perennial treasured for its elegant blooms and remarkably early flowering season. Blooming in late winter to early spring, hellebores bring welcome color to the garden when few other plants are awake, offering nodding flowers in shades of white, blush, rose, plum and soft green.