Delphiniums
Delphiniums produce large spikes composed of many smaller flowers ranging from white, pink, purple, blue and lavender in solids or with white or black bees. Their height is dependent on variety with the Pacific Giants reaching 7-8 feet! Their herbaceous foliage comprised of deeply lobed, palmate leaves is attractive as well.
Trollius ‘Golden Queen’
An herbaceous perennial with deeply toothed foliage produces fantastically interesting flowers in a warm golden orange in early summer. It prefers a moist garden site - perhaps in a bog garden or by water side. Both hardy and trouble free. Cut back hard after bloom to promote new foliage and possible late summer blooms.
White Masterwort
A 2-4' clump forming perennial with palmately divided leaves that produce delicate 1" umbels of white flowers in early summer.
Alpine Aster
Daisy-like blossoms in colors ranging from blue, purple, pink to white are produced above a low growing (6-12"), clumping perennial in mid-spring and occasionally in mid-summer.
Helenium hoopesii
An attractive late spring blooming (late May through June) perennial that grows 2-3 feet tall bearing 3" wide golden yellow-orange playfully droopy daisy-like flowers above distinctive gray green strap-like foliage.
Baptisia australis
This herbaceous perennial in the pea family grows into an attractive 3 x 2ft bush and produces indigo pea-like flower in late spring to early summer. Its deep root system allows it to withstand periods of drought.
