Maintenance: Low
It blooms in spring with a very pretty silver catkin with red stamens that can be cut for early spring decoration
Aquilegia canadensis is a native spring wildflower which occurs in rocky woods
Leonotis works great in large-scale borders
dark green leaves (4-8” long)
Aster oblongifolius 'October Skies' salvia Maintenance: LowSymphyotrichum oblongifolium, commonly called aromatic aster, is a native plant that typically occurs on limestone glades, slopes, prairies and dry open ground. A bushy, stiff, compact, low growing plant with hairy stems. Typically grows 1 2' (infrequently to 3') tall and features small, daisy like flowers (1" across) with violet blue rays and yellow center disks. Rigid, toothless, oblong, blue green leaves (to 4" long) are, as the common name