Aquilegia alpina
ALPINE COLUMBINE
- Compact blue-green foliage
- Violet-blue flowers
- Excellent container plant
HEIGHT: 45-60 cm · SPREAD: 25-30 cm
Aquilegia canadensis
WILD COLUMBINE
- Showy, nodding, bell-shaped flowers of pinkish-red and yellow
- Attractive divided light green foliage
- Naturalizing plant for rocky ledges or slopes and along woodland edges or ditches
HEIGHT: 40-50 cm · SPREAD: 30-40 cm
Aquilegia vulgaris 'Black Barlow'
COLUMBINE
- Maroon-black double flowers
- Mound of gray-green foliage
- Excellent cut flower
HEIGHT: 60-80 cm · SPREAD: 30-40 cm
Aquilegia vulgaris 'Blue Barlow'
COLUMBINE
- Flowers are rich royal-blue
- Clumps of gray-green lobed foliage
- Excellent cut flower
HEIGHT: 60-90 cm · SPREAD: 30-50 cm
Aquilegia vulgaris 'Nora Barlow'
COLUMBINE
- Unique blossoms are fully double
- Petals are red and pink with greenish-white margins
- Clumps of gray-greenlobed foliage
HEIGHT: 60-80 cm · SPREAD: 30-50 cm
Aquilegia x 'Blue Bird'
COLUMBINE
- Upward-facing flowers over compact foliage
- Bicoloured flowers with light blue sepals and white petals
- Fern-like gray-green foliage
HEIGHT: 45-50 cm · SPREAD: 25-30 cm
Aquilegia x 'Earlybird™ Blue and White'
COLUMBINE
- Blue and White Flowers atop Green Foliage
- Late Spring-Summer Blooming
HEIGHT: 20-30 cm · SPREAD: 20-30 cm
Aquilegia x 'Earlybird™ Purple and Blue'
COLUMBINE
- Purple and Blue flowers atop green foliage
- Late spring-summer blooming
HEIGHT: 20-30 cm · SPREAD: 20-30 cm
Aquilegia x 'Earlybird™ Purple and Yellow'
COLUMBINE
- Purple and yellow flowers atop green foliage
- Late spring-summer blooming
HEIGHT: 20-30 cm · SPREAD: 20-30 cm
Aquilegia x 'Earlybird™ Red and White'
COLUMBINE
- Deer and rabbit resistant
- Red and white flowers atop green foliage
- Late spring-summer blooming
HEIGHT: 20-30 cm · SPREAD: 20-30 cm
Aquilegia x 'Earlybird™ Red and Yellow'
COLUMBINE
- Red and yellow flowers atop green foliage
- Late spring-summer blooming
HEIGHT: 20-30 cm · SPREAD: 20-30 cm
Aquilegia x 'Earlybird™ White'
WHITE COLUMBINE
- Large white flowers atop green foliage
- Late spring-summer blooming
HEIGHT: 20-30 cm · SPREAD: 20-30 cm
Aquilegia x 'Earlybird™ Yellow'
COLUMBINE
- Yellow flowers atop green foliage
- Late spring-summer blooming
HEIGHT: 20-30 cm · SPREAD: 20-30 cm
Aquilegia x 'Robin'
COLUMBINE
- Upward-facing flowers over compact foliage
- Bicoloured flowers with rose sepals and white petals
- Fern-like gray-green foliage
HEIGHT: 30-50 cm · SPREAD: 25-30 cm
Arabis arendsii 'Compinkie'
ROCK CRESS
- Deep pink flowers
- Foliage forms a compact mound of semi-evergreen foliage
- Suitable for rock gardens or walls
HEIGHT: 15-20 cm · SPREAD: 30-60 cm
Arabis blepharophylla Fruhlingszauber ('Spring Charm')
WALL CRESS
- Fragrant deep pink flowers
- Forms a low mound of gray-green leaves
- Semi-evergreen foliage
HEIGHT: 10-15 cm · SPREAD: 20-50 cm
Arabis caucasica 'Snowcap'
WALL CRESS
- Fragrant white flowers
- Foliage forms a low mound of semi-evergreen foliage
- Suitable for rock gardens or walls
HEIGHT: 15-20 cm · SPREAD: 30-60 cm
Arabis caucasica 'Variegata'
WALL CRESS
- Fragrant white flowers
- Olive-green leaves are edged in creamy-white
- Semi-evergreen foliage
HEIGHT: 15-20 cm · SPREAD: 30-45 cm
Aralia cordata 'Sun King'
GOLDEN JAPANESE SPIKENARD
- Tiny white flowers
- Deep purplish-black inedible berries
- Bright gold leaves are held on contrasting reddish-brown stems
HEIGHT: 80-100 cm · SPREAD: 80-100 cm
Aralia racemosa
AMERICAN SPIKENARD
- Smooth purple-black stems each hold few leaves
- Huge compound leaves on this herbaceous perennial
- Thick spikes of small green-white flowers beginning in June lead to clusters of green berries turning
HEIGHT: 125-150 cm · SPREAD: 125-150 cm
Arctanthemum arcticum
ARCTIC DAISY
- AKA Chrysanthemum arcticum
- Florets are white, often tinged pink, with a yellow centre
- Suitable for rock gardens or borders
HEIGHT: 30-40 cm · SPREAD: 30-50 cm
Arctostaphylos uva-ursi
BEARBERRY
- AKA Arbutus uva-ursi
- Other Common Names: Pine Mat, Mealberry, Hog Cranberry, Sandberry
- Evergreen ground cover with small white, pink-edged bell-shaped flowers
HEIGHT: 10-15 cm · SPREAD: 100-150 cm
Arenaria montana
MOUNTAIN SANDWORT
- White 5-petaled flowers with yellow throats
- Thin glossy deep green semi-evergreen leaves
- Excellent between stones in walkways
HEIGHT: 5-10 cm · SPREAD: 25-30 cm
Arisaema triphyllum
JACK-IN-THE-PULPIT
- AKA Arisaema atrorubens
- Unique upright club-shaped spadix with hoods of green and maroon
- Attractive maroon stems
HEIGHT: 30-60 cm · SPREAD: 20-30 cm