Echinacea x 'Tomato Soup' (PP19427, COPF)
TOMATO SOUP CONEFLOWER
- Tomato-red flowers with a dark contrasting eye
- Fragrant flowers
- Upright, clumping, dark green foliage
HEIGHT: 55-80 cm · SPREAD: 60-70 cm
Echinops ritro 'Veitch's Blue'
GLOBE THISTLE
- Larger globes and a more intense blue than the species
- Deep metallic-blue, spiky flowers on sturdy stems
- Gray-green foliage is covered in cobweb-like hair
HEIGHT: 80-90 cm · SPREAD: 60-70 cm
Epilobium angustifolium
FIREWEED
- AKA Chamerion angustifolium
- Tall branchless flower stems with purple flowers
- Blooms from June to September
HEIGHT: 60-150 cm · SPREAD: 60-90 cm
Epimedium grandiflorum Lilac Fairy ('Lilafee')
BARRENWORT
- Racemes of spurred lavender-purple flowers stand above the foliage
- Foliage emerges in spring with a bronze-red tinge, turning green as the season progresses
- Red-bronze tones in the fall
HEIGHT: 20-25 cm · SPREAD: 25-30 cm
Epimedium rubrum
RED BARRENWORT
- Sprays of cherry-red star-shaped flowers peek through the foliage
- Spiny-toothed heart-shaped leaves are red-tinted throughout the seasons
- Turns a bronzy-red in the fall and remains through the winter
HEIGHT: 20-30 cm · SPREAD: 30-45 cm
Epimedium x Orange Queen ('Orangekonigen')
ORANGE QUEEN FAIRY WINGS
- Compact, mounding habit
- Bushy evergreen dark green foliage
- Sprays of coppery-orange flowers in mid to late spring
HEIGHT: 20-25 cm · SPREAD: 30-50 cm
Epimedium x Sphinx Twinkler ('Spine Tingler')
SPHINX TWINKLER BARRENWORT
- Fine sulfur-yellow blooms are borne on long racemes
- Flowers hang pendulously from upright stems
- New leaves have a chocolate hue in the spring
HEIGHT: 20-25 cm · SPREAD: 30-40 cm
Epimedium x cantabrigiense
BARRENWORT
- Numerous dainty yellow flowers with a pink tinge and yellow stamens
- Leaves are copper-tinted in the spring and mature to green in the summer
- Foliage turns to hues of bronze and red as the season cools and remains through the winter
HEIGHT: 30-50 cm · SPREAD: 50-60 cm
Epimedium x perralchicum 'Frohnleiten'
BARRENWORT
- Butter-yellow flower with a small bronze centres
- Flowers rise slightly above foliage
- Semi-evergreen spiny heart-shaped leaflets are bronze-marbled in the spring
HEIGHT: 30-40 cm · SPREAD: 40-50 cm
Epimedium x youngianum 'Niveum'
BARRENWORT
- Pure white star-shaped flowers rise above the foliage on thin wiry stems
- Blooms later in the spring than other cultivars of epimedium
- Fine-toothed triangular leaves emerge red and fade to green with a red tinge
HEIGHT: 20-30 cm · SPREAD: 30-45 cm
Equisetum hyemale
SCOURING RUSH
- Rigid hollow bamboo-like stems
- Dark green with black banding at joints
- Produces small brown cone-like stem tips in the summer
HEIGHT: 60-100 cm · SPREAD: 100-200 cm
Eremurus stenophyllus
FOXTAIL LILY
- Impressive tall spikes with numerous small star-shaped yellow flowers
- Blooms fade to a coppery-orange as they age
- Buds open in sequence from bottom to top, for a long-lasting show
HEIGHT: 100-120 cm · SPREAD: 40-50 cm
Eremurus x isabellinus 'Cleopatra'
FOXTAIL LILY
- Impressive tall spikes with numerous small orange lily-like flowers
- Flower buds open in sequence from bottom to top, for a long-lasting show
- Strap-like blue-green foliage goes dormant after the flowers finish
HEIGHT: 100-120 cm · SPREAD: 40-50 cm
Eryngium planum 'Blue Hobbit'
BLUE SEA HOLLY
- Strong stems with numerous prickly steel-blue flowers clustered on one branch
- Flowers are much smaller than the common sea holly
- Smooth leaves are dark green, deeply toothed, and stay very low and compact
HEIGHT: 20-30 cm · SPREAD: 20-30 cm
Eryngium yuccifolium
RATTLESNAKE MASTER
- Creamy-green spherical flowers
- Strap-like blue-green basal leaves with bristled edges
- Semi-evergreen foliage
HEIGHT: 90-150 cm · SPREAD: 60-75 cm
Eryngium zabelii 'Big Blue' ( PP20636, COPF)
SEA HOLLY
- Electric-blue flowers on sturdy blue stems
- Bloom Time: Summer
- Flower Size: 10 cm
HEIGHT: 50-75 cm · SPREAD: 40-50 cm
Erythronium americanum
TROUT LILY
- Nodding yellow bell-shaped flowers
- Flowers may have yellow, purple or brown anthers
- Plants having two emerging basal leaves will likely produce a flower
HEIGHT: 10-15 cm · SPREAD: 10-15 cm
Eucomis bicolor
PINEAPPLE LILY
- Clusters of pale green star-shaped flowers with maroon margins
- Above the flowers rests a cluster of leafy green bracts giving it the appearance of a pineapple
- Thick, stocky stems with purple-speckled markings
HEIGHT: 30-60 cm · SPREAD: 30-60 cm
Eupatorium dubium 'Little Joe' (PP16122, COPF)
JOE PYE WEED
- A compact cultivar
- Dome-shaped heads of showy rose-purple flowers
- Coarse dark green leaves on rigid stems
HEIGHT: 90-120 cm · SPREAD: 60-90 cm
Eupatorium fistulosum
HOLLOW JOE PYE WEED
- AKA Eupatoriadelphus fistulosus, Eutrochium fistulosum
- Large rounded-topped clusters of pink or purplish-mauve flowers
- Lance-shaped sharp-toothed dark green leaves on wine-coloured stems
HEIGHT: 150-200 cm · SPREAD: 60-75 cm
Eupatorium maculatum
JOE PYE WEED
- AKA Eupatoriadelphus maculatus, Eupatorium purpureum ssp. maculatum
- Round-topped heads of purple-pink flowers
- Sharp-toothed coarse dark green leaves on rigid spotted purple stems
HEIGHT: 150-175 cm · SPREAD: 60-120 cm
Eupatorium maculatum 'Atropurpureum'
JOE PYE WEED
- AKA Eupatoriadelphus maculatus, Eupatorium purpureum ssp. maculatum
- Round-topped heads of deep purple-pink flowers
- Sharp-toothed coarse dark green leaves on rigid spotted purple stems
HEIGHT: 150-200 cm · SPREAD: 90-120 cm
Eupatorium maculatum 'Gateway'
JOE PYE WEED
- AKA Eutrochium purpureum subsp. maculatum 'Gateway'
- More compact selection than the species
- Bright mauve-pink flower clusters atop deep wine-red stems
HEIGHT: 120-150 cm · SPREAD: 100-125 cm
Eupatorium maculatum 'Phantom' (PP18354)
PHANTOM JOE PYE WEED
- Shorter and more compact habit
- Dome-shaped heads of showy rose-purple flowers
- Coarse dark green leaves on rigid stems
HEIGHT: 90-120 cm · SPREAD: 60-90 cm