Perennials

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