Top 10 Plants Lists

View Rick and Stacey’s top 10 plants for various categories.

  1. Oakleaf Hydrangea Hydrangea quercifolia ‘Gatsby’
  2. Mountain Hydrangea Hydrangea serrata ‘Tuff Stuff’
  3. Maidenhair Tree Ginkgo biloba ‘Skinny Fit’
  4. Fothergilla intermedia ‘Legend of the Fall’
  5. Landscape Roses ‘At Last’ and ‘Oso Easy’ series
  6. Sweetspire Itea virginica ‘Little Henry’
  7. Clematis ‘Sweet Summer Love’
  8. Hydrangea Paniculata ‘Limelight Prime’
  9. Quince Chaenomeles speciosa ‘Double Take’ Peach
  10. Buddleia Butterfly Bush ‘Pugster’ series
  1. Simply Scentsational calycanthus
  2. ‘Sweet Summer Love’ clematis
  3. Legend of the Fall fothergilla
  4. Paraplu Violet hibiscus
  5. Invincibelle Lace smooth hydrangea
  6. Gatsby Pink oakleaf hydrangea
  7. Ginger Wine ninebark
  8. Double Play Doozie spirea
  9. Steady Eddy viburnum
  10. Vinho Verde weigela
  1. Baptisia False Indigo ‘Decadence’ series
  2. False Sunflower Heliopsis helianthoides ‘Tuscan Sun’  
  3. Ornamental Grass Switch Grass ‘Prairie Winds Totem Pole’ and ‘Niagra Falls’
  4. Allium Ornamental Onion ‘Serendipity’
  5. Nepeta faassenii Catmint ‘Cat’s Meow’
  6. Rose Mallow Hibiscus ‘Summerific Cranberry Crush’
  7. Japanese Anemome ‘Fall in Love Sweetly’
  8. Echinacea Coneflower ‘Color Coded’ series
  9. Fountain Grass Pennisetum alopecuroides Prairie Winds ‘Lemon Squeeze’
  10. Stonecrop Rock n’ Low ‘Yellow Brick Road’
  1. Meant to Bee Queen Nectarine agastache
  2. ‘String Theory’ amsonia
  3. Decadence Lemon Meringue baptisia
  4. Tuscan Sun helopsis
  5. Fun and Games ‘Eye Spy’ foamy bells
  6. Summerific Cranberry Crush hibiscus
  7. Summerific Evening Rose hibiscus
  8. Pyromania ‘Flashpoint’ red hot poker
  9. Pardon My Cerise bee balm
  10. Prairie Winds Cheyenne Sky switch grass
  1. Verbena Meteor Shower
  2. Salvia Rockin series ‘Playin the Blues’
  3. Salvia Rockin series ‘Blue Suede Shoes’
  4. Supertunia Vista series ‘Bubble Gum’
  5. Canna Lily ‘Toucan’ series
  6. Coleus ColorBlaze series ‘Sedona Sunset’
  7. Euphorbia ‘Diamond Frost’
  8. Pennisetum purpureum Graceful Grasses ‘Vertigo’
  9. Gomphrena pulchella Pink Globe Amaranth ‘Truffula’
  10. Plectranthus Proven Accents ‘Cerveza n’ Lime’
  1. Endless Flirtation browallia
  2. Vermillionaire cuphea
  3. Hippo White polka dot plant
  4. Luscious Royale Red Zone lantana
  5. Gold Dust mecardonia (when I can find it! Wish more garden centers offered this very cool plant)
  6. Rockin’ Deep Purple salvia
  7. Amazel basil
  8. Catalina Grape-o-Licious wishbone flower
  9. Orange A-Peel black-eyed Susan vine
  10. Whirlwind Starlight fan flower
  1. Allium ‘Serendipity’ and ‘Globemaster’ as well as Schubertii and Christophii
  2. Any of the Ornamental grasses! I consider them bullet proof! Miscanthus sinensis, Switch grass (Panicum) like ‘Totem Pole’ or Feather-reed grass Calamagrostis, Pennisetum, Hakonechloa and even the “sedges” like Carex.
  3. Berberis Barberry ‘Sun-Joy’ series
  4. Buddleia ‘Lo and Behold’ and ‘Pugster’
  5. Nepeta Catmint ‘Cat’s Meow’ or ‘Cat’s Pajamas’
  6. Aralia cordata ‘Sun King’
  7. False Indigo Baptisia ‘Decadence’ series
  8. Stachys byzantina Lamb’s ears
  9. Evergreens: Juniper ‘Tortuga’ and ‘Aquavita’ as well as Microbiota Siberian Cypress Celtic Pride
  10. Chaenomeles Double Take Quince
  1. Sprinter boxwood
  2. Sweet Romance lavender
  3. Silphium perfoliatum, aka cup plant
  4. Decadence baptisia
  5. ‘Blue Fortune’ Agastache
  6. Laced Up elderberry
  7. Simply Scentsational calycanthus
  8. Milkweed – all types
  9. Pycnanthemum muticum, mountain mint
  10. Ruby Anniversary abelia