New For 2018
New Marginal Plants for around your water garden, in your stream or container garden
Hardy or Perennial:
Hardy Arrowhead: Sagittaria latifolia ‘Fantastic’
- Hardy Marginal/shelf Plant
- Great new color; each leaf is unique
- Beautiful, broad, arrow-shaped leaves
- Height 12 to 14 inches
- White flowers, with yellow center
- Discovered and perfected in the USA
Mazus retans
- Hardy Marginal/Shelf
- Ideal for streams and floating islands
- Low growing 2 – 4 inches
- Flowers Spring and Summer
- Purple-blue flowers with lower lips spotted with yellow and red
Blue Eyed Grass – Sisyrinchum angustifolium
- Hardy Marginal/Shelf
- Ideal for streams and floating islands
- Height 8 – 12 inches
- Flowers Summer
- Violet -Blue Flowers
Yellow Primrose Creeper – Ludwigia palustris
- Hardy Marginal/Shelf
- Ideal for streams and floating islands – will form mats
- Height 6 to 12 inches
- Flowers mid to late summer
- Yellow Flowers
Golden Sweetflag – Acorus gramineus ‘Ogon’
- Hardy Marginal/Shelf
- Plant on shelf or in streams
- Height 8 to 12 inches
- Shade to full sun
- Flower insignificant but leaves are fragrant
Butterfly Weed – Asclepias tuberosa
- Hardy Marginal/Shelf
- Plant on shelf or in streams
- Height 23 to 35Â inches
- Flowers mid to late summer
- Bright orange to yellow flowers but may take several years to produce
- Flowers a nectar source for butterflies and the leaves are eaten by monarch caterpillars
Cardinal Flower – Ludwigia fulgens Queen Victoria
- Hardy Marginal/Shelf
- Plant on shelf or in streams
- Height 36 to 48 inches
- Flowers late summer
- Deep red flowers with dark burgundy leaves
- Attracts Humming Birds and butterflies
