Velvet & Spires

Sale Price: $27.00 Original Price: $30.00

Intense color with native plants: Heuchera ‘palace purple’, Echinecea ‘pow wow wildberry’ and liatris ‘blazing star’

Intense color with native plants: Heuchera ‘palace purple’, Echinecea ‘pow wow wildberry’ and liatris ‘blazing star’

Echinacea purpurea ‘PowWow Berry’

Size / Sun / Conditions

18–24" tall and wide - full sun (tolerates light shade), average, well-drained soil; drought-tolerant once established

‘PowWow Berry’ is a compact, free-flowering coneflower with vivid rose-pink blooms held on sturdy stems from early summer into fall. Its strong color and uniform habit make it especially effective in borders, mass plantings, and containers.

A reliable nativar, it retains the pollinator appeal of the species while offering improved branching and abundant blooms.


Liatris spicata - Blazing Star

A striking native pollinator perennial with tall spikes of fuzzy purple flowers.

Size / Sun / Conditions

2–4' tall, 12–18" wide. Full sun. Average to dry soil; tolerant of clay once established.

Description

Liatris spicata, commonly called blazing star or gayfeather, produces vertical spikes of vivid purple flowers that open from the top downward in midsummer. A favorite of butterflies and native pollinators, it adds strong vertical structure and late-season color to sunny borders, prairie-style plantings, and pollinator gardens. This native is easy to grow, long-lived, and tolerant of a range of soils as long as drainage is good. It combines beautifully with grasses, coneflowers, and other summer perennials. It’s upright form, fine foliage, and delightful flowers make it perfect for formal gardens, meadows, and everything inbetween. It is also a great cut flower.

12 sprouted bulbs


Heuchera ‘Palace Purple’

Heuchera micrantha

Size / Sun / Conditions

12–18" tall, 18" wide. Sun to part shade. Well-drained soil.

A landmark cultivar, ‘Palace Purple’ introduced gardeners to the beauty of dark foliage in perennial plantings. Its rich purple-bronze leaves provide contrast throughout the growing season, while delicate sprays of creamy flowers appear in early summer.

Reliable and adaptable, it performs well in both sun and shade. Its compact habit and striking foliage make it especially useful along borders and edges, and it is equally at home in containers, where it provides season-long structure and contrast.