Blue Oat Grass-Avena Grass / Helicotrichon sempervirens

Blue Oat Grass/ Avena Grass

Helicotrichon sempervirens

Ornamental Grass

Size:

Height 12-24”

Spacing 18”

Sun: Sun to light shade

Water: Xeric

Landscape Use: Texture

Comments: Mounding blue foliage with

wispy spiky flowers above foliage. Creates a

naturalized effect. Nice texture and blue color

among perennials or with roses or red leaf

small shrubs, such as Crimson Pygmy Barberry.

Maximum Elevation: 8500 ft.

Deer resistant

Dicentra spectabilis

Bleeding Heart/

Lamprocapnos spectabilis

(was Dicentra spectabilis )

Perennial

Size:

Height 20-30”

Spacing 24”

Sun: Light shade to Shade

Water: Needs regular light watering.

Bloom: May -June

Landscape Use: Specimen in shade boarder

Comments: Rummered to he

toxic principal is several isoquinolone alkaloids

Maintenance: Cut back after blooms, then in spring

if needed.

Maximum elevation: 10,000 ft.

Rumored Dear resistant

Rudbeckia /Black Eyed Susan

Rudbeckia

Rudbeckia fulgida “Goldstrum”

Perennial

Size:

Height 18-30”

Spacing 24”

Sun: Full suun /part shade

Water: Most references say that it needs water,

I have it planted in xeriscapes with little

water and it does well.

Blooms:All summer

Landscape Use: Wherever you need color.

Comments:Easiest and most reliable perennial.

will Slowly Muliply if left unchecked.

Maximum elevation: 9000 ft.

Said to be deer resistant

Goldenrod

Goldenrod. ‘Golden Baby’

Solidago canadensis

Perennial

Size:

Height 24-30”

Spacing 24”

Sun: Full sun to moderate shade

Water: Xeric

Landscape Use: Great texture, Late season color.

Comments: Great plant for foliage texture

Can be used as cut flower.

Forms a nice clump; use as background

or focal point. Dried flowers can be used in arrangements.

Maintenance: Cut back in spring.

Maximum elevation: 7500 ft.

Not deer resistant

Creeping Jenny

Bergenia

Bergenia

Bergenia cordifolia

Perennial

Size:

Height 12-16”

Spacing 18”

Sun: Full Sun- Full Shade!

Water: Xeric to Wet but well drained soils!

Landscape Use:Fantastic alternative to hosta.

Has big green leaves that turn red in

winter and a nice flower on a tall stalk.

Comments: This is a under used plant.

Maintenance: Can be cut to ground in fall or spring.

Maximum elevation:800 ft.

Unknown Deer Resistant

Spreading Juniper

Blue Chip Juniper

Juniperus horizontalis ‘Blue Chip’

Other varieties;

Bar Harbor Gray Blue 8” x 6’

Andorra Light Green 18” x 6’

Dry Ice Intense Blue 3” x 8’

Hughes Blue Gray 18” x 6’

Icee Blue Blue 4” x 8’

Prince of Wales- Best hanging over walls

Green 10” x 10’

Blue Rug Blue 6” x 6’

Evergreen Shrub

Size:

Height 10”

Spacing 6’

Sun: Sun - shade

Water: Xeric

Landscape Use: Evergreen ground cover

Comments: Not very popular anymore;, main

use is commercial projects.

Still has value in the right places.

Maximum Elevation: 8000 ft.

Mostly deer resistant, but they love to walk on it

and ‘wear it down’!