Featured varieties for the coming season:

 

Dicentra 'Fire Island'  PPAF

 

Echinacea 'Irresistible'  PP#20756

 

Lavender - Lavandula 'Butterfly Green Summer'  PPAF

 

Lavender - Lavandula 'Butterfly Silver Summer'  PP#20229

 

 

 

Hypericum

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Hypericum 'Baby Lion'  PPAF

 

Hypericum 'Chocolate Lion'  PPAF

 

Hypericum 'Sweet Lion'  PPAF

 

Hypericum 'Orange Lion'  PPAF

 

Hypericum 'Pink Lion'  PPAF

 

Hypericum 'Red Lion'  PPAF

 

The Hypericums are available from May 12, 2009 on - price in 48's: $0.78 +0.25 royalty

 Plant in May in gallons, or in fall in 2 gallon containers.

For more information, please contact Arjen Vriend at arjen@pioneergardens.com or call 413-773-5360

 

 

Heuchera 'Dark SecretPPAF

New introduction for 2009: Heuchera 'Dark Secret'  PPAF

 

Echinacea purpurea ‘Mistral’  PPAF

Echinacea purp. 'Mistral'  PPAF is a new and improved sport of ‘Kim’s Knee High’. Extremely floriferous and well branched: ‘Mistral’ produces up to 80 flowers in its second year.

Soft pink, daisy like flowers with large bronzy-orange central cones on very compact plants. Height: 15-18”  Flowering time: mid summer to early fall.

 

Gentiana:

Gentiana ‘True Blue’  PPAF

(Gentian) Floriferous new introduction from Darrell Probst. Large 2” bell shaped true blue flowers open at all nodes up and down the stems. Glossy green lance shaped leaves.

Very well branched stems form an attractive clump. Flowers from mid summer until early fall. Cold hardy to zone 3 or 4.

Height: 24 – 30”

 

Coreopsis

 

 
 

Coreopsis 'Red Shift'  PPAF

Coreopsis x ‘Redshift’  PPAF:  Second introduction from Darrell Probst’s Big Bang Series.  Extra large creamy yellow flowers with deep red eye in summer, turning all red in fall as the weather cools, vigorous with healthy foliage, 24” tall.

 

 

 

Dicentra 'Burning Hearts'

US PPAF

Dicentra 'Burning Hearts'

US PPAF

 

Dicentra 'Ivory Hearts'

US PP 15,599

Dicentra 'Candy Hearts'

US PP 14,692

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Coreopsis ‘Full Moon’

 

 Coreopsis ‘Full Moon’

New:

Large flowers up to 3” across, bright canary yellow. Plants bloom July until frost in fall.

Medium textured foliage, medium to dark green on well branched stems 24 to 30” tall by 30 to 36” wide. Hardy to USDA zone 5 and perhaps 4

The first of the new “BIG BANG TM” series. The product of 8 years of intensive breeding involving up to 8 different species of Coreopsis.

Cold hardy, truly perennial plants with sturdy, well branched stems, clean, disease free foliage and large flowers up to 3” in diameter in a wide range of colors and patterns

 

Geranium:

Geranium 'Rozanne' 

2008 Perennial Plant of the Year

 

 

 

      Geranium 'Rozanne' 

 

 

Heuchera:

Heuchera 'Frosted Violet'

Heuchera 'Blackout'

Heuchera 'Miracle'

Polemonium ‘Touch of Class’

Boltonia 'Jim Crocket'

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Heuchera:

From the nursery of Thierry and Sandrine Delabroye. These varieties are crosses with vilosa species. They combine vigor with excellent heat and drought tolerance and winter hardiness.    

 

Heuchera 'Brownies'

 
H. 'Mocha'

H. 'Caramel'
 

Heuchera 'Citronelle'

 

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H. 'Caramel'

H. 'Brownies'

H. 'Citronelle'

H. 'Mocha'

 

Size: 48 cell trays.

 

Heuchera 'Beaujolais'

 

Heuchera 'Encore'

 

Heuchera 'Pinot Gris'

 

Heuchera 'Pinot Noir'

 

Heuchera 'Pistache'