Healthy Roots Produce Healthy Shoots
Fall is the perfect time for enhancing your landscape. You’ll be blooming next spring with strong, more resilient plants. Find the perfect plants for your landscape with a sun or shade plug kit.
Curated by our horticulture team, these young plants have a root mass about 4 inches deep by 2 inches square. Landscape plugs use less soil and establish quickly. Each kit contains 15 plants (3 plugs for each unique species).
Order now and for pick up at Bernheim from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on October 18.
Ground Cover & Blooms
Shade Plug Kit
Dryopteris erythrosora (Brilliance Autumn Fern)
Great ground cover that slowly spreads by rhizome and is deer resistant. This Asian native adds coppery orange and dark green tones.
Height: 18 – 30 inches
Spread: 18 – 30 inches
Spacing: 12 inches
Aster cordifolius (Blue Wood Aster)
Who doesn’t love seeing blue flowers in early fall? Great U.S. native plant that only needs 3 hours of sunlight daily to flower.
Height: 2 – 3 feet
Spread: 2 – 3 feet
Spacing: 12 inches
Blooms: September
Packera aurea (Golden Groundsel)
Creates a dense groundcover with striking golden-yellow bloom followed by cottony seed heads.
Height: 12 – 18 inches
Spread: 12 – 18 inches
Spacing: 12 inches
Blooms: April – May
Tiarella cordifolia var. collina (Oakleaf Foamflower)
Texture interest, large upright blooms, and burgundy fall color. Hard to believe this is a shade perennial, but it is!
Height: 10 – 12 inches
Spread: 12 – 18 inches
Spacing: 12 inches
Blooms: April – May
Heuchera longifolia (Longflower Alumroot)
Long flowering stems rise above the dense mounded silvery foliage. Easy to divide when the time is right.
Height: 8 – 14 inches
Spread: 12 – 18 inches
Spacing: 12 inches
Blooms: May – June
Perfect for Pollinators
Sun Plug Kit
Echinacea purpurea (Ruby Star Coneflower)
The perfect cut flower for any arrangement. Long bloom window and profusion of vibrant pink blooms make this a winner in any pollinator garden.
Height: 2 – 3 feet
Spread: 18 – 24 inches
Spacing: 12 inches
Blooms: June – September
Aster novae-angliae (New England Aster)
Compact form and rich purple blooms makes this U.S. native very desirable in perennial gardens.
Height: 4 – 6 feet
Spread: 2 – 3 feet
Spacing: 12 – 18 inches
Blooms: August – October
Eryngium yuccifolium (Rattlesnake Master)
Silver strap-like foliage with thistle-like blueish-silver flowers that are held high above the foliage. MAJOR winter interest.
Height: 4 – 5 feet
Spread: 1 – 2 feet
Spacing: 12 inches
Blooms: August – October
Monarda bradburiana (Eastern Beebalm)
This bee balm species has it all: powdery mildew resistant, hummingbird attracting, clump forming pale violet tubular flowers, with cottage style vibes!
Height: 1 – 2 feet
Spread: 1 – 2 feet
Spacing: 12 inches
Blooms: July – September
Thermopsis villosa (Carolina Lupine)
Like Baptisia and lupine, but want something a little more unique? Meet Thermopsis villosa. Robust, showy yellow blooms will be a show stopper.
Height: 3 – 4 feet
Spread: 2 – 3 feet
Spacing: 18 inches
Blooms: August – October