Erosion Control Plants

Buy Blue Moon Woodland Phlox online. Blue Moon Woodland Phlox produces angelic lavender to light blue flowers in mid to late spring. It creates a wonderful carpet-like groundcover. It looks fantastic along the tops of walls, in mass plantings, or along borders. It does prefer more shade than other types of phlox, and works great as an understory planting.

Buy Emerald Blue Creeping Phlox online. Star-shaped blue blooms and dense evergreen foliage cover this spreading plant in April and May. Wonderful fragrance and extra ordinarily heavy bloom make this superb for low borders, slopes or tumbling over a wall in the landscape.

Buy Red Creeping Phlox online. Makes a carpet of color and evergreen foliage. Provides year round beauty and cover for superb for low borders, slopes or tumbling over a wall in the landscape. Plants are covered with a mass display of red flowers during April and May.

Buy Amazing Grace Creeping Phlox online. Amazing Grace Creeping Phlox produce a massive amount of pure white flowers that have a brushing of dark purple-pink in the center of each flower. Dark green, semi-evergreen leaves lay like dense carpet under the flowers, and it provides excellent coverage as a groundcover along borders and walkways.

Buy Purple Beauty Creeping Phlox online. Purple Beauty Creeping Phlox lives up to its name as it truly is a real beauty! It performs just as well as Emerald Blue Creeping Phlox but the color tones are more purple and darker. It makes a great groundcover and border plant, as well as planted between stepping stones along pathways.

Buy Magenta Sprite Hybrid Spring Phlox online. This hybrid spring phlox is unlike the typical creeping phlox due to its non-agressive spreading habit, as it forms a low mound of star-shaped flowers. It will bloom soon after creeping phlox does, as it sports magenta pink flowers over green foliage.

Buy Purple Sprite Hybrid Spring Phlox online. This hybrid spring phlox is unlike the typical creeping phlox due to its non-agressive spreading habit, as it forms a low mound of star-shaped flowers. It will bloom soon after creeping phlox does, as it sports purple flowers over green foliage.

Buy Creeping Violet Pinwheels Phlox online. The vivid violet-purple flowers have notched, upturned petals and bloom from as early as late March into mid-May. A low, slowly spreading mound of dark green, needlelike foliage.

Buy Sundowner New Zealand Phlax online. This ornamental grass will definitely highlight your landscape! Each dark colored blade is produced pink in color that turn bronze to dark green as they mature, that will retain a pink margin. It's appearance in the garden is stunning, and will remind you of Oklahoma sunsets! This upright grower can start to arch as leaves get longer, and it's an excellent specimen and mass planting grass. Extremely drought and heat tolerant, too, although not as cold tolerant as it's cousin, Mat's Merlot New Zealand Phlax.

Buy Albyn Prostrate Scots Pine online. 'Albyn Prostrata' is a vigorous spreader and an excellent groundcover that spills over banks and rambles through garden beds. With maturity, layered branches mound in the center and taper down to the edges. A blue cast adds interest to the thick, green needles of this seedling selection from Albyn Nursery, Newark, Ohio.

Buy Wiethorst Schwerin's Pine online. Discover the captivating beauty of Wiethorst Schwerin's Pine, a truly exceptional evergreen that combines delicate beauty with robust hardiness. This large, graceful pine boasts an abundance of long, super-fine, bi-color needles, creating an airy and ethereal quality that's sure to enchant any garden enthusiast. Imagine this tree shimmering in the sunlight, its delicate needles creating a soft, textured presence in your landscape.

Wiethorst Schwerin's Pine is not only visually stunning but also remarkably ornamental. A profusion of handsome, resinous cones adds to its overall appeal, providing year-round interest and further enhancing its unique character. Discovered in Germany as a witch's broom on Pinus x schwerinii, a hybrid of Eastern White Pine and Himalayan Pine, this tree inherits the best qualities of both parents. It gains its hardiness from the Eastern White Pine, ensuring resilience in a variety of climates, and its graceful form and exceptionally long needles from the Himalayan Pine, creating a truly unique and captivating specimen.

This outstanding and hardy tree makes a dramatic background for other plantings or can be used as a striking accent in a large landscape. Whether you envision it as a majestic backdrop to a colorful flower garden or as a solitary focal point in a sprawling landscape, Wiethorst Schwerin's Pine is sure to impress. Its unique combination of delicate beauty, robust hardiness, and ornamental appeal makes it a truly exceptional addition to any garden.

Buy Dwarf Fernleaf Running Bamboo online. Dwarf Fernleaf Running Bamboo is one of the smallest stature dwarf bamboos known. It is characterized by its leaf structure, as they appear very dense and close together, very similar to a fern. Because of its habit, it can even be mowed and kept as a groundcover.

Buy Prince Charming Soloman's Seal online. Prince Charming Soloman's Seal is an excellent dwarf and low growing shade perennial. It features greenish-gray leaves in spring that are followed by clusters of white flowers produced along the stems. These flowers birth dark purple fruit that make a great contrasting view against the leaves.

Buy Gro-Low Fragrant Sumac online. Sparkling foliage and a low, wide-spreading habit make this fragrant sumac selection perfect for soil erosion control. It has small, yellow, aromatic flowers in the spring, followed by red hairy fruit. Fall foliage is orange to scarlet.

Buy Little Angel Burnet online. This compact, variegated perennial has tiny, dark green leaves with creamy white margins create a small, dense, clump of foliage. In summer, long, red, oval-shaped flower panicles sit atop long green stems, creating a matchstick-like appearance that is great for floral arrangements.

Buy Prairie Winds® Blue Paradise Little Bluestem online. 'Blue Paradise' has an upright and columnar growth habit. The foliage is silvery blue in summer, turning a deep reddish purple in fall. Also in fall, tan colored seed heads appear adding a nice color contrast!

Buy Cinnamon Sticks Little Bluestem online. Experience the captivating transformation of Cinnamon Sticks Little Bluestem, a perennial grass that paints your landscape with dynamic color throughout the year. Imagine a tapestry of vivid blue stems, reminiscent of its namesake, providing a cool, elegant backdrop for your garden's spring and summer displays. Then, as autumn approaches, witness the breathtaking metamorphosis as the foliage deepens into a rich, cinnamon hue, creating a warm, inviting ambiance. This unique grass, one of the reddest selections, boasts an extended period of vibrant fall color, ensuring your garden remains a visual spectacle long into the cooler months.

Embrace the slender elegance of Cinnamon Sticks Little Bluestem, a cultivar perfectly tailored for adding vertical dimension to narrow garden spaces and borders. Its delicate, upright growth habit creates a sense of airy lightness, while its robust constitution ensures it thrives in challenging conditions. This grass is a champion of resilience, flourishing in hot, dry environments where other plants struggle. Its adaptability makes it an ideal choice for restoring eroded sites, crafting naturalized landscapes, or simply adding a touch of untamed beauty to your outdoor sanctuary.

Invest in Cinnamon Sticks Little Bluestem and cultivate a garden that evolves with the seasons. This low-maintenance, drought-tolerant grass offers a unique blend of visual appeal and practical functionality. Picture the striking contrast of its blue-toned foliage against the warm hues of your autumn blooms, or the graceful sway of its slender stems in a gentle breeze. This grass isn't just a plant; it's a living work of art, a testament to the enduring beauty and adaptability of nature, designed to elevate your landscape year after year.

Buy Little Red Fox Little Bluestem online. Little Red Fox Little Bluestem is a compact yet vigorous variety of Little Bluestem, offering all the beauty of this native grass in a more manageable size. With its bushy, upright growth habit, it's perfect for adding texture and color to smaller landscapes or garden beds. The blue-green foliage in spring transitions to stunning red highlights by mid-summer, making it a striking addition to any landscape.

As the seasons change, Little Red Fox Little Bluestem continues to impress with vibrant hues of red, purple, and silver, especially as cool nights set in. Its color transformation provides year-round visual interest, whether used as a focal point or as part of a mixed planting. The grass's upright flower stems persist through the winter, offering an additional layer of beauty and serving as a valuable shelter for birds during the colder months.

Ideal for gardeners seeking a low-maintenance, visually captivating plant, Little Red Fox Little Bluestem thrives in a range of conditions, requiring little attention once established. Its resilience, striking color changes, and winter interest make it an excellent choice for adding natural beauty and habitat value to your garden.

Buy Blue Heaven® Little Bluestem online. Has dark blue to burgundy foliage, turning red-purple and violet in the fall, is unique on this taller more upright form. in September, the fall color extends into winter.

Buy Prairie Blues Little Bluestem online. A selection of bluestem with an upright growth habit and gray-blue foliage. Orange-red fall color.

Buy The Blues Little Bluestem online. True deep blue foliage and exceptional burgundy red fall color. The strong color of 'The Blues' makes this a prize plant in any garden.

Buy Helene Von Stein Lamb's Ear online. Perhaps the very best selection of Lamb's Ear, it has broad, velvety, and silver-green leaves that are twice as large. Sporadic flowers are produced to detract from the abundant and interesting foliage.

Buy Hummelo Lamb's Ear online. A low-growing clump of softly green wavy leaves spread into a groundcover, excellent for flowers & foliage. Out of the center of each rosette, sturdy, nearly leafless stems topped with purple flowers in summer that attract hummingbirds.

Meet Isla Gold Tansy, the golden rebel of the garden border. This cheerful perennial brings bold texture and luminous color with finely-cut, fern-like foliage that emerges chartreuse and matures to a rich, golden hue. Imagine a ground-hugging blaze of gold that persists through summer heat, adding energy and movement to your planting design—like sunshine on a stem.

Though part of a famously weedy species, Isla Gold Tansy is the well-behaved cousin, restrained in height and less aggressive than its wilder relatives. In summer, small button-like yellow flowers hover over the glowing foliage like a floral crown. Some gardeners prefer to snip off the blooms to keep the focus on the foliage show, but others welcome them as quirky, daisy-free pollinator magnets. Either way, it's a plant with style and edge.

This cultivar loves sun but appreciates a little afternoon shade in hot climates. It's equally at home in poor soils or rich ones, and thrives in cottage gardens, wild borders, and naturalized pollinator patches. Whether you're a texture fanatic, a foliage-lover, or just want to shake up your perennial palette—Isla Gold Tansy makes your garden glow.

Buy Gee Whiz Dwarf Bald Cypress online. A spectacular dwarf Bald Cypress, 'Gee Whiz' is sure to accent your sunny landscape! Very slow growing, the compact growth habit creates a unique and intriguing appearance as a specimen planting. Small green leaves cover the branches, turning copper-brown in fall.

Buy Lindsey's Skyward™ Bald Cypress online. Lindsey's Skyward™ Bald Cypress is a great narrow conifer that has very dense, rich green leaves that are very soft to the touch, making it perfect for smaller landscapes or to give vertical texture to any landscape. Fall foliage color is similar to other Taxodium in that it turns beautiful bronze-cinnamon that is truly a terrific accent amidst other yellows and reds in the landscape. The root system is also non-aggressive and is said to not produce "knees" as regular Bald Cypress does. Lindsey's Skyward™ Bald Cypress makes a great landscape specimen tree, and can also be used to accent ponds and water features.

Buy Cotton Ball Meadow Rue online. If you admired the graceful stature of Cotton Candy Meadow Rue but prefer a pristine touch, meet its stunning companion: Cotton Ball Meadow Rue. This exceptional perennial creates a magnificent, dense pillar of finely textured foliage crowned with an abundance of clear white flowers. It's the perfect solution for adding impressive vertical interest to those narrow garden spaces, transforming overlooked areas into captivating displays. The delicate, wispy sprays of white blossoms are beautifully contrasted by their dark, sturdy stems, creating a sophisticated visual appeal.

Beyond its striking appearance, Cotton Ball Meadow Rue offers practical benefits for any gardener. Its tall stems and long-lasting flowers make it an outstanding choice for cut flower arrangements, allowing you to bring its ethereal beauty indoors. Imagine fresh bouquets adding a touch of elegance to your home! Plus, you can enjoy this plant with peace of mind, as meadow rue varieties are generally not bothered by Browse deer and rabbits, ensuring its pristine beauty remains undisturbed.

Elevate your garden design with the effortless charm and resilient nature of Cotton Ball Meadow Rue. Its unique combination of height, delicate texture, and pure white blooms makes it an indispensable addition for creating dramatic backdrops, accentuating borders, or simply adding a touch of refined beauty. Experience the understated elegance and low-maintenance appeal of this remarkable perennial.

Buy Woolly Thyme online. Has evergreen, silver-gray, woolly foliage with great texture. Rarely blooms. Great texture, ground-hugging, nice spreading ground cover. Does not like humidity or moisture.