Lavatera trimestris is an upright annual that grows in a shrubby tall form. It is planted as an annual in Maine, and it has large, saucer shaped white to pink flowers in midsummer. Rounded medium green leaves have heart-shaped bases and 3-7 shallow lobes. It is a good cut flower.

Rabbit tolerant. 'Stella de Oro' features profuse 2.75-inch diameter yellow flowers with ruffled edges and deeper yellow throats. Individual flowers open for one day on a compact plant. This multiple AHS award winner has become perhaps the most popular daylily in cultivation in large part because of its compact size, vigorous growth, profuse bloom and extremely long bloom period. For best performance, daylilies should be divided every 3-4 years in either fall or spring. It is rabbit tolerant, but, use deer repellent!

Blanket Flower is one of the easiest perennial wildflowers to establish. Blooms provide nectar for many butterflies and native bees. 'Arizona Sun' has large, 3 to 4 in. wide, fiery orange red blossoms with yellow-tipped petals and is very drought and salt tolerant.

Showy daisy-like white coneflowers (to 5" diameter) bloom throughout summer atop stiff stems clad with coarse, dark green leaves. Good fresh cut or dried flower. Dead flower stems will remain erect well into the winter, and if flower heads are not removed, the blackened cones may be visited by goldfinches or other birds that feed on the seeds. Deer tolerant.

‘Cheyenne Spirit’ was introduced in 2012 and has won top awards for garden performance. It comes in a mix of colors including gold, scarlet, orange, rose-red, cream, purple and yellow and all colors attracts birds and butterflies. Dead flower stems will remain erect well into the winter, and if flower heads are not removed, the blackened cones may be visited by goldfinches or other birds that feed on the seeds. Deer tolerant.

: Yellow Foxglove is a short-lived herbaceous perennial or biennial. All parts of the plant are poisonous; however, the plant is less toxic than the common foxglove (D. purpurea). The species is hermaphrodite (has both male and female organs) and is cross-pollinated by long tongued bumblebees. It can naturalize or persist at a site for many years. Deer and rabbit resistant.

Coreopsis verticillata is a native airy yellow perennial from the daisy family that grows in dense bushy clumps. The plants can be sheared in mid to late summer to promote fall re-bloom. It has been a popular garden flower since the 19th century.

Sunkiss coreopsis has huge, nearly 3" wide yellow flowers with burgundy centers. It is a cottage garden plant that has excellent heat-tolerance and is easy to grow.

Centaurea scabiosa is hermaphrodite (has both male and female organs) and is pollinated by Bees, flies, Moths & Butterflies. The plant is self-fertile. The flowers have been used to treat digestive disorders and it has been known to be used to treat scabies (hence its Latin name scabiosa) and other skin complaints. The thistle like flowers have attractive light purple heads.

A pretty summer perennial that has lavender to rosy pink blooms. Attracts bees and butterflies as a nectaring plant.

Campanula has large white or blue outward facing, broad bell-shaped flowers that bloom in late spring to early summer. If the spent blossoms are deadheaded, it will repeat bloom with a nice display.

‘Astilbe Superba' is a bold, very tall accent plant which features a dark green foliage mound to 24” tall and above which bloom large, dense panicles of rose-purple flowers on hairy stems. It is a slow spreader, can grow in heavy shade, and can tolerate deer and rabbits.