Native Perennials Offer Any Landscape a Delightful Splash of Color
Callirhoe ‘Purple Poppy Mallow’ and Caltha ‘Yellow Marsh-Marigold’ mix with Prairie Dropseed and ‘Blue Flag’ Iris
Native perennials offer any landscape a delightful splash of color— and a wealth of benefits to the land. By incorporating native plantings, the landscape becomes more sustainable, resources, like water, are conserved, biodiversity is cultivated and a greater balance to the land is restored.
Callirhoe ‘Purple Poppy Mallow’ offers delicate but rich, wine-colored petals with a vibrant white eye. This low-spreading native is incredibly drought-tolerant and is beautiful to use along slopes, bed lines or to gently cascade over a retaining wall. In the succulent family, the Caltha ‘Yellow Marsh-Marigold’ shows off a spring presentation of buttercup-like blooms of yellow atop glossy heart-shaped leaves. The Prairie Dropseed is an exciting fountain-like grass that grows compact with a veil of fine seed heads that form in late summer. As fall approaches, Prairie Dropseed blades turn from green to a striking golden-orange color. ‘Blue Flag’ Iris is another splendid surprise for the native Illinois landscape. With a vertical growth habit with sword- shaped, bluish-green leaves, this iris will grow to nearly three feet in height and shows dramatic violet-blue blooms.
