This guide will help you when deciding which perennial and annual plants are best suited for a special situation, such as: Rock Gardens, Butterfly Gardens, Hot & Dry Areas, Cut Flowers, Fragrant Garden, and Deep Shade Loving Plants.  I hope you will find it informative and helpful.

ROCK GARDENS: 

Wildflower, Snowdrop, Wall Cress, Thrift, Aster, Columbine, Campanula, Hardy Ice Plant, Gentian, Baby's Breath, Candytuft, Iris, Lewisia, Garden Flax, Poppy Alpine, Phlox (artic), Phlox (moss), Sedum, Hen's & Chicks, Thyme varieties, Speedwell, Viola varieties.

BUTTERFLY GARDENS:  (Perennials)

Yarrow, Anise-Hyssop, Ornamental Onion, Wall Cress, Aster, Chrysanthemum, Tickseed, Coneflower, Globe Thistle, Blanket Flower, Sneezeweed, Daylily, Candytuft, Blazing Star, Money Plant, Bee Balm, forget Me Not, Catmint, Garden Phlox, Obedient Plant, Cone Flower, Scabiosa, Stonecrop, solidaster, Pansy.

HOT & DRY AREAS:  (Perennials)

Yarrow, Sage, Cornflower, Snow in Summer, Gas Plant, cone-flower, Globethistle, Sea Holly, Spurge, Fescue, Blanket Flower, Baby's Breath, Daylily, Iris, Blazing Star, Catmint, Russian Sage, Fleeceflower, Cinquefoil, Blue Sage, Soapwort, Stonecrop, Hen's & Chicks, Yucca.

FRAGRANT GARDEN:  (Perennials)

Wall Cress, Anise-Hyssop, Lily of the Valley, Dianthus, Gas Plant, Irism Sweet Pea, Lavender, Lily, Beebalm, Catmint, Peony, Phox, Primrose, Thyme.

CUT FLOWER: 

Yarrow, Monkshood, Anise-Hyssop, Hollyhock, Columbine, Aster, Astilbe, Masterwort, Bellflower, Bachelor button, Gardon Mum, Bugbane, Tickseed, Delphinium, Foxglove, Baby's Breath, Sneexeweed, Flase Sunflower, Shasta Daily, Blazing Star, Lily, Lupine, Peony, Obedient Plant, Cone-flower, blue Sage, Pincushion, Statice, Painted Daisy, Globeflower, Speedwell.

DEEP SHADE LOVING PLANT:  (Perennials)

Bugleweed, Wild Ginger, Astilbe, Pig Squeek, Lily of the Valley, Bleeding Heart, Hosta, Lamium, Native Fern, Forget Me Not, Soloman's Seal, Jacob's Ladder, Lungwort, Primrose, Perwinkle, Viola.

BUTTERFLY GARDENS:  (Annuals)

Allysum, Aster, Ageratum, Allysum, Cosmos, Dahlia, Dianthus, Impatiens, Lantans, Lobelia, Marigold, Pansy, Petunia, Phlox, Portulaca, Sunflower, tithonia, Verbena, Viola, Zinna.

FRAGRANT GARDEN:  (Annuals)

Alyssum, Crachycome, Datura, Dianthus, Four O'clocks, Heliotrope, Marigold, 'gem', Mattholia, Nasturium, Nemesia, Nicotiana, Pansy, Petunia, Scented Geranium.

HOT DRY AREAS:  (Annuals)

Amaranthus, angelonia, Bidens, Celosia, Centaurea, Cleome, Gazania, Petunia, Phlox, Portulaca, Salvia, Verbena, Vinca, Zinnia.

DEEP SHADE LOVING: (Annuals)

Begonia, Browallia, Coleus, Impatiens, Lobelia, Viola, Vinca.