The snowfall applied the beds with a mixture of perennials, grasses and shrubs for almost a year of color and interest. Perennials include ‘Summer Beauty’ Alium ,Alium ‘Summer Beauty’, USDA Zone 4 to 9; Find out your area), ‘Vision’ Astilbe ,Chinensis ‘Vision’, Zone 4 to 9), ‘Walker’s low’ catmint ,Nepeta Rasmosa ‘Walker’s low’, zone 3 to 8), ‘Little Spire’ Russian sage ,Perovesia atiplispholia ‘Little Spire’, Zone 5 to 9), ‘Blue Mouse Year’ Hosta ,Hosta ‘Blue Mouse Years’, Zone 3 to 9) and ‘Beautiful Happiness’ Bibalm ,Monarda Dima ‘Petit Delight’, Zone 3 to 9).
Grass is golden Japanese forest grass (Hakonchaloa Makrara ‘Arola’, Zone 4 to 9), ‘Ice Dance’ Japanese SEZ (Carex Morowei ‘Ice Dance’, Zone 5 to 9) and ‘Bowls Golden’ SEZ (Carex Ileta ‘Auria’, Zone 5 to 9).
The bushes include ‘ruby slippers’ Ocleif hydrangea ,Hydrangeifolia ‘Ruby slippers’, Zone 5 to 9), Dwarf ,Fothagila Garden, Zone 5 to 8), ‘Blue Star’ Junipar (Junipar ‘Blue Star’, Zone 4 to 8) and ‘Little Devil’ Nobbark ,Phyzocarpus opulifolius ‘Donna Me’, Zone 3 to 7).