Cascade Purple Rock Cress, 3 by 15 inch, zones 4 to 8, profuse purple flowers in early spring rise above a handsome mat of semi-evergreen foliage
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Penstemon Virens: Blue Mist Beardtongue
8 by 8 to 10 inches, zones 4 to 8,
Spikes of blue, lavender-throated flowers rise above evergreen foliage. Native to eastern Colorado and Wyoming. A beautiful and stunning addition to your perennial border.
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Veronica Pectinata: Blue Woolly Speedwell
2 by 18 inches, zones 4 to 9, in early spring a profusion of white-eyed, true-blue flowers covers a dense carpet of evergreen gray-green leaves. Xeric
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Berlandiera Lyrata: Chocolate Flower
1-2 inches to 6,000
This sweetly fragrant native has pale yellow flowers blooms summer through fall. Xeric
Considered an annual in Basalt
Photo: Lisa DiNardo
Agastache Aurantiaca: Coronado
15 to 18 inches by 15 inches, hardy: 7,000 feet
2001 Plant Select, native to the U.S. southwest, silvery green leaves on slender, branched stems with numerous eye-catching pale orange flowers from mid - summer to fall
Very attractive. Has a pleasing minty fragrance when touched