Abstract: A new and unique X Mangave plant named ‘Hope and a Prayer’ characterized by habit that is a rounded mounded and becomes globose to pyriform-shaped with maturity. The numerous lanceolate leaves are dark, olive-green in the center and yellowish to chartreuse on the margin with small, widely-spaced, marginal teeth and apical mucro becoming wine-colored. Leaves develop small reddish-purple spots on adaxial and abaxial sides with high ultraviolet exposure. The new plant is suitable as a potted houseplant plant, as a container plant for the patio or garden and for the garden or planted in the landscape.

Abstract: A new and distinct bellflower plant, Campanula plant named ‘Starbright’ with a dense, compact, mounded habit; cordate to deltoid medium-green foliage and numerous white campanulate flowers flowering over at least a 14-week period beginning in late spring and continuing until hard frost. The new plant is suitable for landscaping as a specimen, en masse, or in containers.

Abstract: The new hybrid Aruncus plant named ‘Goatee’ with sharply-lobed, dentate, tri-pinnately compound, dark-green foliage holding well into the season. Light creamy buds transition to near-white flowers on airy scapes, above foliage on heavily branched panicles with nearly horizontal branches.

Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Allium ornamental onion plant named ‘Bobblehead’ has a large upright habit, with glaucous, stiff, broad, strap-like, upright, flattened, green foliage with longitudinal twisting. The numerous, tightly-clustered, pale lavender flowers forming a large, globose, upright umbel. The new plant is useful for containers, landscaping and cut flowers.

Abstract: A unique cultivar of Tall Phlox plant named ‘Pink Lightning’ is characterized by vigorous, dense, upright, highly branched peduncles, with dark-green, lanceolate leaves. Flowering begins in mid-July and continues for up to about six weeks in cooler weather conditions, on heavily-branched peduncles, and completely covers the top of the plant in peak season. Flower petals are bright deep pink with a white starburst eye. The new plant shows excellent powdery mildew resistance. The new plant is especially suitable for a cut flower, for the landscape as a potted plant, and in the garden as a specimen or en masse.

Abstract: A new and distinct Heartleaf Bergenia plant, Bergenia plant named ‘Happily Ever After’ with a dense mounded habit, medium-sized, densely-arranged, deep-green, glossy, ovate, evergreen foliage, and large, white becoming lightly blushed with pink, campanulate flowers on tall upright panicles over a long period beginning in spring. The flowers hold up well in the garden as a landscape plant or as cut flowers. The foliage develops a reddish blush on the front and deeper red on the back with cool fall temperatures. The new plant has a medium growth rate and the foliage is naturally resistant to deer and rabbit foraging.

Abstract: A new and unique Fern-leafed Bleeding Heart, Dicentra plant named ‘White Diamonds’ characterized by compact habit and finely-textured, fern-like, blue-green foliage. The plant flowers with cream-colored buds that open to white, heart-shaped, lightly-fragrant flowers on panicles that have extended flowering periods on older panicles and new with panicles to stay in bloom 16 to 20 weeks beginning late spring. The new plant has an excellent growth rate.

Abstract: The new and distinct cultivar of Echinacea plant named ‘Everything's Rosy’ of heavily-branched, strong, upright stems, producing faintly fragrant inflorescences with wide ray florets of pinkish-lavender color. The rosy-colored disk florets produce a large center pompon. The new plant has dark-green ovate foliage, produces flowers from mid-summer to late summer, and is suitable as a potted plant, for the landscape, and for cut flower arrangements.

Abstract: A new and distinct Hosta plant named ‘Out of Time’ of arching, lanceolate, variegated leaves having a lustrous underside and moderately wavy margins. The foliage has deep green centers and yellowish-chartreuse margins that mature to creamy-white in high light exposure. The flowers are purplish and remain closed until dropping. ‘Out of Time’ has excellent, small, compact, mounded habit and is useful in the landscape, in containers, as a specimen, or en masse.

Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of ornamental Spiked Speedwell, Veronica spicata plant named ‘Da Vinci Delight’, with broad medium-height habit, stiff, upright, compound-branched spikes of densely-arranged soft lilac flowers beginning in early summer and continuing for at least six weeks above dark-green, lanceolate, highly lustrous foliage. The new plant is useful in the landscape as a specimen, en masse, as a container plant, or as a cut flower, and maintains its foliage through the season.

Abstract: A new and unique cultivar of hyssop, Agastache plant named ‘Pinky Pie’ with medium-sized, dense, full, rounded, well-branched, winter-hardy habit. The large, lavender-pink colored flowers emerge from apricot-colored buds and cover the top two-thirds of the plant, with mauve-pink calyxes in densely branched panicles over an extended period beginning in early summer and continuing into fall.

Abstract: The new and distinct hardy perennial plant, Heliopsis ‘Touch of Blush’, has dense, rounded, mound habit with extensively-branched, predominately strong upright stems that resist lodging. The foliage is narrowly ovate to broadly lanceolate with green surrounding the veins and near white between the veins and the young foliage shows a reddish-purple blush. Inflorescences have a single layer of overlapping, golden-yellow ray florets and dark-brownish central disk florets. The new plant is freely flowering and begins blooming in early summer and continues for about six weeks. The new plant is useful in the landscape en masse, as an accent, in containers, or as cut flowers.

Abstract: A new and distinct plant cultivar of Tradescantia plant named ‘Webmaster’ characterized by glaucous, bluish-green, lanceolate foliage of season. The large flowers of rounded petals with warm purple in the center transitioning to near white along the edges appearing over a 22-week long period beginning late May and continuing through mid-autumn. The new plant is suitable for landscaping as a specimen or en masse.

Abstract: A unique cultivar of the Spigelia plant named ‘Orange Slices’ is characterized by vigorous, dense, upright, multi-stemmed, winter-hardy habit with dark-green, ovate to lanceolate leaves. Flowering begins in early June and continues for about four to five weeks, repeating again in the fall. Petals are orangish-red on the outside and light yellow on the inside. The new plant is especially suitable for a cut flower, for the landscape as a potted plant, and in the garden as a specimen or en masse.

Abstract: A new and distinct variety of Stokesia laevis plant named ‘Whitecaps’ with extended blooming of composite flowers having white ray florets and disk florets with a tinge of pale pinkish-lavender displayed just above the rich dark-green foliage of rounded plants from early summer until late summer of into fall if deadheaded. The new plant is useful for garden landscapes, in containers, or as a cut flower.

Abstract: A new and unique hybrid cultivar of Phlox plant named Phlox ‘Dream Girl’ of tall, sturdy, multi-stemmed, upright habit. Dark-green foliage is thick with exceptional powdery mildew resistance on stiff stems. Lavender-pink flowers with strong white eyes are produced on large heads of branched peduncles and nearly cover the top of the plant beginning mid-July and continuing and reblooming for about seven weeks through late summer. ‘Dream Girl’ is especially suitable as a potted plant, for the garden, for attracting hummingbirds and butterflies, and for cut flower arrangements.

Abstract: A new and distinct Hosta plant named ‘Leaving Me Breathless’ produces medium-sized low mounds. The foliage is in basal rosettes, broadly ovate, leaves with long narrowly acute apices, cordate bases and slightly wavy margins. The leaves are variegated having bluish-green margins and pale-yellow to creamy white centers with intermediate color separation between the margin and center of variably large segments of several shades of chartreuse. The medium-sized leaves have a glaucous matte top and bottom. The broadly campanulate flowers are pale purple with white edges appearing beginning in mid-July. Each flower is attractively subtended by a floral bract that mimics the leaf variegation making the scape showy for long periods. ‘Leaving Me Breathless’ is useful in the landscape, as a container plant, a specimen or en masse.

Abstract: The new and distinct cultivar of ornamental, hardy, Wormwood, Artemisia plant named ‘Silver Lining’ with a broad mounded habit of strong dense stems that remain upright through the growing season and do not open in the center of the plant. The new plant is vigorous with many large, durable, distally-lobed, broad, irregularly, and deeply dissected foliage of silver- white.

Abstract: A new and unique Yucca plant named ‘Dragon Slayer’ is characterized by a rounded-mound of stiff, linear-lanceolate bluish-green leaves that are flat with concave apices and margins that produce few marginal filifers. The plant produces a loose colony that is winter hardy. The creamy-white flowers are produced on attractive, compact, heavily-branched, upright panicles in the summer. The new plant is suitable for the garden or as a potted plant in the garden or home.

Abstract: A new cultivar of Epimedium plant named ‘Wisteria Falls’ characterized by its medium size habit and evergreen foliage with flowers on cascading panicles with pinkish lilac sepals, wine-colored petals that deepen in color of the spurs on airy branched panicles beginning in late spring. The foliage is semi-evergreen with three leaflets of light chartreuse with burgundy blush and patterns in cooler conditions and becoming deep green in summer.