Abstract: A new and distinct plant cultivar of hardy herbaceous false indigo plant named Baptisia ‘Plum Rosy’ characterized by flowers that open up mauve-pinkish and lighten to a soft pink producing a bi-color spike colored on long spikes beginning in late May and continuing for two to three weeks. The new plant has a narrow, tall, upright, vase-shaped, multi-stemmed, winter-hardy habit with glaucous medium-green tri-foliate foliage and is suitable for landscaping as a specimen or en masse.

Abstract: The new and distinct cultivar of perennial Sedum plant named ‘Spellbound’ is characterized by tight-forming compact clumps with greyed-green to greyed-purple glaucous foliage on vertical to slightly highly branching flower stems that resist falling over and opening up in the center of the plant throughout the growing season. Numerous stems produce a multitude of flowers beginning as soft-pink buds and opening to creamy-colored flowers that completely cover the top and sides of the domed plant. The new plant is useful for the landscape in containers, as specimen or en masse.

Abstract: A unique cultivar of Creeping Phlox plant named ‘Eye Caramba’ characterized by vigorous, dense, rapidly-spreading, multi-stemmed, winter-hardy habit with short, bright green, narrow leaves. Flowering begins in late April and continuing for up to five weeks in cooler weather conditions, on heavily-branched peduncles and completely cover the plant in peak season. Petals of newly opened flowers are deep purplish-pink with a reddish-pink eye and a small notch in the tips of the petals. The new plant is able to withstand dry conditions once established, and the foliage stays clean and resists mildew. The new plant is especially suitable for the landscape as a potted plant and in the garden as a specimen or en masse.

Abstract: A new and unique X Mangave plant named ‘Night Owl’ characterized by compact habit of lanceolate foliage developing dark grayed-purplish color in strong ultraviolet light exposure. Leaves have large, widely-spaced, firm, marginal teeth and small, semi-flexible apical mucro. The new plant has numerous chartreuse flowers with burgundy blushing on tall, stiff, stoutly-branched scapes. 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, and the flowers are loaded with nectar for attracting hummingbirds.

Abstract: A new and unique plant cultivar of perennial carnation or pinks, Dianthus plant named ‘Paint the Town Fancy’ with numerous, single, lightly-sweet fragrant flowers producing a full rounded face. Each flower has five overlapping petals that are rosy-fuchsia colored with darker red bar in the center. Petals have coarsely dentate apices. Flowering season is strong for four weeks beginning in late spring and continues less densely to mid-fall. The habit is compact and dense with glaucous blue-green foliage.

Abstract: The new and distinct hardy perennial plant, Nepeta ‘Picture Purrfect’, has a broad, low spreading mound, with compact habit with mostly upright stems. The foliage is small, serrate and fragrant. Flowers are a bluish-purple with persistent rosy-purple calyces and dark purplish-red peduncles. The new plant begins flowers about two weeks earlier than typical ornamental catnip cultivars and reblooms after initial flowering. The new plant is useful in the landscape en masse, as an accent, or in containers.

Abstract: A new and unique plant cultivar of perennial carnation or pinks, Dianthus plant named ‘Paint the Town Fancy’ with numerous, single, lightly-sweet fragrant flowers producing a full rounded face. Each flower has five overlapping petals that are rosy-fuchsia colored with darker red bar in the center. Petals have coarsely dentate apices. Flowering season is strong for four weeks beginning in late spring and continues less densely to mid-fall. The habit is compact and dense with glaucous blue-green foliage.

Abstract: A new and unique X Mangave plant named ‘Praying Hands’ characterized by habit that is rounded, mounded, with lanceolate foliage. The overall shape is globose as it develops and becomes tear-drop to pyriform-shaped in maturity. The numerous, dark, olive-green, lanceolate leaves have large, firm, deep wine-colored apical mucro, and few, small, widely-spaced marginal teeth. Leaf bases are outwardly and then become upwardly in the middle and strongly introrse toward the apices. Leaves are dark olive-green with small light wine spotting and thin deep wine-colored margins. 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: The new and distinct cultivar of ornamental cultivar of hybrid ornamental Bee Balm plant named Monarda ‘Electric Neon Purple’ with lanceolate, dark-green, moderately-glossy, powdery mildew-tolerant foliage and flower heads of bright fuchsia-purple flowers for about five weeks. The plant habit is compact and winter-hardy, useful in the landscape as a specimen, en masse, or as a containerized plant.

Abstract: A new and distinct plant cultivar of hardy herbaceous False Indigo plant named Baptisia ‘Burgundy Blast’ characterized by flowers that open up dark wine-purple beginning in late May and continuing for two weeks. The new plant has a narrow, medium height, upright, vase-shaped, multi-stemmed, winter-hardy habit with glaucous dark-green tri-foliate foliage and is suitable for landscaping as a specimen or en masse.

Abstract: A new and unique X Mangave plant named ‘Black Magic’ characterized by compact habit of lanceolate foliage with near-black color in strong ultraviolet light exposure. The new plant has numerous bronze flowers on dense, tall, stiff, highly-branched scapes. The foliage has small, flexible, marginal teeth and flexible to semi-flexible terminal mucro. 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, and the flowers are loaded with nectar for attracting hummingbirds.

Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of hardy herbaceous False Indigo plant named ‘Honey Roasted’ characterized by flowers that open up dark mahogany with a complementary bright yellow keel beginning in late May and continuing for two to three weeks. The new plant has a narrow, medium-height, upright, mounded shaped, multi-stemmed, winter-hardy habit with glaucous dark-green tri-foliate foliage and is suitable for landscaping as a specimen or en masse.

Abstract: The new and distinct cultivar of ornamental cultivar of hybrid ornamental Bee Balm plant named Monarda ‘Berry Taffy’ with deep-green, highly-glossy, powdery mildew-tolerant foliage that emerges with moderate to strong anthocyanin blushing and mature to deep green and flower heads of hot raspberry-pink flowers. The bracts subtending inflorescences have deep reddish and wine coloration. The plant habit is compact and winter-hardy, useful in the landscape as a specimen, en masse, or as a containerized plant.

Abstract: A new and distinct Hosta plant named ‘Terms of Endearment’ of large, arching mounds of broadly ovate, bluish-green leaves having wide chartreuse margins upon emerging and maturing to creamy-yellow margins. The variegation is also attractively displayed with numerous featherings of intermediate colors between the center the leaf margins. The flowers are very pale purple to near white held just above the foliage beginning in late June for about four and a half weeks. ‘Terms of Endearment’ has excellent very large mounded habit and is useful in the landscape, as a specimen or en masse.

Abstract: A new and unique cultivar of hyssop, Agastache plant named ‘Queen Nectarine’ with medium-sized, dense, rounded, well-branched habit. The flowers cover the top two-thirds of the plant, are large, soft-peach colored, with mauve-colored calyxes in densely branched panicles over an extended period beginning in early summer. The new plant is useful in the landscape and as a cut flower.

Abstract: A new and unique cultivar of hyssop, Agastache plant named ‘Royal Raspberry’ with medium-sized, dense, mounded, well-branched habit and spring foliage color with burgundy cast. The large flowers of rosy-purple coloration begin in early summer and cover the top two-thirds of the plant. The effective flowering season is extended with burgundy-colored calyxes in densely branched panicles. The new plant is useful in the landscape and as a cut flower.

Abstract: The new and distinct cultivar of ornamental Spiked Speedwell, Veronica spicata plant named ‘Ever After’, with medium height, stiff, upright, compound branched spikes of densely-arranged lilac-colored flowers beginning in early summer and continuing for twelve to fourteen 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 with good disease tolerance, specifically rust resistance.

Abstract: A new and unique plant cultivar of perennial carnation or pinks, Dianthus plant named ‘Pinky Promise’ with numerous, single, lightly-sweet fragrant flowers producing a full rounded face. Each flower has five overlapping petals that are fuchsia-pink colored with small darker red bar in the center. Petals have moderate dentate apices. Flowering season is strong for four weeks beginning in late spring nearly completely covering the dome of the plant. The habit is compact, heavily branched, moderately spreading, and dense, with lightly glaucous blue-green foliage.

Abstract: A new and unique plant cultivar of perennial carnation or pinks, Dianthus plant named ‘Funky Fuchsia’ with numerous, large, fully-double, lightly-fragrant flowers producing a rounded full face of solid fuchsia-purple flowers. The flowers are held closely together and cover the top of clump on well-branched sterns having up to 4 flowers per stern beginning in early June and sporadically into fall. The plant is compact with long, thin, bluish-green foliage.

Abstract: The new and distinct hardy perennial plant, Heliopsis ‘Bit of Honey’, 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. Inflorescences are in a capitulum with two or three whorls of golden-yellow, overlapping, ray florets and central disk florets of gold coloration. 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.