Abstract: A new and unique cultivar of Hosta named Hosta ‘Time Traveler’ with each round, corrugated, chartreuse-yellowish, pointed leaf having a gray green center, white-edged Hosta leaf sown in the middle between the chartreuse-yellowish and the gray green.

Abstract: A new and distinct Hosta plant named ‘Sun Mouse’ with leaves that are slightly wavy thick substance and with golden coloration that holds up well through the season. The flowers are dark lavender bells tightly congested just above the foliage on chartreuse scapes with red blushing near base. ‘Sun Mouse’ has excellent vigor with rapid production of divisions, and its compact habit makes it useful in the miniature garden, as edging or front of the landscape border, in containers, as a specimen or en masse.

Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Echinacea plant named ‘Paranoia’, characterized by its short, compact plant habit and buttery yellow reflexed ray flowers arranged around a coppery-brown cone of many disc florets.

Abstract: A new cultivar of Hosta named ‘Atlantis’, a sport of Hosta ‘Abba Dabba Do’, that is characterized by its unique variegated foliage with green centers and wide yellow-green margins comprising about on third of the leaf area. ‘Atlantis’ is a large Hosta with an upright, mounded habit, a vigorous growth rate, and lavender flowers held on upright scapes in mid summer.

Abstract: A new cultivar of Dianthus plant named ‘WICKED WITCH’ that is characterized by pronounced compact habit, narrow grey-green foliage, and bright cherry-red flowers. In combination these traits set ‘WICKED WITCH’ apart from all other existing varieties of Dianthus known to the inventor.

Abstract: A distinct cultivar of Hosta plant named `Tattoo`, characterized by its small, rounded golden green leaves with a distinct darker green maple leaf-shaped outline or "tattoo" in the center of the leaf; relatively compact plant habit; and light lavender flowers that are positioned above the foliage on strong and erect peduncles.

Abstract: A new cultivar of interspecific Baptisia, ‘Ivory Tower’, that is characterized by its numerous flowers that are ivory white in color, its tall plant habit; reaching 1.5 m in height, its dark grey-purple flower stems until daytime temps consistently reach 80° F. and above (early May in Raleigh, N.C.), its flower stems that rise up to 75 cm above the foliage canopy, and its excellent hybrid vigor.

Abstract: A new cultivar of interspecific Baptisia, ‘Blonde Bombshell’, that is characterized by its flowers that are light yellow in color, its compact and upright and slightly mounded plant habit, its flower stems that are held well above the foliage with short internode lengths between flowers, and its heavy blooming habit with numerous flowering stems and numerous flowers per flowering stem.

Abstract: A new and distinct plant cultivar of hardy herbaceous false indigo named Baptisia ‘Blue Towers’ characterized by tall upright habit, no basal foliage, and many large, dark purple-blue flowers held well above the foliage in the spring, suitable for landscaping as a specimen or en masse.

Abstract: A new and distinct Hosta plant named ‘Sun Mouse’ with leaves that are slightly wavy thick substance and with golden coloration that holds up well through the season. The flowers are dark lavender bells tightly congested just above the foliage on chartreuse scapes with red blushing near base. ‘Sun Mouse’ has excellent vigor with rapid production of divisions, and its compact habit makes it useful in the miniature garden, as edging or front of the landscape border, in containers, as a specimen or en masse.

Abstract: A new cultivar of Yucca plant named ‘Silver Anniversary’ that is characterized by compact habit, moderate plant vigor, production of multiple offsets, powder-blue colored foliage which is hardy in USDA Zone 5b, and a tall inflorescence consisting of burgundy stems and cream-white flowers, is disclosed.

Abstract: A new and unique Agave plant named ‘Great White Shark’ characterized by upright, curving, linear to obovate foliage that is pinched to folded in the apical portion. The leaves are variegated with a wide creamy-yellow margin and dark gray-green center and have small, firm, darkly-colored teeth only in the basal portion and a dark apical spine.

Abstract: A new and unique cultivar of Hosta named Hosta ‘Time Traveler’ with each round, corrugated, chartreuse-yellowish, pointed leaf having a gray green center, white-edged Hosta leaf sown in the middle between the chartreuse-yellowish and the gray green.

Abstract: A new cultivar of Phlox plant named ‘Blue Ribbons’ that is characterized by its variegated foliage with dark green centers and light green margins, its narrow leaves, its flowers that are violet-blue in color, and its fragrant flowers.

Abstract: A new and unique cultivar of Alstroemeria plant named ‘Golden Tiara’, characterized by its large, upwardly to outwardly spreading and mounded plant habit, moderately to rapid growth rate, producing numerous gold-colored flowers with complementing coral-orange throat, suitable for container and garden landscape performance in areas winter hardy to USDA zone 6.