This small yellow daisy perches at the top of a gray-green stalk so tall it nods over your head when you stop to take a look.

Mexican hat has drooping, mahogany-brushed, yellow petals.

Add hues of soft pink and rich lilac to your autumn garden with Michaelmas daisy.

This small native grass has a bluish tinge in spring and summer, which creates a beautiful background to summer perennials.

A June-to-frost annual, Madagascar periwinkle forms a nonstop mound of pink, lavender, red, and white flowers in the summer garden.

It may be the question most often asked by unhappy gardeners: "My yard is nothing but shade. I don't know what to do. Help!"

This ornamental grass has great features.

No one can resist rubbing the velvety soft, gray-green leaves of lambs' ears.

It's the 2005 Plant of the Year.

A profusion of purple flower spikes rises above the attractive green, wooly foliage of lilac sage.