Ritter Perennials is Planting with a Purpose

Amsonia 'Storm Cloud' A 'Proven Winner'

Dark near black stems emerge in the spring and form a mounded habit!

Light periwinkle blue, star shaped flowers cover the plant for many weeks in spring.  Grow in the sun/part shade to 30" high and 40" wide.  Deer resistant and easy to grow.  
 

Anemone 'Lorelei'

Anemone 'Pocahontas' 
 

Double pink flower with a yellow eye.  Easy to grow in improved soil.  Flowers in late summer into fall.  Grows to 18" high and 24" wide in shade/morning sun.  Deer and rabbit resistant.  Great fall pollinator!

Astilbe 'Chocolate Shogun'

Coreopsis 'Crazy Cayenne'

Firery Sunset Orange flower just says 'Wow' in your container of flower beds!!  Grows in the sun or a little shade to 18" tall and 24" wide.  Butterfly and bee friendly.

Coreopsis Li'l Bang 'Orange Elf'

Wow!!  Orange flower with a yellow eye flower.  Flowers June through October.  A dwarf grower in full to little shade.  Grows to 10" high and 18" wide.  Great multi season pollinator!!

Coreopsis Li'l Bang 'Red Elf'

Frilly red flowers with a yellow eye.  Flowering June through October.  A dwarf grower in full to a little shade.  Grows 12" tall and 18" wide.  A great multi seasonal pollinator!!

This bold red 'Sweet William' is outstanding in the sun garden!  Grows to 15" high with the flower and wide.  Great may and June pollinator.

Echinacea 'Hot Papaya'

This one I grew before and I'm bring it back for and encore performance!  It's spicy red orange 3" flower has a pom pom center that the butterflies really love!!  Grows in the sun to 3' tall.  It's hardiness comes from being bred with the native echinacea purpurea.  Makes a great cut flower!!  Remember to let the echinacea go dormant naturally and cut back the following spring.  Don't bury with mulch.

Echinacea 'Green Twister'

I'm going to be straight forward with my fellow 'Horti-Holics'.  I haven't test grown this plant.  I'm so awe struck by it's beauty.  It's flower is lemon green with increasing carmine-red center!!  Two other reasons to try it is it's from the echinacea native purpurea and it's introduced by 'Julitto' seed company.  Echinacea grown from seed are hardier.  Grows to 3' tall in the sun.  Butterflies, bees and songbirds love this one!!

Festuca 'Blue Wiskers'

This is a 'Proven Winner' selection.  A great silvery blue accent plant for morning sun and some afternoon shade to keep it's blue color in our harsh summers.  Grows to 12" high and 24" wide.  Deer resistant.

Heuchera 'Wild Rose'

Another Proven Winner 'Primo' selection!  Wow, this one caught my daughter, Ashley's eye!!  Dad we have to grow this one!  This is a wide growing heuchera up to 28" wide and 10" tall.  Plus the flower attracts hummingbirds and bees!  Rabbit resistant.

Heuchera 'Forever Red'

Wow - another outstanding red for the shade garden!!  It's like Forever Purple has outstanding color but needs a little tender loving care.  Don't plant in the afternoon sun.  Don't plant in a wet area.  great color for a shade container.  The white flowers in mid summer compliment the ruffled leaves.  Hummingbirds and bees love the flowers, too!  Grows to 9" high and 15" wide.

Heucherella 'Buttered Rum'

Caramel dipped, deeply cut maple leaves adorn this plan!!  Plant in shade with other purple, silver, and yellow leaves such as heuchera pulmonary and hostas. Grows to just 10" tall and 15" wide!!  Wow, that will look great!!

This miniature yellow host has small narrow leaves.  It needs morning sun to bring out the bold color!  Grows 7" tall and 15" wide.  Great for the front of the border of a small area by the walkway!  Plant with hosts blue mouse ears or school mouse!  It also goes well with pulmonaria.

Loads of solid fluorescent orange torch-shaped flowers show off in the summer sun!!  Grows to 3' tall and 18" wide standing above your salvia, Leucanthemum and platycodon!

This mid sized shasta daisy has double shaggy white petals!!  Remove dead flowers for repeat blooms.  Grows to 24" tall and wide in sun part shade!  Real eye catching and a great cut flower too!  Plant with salvia echinacea and stachy's!

A greatly improved medium sized shasta daisy.  Grows to 15" tall and 24" wide with 3-4 flowers and yellow center.  A real show stopper for you and many pollinators!! Plant with salvia, rudbeckia, platycodon and echinacea!! 

This deer resistant beauty has stunning deep pink flowers over green silver spotted leaves!!  Grows in the shade morning sun to 12" tall and wide.  Plant in the front of the garden or container to show off the flowers.  Plant with ferns, hostas and heucheras.  

Salvia 'Bumble Blue'

Is a prolific bloomer that grows in the sun or a little shade to 12-16" high and wide! Loads of violet blue flowers late May into July.  Really attract bees and other pollinators!!  Plant with Dianthus, echinacea and shasta daisy!!