| | BOTANICAL NAME, CULTIVAR | (COMMON NAME) |
| | YEAR | RATING | MASTER GARDENER OBSERVATIONS AND COMMENTS | HEIGHT | WIDTH |
| | Achillea decolorans 'Garden Mace' |
| | 1996 | 6 | Spicy aroma, planted after blooming cycle, but performs as a hardy ground cover. | 8 | 42 |
| | 1997 | 3 | Very vigorous, excellent ground cover, good dark green color, a few tiny white blooms in | 10 | 60 |
| | September, started thinning in October. |
| | Achillea millefolium 'Paprika' | (Common Yarrow) |
| | 1995 | 5 | Attractive paprika-red blooms peaked in April and May and continued sporatically through | 21 | 39 |
| | August. Foliage feathery, attractive mint green. |
| | Achillea spp. 'Schnellenberg' | (Yarrow) |
| | 1995 | 6 | Showy, pale yellow blooms from mid-April, peaking in May and continuing through the summer. | 33 | 36 |
| | Healthy attractive plant, good for dried flowers. |
| | 1996 | 3 | Pale yellow blooms in June and July. Old growth needed trimming back. Plant was healthy but | 24 | 24 |
| | unimpressive. |
| | Agastache foeniculum | (Anise Hyssop) |
| | 1995 | 4 | Small lavender spikes, began in June, best in August, ended in October. Plant went to seed and | 36 | 30 |
| | died. Good for butterflies, short period of good growth habit. |
| | Agastache mexicana 'Toronjii Morado' |
| | 1997 | 3 | Small lavender blooms from June to August. Healthy, looked good all summer. | 17 | 14 |
| | Alcea rosea 'Country Garden Mix' | (Hollyhock) |
| | 1996 | 4 | Newly planted. | 8 | 11 |
| | 1997 | 3 | Did not bloom, completely died back by 10/20. | 33 | 60 |
| | Allium schoenoprasum | (Chives) |
| | 1995 | 2 | Tubular long leaf foliage, stayed healthy and luscious through the summer, declined to yellow | 12 | 14 |
| | and spindly in fall. |
| | Allium spp. | (Wild onion) |
| | 1995 | 2 | Did not bloom during observation period, overall health was poor with brown foliage. | 28 | 23 |
| | Alternanthera spp. 'Wave Hill' |
| | 1995 | 6 | Non-blooming, but colorful burgundy foliage, fast growing and aggressive, needing frequent | 28 | 42 |
| | pruning, but makes a nice accent. |
| | Alyssum spp. 'Snow Crystals' |
| | 1995 | 5 | Small white blooms in early spring, plant died in August. | 8 | 36 |
| | Amsonia tabernaemontana | (Texas Bluestar) |
| | 1995 | 2 | Short bloom period. Two short cycles of satisfactory performance. April because of blooms, | 24 | 19 |
| | Aug.when plant look best (with a lot of new growth). |
| | Anemone japonica 'elegans' | (Japanese Anemone) |
| | 1995 | 3 | Did not bloom, heavily attacked by sucking and chewing insects, foliage blemished and leggy at | 18 | 39 |
| | best. |
| | Anemone vitifolia 'Robustissima' | (Windflower) |
| | 1995 | 6 | Rose-mauve blooms started in mid-September and lasted a month, attractive medium dark green | 26 | 56 |
| | foliage looks good almost year round. |
| | Anethum graveolens | (Dill) |
| | 1995 | 4 | Did well in spring but did not survive the summer, would have made showy accent or landscape | 48 | 12 |
| | plant. |
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