New and Featured Varieties

Skagit Gardens has a commitment to providing a consistent lineup of exciting, exceptional, new plant introductions. We dedicate a considerable amount of time, space and staff to growing and evaluating new varieties before we offer them to you. We hope you enjoy these selections that we find particularly worthy of note.

Botanical Name     Common Name
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Calamagrostis x acutiflora 'Eldorado'
Common Name: Feather Reed Grass

This variegated form of C. 'Karl Foerster' is an upright clump of narrow green blades with a bright gold center. Very slender, vertical plumes. Light purple seed heads mature to buff. Deciduous.

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Campanula 'Ringsabell Mulberry Rose'
Common Name: Bellflower

Pendent, rose pink bells on slender stems. Flowers rise above height given: up to 15". Tidy, medium green foliage doesn't spread like others of its type.

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Campanula 'Ringsabell Indigo Blue'
Common Name: Bellflower

Pendent, purplish blue bells on slender stems. Flowers rise above height given: up to 15". Tidy, medium green foliage doesn't spread like others of its type.

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Campanula glomerata 'Freya'
Common Name: Clustered Bellflower

Clusters of star-shaped, deep violet flowers. Very floriferous, sturdy and compact.

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Carex oshimensis EverColor® 'Everillo'
Common Name: Sedge

A mounding fountain of lime green leaves turning to gold.  Evergreen.

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Carex oshimensis EverColor® Everest
Common Name: Sedge

A mounding fountain of white-striped, green leaves.  Evergreen.

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Carex trifida 'Rekohu Sunrise'
Common Name: Sedge

This unusual, variegated Carex has broad green leaves edged with a soft gold margin and forms a fountain-shaped, evergreen clump. Tender.

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Centaurea montana 'Black Sprite'
Common Name: Hardheads, Knapweed

Exotic, silky, burgundy black flower petals form a spidery starburst against a gray green, silvery-leaved backdrop.

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Centradenia x inaequilateris 'Blushing Cascade'
Light shell pink blossoms contrast with dark, reddish bronze leaves. Orange and crimson fall foliage. Nearly nonstop bloom on trailing plant....

Chasmanthium latifolium 'River Mist'
Common Name: Northern Sea Oats / Wild Oats

Handsome blades with dramatic green and white stripes. This grass is upright in form until the flowers appear. Graceful, drooping blooms are replaced with clusters of sparkling white seed heads in late summer. Deciduous.

 

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Coreopsis Big Bang™ 'Full Moon'
Common Name: Tickseed
Large, canary yellow blooms with medium-sized leaves and mounding habit....

Coreopsis Big Bang™ 'Redshift'
Common Name: Tickseed

This red giant has unique coloring. When it starts blooming in summer's heat, the flowers are butter yellow with a deep crimson eye, but with cooler temperatures they shift in stages to a dramatic ruby red. Medium-sized leaves and mounding habit. 

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Coreopsis Big Bang™ 'Cosmic Eye'
Common Name: Tickseed
Single, claret red daisies tipped in golden, sunshine yellow. Dark green, slender leaves. Compact and freely branching....

Coreopsis Big Bang™ 'Galaxy'
Common Name: Tickseed
Semidouble, golden daisies with glossy, medium green foliage. Short, sturdy habit....

Coreopsis 'Sienna Sunset'
Common Name: Thread-leaved Tickseed

This large, burnt sienna daisy lightens to orange as it matures. A thread-leaf type, it has finely textured foliage and blooms all summer.

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Coreopsis Coloropsis™ 'Jive'
Common Name: Tickseed

Masses of single, white flowers with a burgundy eye and orange center. Thread-leaf foliage is strong and bushy.

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Coreopsis Coloropsis™ 'Salsa'
Common Name: Tickseed

Masses of single, bright golden yellow flowers with a wide burgundy eye. Thread-leaf foliage is strong and bushy.

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Coreopsis Big Bang™ 'Mercury Rising'
Common Name: Tickseed

Large, single, red flowers with a bright yellow center on mounding foliage.  Very floriferous.

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Coreopsis Big Bang™ 'Star Cluster'
Common Name: Tickseed

Creamy white flowers with a small purple fleck at the base of each petal that radiates out to the edge in the cooler months.

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Coreopsis verticillata 'Sunset Strip'
Common Name: Tickseed

Golden petals with a vivid orange red eye.  Medium green, threadlike foliage.

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Coreopsis verticillata 'Route 66'
Common Name: Thread-leaved Tickseed

Masses of single, bright yellow flowers with a burgundy ring that varies with each flower. Thread-leaf foliage.

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Cosmos atrosanguineus Chocamocha™

For a guilt-free chocolate indulgence, Chocamocha™ has deep chocolate maroon flowers with a very pronounced cocoa scent. Dark green foliage is bushy and more compact than the classic Chocolate Cosmos.

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Cuphea hyssopifolia 'Magenta Border'
Common Name: Elfin Herb / False Heather
Small, bright magenta flowers with rich green, very dense, compact, rounded foliage....