Sweet Almond Verbena

Aloysia virgata

Available from Logee's (link here)

I have never seen it offered locally.

Weeping Larch

http://www.romencegardens.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=plants.plantDetail&plant_id=2451&typeID=17

A striking specimen.

Tricolor Beech

Fagus sylvatica 'Purpurea Tricolor' (Tricolor Beech)

also known as 'Roseo-marginata'

http://www.forestfarm.com/product.php?id=1861

We saw several at Rich's Foxwillow Pines Nursery and they were gorgeous.

Rich's Foxwillow Pines Nursery

Today, we visited Rich's Foxwillow Pines Nursery in Woodstock, IL (link here).

Fabulous selection of trees, including many ginkgoes, dwarf evergreens, weeping varieties, and other treasures.

Well worth the visit.

Plume Poppy

http://www.hortmag.com/article/plumepoppy

I took another long look at them on my last visit to Monches Farm.

Impressive.

Recent plantings

(1) [transplanted] jack-in-the-pulpit [dislodged when uprooting invasive shrub honeysuckles]
(1) Tulbaghia (Society Garlic)
(1) Garlic Chives
(2) Rudbeckia hirta 'Tiger Eye Gold' (Annual Black-Eyed Susan)
(1) Heptacodium miconioides (Seven-Son Flower, Northern Crepe Myrtle)
(1) Sambucus nigra 'Madonna' (variegated elderberry)
(1) Dryopteris spinulosa (Wood Fern)
(1) Pulmonaria officinalis 'Sissinghurst White' (Lungwort)
(1) Tiarella 'Crow Feather' (Foamflower)
(1) Phlox divaricata (Woodland Phlox)
(1) Echinacea 'Big Sky Sunrise' (Sunrise Coneflower)
(1) Echinacea purpurea 'White Swan' (Coneflower)
(1) Lilium speciosum rubrum
(1) Campsis radicans (Trumpet Vine)

Mai Tai

Alternanthera ficoidea 'Mai Tai' (Joseph's Coat)

http://www.ashlandgreenhouses.com/detail.php?id=1946&cat=deluxe

Very colorful leaves.