Amsonia is a genus of mostly native plants. These perennial wildflowers attract butterflies, and are deer-resistant, sun-loving plants prized for their drought tolerance and true blue flowers. Not only are Amsonia species themselves superb, but many of the newer amsonia (blue star) hybrids could become garden staples. Amsonia hubrichtii was named the 2011 Perennial Plant of the Year by the Perennial Plant Association for its delicate texture, blue flowers and fantastic yellow fall foliage. This bluestar has long been one of our favorites too.
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Amsonia is a tough and easy to grow, deer-resistant, full sun perennial that tolerates a range of garden soils. Amsonia looks great grown in a mass but also makes a wonderful backdrop or companion plant for other garden species. When you are ready to buy bluestar for your garden, check out our list of bluestar for sale below.
Try creating an astronomy garden that contains bluestar (Amsonia), golden star (Chrysogonum), blazing star (Liatris), white star grass (Dichromena), star flower (Ipheion) , star of persia (Allium), blue star creeper (Laurentia), Zephyranthes 'Morning Star', Crinum 'Stars and Stripes', Yucca 'Tiny Star' and Kniphofia 'Sally's Comet'. This constellation of color will have you seeing stars all year long.
Since 1988, Plant Delights Nursery has been the choice of serious gardeners and plant collectors looking for the best and rarest perennial plants. We are pleased to have received the Perennial Plant Association Retail Award in 2011, the American Horticulture Society Commercial Award in 2002, and to have been selected as one of the Best Mail Order Plant Sources - Garden Design Magazine 2010. Welcome to our family of plant lovers!
This amazing selection of blue star was discovered in a seedling block of A. tabernaemontana at Connecticut's Sunny Border Nursery by Michael Dodge, then of White Flower Farm. (We suspect it is actually a hybrid with Amsonia montana or Amsonia orientalis but a paternity test is still pending.) Regardless of its origin, the 2' wide mound of narrow, dark green, deer-resistant foliage is topped in early spring with large clusters of very dark lavender-blue flowers...much more vivid than other blue stars. For us this has been an amazingly vigorous plant, lending credence to a hybrid origin. This is a superb introduction for the spring garden. Pot Size: 3.5" (24 fl. oz/709.77 ml)
Discovered in 1942 in Arkansas by Leslie Hubricht (and named in his honor), this blue star sports the narrowest, laciest, most threadlike foliage of any upright amsonia species. Introduced into cultivation by Woodlanders Nursery, this fine southern native is truly the best of the blue stars. The sky blue flowers emerge atop the deer-resistant foliage when it breaks the ground in April and continue into May. In the fall, the deciduous golden foliage is stunning! Amsonia hubrichtii makes a clump to 3' tall x 3' wide. Pot Size: 3.5" (24 fl. oz/709.77 ml)
We love blue stars, and we are particularly excited to introduce one that is smaller and better-suited to spatially challenged gardeners...even suitable to most rock gardens. We selected this cutie from a batch of seedlings we grew in the late '80s. Of all the seedlings, Amsonia 'Short Stack' was the shortest and had the best form. Amsonia 'Short Stack' was planted in our display beds where its dwarf, 10" tall x 18" wide, perfectly rounded form has been superb. The clean, dark green, deer-resistant foliage contrasts nicely with the medium sky-blue flowers that top the plant in early spring...a real winner! Pot Size: 3.5" (24 fl. oz/709.77 ml)
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