Each year as the new garden catalogs begin to arrive I start planning which seeds I want to start, and I always check out the perennial plants to see what’s new and exciting for our zone 3 ...

They grow in clumps about 24 inches tall and 30 inches wide with blooms in shades of pure white, pink, peach, plum and burgundy. Some flowers have speckles or ruffled petal-like sepals.