Category Archives: Perennials
Centaurea Caramia
Prettily flowering from May to September Caramias frilly blooms boast fluffy bluish-pink center quills circled by coronas of lighter-toned petals. With very attractive foliage on stiffly upright 12-24 stems excellent new border addition resembles a thistle but (thankfully) has no barbs. A favorite with bumblebees bees and butterflies. Full sun to part shade....
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Shasta Daisy Real Galaxy PPAF
A season without daisies is unthinkable: a crime against summer! Showboating shasta cultivar exhilarates in sun-basking borders beds and containers. Compact clumping 22 plants produce spirit-lifting white blooms with layer upon layer of fine fringed petals with contrasting deep-golden centers. Blooms become fuller over time. For repeat blooms in fall trim after flowering. Strong-stemmed plants require no staking. Plants thrive in fertile soil with good drainage. Improved disease resistance. Removing faded flowers greatly extends blooming time....
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Liatris Floristan Violet
Floristan Violet is stunning Gayfeather with tall spikes of pinkish-purple flowers and dark bracts creating a bicolor vertical interest in the perennial border or butterfly garden. Also known as Blazing star Liatris spicata is a tall upright herbaceous perennial native to moist low grounds meadows and marsh margins. Liatris spicata does well in summer heat and humidity blooming in the middle of the summer. Plants blooms with vertical spikes 6-12 inch long of rounded fluffy of feathery flower heads where it gets his common name- gayfeather. Liatris prefers moist but well-drained soils and full sun. Keep away from wet soils in winter. Use in perennial borders or as native plant in butterfly and cottage gardens....
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Yucca filamentosa
If you have a sunny dry spot where nothing wants to grow this yuccaalso known as Adams Needlewill more than fill the bill. Towering 5-8 evergreen shrub with clumping basal leaves up to 30 long and 4 wide grows wild on Americas southeastern shoreline. Come late spring flowering stalks shoot from the basal rosettes stalk rises from center of each rosette...
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Rose Abraham Darby
A 1985 introduction that continues to dazzle with its fruity and fresh fragrance. Thickly doubled rose is very large with cupped petals shading apricot to yellow later tinged pink. Remarkably repeat-blooming and an ideal choice as climbers for trellises. Well-branched rounded bushes are vigorous and hardy....
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Lily Oriental Visa Versa
Varieties of lilies developed by crossing trumpet lilies with oriental hybrids result in a range of magnificent garden plants. Visa Versa is an exciting deep rosy red with a mauve flush and a green nectary defined by lemon-yellow....
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English Rose Lichfield Angel
Deep cups open to neat rosettes then beautiful dome shaped blooms. Their color is creamy apricot later paling to creamy white. The effect in the mass is of almost pure white. A light clove fragrance. Lichfield Angel enjoys the US climate forming a most attractive rounded shrub. ...
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Galanthus nivalis Flore Pleno
Galanthus Flore Pleno is the one to have for the Galanthus enthusiast. Rare and unique blooms are a treat in any garden. Extremely cold tolerant they are hardy to zone 3 and one of the first flowers to appear in northern temperate climate. They perform best in wooded shady areas under shrubs or on the edge of the garden. Plant 6 to 8 bulbs per square foot. Bulb size: 7 cm....
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Scabiosa Mariposa Violet PPAF
Cool violet pincushion flowers sit atop slender but sturdy stems. The neat compact plants are perfect in pots rock gardens and small garden nooks. Grayish green leaves are tidy and attractive even when plants are out of bloom....
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Rose Young Lycidas
Classic Old Rose beauty flowering with large blooms of very deep magenta pink and red with strong fragrance of Old Rose with hint of cedar wood. Young Lycidass growth will form an attractive bushy shrub. It is an excellent choice in a rose border or in a mixed border with hardy plants. Young Lycidas was named after one of the finest poems of John Milton....
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Echinacea Now Cheesier
This unique Echinacea has melting cheddar blooms that lighten slightly to buttery after a few weeks of hot summer. Plants are well branched and bloom all summer. Excellent in the mixed plant border planted with Celosia Arrabona Red and Large lowering Dahlias as background. Deer Resistant fragrant butterfly magnet this plant is drought tolerant fantastic cut flower and recommended for Deep South....
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Liatris Floristan Kobold
Liatris Floristan Kobold is one of the most recognizable tried and true native plants. With fluffy spikes in deep purple it is a must have in the perennial border. Also known as Blazing star Liatris spicata is a tall upright herbaceous perennial native to moist low grounds meadows and marsh margins. Liatris spicata does well in summer heat and humidity blooming in the middle of the summer. Plants blooms with vertical spikes 6-12 inch long of rounded...
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Ampelaster carolinianus
This tough native vine features deliciously fragrant 1 spidery lavender to pink flowers with yellow centers to add a final burst of color to your fall landscape. Also known as climbing Carolina aster it will also attract bees butterflies and hummingbirds from October to frost. Vigorous vines with narrow grayish leaves can climb on a fence clamber over shrubs or be grown as a deciduous groundcover. Prune back by 1/3 when new growth appears in spring....
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Baptisia Midnight Prairieblues
Great plant for vertical accent in any garden Baptisia Midnight Prairieblues was developed by Dr. Jim Ault at the Chicago Botanic Garden in Glencoe Illinois. The plant is shorter than regular false indigo 3-4 feet high vase-shaped habit with extremely long inflorescences bearing deep blue-violet flowers. The plant has two intermingling bloom cycles within its blooming season. The first cycle produces long primary inflorescences up to 24″ long. The second cycle produces blooms on secondary branches with inflorescences up to 5″ long. Once established plants will bloom through the entire month of June.US PP#20432....
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Helleborus Wedding Party Best Man
Best Man is a standout specimen from the justly admired Wedding Party series known for plants that stand out for their vigor multitude of blooms and striking color. Winter-blooming 18-24 inch shade plant produces a sumptuous flourish of mauve-purple 2-3 inch double-flowers. Will naturalize multiply and spread out in a moist woodland setting injecting colorful sparkle into the shade. Looks marvelous in a shady patio container...
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Eupatorium dubium Little Joe
Eupatorium dubium is a little known dwarf species of native Joe Pye Weed. In appearance E. dubium is similar to E. purpureum but more tolerant of light shade. The 4′ tall stems are covered with whorls of green leaves and topped in midsummer with dome-shaped heads of lavender flowers a great specimen plant for keeping butterflies at eye level. U.S. Plant Patent # 16 122....
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Sedum Pink Stars
Ground-hugging carpets of small leaves are covered with dainty rose pink star clusters. Plants thrive in well-drained soils in full sun. Use in rock gardens troughs and as edging along sunny paths. Vigorous enough to crowd out weeds in open spaces....
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Phlox Juttas Rosenauge
Splendid standout from the RHS Garden Wisley Juttas Rosenauge commands admiring attention with full rounded pure white blooms with deep-pink eye. Complementary foliage of medium bright-green leaves makes for a very pretty plant indeed. Admirable in the mid-border nestled amid other red and yellow majesties. Stems require staking support before flowering. Vigorous perennial does best in full sun or partial shade and prefers its soil fertile and moist. Phlox crave nourishment so dont stint on compost mulch in early spring; 2-3 ought to do it. Snip away spent flowers to prevent reseeding....
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Lilies Fragrant Oriental Mixed
The midsummer mix of pink white and red 6″ blooms are fragrant in daytime; and more so at night. Lilies add form structure and texture to the border. The 36-48″ plants multiply over time creating a fragrant mass of glossy leaves sweeping plant habit and undiluted color....
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Kniphofia Fire Glow PPAF
Fire Glow’ sets the border on fire. Tantalizing torch lily with blazing bicolor orange and red flower spikes unleashes plentiful colorful vertical pizzazz. Compact 2-3 plants with narrow...
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