Perennials
Subject to Availability
Perennials are wonderful plants that come back every year. Most die back in late fall and emerge from ground in spring. There are some varieties that keep their foliage year around.
Our perennial selection is enormous. We grow and carry over twenty thousand perennials with over 120 varieties of hosta, starting at $4.99 and up. We carry perennials that require sun, to part shade, to full shade.
We carry perennials that are:
- Ever-blooming
- Long blooming
- Highly fragrant
- Best used in rock gardens
- Attractive to butterflies and hummingbirds
- Interesting in foliage appearance
- For evening gardens that almost glow
- For moist soils
- Drought tolerant
- Great groundcovers
- Good for long lasting cut flowers
- Great for seashore locations
- Wind tolerant
- Cottage gardens
- Various in heights
We would like to recommend the "May Queen" Shasta Daisy. This daisy is the hardiest of all Shastas, blooming heavy May through June. When cut back to 3 inches and fertilized well, the May Queen will re-bloom July through October.
For lots of color in sunny spots try some ever-blooming miniature daylilies that grow 18 inches tall. We carry Ruby Stella, Purple de Oro, Stella De Oro (gold), Rosy Returns, Stella Supreme (soft yellow), and Happy Returns (yellow). With a lot of fertilizing and removing of spent flowers and stalks, they bloom from June on into November.
Kim's Knee High variety is a dwarf coneflower growing 18 inches tall with a lot of big, rosy pink flowers. She's a cutie!
2007 PERENNIAL PLANT OF THE YEAR - "WALKER'S LOW" NEPETA (catmint)
This fragrant, 18 inch high perennial blooms May to October with bluish-purple flowers on gray-green foliage. Walkers Low attracts hummingbirds and butterflies but deters rabbits and deer. Plant in full sun to partial shade, and shear plants off after blooming to promote new flowers faster. This perennial has no pest problems, tolerates heat and drought, and is not invasive.
FORMER PERENNIAL PLANTS OF THE YEAR....
- 2007 - "Walker's Low"-Nepeta
- 2006 - "Firewitch" Dianthus
- 2005 - "Helleborus"
- 2004 - "Pictum" Japanese Painted Fern
- 2003 - "Becky" Shasta Daisy
- 2002 - "David" Tall Phlox-Phlox paniculata
- 2001 - "Karl Foerster" Grass
- 2000 - "Buttefly Blue"-Scabiosa
- 1999 - "Goldstrum" Black-eyed Susan-Rudbeckia
- 1998 - "Magnus" Coneflower-Echinacea Purpurea
- 1997 - "May Night"-Salvia Superba
- 1996 - "Husker Red"-Penstemon Digitalis
- 1995 - "Russian Sage"-Perovskia Atriplicifolia
2008 PERENNIAL PLANT OF THE YEAR - "ROZANNE" GERANIUM
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