Deer Resistant Perennials Perennials For Sun For Sale In Iowa

This procedure, called deadheading, encourages the geranium plant to produce new flowers and keeps your plant looking attractive throughout the season. Remove the brown stems and leaves to give your plant a healthier and more attractive appearance.

Care should be taken not to over water Water smart, check the soil moisture by inserting your finger into the loose soil surrounding the root ball and feel for moisture. Will tolerate average to wet conditions in full sun.

In warmer climates, cut it back in the spring before it begins to bud. We do not recommend using straight topsoil or compost as a back-fill soil because more times than not these products will retain entirely to much moisture and will cause the root system...

Choose a location with excellent drainage. English lavender varieties are more often used for culinary purposes than other types of lavender. Leaves are evergreen in warm winter climates.

Great for moist areas in borders, cottage gardens, meadows, native plant gardens, wild/naturalized areas, rain gardens or water margins. Plants may be cut to the ground in late winter.

After back filling and lightly compacting the 50/50 mix of existing soil and compost give the Achillea Strawberry Seduction a good deep watering. Achillea Strawberry Seduction is a reliable addition to perennial borders or containers and will hold its...

After back filling and lightly compacting the 50/50 mix of existing soil and compost give the Achillea Paprika a good deep watering. Water using the counting method for the first few weeks.

This selection forms a bushy mound of silver foliage, with long spikes of purple-blue flowers. In the north, this variety blooms from mid through late summer, but it blooms earlier in the south.

Use this plant for cut flowers, in containers, for screening, for hedges, and of course, winter interest. It displays delicate reddish-bronze plumes in late summer. It boasts 5' white-edged variegated, narrow leaves.

Very attractive! Norther Sea Oats Grass is easy to grow in full sun or in the shade. Prune the grassy leaves down to the ground in early spring before new growth begins. Northern Sea Oats Grass is pest and disease free and it is drought tolerant when...

Each plant will flower for approximately 7-10 days. Peony Felix Crousse is a bright deep red peony with some silvering. Once they're established, they're as hardy and dependable as oaks, creating a fantastic season of bloom in your yard year after year.

In colder climates, cut it back as one of the last chores in your garden before the snow flies. Follow this up with another early summer application of , this will again provide the necessary nutrients to promote a flush of beautiful flowers.

A good rule is that you should still be able to see the soil the plant was grown in after back-filling the hole. Remove the brown stems and leaves to give your plant a healthier and more attractive appearance.

Tends to rot and develop leaf diseases in humid summer climates. Divide when necessary or to fill in bare patches. Well-drained soils are essential in order to combat potential rot problems.

Flowers are extremely showy, and foliage remains attractive throughout the growing season, either alone or as a frame or backdrop for other flowering perennials. Fragrant and with good foliage.

Your Karl Foerster Feather Reed Grass will grow up to 5 feet tall with an 18-inch spread. Karl Foerster is deciduous where winters are cold, and semi-evergreen in mild climates. It's easy to see why Karl Foerster Feather Reed Grass was once named “Perennial...

Excellent cut flower. Color is brilliant and of even tone with a silky luster. Cut foliage to the ground and remove from the garden in fall after frost. Peony Sarah Bernhardt is a pink double flowered peony.

In spring, Bonfire's emerging foliage is brilliant yellow, orange and lime; summer and fall colors are crimson and burgundy. Tiny golden-chartreuse blooms in late spring. Plant 18'' apart in full to partial sun.

In summer, dense terminal spikes of violet-blue flowers rise above the foliage to 24” tall. It was discovered in Uchte, Germany, by Beate Zillmer of Zillmer Pflanzen and is suitable for production in USDA Zones 4-9.

It is best when massed. Amsonia hubrichtii reliably blooms on the seasons new growth, so prune to the ground during late winter or very early spring before growth starts. Mulching helps to keep weeds away which will compete with your new investment for...

, commonly called purple coneflower, is a coarse, rough-hairy, herbaceous perennial that is native to moist prairies, meadows and open woods of the central to southeastern United States (Ohio to Michigan to Iowa south to Louisiana and Georgia).

Raspberry Frosted Peaches The Peaches ‘n Dreams Hollyhock, 'Alcea rosea', has double, creamy-peach flowers that are frosted with tints of raspberry-pink and apricot. * Double Creamy Peach Flowers * 6'-8' Biennial Plant * Thrives in Full Sun

It will grow anywhere and will tolerate poor soils. There is also a single, white, hairy flower cluster at the tip of each stalk. * Silvery Blue Foliage All Summer * White Plumes * Attracts Wildlife in Winter

Coreopsis Moonbeam does prefer drier soils in the winter so if there was ever a plant that we would recommend not adding topsoil or compost this is one. Cut back Coreopsis Moonbeam to within 6 inches of the ground after it has finished flowering.

It is a marginal aquatic plant that forms a clump of narrow, arching-to-erect, sword-shaped, blue-green leaves (to 24” long and 1” wide). Falls (sepals) have a central yellow blotch surrounded by a white zone.

Rudbeckia goldstrum is a beautiful native plant that is a beacon for butterflies and bees. Deer Resistant, Drought tolerant, Heat tolerant, Attracts Butterflies and Songbirds, 1999 Perennial Plant of the Year, Native Rudbeckia Goldstrum is easily grown...

That is why we do not recommend planting in a hole any deeper than the soil line of the plant in the pot. A general rule of thumb is to count to 5 for every one gallon of pot size.