Drought Tolerant Perennials

That is why we do not recommend planting in a hole any deeper than the soil line of the plant in the pot. We suggest when planting your newly purchased Daylily Happy Returns plants that you dig a hole twice as wide as the root system but not deeper.

‘Angelina' is a yellow leaved cultivar featuring spiky yellow leaves (to 3/4” long) that often sport ginger brown tips. It also makes an excellent accent for plants with dark foliage.

Easily grown in moist, fertile, humusy, organically rich, neutral to slightly acidic, medium moisture, well-drained soils in full sun to part shade. After bloom, the foliage clump will retain its blue-green color into the fall, often displaying showy...

Blue Hill is easily grown in average, dry to medium, well-drained soils in full sun. Plants may repeat bloom throughout the summer. Blue Hill's smaller size makes it perfect for a border garden or container.

Remove the old flowers of Sedum fuldaglut as they become brown and unattractive. 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...

It is a clumping, sprawling plant that grows to 6-18” tall, and can spread rather quickly by pubescent, decumbent stems, rooting at the nodes where they touch the ground, to form an attractive ground cover.

Salvia Caradonna reaches 18-24 inches tall, bearing flowers on sturdy stems during the summer months. In summer, dense terminal spikes of violet-blue flowers rise above the foliage to 24” tall.

Apply an early spring fertilizer with a product such as at the recommended rate this will give the plant a boost of nitrogen potash that will be needed for healthy foliage and stem growth.

This procedure, called deadheading, encourages the Sedum Autumn Fire plant to produce new flowers, keeping your plant looking attractive throughout the season. Adding compost or topsoil will help the young feeder roots to spread through the loose, nutrient...

Feeding your plants is probably the single most forgotten part of growing healthy long lasting plants. It has fuzzy light green leaves and white flowers in late summer/ early autumn.

Our ideal fertilizer schedule for you to use is as follows. Geranium Biokovo reliably blooms on the seasons new growth, so prune to the ground during late winter or very early spring before growth starts.

Stachys Big Ears is noted for its silver-green foliage which forms an attractive ground cover. Effective edger or small area ground cover. Leaves are evergreen in warm climates, but will depreciate considerably in harsh winters.

Gray-green leaves (to 2 1/2” long and 1/4” wide) on square stems. Grow in average, dry to medium, well-drained, alkaline soil in full sun. Lavender Provence' is one of the tallest of the lavandins.

Most of the water you put on the plant at first will run away from the plant until the soil is soaked. Cutting back will promote new growth, giving you a healthier plant with stronger stems.

After back filling and lightly compacting the 50/50 mix of existing soil and compost give the Achillea Strawberry Seduction a good deep watering. Check the plant daily for the first week or so and then every other day there after.

Wood sage has a variety of common names including violet sage, ornamental meadow sage, Balkan clary, purple flowering sage or perennial woodland sage. Magnificent deep purple spikes of flowers that attract butterflies and bees! The most intense deep indigo-purple...

, commonly called English lavender, has been a mainstay of herb gardens for many years. Often repeat blooms in late summer or fall. English lavender varieties are more often used for culinary purposes than other types of lavender.

In warmer climates, cut it back in the spring before it begins to bud. Be careful with products such as miracle-grow as these products can burn newly planted plants when not used at the recommended rates.

Plants form a bushy clump of grey-green leaves, with upright spikes appearing in early summer, attractive to both butterflies and hummingbirds. Easily grown in average, dry to medium, well-drained soil in full sun.

They generally flower in midsummer, a little later than the English types. The hybrid Lavenders are sometimes known as Lavandin. This is a very large, hedging lavender that can be used to create a border around the garden and also can be grown as a cut...

In warmer climates, cut it back in the spring before it begins to bud. Follow this up with another early summer application of , this will again provide the necessary nutrients to promote a flush of beautiful flowers.

Check the plant daily for the first week or so and then every other day there after. Cutting back will promote new growth, giving you a healthier plant with stronger stems. This process is called deadheading.

A good rule is that you should still be able to see the soil the plant was grown in after back-filling the hole. Apply an early spring fertilizer with a product such as at the recommended rate this will give the plant a boost of nitrogen and potash that...

Will naturalize in optimum growing conditions. Prefers moist, humusy soils, but tolerates poor soils. The 1¼” wide pink to magenta flowers are delicately colored and veined. Easily grown in average, medium, well-drained soil in full sun to part shade.

Dictamnus, commonly known as a gas plant, is an interesting specimen to include in your perennial garden. Once I mention some of the unique characteristics of the plant, however, which gave it the common names "gas plant" and "burning bush," visitors...

Basically the “good” fungus in Bio-tone colonizes on the growing roots of your newly planted plant and does not allow disease causing fungus to attack the new roots. The plants grow in clumps, making super easy to utilize them in mixed garden beds.

Butterfly weed is slow to emerge in spring, so you may want to mark where they are. A general rule of thumb is to count to 5 for every one gallon of pot size. Its better to leave a one inch gap of space between the mulch and the stem or base of the plant.