Drought Tolerant Perennials Perennials For Sale In Rhode Island

Salvia May Night is easily grown in average, dry to medium, well-drained soils in full sun. , often commonly called wood sage, is a hybrid perennial salvia that primarily results from crosses between have uncertain parentage, however, and may actually...

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 to rot.

Salvia Blue Hills is a sun perennial with sky blue spikes of flowers rise above a mound of aromatic gray-green foliage and blooms June – September. Spent flowers should be cut back for a repeat performance in fall.

We suggest when planting your newly purchased Sedum Autumn Fire plants that you dig a hole twice as wide as the root system but not deeper. Most of the water you put on the plant at first will run away from the plant until the soil is soaked.

Excellent for cutting. Details: Perfect for the perennial borders, cottage garden, or butterfly gardens and wild gardens. Salvia East Friesland plants are sterile and do not set seed.

Considered an improved variety of ‘Dragon's Blood' Sedum. Fall pruning, especially in colder climates, can result in a quick flush of new growth that prevents dormancy and makes winter freezes potentially deadly.

Growing only 20'' tall, you will be able to find several places for it in your garden. The Purple D'Oro daylily is a wonderfully colored reblooming daylily. The Purple D'Oro daylily prefers full sun.

Yarrow tends to grow more and more stems on the outside, leaving the inner stems to die away, which is why its also recommended to divide Achillea Moonshine every few years to rejuvenate the plant.

Any type of mulch will do but cypress or hardwood mulch will be of a higher quality and provide better nutrition overall as they breakdown. A general rule of thumb is to count to 5 for every one gallon of pot size.

We love this product and use it on all plants we install in our own gardens. Feeding your plants is probably the single most forgotten part of growing healthy long lasting plants. Our ideal fertilizer schedule for you to use is as follows.

* This essential oil is emitted from the plant in hot weather and, on a still day, can be ignited and will burn for a second or two without harming the plant, thus giving the plant its common name.

Amsonia hubrichtii 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. Starter fertilizer is the best product to use at the time of planting.

The revised edition of Steyermark's Flora of Missouri (Yatskievych and Turner) now lists the plant as based upon a number of factors including plant morphology, chromosome number, style length, reproductive modes and ploidal levels (see Umber, The Genus...

Super hardy Edelweiss will survive the coldest winter temperatures and the worst summer droughts. This superb perennial produces beautiful cream colored star-shaped flowers and silvery green foliage.

Adding compost or topsoil will help the young feeder roots to spread through the loose, nutrient rich soil, much easier than if you used solely the existing soil which more times than not will be hard and compacted.

* Indiangrass ( Sorghastrum nutans ), also called Indian grass, is a North American prairie grass, and is the official state grass of both Oklahoma and South Carolina . It forms upright clumps (to 2-3' tall) of slender, blue-green leaves (to 1/2" wide...

Excellent for borders, as tall ground cover or for cut flowers. Butterfly Plant A. Grow Ice Ballet as a Beautiful Monarch Butterfly Habitat Plant No butterfly garden would be complete without a food source for monarch butterfly larvae! And Ice Ballet...

* Aquilegia caerulea is the state flower of Colorado. * It is also an ornamental plant in gardens, with numerous cultivars selected for different flower colors. * Aquilegia caerulea is a species of Aquilegia flower native to the Rocky Mountains from Montana...

Tightly mounded perennial plants have fern-like foliage, are drought-tolerant and maintenance-free. An excellent companion to garden mums! When the shorter days of fall are upon us, ‘Autumn Gold' busts out sunshine in bright, yellow 2" flowers that...

We say this because it is sometimes hard to sell gardeners on bronze-colored grass. Make a rain garden or a drainage ditch sing with motion and color. For discerning landscapes! Orange New Zealand Sedge (Carex testacea) isn't a mainstream garden plant...

Rocketman produces very aromatic foliage, on strong stems each topped with large, lavender-blue flowers beginning to bloom in mid-summer and lasting through October. Plants are 3 feet tall and ideal for large containers in city gardens and smaller spaces.

* Native to forest margins, grassy slopes; 400--2700 m. (Gansu, Guizhou, Hebei, Hubei, Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, Nei Mong) all in China.

Astilbe has been loved for years for its feather flower spikes. Astilbe blooms from June through August and can be used in dried flower arrangements. Astilbe Sampler includes 2 each of Red, White and Pink Astilbe plus 2 FREE Lavender Astilbe! (8 plants...

That is why we do not recommend planting in a hole any deeper than the soil line of the plant in the pot. Be careful with products such as miracle-grow as these products can burn newly planted plants when not used at the recommended rates.

A vigorous mounding to spreading Lantana whose flowers opens egg yolk yellow and fade to a clean white while still retaining the dark yellow eye all against a backdrop of deep green foliage.

The Sunshine Collection includes 4 Shasta Daisies and 3 Golden Sundrops.

They can be used as an edging plant or en mass for a showy ground cover. Hosta Patriot boasts strong white margin on dark green heart-shaped leaves. Green leaves edged in white and contrast to the shade garden! Patriot does best in rich, moist, organic...