Drought Tolerant Perennials Perennials For Sale In Seattle

After back filling and lightly compacting the 50/50 mix of existing soil and compost give the Geranium Biokovo a good deep watering. Feeding your plants is probably the single most forgotten part of growing healthy long lasting plants.

Attracts pollinators and hummingbirds. Large clumps of long, grass-like leaves are highlighted by cranberry red flowers on tall stems. Depending on the quality of your existing soil you may need to add a locally sourced compost or topsoil to the back-fill...

The flowers then gradually change to a rosy russet by late autumn, and are even appealing left uncut against a snowy winter landscape. Be careful with products such as miracle-grow as these products can burn newly planted plants when not used at the recommended...

Plants may repeat bloom throughout the summer. Salvia Blue Hill has rough green foliage with numerous spikes of sky blue blooms rising a moderate 15″ from the compact plant. Salvia Blue Hills is a sun perennial with sky blue spikes of flowers rise above...

We recommend feeding your Nepeta Walker's Low in the very early spring and again in mid summer after all new growth has hardened off and it begins to set flower buds. Adding compost or topsoil will help the young feeder roots to spread through the loose,...

Details: Perfect for the perennial borders, cottage garden, or butterfly gardens and wild gardens. Flowers are attractive to bees and butterflies. It typically forms a foliage mound to 10” tall.

Starter fertilizer is the best product to use at the time of planting. Butterfly weed is a 2′ tall herbaceous perennial that dies back in winter and re-sprouts from its underground tuber each spring.

It also is grown as both a medicinal herb and as a condiment. It is sometimes grown as an ornamental plant in gardens , especially because of its bluish leaves, and also sometimes for its tolerance of hot and dry soil conditions.

* A good ground cover plant, succeeding in the heavy shade of trees and in dry shade. * It is a low, creeping, woody shrub to about 1 m tall and 1–2 m wide but often smaller. * A low shrub with dark green evergreen leaves, shiny on the undersides; 2-3"...

* Succeeds in ordinary garden soil but prefers a deep rich loam with plenty of leafmold and a sunny position. * The flower heads are from ¾ to 3 inches (2 to 7.6 cm) wide with pale rose-purple or nearly white colored petals.

This grass spreads quickly or slowly by rhizomes, depending on growing conditions. The wide, thick leaf blades are a bit more substantial than those of the other blues. 'Northwind' prefers full sun, and moist, fertile soil; however, the plant will tolerate...

* This is an excellent plant to use for cut flowers and dried flowers. They keep their blue color well after drying. * It is very cold hardy, coming from Siberia, and will also tolerate drought and saline conditions.

The 1¼” wide pink flowers are delicately colored and veined. Geranium maculatum forms a mound of foliage that grows to 24″ tall and 18″ wide. Will naturalize in optimum growing conditions.

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. The inflorescences are flat-topped, dense, deep lemon-yellow and 2-3″ in diameter, while the gray-green foliage...

For example a one gallon pot would be watered until you count to 5 a three gallon pot would be 15 and so on. 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 Sedum Autumn Fire plants that you dig a hole twice as wide as the root system but not deeper. The most common cause of plant death after transplanting is planting the new plant to deep.

The introduction was largely unsuccessful but the grass began to appear as a weed beside highways and in cleared fields or over-grazed land. * This plant has a very low ignition threshold and can burn even during the peak growing season.

Rounded clumps of silver-tinted, blue/green foliage form a dense, vibrant appearance all summer long with this remarkable ornamental grass. Blue Oat Grass' tiny form will fit in nicely amid your other plantings yet provide just as much color and form...

‘Spectabilis' makes excellent cut flowers, in mass with groundcovers, or in potted containers. Bleeding Hearts have a plant height of 3 feet and a width of 3 feet. Hearts on a String The Bleeding Heart Spectabilis, 'Dicentra spectabilis, is a fast-growing...

It tolerates drought, is easy to grow, and is deer resistant. Desert Plains forms a stunning upright vase-shaped clump. Fountain Grass Spouts Mauve Plumes Pennisetum 'Desert Plains', Pennisetum alopecuroides 'Desert Plains', is a hardy and graceful, fountain...

Brilliance Autumn Fern requires little care, so you won't have to fuss over it, and it will thrive in those areas of your yard that discourage fussier plants. Easy to grow, adaptable to shade and offering 3-season color (4-season in warm climates), Brilliance...

* The leaves are used for flavouring rice dumplings. * Requires a well-drained sandy soil and a sunny position. Established plants are drought tolerant.

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

* Securigera varia , commonly known as Crown Vetch or Purple Crown Vetch , is a low-growing legume vine. It is native to Africa , Asia and Europe and is commonly used throughout the United States and Canada for erosion control , roadside planting and...

This low-maintenance catmint keeps its blue-green, aromatic leaves neat through the summer. Violet-blue spikes top this low grower, lending a soft, muted feel to the garden. Awarded 2007 Perennial Plant of the Year by the Perennial Plant Association.

The Perennial Hibiscus that we enjoy today were all bred using genetics from our US native species: Hibiscus moscheutos, H. Laevis and possibly others. Midnight Marvel Perennial Hibiscus is a show stopper that absolutely pops in the summer and early fall...

* A widespread urban myth is that pampas grass is used by swingers to advertise their presence to other swingers in the area. * Pampas grass is highly adaptable and can grow in a wide range of environments and climates.