Flowering Perennials For Sun

Cutting back will promote new growth, giving you a healthier plant with stronger stems. Slow-release fertilizer can help prevent rapid soft growth that is vulnerable to diseases and insects.

Color is brilliant and of even tone with a silky luster. Glossy green foliage is divided into oval to lance-shaped leaflets. Flowers are extremely showy, and foliage remains attractive throughout the growing season, either alone or as a frame or backdrop...

Mulching helps to keep weeds away which will compete with your new investment for water and nutrients. Espoma products are easy to use, just sprinkle around the base of the plant and water it in.

Daylily Round Midnight reliably blooms on the seasons new growth, so prune to the ground during late winter or very early spring before growth starts. We highly recommend that you mulch your Daylily Round Midnight with either a ground hardwood mulch or...

Cutting back will promote new growth, giving you a healthier plant with stronger stems. 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...

Deadhead individual flowers to maintain plant appearance. Flowers (to 6-9” wide) are among the largest flowers produced by any perennial that is winter hardy to the St. Louis area.

Hibiscus Luna Red reliably blooms on the seasons new growth, so prune to the ground during late winter or very early spring before growth starts. The most common cause of plant death after transplanting is planting the new plant to deep.

For example a one gallon pot would be watered until you count to 5 a three gallon pot would be 15 and so on. Fall pruning, especially in colder climates, can result in a quick flush of new growth that prevents dormancy and makes winter freezes potentially...

Synonymous with Easily grown in average, medium to wet soils in full sun to part shade. Pond edges and moist borders welcome these glowing white blooms with a lime-green center to soften bold colors or to compliment pale pinks and blues.

Mulching helps to keep weeds away which will compete with your new investment for water and nutrients. Espoma products are easy to use, just sprinkle around the base of the plant and water it in.

Leaves, stems and roots are poisonous. Flower color is extremely variable, ranging from white to pink to light rose-purple, frequently with interior spotting. Blooms in late winter (sometimes when snow is still present) and continues into spring, with...

The perfect plant in moist borders, at the edge of ponds or streams, or even in pots plunged halfway to the rim in water gardens. , commonly called Japanese iris or Japanese water iris, is a rhizomatous beardless perennial iris that grows in slowly expanding...

The leaves of this cultivar are the main ornamental interest. The drooping buds face upward when they open and the plant can grow to 6 inches tall and 12 inches wide. Effective in containers and hanging baskets.

Coreopsis Moonbeam reliably blooms on the seasons new growth, so prune to the ground during late winter or very early spring before growth starts. We suggest when planting your newly purchased Coreopsis Moonbeam plants that you dig a hole twice as wide...

This procedure, called deadheading, encourages the geranium plant to produce new flowers and keeps your plant looking attractive throughout the season. Depending on the quality of your existing soil you may need to add a locally sourced compost or topsoil...

Sedum Autumn Fire reliably blooms on the seasons new growth, so prune to the ground during late winter or very early spring before growth starts. We suggest when planting your newly purchased Sedum Autumn Joy plants that you dig a hole twice as wide as...

We suggest when planting your newly purchased Daylily Stella de Oro plants that you dig a hole twice as wide as the root system but not deeper. A good rule is that you should still be able to see the soil the plant was grown in after back-filling the...

Salvia Caradonna is a unique cultivar of the reliable genus and species Salvia nemorosa. Easily grown in average, dry to medium, well-drained soil in full sun. ‘Caradonna' is an erect, clump-forming perennial salvia that is noted for its dark purple...

Cutting back will promote new growth, giving you a healthier plant with stronger stems. Be careful with products such as miracle-grow as these products can burn newly planted plants when not used at the recommended rates.

The best mulch for the plant is pea stone or gravel, which helps keep the plant clean and suppresses weeds without holding extra water. Bath's Pink' is a time proven plant that tolerates heat and humidity (as well as some drought) better than most other...

Plants in the Siberian iris group are chiefly of hybrid origin, primarily being derived from two blue-flowered Asian species, namely, (Russia, Korea and Japan). Best with consistent moisture from the onset of spring growth until several weeks after the...

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. Salvia Blue Hill has rough green foliage with numerous spikes of sky blue blooms rising a moderate 15″...

Cutting back will promote new growth, giving you a healthier plant with stronger stems. Considered an improved variety of ‘Dragon's Blood' Sedum. A 2 to 3 inch layer of mulch is sufficient but remember to take care not to cover any part of the stem...

Northern blue flag thrives in wetland habitats frequented by rushes and sedges (the “flag” part of the common name comes from the middle English word Grow in medium to wet soils in full sun to part shade.

May be grown as an annual throughout the normal range for the species, and in particular in the northern parts of USDA Zone 5 where it is not reliably winter hardy and appreciates some winter protection.

Leaves are evergreen in warm winter climates. Dianthus Neon Star is a hybrid dianthus that typically grows in an upright rounded mound to 8-12″ tall and to 6-12 inches wide. Add lime to acidic soils to adjust the soil pH.

The common name of pink for plants in the genus is in probable reference to the flower petal margins (they appear to have been cut with pinking shears) and not to flower color. It is noted for its long summer bloom of fragrant rosy pink flowers.