Perennial Bedding Plants

There are many varieties of phlox available to gardeners, from dwarf varieties that are stunning in borders and beds to tall varieties that grow to 3 feet or more and are used in background plantings.

California

Santa Monica

How to Get an Iris to Bloom

They grow in U.S. Department of Agriculture plant hardiness zones 3 through 9, depending on the variety. Wipe a pair of shears with a cloth soaked in rubbing alcohol to disinfect them, and then cut back the flower stalk to its base after it finished blooming...

California

Santa Monica

How to Transplant Ginger Plants

If you are dividing the plant, cut 1- to 2-inch-long pieces of the rhizomes from the outside of the root system, cutting the pieces so that they have at least one bud on them. Ginger is grown from rhizomes, or enlarged roots, regardless of the variety.

California

Santa Monica

Deadheading a Bee Balm Plant

Checking the plants weekly for wilting clusters allows for prompt removal of the older flowers so their seed production doesn't weaken the plant.Cutting back the entire bee balm after the first major flowering flush is over removes any remaining flower...

California

Santa Monica

Lilac, Scent and Sensibility Pink

★★★★★

Prices start at : 19.99 USD / 1 Plant

Lilac 'Scent and Sensibility Pink' is just 3 feet high and spreads 6 feet wide, but this romantic beauty is opulently fragrant and a great landscape attraction. Great for cut flowers too! PPAF.

Planting Time: Fall, Spring
Ornamental Use: Borders, Cut Flowers
Spread: 48-60 inches
Life Cycle: Perennial
Height: 24-36 inches

Pennsylvania

Warminster

Cephalanthus occidentalis (Buttonbush), Sugar Shack

★★★★★

Prices start at : 19.99 USD / 1 Plant (4" pot)

‘Sugar Shack' is a buttonbush that always has something spectacular on display, from white sweet-scented flowers covered with butterflies in the summer, to bright red fruits all the way to winter.

Planting Time: Fall, Spring
Height: 3-4 feet
Bloom Season: Fall, Summer
Sun: Full Sun, Part Sun
Ornamental Use: Beds, Borders

Pennsylvania

Warminster

Verbena rigida, Santos Purple

★★★★★

Prices start at : 7.99 USD / 1 Plant

Color-mad perennial groundcover rolls out a carpet of large, high-definition-color purple blooms on floriferous spikes. A favorite with birds, bees, and insects. Flowering the first year, perennial thrives in heat and drought and thirsty soil.

Planting Time: Spring
Life Cycle: Perennial
Ornamental Use: Beds, Borders, Cut Flowers
Spread: 40-48 inches
Bloom Season: Fall, Summer
Sun: Full Sun

Pennsylvania

Warminster

Perennial Pollinator Garden Collection

Prices start at : 49.99 USD / 1 Collection (4 Plants/1 Ea. Variety)

'Rosie Posie' Agastache - Blooming from early summer to early fall, this plant is both drought-tolerant and deer resistant. Beautiful in a container! Full sun. 'Glass Slippers' Buddleia - This butterfly bush is covered from top to bottom in pale blue...

Sun: Full Sun
Height: 10-36 inches
Spread: 12-72 inches

Pennsylvania

Warminster

Callicarpa, Pearl Glam

★★★★★

Prices start at : 19.99 USD / 1 Plant

Beautyberry is a shrub prized for its showy fruit, but this one also sports beautiful purple foliage, all season long. Pick a few stems to bring inside for the vase, too! A perfect addition to extend the color show in your garden.

Ornamental Use: Beds, Cut Flowers
Life Cycle: Perennial
Height: 4-5 feet
Sun: Full Sun
Spread: 2-3 feet

Pennsylvania

Warminster

Helianthus, Autumn Gold

Prices start at : 13.99 USD / 1 Plant

When the shorter days of fall are upon us, ‘Autumn Gold' busts out sunshine in bright, yellow 2" flowers that continue from September until November or hard frost, long after other sunflowers have called it quits.

Planting Time: Spring
Spread: 20-24 inches
Life Cycle: Perennial
Genus: Helianthus
Bloom Season: Fall

Pennsylvania

Warminster

Perovskia a. 'Rocketman' PPAF

★★★★★

Prices start at : 12.99 USD / 1 Plant

We selected this Russian sage because of its strong stems and neat, upright habit. 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.

Sun: Full Sun
Life Cycle: Perennial
Planting Time: Fall, Spring
Ornamental Use: Beds, Borders, Cut Flowers
Zone: 4-9
Spread: 24-48 inches

Pennsylvania

Warminster

Viburnum, Brandywine

★★★★★

Prices start at : 14.99 USD / 1 plant

Deer resistant. Glossy green leaves turn wine-red in autumn. Provide steady moisture in extreme heat. Easy to grow in full sun to part shade, and tolerant of wet conditions. Clusters of pretty white flowers in spring form an eye-catching mix of pink and...

60-72 inches

Life Cycle: Perennial
Planting Time: Fall, Spring
Spread: 60-72 inches
Height: 60-72 inches
Sun: Full Sun, Part Sun
Zone: 5-9

Pennsylvania

Warminster

Perovskia a. 'Denim 'n Lace' PPAF

★★★★★

Prices start at : 12.99 USD / 1 Plant

Compact, pollinator-friendly 2-3' plants are perfectly sized for a small flowerbed in full sun, or and excel blooming in a patio container. In Perovskia fashion, plant's stems retain calyxes long after flowers have quit, extending the color pleasure.

Height: 28-32 inches
Ornamental Use: Beds, Borders, Cut Flowers
Life Cycle: Perennial
Sun: Full Sun
Planting Time: Fall, Spring
Resistant To: Deer

Pennsylvania

Warminster

Sagina, Irish Moss

Prices start at : 10.99 USD / 1 plant

Try these flat cushions of dense, moss-green for edging moist, shady nooks in the garden. Very hardy and deer resistant. Easy to maintain, but keep moist during dry spells. Only 1-inch tall, but very fast spreading, with plenty of tiny white flowers in...

Resistant To: Cold, Deer
Spread: 12-15 inches
Sun: Full Shade, Part Sun
Genus: Sagina subulata
Bloom Season: Spring
Height: 1 inches

Pennsylvania

Warminster

Wisteria, Blue Moon

★★★★★

Prices start at : 19.99 USD / 1 plant

The lilac-blue flowers are large, showy and draped on foot-long racemes in enormous grape-like clusters. Cold-hardy to -40 F with no loss of flowering ability. Vigorous, quick to grow and tirelessly floriferous, this wisteria blooms three times a year,...

Sun: Full Sun
Ornamental Use: Borders
Zone: 4-9
Life Cycle: Perennial
Spread: 48-96 inches
Genus: Wisteria

Pennsylvania

Warminster

Calycanthus (Sweetshrub), Aphrodite

Prices start at : 19.99 USD / 1 Plant

'Aphrodite' is new improved re-blooming calycanthus with larger flowers, and more intense sweet apple-like fragrance. Pruning is recommended immediately after flowering to maintain shape.

Bloom Season: Fall, Summer
Sun: Full Sun, Part Sun
Planting Time: Fall, Spring
Resistant To: Deer, Rabbit
Genus: Calycanthus
Ornamental Use: Beds, Borders

Pennsylvania

Warminster

Nepeta, Walker's Low

★★★★★

Prices start at : 9.99 USD / 1 plant

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.

Sun: Full Sun
Planting Time: Fall, Spring
Ornamental Use: Beds, Borders, Container
Height: 30-36 inches
Resistant To: Deer, Rabbit
Genus: Nepeta racemosa

Pennsylvania

Warminster

Schizophragma, Moonlight

★★★★★

Prices start at : 19.99 USD / 1 Plant

In midsummer, large, lacy heads of hydrangea-like flowers form along this cultivar's self-adhering stems, offering a moonlit display. With lovely pewter mottling on each heart-shaped leaf, this rarity is perfect for illuminating shadowy, difficult sites.

Genus: Schizophragma
Height: 240-300 inches
Ornamental Use: Borders
Spread: 72-108 inches
Planting Time: Fall, Spring

Pennsylvania

Warminster

Lilac, Bloomerang Dark Purple PPAF

★★★★★

Prices start at : 19.99 USD / 1 Plant

Densely flowering 4-6 ft. Deer-resistant, easily managed shrubs prefer sunny locations with moist, well-drained soil. Exceptionally hardy reblooming lilac, arrayed with large, rounded, rich-purple inflorescences, makes the perfect landscape plant, attracting...

48-72 inches

Sun: Full Sun, Part Sun
Spread: 48-72 inches
Height: 48-72 inches
Ornamental Use: Beds, Borders, Cut Flowers
Resistant To: Deer
Planting Time: Fall, Spring

Pennsylvania

Warminster

Spirea, Double Play Pink

★★★★★

Prices start at : 19.99 USD / 1 Plant

Flowers form on new wood, so pruning is recommended in late winter to early spring if needed. ‘Double Play Pink' was selected for its dark red foliage in spring and bold, intense pure-pink flowers.

Spread: 2-4 feet
Genus: Spiraea
Ornamental Use: Beds, Borders
Planting Time: Fall, Spring
Life Cycle: Perennial
Height: 3-4 feet

Pennsylvania

Warminster

Lewisia, Elise Mix

★★★★★

Prices start at : 6.99 USD / 1 Order ( 4 Plants)

An impressionist masterpiece. With a dreamy palette of flowers in glorious shades of soft and vivid pinks, rose, salmon, white, yellow, orange, soft purple and lovely bicolor pattern, Elise makes an indelible impression.

Planting Time: Fall, Spring
Bloom Season: Spring, Summer
Spread: 7 inches
Sun: Full Sun, Part Sun
Zone: 3-8

Pennsylvania

Warminster

Lily of the Valley

★★★★★

Prices start at : 12.99 USD / 1 Bag ( 10 pips)

Planting Convallaria pips, or rhizomes, is one of the best ways to cover larger shaded areas. They are lovely, have a slight scent and are deer resistant. They will thrive in shady and moist areas where they can be combined with hellebores, dicentras...

Genus: Convallaria majalis
Spread: 4-6 inches
Zone: 3-9
Planting Time: Fall, Spring
Resistant To: Deer, Rabbit
Ornamental Use: Beds, Borders, Cut Flowers

Pennsylvania

Warminster

Diervilla rivularis, Kodiak Red

★★★★★

Prices start at : 19.99 USD / 1 Plant (4" pot)

'Kodiak Red' diervilla is a native flowering shrub that can add low-maintenance color to parts of the yard where it is difficult to landscape and maintain. It is easy to grow in shade and problem soils, and is also resistant to deer.

Planting Time: Fall, Spring
Sun: Full Shade, Full Sun, Part Sun
Life Cycle: Perennial
Resistant To: Deer, Rabbit
Ornamental Use: Beds, Borders
Zone: 4-7

Pennsylvania

Warminster

Iberis sempervirens, Whiteout

★★★★★

Prices start at : 4.99 USD / 1 Pkt. ( 20 Seeds)

Spring perennial ‘Whiteout' flowers up a storm: just masses of pretty, bright white blooms in ensemble with shiny dark green foliage. Hardy, low growing, spreading perennial creates 6-12” mounds of attractive foliage; are evergreen in warm winter...

Life Cycle: Perennial
Ornamental Use: Beds, Borders
Spread: 8-12 inches
Resistant To: Deer, Drought, Rabbit
Height: 6-12 inches
Sun: Full Sun, Part Sun

Pennsylvania

Warminster

Lamium, Beacon Silver

★★★★★

Prices start at : 8.99 USD / 1 Plant

Can be used as foliage fillers in patio pots. Our top choice for problem areas in the garden. Grows well in dry areas without much care. Through most of the summer, the dense mats are covered with bright, low spikes of lavender-pink.

Ornamental Use: Beds
Genus: Lamium maculatum
Spread: 12-20 inches
Bloom Season: Summer
Height: 6-8 inches

Pennsylvania

Warminster

Deutzia, Yuki Cherry Blossom

Prices start at : 14.99 USD / 1 Plant

Provides color in fall as well with deep burgundy foliage. Deer resistant plants add interest to the mixed border, in mass plantings, or as fillers in containers. Drought tolerant and easy to maintain once established, it can benefit from being pruned...

12-24 inches

Life Cycle: Perennial
Spread: 12-24 inches
Bloom Season: Summer
Ornamental Use: Beds, Borders
Genus: Deutzia
Height: 12-24 inches

Pennsylvania

Warminster

Wallflower, Sunset Mix

★★★★★

Prices start at : 6.29 USD / 1 Pkt. (50 seeds)

Plants will over-summer, then as cool weather arrives in fall, produce an abundance of flowers through winter and into following spring, very pansy/viola like. This mixture provides a wide range of colors that appear in early spring, filling the air with...

Genus: Erysimum cheiri
Zone: 5-9
Planting Time: Fall, Spring
Ornamental Use: Beds, Borders, Container
Sun: Full Sun
Spread: 6-8 inches

Pennsylvania

Warminster