Perennial Flower Garden

Flowers are followed by blackish berries. Best when used in mass as a ground cover. Showy, purple, flower spikes, resembling grape hyacinth, rise above the foliage in late summer. Clumps of grass like, arching, medium green leaves are variegated with...

The Holly Fern has a hardy, erect, and outward curving growth habit. These ferns are great for container gardens or shady areas in the landscape. Foliage is holly-like and new young fronds will have a glossy light green coloring that will mature to shiny...

Few choices are better as a stabilizer for poor, dry, sandy soils found along roadsides in the Deep South or in sandy soils near the Gulf Coast or other bodies of salt water.As with many tough native plants, almost no care is needed for gopher apple once...

Easy to grow in average garden soil in full sun to part shade. Best massed as a ground cover or as an edging for paths and other walkways. The blooms are held on erect, showy spikes above the leaves.

Tall ground cover with green foliage, turning a rich red color in autumn. A nice ground cover for dry shade. Slowly spreading, 10 in. Herbaceous ground cover, producing bright blue, phlox like flowers from late summer to fall.

For the time being, The pink yarrow is content to live at the base of a few other trees and in the sunny patches out front; however, the maturing trees continually compete for sunshine with my perennials.I have found that digging and moving yarrow with...

It's linked to the first highlighted words Ox-eyes in this article.The list of easy perennials was part of a list found in the very informative Clemson University Home and Garden Fact Sheet,

Some day I'll learn about their special needs and bring one home for the challenge of nurturing it back into bloom.Occasionally you may find a rack full of apparent rejects still sporting their full-price stickers.She may not have had time to retag the...

But if bold isn't your style you can still grow kniphofias, creams, greens and corals would fit into a calmer scheme.I hope this article encourages you to try these wonderful perennials.

Here are four more perennial choices for adding autumn color: aconitum, chelone, cimicifuga and tricyrtis. Although less likely to be sold at garden centers, they're all well worth tracking down in a larger nursery or catalog.begins blooming in summer...

This plant will form a mat over time that will keep blooming in the spring to early summer. It is a simple plant with simple roots that can now be found in most shade gardens. Thank you to yvana for the image.The simple aster has many American natives...

Try planting some of these late bloomers, either now or in the spring, and you'll find yourself eagerly anticipating next fall. Reaching 2 to 5 feet high but only 1 to 2 feet wide, heleniums are slender, upright growers that look best when planted in...

That's right, it's not actually a green bloom in the traditional sense, it is actually a grouping of sepals that make a pretty striking "flower." It is reliably hardy in zones 6 to 10 and will definitely make a statement in any gardenThis hardy primula...

New plants can also be startedfrom seed which should be sowed when seeds are fresh in well drained seedling mix, placed in semi-shade, and kept damp. When blooming has finished, cut the flower stalks back to the ground unless you intend to save seeds...

The speedwells exhibit considerable variation in size and form, from low and creeping to tall and narrow. This article will introduce you to the taller types of speedwells; the species, cutlivars and hybrids that make ideal plants to use in the middle...

You can sell them online, locally, or in local iris club sales. Never take a short cut because, in time, you will have paid twice the blood sweat and tears.Every three years is the golden rule of most iris.

If given half a chance it will grow and, not only grow, it will spread. It is pleasing to know that the flower you are looking at could be seen by others the world over.Like I said before, this plant can fill any space you can throw at it.

If you're an avid Heuchera fan, this book provides information on the history and background of the Heuchera family as well as "extensive listings of the choice listings and hybrids available commercially" [²]Another recently published book written by...

We have had temperatures in the winter down to -30C (-22F)and they still keep coming back, bigger and better every year. They are one of the last of the perennials to poke their heads up in the spring.

For the back of the border, they are second to none! As long as they have steady access to soil moisture, Ligularia will provide you with the ultimate plant for Big, Bold and Beautiful!

There are two important factors to keep in mind when growing balloon flowers. The mid-border or even rock garden settings. Some newer dwarfs include ‘Sentimental Blue' (20 to 30 cm) and ‘Miss Tilly' (super dwarf blue at just 15 cm).

This prostrate, mat-forming, evergreen perennial grows 3 to 6 inches tall and spreads by stolons to cover an area 18 to 24 inches wide. It appreciates rich, well-drained soil and full to partial sun.

(Editor's Note: This article was originally published on August 4, 2009. You may be familiar with lungworts (Pulmonaria) and bluebells (Campanula) but there is another genus also known by those two names - Mertensia.

Thanks to recent advances in breeding, you'll find a bonanza of bloom and foliage color choices. If you prefer more of a cottage garden look, procure seeds of. Many types are fragrant as well.

For a big green statement in a shady garden, this is the way to go.Mind you, there are plenty of other green flowering plants out there such as orchids, spider chrysanthemums, and pitcher plants, but I wanted to focus this article on plants that some...

[1].Atlanta by Ida Mae Gatlin and passed on to her daughter and then to Jimmy and Becky The Shasta Daisy is one of the backbones of a perennial border, with long lasting 3 inch wide sparkling white blooms and yellow centers on sturdy stems that grow up...

S-bill, bassinets, Loving Andrews (after Saint Andrews, the Patron Saint of Scotland), Gratia Dei (Grace of God) and OdinThe plant was valued for its blue flowers as blue was often considered a sacred colour.As Christianity moved into the British Isles,...