Perennial Flower Garden Packages

Best when used in mass as a ground cover. Flowers are followed by blackish berries. 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...

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

After it was established I planted it in the landscape in a sunny area with particularly poor soil where it continues to thrive.Gopher apple is an important plant in the ecosystems of the coastal plain.

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

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

The rest of the plant remains alive and can re-bloom but does not please the eye as it did earlier in the season. The white yarrow is still there.It's time to design a new place to put my beloved pink yarrow and the other yarrows as well.

Here's a novice gardener's basic step-by-step guide to dividing a perennial plant. Here's my refreshed Ox-eye daisy, with room to spread. It's linked to the first highlighted words Ox-eyes in this article.The list of easy perennials was part of a list...

These cheap plants might be labeled and left in their display area, especially if there is a large quantity offered, or they may be moved to a separate rack.I often find the rejects at the back of the outdoor garden department or greenhouse.of checking...

MostAutumn colours like orange red and yellow are prized among tree and shrub growers, so why not incorporate them into your summer perennial border? But if bold isn't your style you can still grow kniphofias, creams, greens and corals would fit into...

A few artfully placed chrysanthemums and pumpkins help revive the fading summer landscape. The plant's common name, pink turtlehead, is a reference to the showy pink flowers whose open “mouths” invite bees to enter.

This plant needs shade but loves dry soil in the shade, making it a dream in a lot of gardens. Thank you to LilyLover_UT for this image.If you want thousands and thousands of blooms, you need to plant a bed of tickseed.

‘Moerheim Beauty' features petals of brownish-red on a 3-foot tall plant. Zones 3-8.DGMember photos by Aphthona, ngam, bigcityal, mystic, poppysue, mgarr, daryl, Kruch72, galanthophile

Cultivars like 'Olive Garden', 'Green Wave' and 'Green Jungle' are three that exhibit unique, if not acquired tastes, of green.Just like irises, the color spectrum of daylilies seems endless.

Even dried flower heads are attractive and can be used in dried arrangements.The thing is to not let the confusing nomenclature keep you from growing these beautiful plants. Dig and cut the rhizomes so that each section has a few roots.

The speedwells exhibit considerable variation in size and form, from low and creeping to tall and narrow. Spicata are 'Foxy Lady', 'Royal Candles', 'Red Fox' and 'White Icicles'Often considered as hybrids are the cultivars 'Sunny Border Blue', 'Pink Damask'...

You can trade locally, nationally, or internationally. Was I ever wrong!From spring all the way through to the killing winter frost, I would battle the grass growing up through a foot of soil and newspaper! I ended up tearing out the flowerbed and digging...

They come from Asia, Africa, Europe, the Americans, and the Middle East. This is one of those plants that will fill almost any cubby hole, space, or soil condition 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...

These eye-popping beauties are, surprisingly, not well known here. I took her for a short tour, trying to focus on the Hardy Hibiscus scattered all around. And they come back. I don't even fertilize them.

If large imposing perennials are your thing, then you must grow Ligularia. Palmatiloba, P. Few garden perennials offer such decorative foliage and striking flower displays. For the back of the border, they are second to none! As long as they have steady...

I won't go into every one of these but a few of the more standrad cultivars are worthy of mention.Some of the oldies but goodies include ‘Mariesii' (60-75 cm, blue), the ‘Apoyama' series (20 to 25 cm), ‘Shell Pink' (20 to 30 cm), ‘Mother of Pearl'...

Native to deciduous woods of the East, it likes moist, humus-rich soil and part shade.‘Bruce's White', ‘Pink Ridge', and ‘Sherwood Purple'.Commonly called moss phlox or thrift, it is a soft, needlelike cushion of green most of the year, but for...

You may be familiar with lungworts (Pulmonaria) and bluebells (Campanula) but there is another genus also known by those two names - Mertensia. All are herbaceous perennials. Such a diversity in habitats translates into variable cultural needs and hardiness.

An old-fashioned favorite for a sunny exposure, the zinnia offers a huge array of flower colors that even includes chartreuse. Breeders have created hybrids with flowers of soft green as well as the more traditional red, cream and pink.

However, the blooms are a striking shade of chartreuse sometimes with crimson centers. *Don't forget to click on the images to go to the Plant Files entry on each plant!‘Envy' is an interesting newer cultivar of Zinnia that you can find fairly readily...

[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...

With the recent surge of new cultivars this plant will be with us for many years to come. Such a plant would be a HOT seller for sure. S-bill, bassinets, Loving Andrews (after Saint Andrews, the Patron Saint of Scotland), Gratia Dei (Grace of God) and...