Perennial Flowering Bushes Full Sun

Grow Ice Ballet as a Beautiful Monarch Butterfly Habitat Plant No butterfly garden would be complete without a food source for monarch butterfly larvae! And Ice Ballet doesn't just help our winged friends, it's a beautiful plant in it's own right.

Purple Plumes All Summer Karley Rose Grass, Pennisetum orientale 'Karley Rose' (PP#12,909), displays clouds of smoky rose-purple flowers which burst into color in June. The value of this long-lived and low-maintenance fountain grass comes from the varied...

Black Flowered Geranium (Pelargonium glaucifolium) We are re-introducing the Black-Flowered Geranium, a cactus geranium, that's famous for its intense, heavy and rich night scent. The leaves have a bluish cast and grow with ruffled edges.

Foamy White Stars The Alchemilla ‘Lady's Mantle', Alchemilla mollis, is a brilliant foamy clusters of tiny, star like flowers with velvety soft olive-green leaves. If summer temperatures are too high, grow in partial to full shade.

* Yellow Non Invasive Grass * Deer Resistant * Container Plant or Border * Fragrant butter-yellow blades Green and Gold Swords Stand Out in Any Landscape The Grass 'Golden Variegated Sweet Flag', Acorus gramineus Ogon, is a mounded, non-invasive rhizome...

But discerning designers have been using this subtle (and not so subtle, at the same time) beauty in designs for a while now. For discerning landscapes! Orange New Zealand Sedge (Carex testacea) isn't a mainstream garden plant yet.

It presents a great effect when planted near a rock or a small pond. This Autumn Fern reaches 2 feet in height and width. One of the Showiest Ferns! Autumn Fern, Dryopteris Erythrosora, is a plant that will provide a new color with every season! It is...

We suggest when planting your newly purchased St John's Wort Pumpkin plants that you dig a hole twice as wide as the root system but not deeper. Starter fertilizer is the best product to use at the time of planting.

You can plant other peonies with staggered bloom times to extend the total peony bloom period to approximately 6 weeks during May and June. Fragrant and with good foliage. Color is brilliant and of even tone with a silky luster.

Check the plant daily for the first week or so and then every other day there after. Uses: Extremely attractive when used as a focal point in the mixed border, mass planting. The most common cause of plant death after transplanting is planting the new...

Cut foliage to the ground and remove from the garden in fall after frost. An old standard that features very large, very fragrant, red double flowers. Also effective as accents or herbaceous hedges along fences, sidewalks, driveways or walls.

Remove spent flowers after blooming. Peony Shirley Temple is a shrubby plant that will typically grow to 3′ tall by mid-spring, bloom, display attractive foliage throughout the summer and early fall, and then die to the ground after frost.

Plants are long-lived, do not need to be divided and can be left undisturbed for years. Each plant will flower for approximately 7-10 days. Very large carnation shaped flowers with incurved petals, freely produced in clusters.

Water using the counting method for the first few weeks. Attracts pollinators and hummingbirds. That is why we do not recommend planting in a hole any deeper than the soil line of the plant in the pot.

Starter fertilizer is the best product to use at the time of planting. This selection has blooms of rich solid red. Huge rich red saucer-shaped flowers appear in mid summer and continue until frost.

We recommend feeding your Hibiscus Luna Rose in the very early spring and again in mid summer after all new growth has hardened off and it begins to set flower buds. This selection has blooms of rich solid pink.

Each flower has a prominent and showy central staminal column of white to pale yellow anthers surrounding an even longer style. From midsummer into early fall, showy ruffled flowers of thick substance are produced at several nodes up the stems with flowers...

Sword-shaped, linear green leaves (to 24” long) have prominent midribs. Plant rhizomes approximately 2” deep in fall or spring. Pond edges and moist borders welcome these glowing white blooms with a lime-green center to soften bold colors or to compliment...

We suggest when planting your newly purchased St John's Wort Red Fame plants that you dig a hole twice as wide as the root system but not deeper. Starter fertilizer is the best product to use at the time of planting.

Starter fertilizer is the best product to use at the time of planting. Fall pruning, especially in colder climates, can result in a quick flush of new growth that prevents dormancy and makes winter freezes potentially deadly.

Variegated foliage will brighten any woodland or damp garden setting. 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.

Effective in containers and hanging baskets. Excellent for use in containers. Star-shaped yellow flowers (1/2” wide) appear in terminal cymes in summer (June – August), but are not overly showy because of the lack of contrast with the yellow leaves.

Starter fertilizer is the best product to use at the time of planting. This stunning native deserves a spot in everyone's sunny garden. It is a blooming powerhouse from early summer to fall.

In mild winter regions, plant the rhizomes in fall. In too much shade, plants tend to produce fewer flowers and foliage tends to flop. After bloom, the foliage clump will retain its blue-green color into the fall, often displaying showy leaves reminiscent...

These plants will probably be varieties that you'll need to order (or special order from your local nursery), but the ones covered in this series over the next several articles will bring pleasure and interest to your gardens that will make the search...

We recommend feeding your Sedum fuldaglut in the very early spring and again in mid summer after all new growth has hardened off and it begins to set flower buds. Soft rose red flowers and the bronze-red coloring of the leaves persist all season.

It is a marginal aquatic plant that forms a clump of narrow, arching-to-erect, sword-shaped, blue-green leaves (to 24” long and 1” wide). Iris versicolor makes an excellent focal point in a small pond or can be used in an area that is too wet for...