Perennial Flowers For Illinois

The most common cause of plant death after transplanting is planting the new plant to deep. Cutting back will promote new growth, giving you a healthier plant with stronger stems. We highly recommend that you mulch your Hosta Guacamole with either a ground...

Water using the counting method for the first few weeks. Its better to leave a one inch gap of space between the mulch and the stem or base of the plant. Starter fertilizer is the best product to use at the time of planting.

Once they're established, they're as hardy and dependable as oaks, creating a fantastic season of bloom in your yard year after year. Peony Sarah Bernhardt is a shrubby plant that will typically grow to 3′ tall by mid-spring, bloom, display attractive...

Best grown in organically rich, humusy, medium moisture, well-drained soils in full sun to part shade. Sporadic repeat blooms until frost, particularly in autumn. Divide clumps in spring every 3-4 years.A repeat bloomer.

This Hosta is a large, outstanding perennial with a big personality and brightly colored foliage. As a result, they make large, bold additions to any garden. Unlike other hostas, Sum and Substance is very large, 2 to 3 feet tall and 5 to 6 feet wide.

They can be cut and brought into the house and used in arrangements. Most of the water you put on the plant at first will run away from the plant until the soil is soaked. Depending on the quality of your existing soil you may need to add a locally sourced...

This variety features a mound of large, variegated, oval, which have deep green centers and wide irregular white margins. Green leaves edged in white and contrast to the shade garden! Hosta Patriot boasts strong white margin on dark green heart-shaped...

Older proven variety that's still quite popular! The Peony is an extremely long lived, hardy, shrub-like plant. Excellent cut flower. Glossy green foliage is divided into oval to lance-shaped leaflets.

Hosta Albomarginata has soft green leaves with white bands, making it very striking. Its probably one of the most popular choices for the home landscape. It flowers bloom from July to August.

They can be cut and brought into the house and used in arrangements. We do not recommend using straight topsoil or compost as a back-fill soil because more times than not these products will retain entirely to much moisture and will cause the root system...

Also effective as accents or herbaceous hedges along fences, sidewalks, driveways or walls. Older proven variety that's still quite popular! The Peony is an extremely long lived, hardy, shrub-like plant.

Feeding your plants is probably the single most forgotten part of growing healthy long lasting plants. Remove the old flowers of Daylily Round Midnight as they become brown and unattractive.

From the lovely chartreuse foliage to the beautiful bluish purple flowers, this is a ground cover unlike any other. Sweet Kate is an easy-to-grow perennial that produces a profusion of unusual deep-blue flowers from summer to fall.

They thrive in open or dappled shade. , commonly called Japanese shield fern or autumn brilliance fern, is an arching, evergreen (semi-evergreen in cold winter climates) fern that grows in a vase-shaped clump to 2′ tall and as wide.

Useful in rock gardens, borders and open woodland gardens. Let this lime green superstar make your shade garden shine. Does well in containers. Heuchera Citronelle is a vigorous, clump-forming, compact coral bells cultivar.

The foliage of this tough heat and humidity tolerant Heuchera is golden apricot with a slight earthy green or rose tint on the newer leaves. Heuchera Caramel has purplish-red leaf undersides that offers an attractive contrast, along with white flowers...

Best grown in organically rich, humusy, well-drained soils. If grown in full sun, consistent moisture is needed and soil should not be allowed to dry out. Divide clumps in spring every 3-4 years.

Most of the water you put on the plant at first will run away from the plant until the soil is soaked. Trust me this will pay off. Any type of mulch will do but cypress or hardwood mulch will be of a higher quality and provide better nutrition overall...

This is not to be rushed. Water is very important for the overall happiness of this plant and should be done on a regular basis until well established. We highly recommend that you mulch your Hibiscus Luna Rose with either a ground hardwood mulch or a...

Deadhead individual flowers to maintain plant appearance. Regular deep watering is advisable. New growth shoots are slow to emerge in spring. Showy, dinner plate-sized, hollyhock-like flowers (each to 4-6” diameter) have five overlapping white, creamy...

Flowers appear at the tips of branched stems clad with evergreen dark green leaves which are divided into glossy, leathery, deeply-lobed, often toothed, lanceolate to elliptic segments.

Bloom typically commences in mid to late winter extending into early spring. Bloom period can be longer in mild winters. Hybrid hellebores, sometimes commonly called hybrid Lenten roses or hybrid winter roses, are bushy, clump-forming perennials which...

Flowers bloom in a large variety of colors, including various shades and tints of white, pink, red, purple, and yellow, and sometimes have inside spotting. Flowers appear at the tips of branched stems clad with evergreen dark green leaves which are divided...

, commonly called Japanese iris or Japanese water iris, is a rhizomatous beardless perennial iris that grows in slowly expanding clumps to 2-4' tall. Pond edges and moist borders welcome these glowing white blooms with a lime-green center to soften bold...

We recommend feeding your St John's Wort Red Fame in the very early spring and again in mid summer after all new growth has hardened off and it begins to set flower buds. Most of the water you put on the plant at first will run away from the plant until...

Clusters of deep magenta-purple flowers are larger than all other varieties, appearing in spring then continuing off and on until fall. Cool season plant. Deer resistant. It makes a great woodland ground cover and “spiller” for containers.

Its better to leave a one inch gap of space between the mulch and the stem or base of the plant. Attracts pollinators and hummingbirds. In warmer climates, cut it back in the spring before it begins to bud.