Perennial Flowers For Pots

The broadly veined leaves sit up off the ground and gracefully arc towards the earth with bicolor beauty. Large, textured heart shaped leaves emerge from a central root base. A 2 to 3 inch layer of mulch is sufficient but remember to take care not to...

Most of the water you put on the plant at first will run away from the plant until the soil is soaked. Slow-release fertilizer can help prevent rapid soft growth that is vulnerable to diseases and insects.

Excellent cut flower. An old standard that features very large, very fragrant, red double flowers. Remove spent flowers after blooming. Each plant will flower for approximately 7-10 days.

Heucherella Brass Lantern combines the best traits of Heuchera and Tiarella. Remove stems of faded flowers to encourage additional bloom and to tidy plantings so that the attractive foliage can be fully appreciated.

Hosta Sum and Substance can handle some bright, indirect light or filtered sun but the delightful foliage will burn with too much sunlight. A lively, personable plant, Hosta Sum and Substance looks best when paired with japanese maples, black mondo grass,...

Astilbe Snowdrift does prefer moist soils so if there was ever a plant that we would recommend adding topsoil or compost in copious amounts this is one. Gorgeous in mass plantings but will not tolerate long periods of drought.

Green leaves edged in white and contrast to the shade garden! Hosta Patriot boasts strong white margin on dark green heart-shaped leaves. They can be used as an edging plant or en mass for a showy ground cover.

Flowers are extremely showy, and foliage remains attractive throughout the growing season, either alone or as a frame or backdrop for other flowering perennials. Peony Shirley Temple is a shrubby plant that will typically grow to 3′ tall by mid-spring,...

Hosta Albomarginata has soft green leaves with white bands, making it very striking. It flowers bloom from July to August. Hosta Albomarginata is a widely popular shade perennial with soft green leaves striped with white bands, making it very striking.

A general rule of thumb is to count to 5 for every one gallon of pot size. 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...

Peony Felix Crousse 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.

A general rule of thumb is to count to 5 for every one gallon of pot size. We highly recommend that you mulch your Daylily Round Midnight with either a ground hardwood mulch or a ground cypress mulch depending on your local availability.

From the lovely chartreuse foliage to the beautiful bluish purple flowers, this is a ground cover unlike any other. Sweet Kate has brilliant gold foliage that will brighten any shady spot.

It may be massed in woodland areas as a ground cover. Plants slowly spread over time by short creeping rhizomes. It is native to woodland hillsides and mountain slopes in Japan, China and Taiwan.

Mass as in a group as a ground cover . Useful in rock gardens, borders and open woodland gardens. The chartreuse foliage will stand out in any shady garden, be it in a pot, garden bed, or as a mass planting.

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. This heuchera shade perennial is a robust grower with fuzzy leaves that range in color from apricot to amber with...

Prefers part shade (particularly with afternoon shade) in the hot summers of the deep South. Remove stems of faded flower panicles to encourage continued bloom (bloom is more apt to repeat in cool summer climates than hot ones).

Stems die back completely to the ground in winter, but new growth is slow to appear in spring, so be patient! Old stems can be pruned to the ground in mid spring. After back filling and lightly compacting the 50/50 mix of existing soil and compost give...

Stems die back completely to the ground in winter, but new growth is slow to appear in spring, so be patient! An especially compact variety, this forms a medium-sized bushy mound of dark green leaves.

Site in locations protected from wind to minimize the risk of wind burn. Showy, dinner plate-sized, hollyhock-like flowers (each to 4-6” diameter) have five overlapping white, creamy white or pink petals with reddish-purple to dark crimson bases which...

Meaning injures/destroys in reference to the plant's toxic leaves, stems and roots which are poisonous to humans if ingested. Outward-facing, cup-shaped, creamy white flowers (to 2-3” diameter) with overlapping petals bloom atop reddish stems from late...

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.

Large variety of color combinations and patterns. Hybrid hellebores, sometimes commonly called hybrid Lenten roses or hybrid winter roses, are bushy, clump-forming perennials which typically grow to 12-15” tall.

Sword-shaped, linear green leaves (to 24” long) have prominent midribs. Loves acidic, organically rich, saturated, moisture-retentive soils. , commonly called Japanese iris or Japanese water iris, is a rhizomatous beardless perennial iris that grows...

St John's Wort Red Fame produces cheery yellow flowers in early spring and in summer produces bright red berries. Check the plant daily for the first week or so and then every other day there after.

Cool season plant. Clusters of purple flowers appear and spring and continue off and on through fall. Clusters of deep magenta-purple flowers are larger than all other varieties, appearing in spring then continuing off and on until fall.

Mulching helps to keep weeds away which will compete with your new investment for water and nutrients. We suggest when planting your newly purchased Daylily Happy Returns plants that you dig a hole twice as wide as the root system but not deeper.