Perennial Plants For Full Sun

Butterfly Plant A. It is also utilized by monarch butterflies for egg-laying. Use in mass plantings, as a border plant, or as a tall ground cover. Incarnata Ice Ballet, 'Asclepias' is a beacon for butterflies and a low care perennial.

The value of this long-lived and low-maintenance fountain grass comes from the varied colors and textures of the foliage as well as the striking flower spikes. This plant thrives in well-drained soil.

Any type of mulch will do but cypress or hardwood mulch will be of a higher quality and provide better nutrition overall as they breakdown. Check the plant daily for the first week or so and then every other day there after.

Peonies are a standard of the perennial border, both as specimens and in groups. Excellent cut flower. Flowers are extremely showy, and foliage remains attractive throughout the growing season, either alone or as a frame or backdrop for other flowering...

Once they're established, they're as hardy and dependable as oaks, creating a fantastic season of bloom in your yard year after year. Color is brilliant and of even tone with a silky luster.

Also effective as accents or herbaceous hedges along fences, sidewalks, driveways or walls. Peony Karl Rosenfield is a shrubby plant that will typically grow to 3′ tall by mid-spring, bloom, display attractive foliage throughout the summer and early...

A general rule of thumb is to count to 5 for every one gallon of pot size. Depending on the quality of your existing soil you may need to add a locally sourced compost or topsoil to the back-fill soil.

The spreading clumps form hedges. Older proven variety that's still quite popular! The Peony is an extremely long lived, hardy, shrub-like plant. Very large carnation shaped flowers with incurved petals, freely produced in clusters.

Any type of mulch will do but cypress or hardwood mulch will be of a higher quality and provide better nutrition overall as they breakdown. Check the plant daily for the first week or so and then every other day there after.

For example a one gallon pot would be watered until you count to 5 a three gallon pot would be 15 and so on. 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...

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 to rot.

However, once new growth begins, it proceeds quite rapidly. Tolerates some light shade, but full sun with good air circulation produces the best flowers, the strongest stems and the best environment for resisting potential diseases.

Adding compost or topsoil will help the young feeder roots to spread through the loose, nutrient rich soil, much easier than if you used solely the existing soil which more times than not will be hard and compacted.

Plants are long lived and can grow into very large clumps. Uses: Extremely attractive when used as a focal point in the mixed border, mass planting. In warmer climates, cut it back in the spring before it begins to bud.

Salvia Caradonna is a unique cultivar of the reliable genus and species Salvia nemorosa. It typically forms a foliage mound to 12” tall. In summer, dense terminal spikes of violet-blue flowers rise above the foliage to 24” tall.

Blue Hill is easily grown in average, dry to medium, well-drained soils in full sun. Blue Hill's smaller size makes it perfect for a border garden or container. Salvia Blue Hill has rough green foliage with numerous spikes of sky blue blooms rising a...

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. Like any geranium, it can tolerate some dryness and prefers to be grown...

This is not to be rushed. A favorite perennial for its showy blooms. The most common cause of plant death after transplanting is planting the new plant to deep. Fall pruning, especially in colder climates, can result in a quick flush of new growth that...

, commonly called Japanese iris or Japanese water iris, is a rhizomatous beardless perennial iris that grows in slowly expanding clumps to 2-4' tall. Synonymous with Easily grown in average, medium to wet soils in full sun to part shade.

, commonly called Lenten rose, is a clump-forming, late winter-blooming perennial which typically grows 1-1.5′ tall. Although the foliage is evergreen, it may become scorched and tattered in extremely harsh winters, particularly if not sited in locations...

Fall pruning, especially in colder climates, can result in a quick flush of new growth that prevents dormancy and makes winter freezes potentially deadly. Water using the counting method for the first few weeks.

Flowers (typically 3-6” across) have a distinctively flattened appearance. However in winter, it is intolerant of both standing water and boggy soils where rhizomes may rot. Sword-shaped, linear green leaves (to 24” long) have prominent midribs.

Deadheading also prevents Sedum Autumn Fire from spreading through your yard, as it can be an effective self-seeder when the dead flowers are allowed to dry completely and go to seed this would cause problems for your garden as the seedling would not...

Achillea Strawberry Seduction does prefer drier soils so if there was ever a plant that we would recommend not adding topsoil or compost this is one. Remove these brown stems and leaves to give your plant a healthier and more attractive appearance.

Salvia May Night is easily grown in average, dry to medium, well-drained soils in full sun. Plants may spread somewhat rapidly in optimum growing conditions. Flowers primarily bloom from late spring to early summer, but sporadic additional bloom may continue...

It was reportedly named English lavender because of its ability to grow well in the English climate. Lavender has been grown for centuries for its intensely fragrant flowers and beautiful appearance.

Shear off faded flowers in June to re-bloom. For example a one gallon pot would be watered until you count to 5 a three gallon pot would be 15 and so on. Yarrow tends to grow more and more stems on the outside, leaving the inner stems to die away, which...