Perennial Plants For Ohio

Follow this up with another early summer application of , this will again provide the necessary nutrients to promote a flush of beautiful flowers. Uses: Extremely attractive when used as a focal point in the mixed border, mass planting.

Cut it back in the spring before it begins to bud. Feeding your plants is probably the single most forgotten part of growing healthy long lasting plants. Starter fertilizer is the best product to use at the time of planting.

Features large, cup-shaped, rose-like, usually nodding flowers (3-4″ diameter) with center crowns of conspicuously contrasting yellow stamens. Best grown in organically rich, humusy, well-drained soils in part shade to full shade.

Cutting back will promote new growth, giving you a healthier plant with stronger stems. 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. Very large carnation shaped flowers with incurved petals, freely produced in clusters. Each plant will flower for approximately 7-10 days. You can plant other peonies with staggered bloom times to extend the total peony...

Its better to leave a one inch gap of space between the mulch and the stem or base of the plant. Compared to some of its other hosta cousins, Guacamole has a chartreuse edge and white flowers.

This procedure, called deadheading, encourages the Daylily Mini Pearl plant to produce new flowers, keeping your plant looking attractive throughout the season. We do not recommend using straight topsoil or compost as a back-fill soil because more times...

Also effective as accents or herbaceous hedges along fences, sidewalks, driveways or walls. Once they're established, they're as hardy and dependable as oaks, creating a fantastic season of bloom in your yard year after year.

Sporadic repeat blooms until frost, particularly in autumn. Divide clumps in spring every 3-4 years.A repeat bloomer. Foliage clump typically rises 5-8″ tall. In cold winter climates, a winter mulch applied after the ground freezes will help prevent...

Indoor houseplant fertilizers fall into two groups: water soluble, liquid quick release, and granular, slow release fertilizers. Genus name honors Austrian botanist Nicholas Thomas Host (1761-1834).

A general rule of thumb is to count to 5 for every one gallon of pot size. For example a one gallon pot would be watered until you count to 5 a three gallon pot would be 15 and so on.

This variety features a mound of large, variegated, oval, which have deep green centers and wide irregular white margins. Prefers bright shade and humus-rich, moist, well-drained soil, but will tolerate average to dry soils and full shade.

Peonies are a standard of the perennial border, both as specimens and in groups. Older proven variety that's still quite popular! The Peony is an extremely long lived, hardy, shrub-like plant.

Its probably one of the most popular choices for the home landscape. Hostas are not only known for their flowers, they also provide bright color in shade with wonderful foliage. It flowers bloom from July to August.

Remove the old flowers of Astilbe Fanal as they become brown and unattractive but this is not necessary as the dried plumes provide added interest in the landscape. Showy perennial for beautiful summer color in shady areas.

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 Felix Crousse is a bright deep red peony with some silvering.

Deadheading also prevents Daylily Round Midnight 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...

It features fragrant light lavender flowers in summer on upright stems clad with aromatic silver-gray foliage. It is a semi-woody plant that typically grows in a shrubby mound to 2-4' tall.

Plants thrive in average soils and withstand hot and dry conditions. It typically grows in an upright clump to 2-3′ tall and to 1-1.5′ wide on sturdy, well-branched stems that do not need staking.

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...

A good rule is that you should still be able to see the soil the plant was grown in after back-filling the hole. 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.

May Night is a mint family member and is slightly aromatic when crushed. Moreover, The Plant List considers a large number of hybrids sold in commerce today under different names to be synonyms of plants, by and large, are branched, upright, clump-forming,...

This is a semi-woody plant that typically grows to 1.5-3'. They generally flower in midsummer, a little later than the English types. The hybrid Lavenders are sometimes known as Lavandin.

Feeding your plants is probably the single most forgotten part of growing healthy long lasting plants. We recommend feeding your Nepeta Walker's Low in the very early spring and again in mid summer after all new growth has hardened off and it begins to...

Wrinkled, lance-shaped, light green leaves (to 4” long) are aromatic. Plants may repeat bloom throughout the summer, but need regular moisture to encourage this. This German selection has a nice compact habit, and flowers of deep violet-purple.

‘Little Joe' is a more compact cultivar than the species, typically growing in a clump to 3-4' tall and to 1-3' wide. Generally intolerant of shady locations. Details: Moist areas in borders, cottage gardens, meadows, native plant gardens, wild/naturalized...

Remove these brown stems and leaves to give your plant a healthier and more attractive appearance. Achillea Paprika is an easy care perennial that will thrive in just about any dry to average soil.