Espoma products are easy to use, just sprinkle around the base of the plant and water it in. Deadheading also prevents Heuchera Autumn Bride from spreading through your yard, as it can be an effective self-seeder when the dead flowers are allowed to dry...
Divide clumps in spring every 3-4 years.A repeat bloomer. Best foliage color may occur in sunny spots with part afternoon shade. It is easy to grow like a heuchera and has the flower power of Tiarellas.
Plants feature pendant, two-spurred, heart-shaped flowers atop mounds of deeply dissected leaves. Are commonly called bleeding heart because protruding inner petals, more obvious in some species than others, purportedly appear to form a drop of blood...
St John's Wort Pumpkin is a yellow flowering perennial that produces bright orange to pink berries in the fall that do well in cut containers. The flowers are bright yellow and look almost tropical.
Remove the old flowers of Coreopsis Moonbeam as they become brown and unattractive. Cut back Coreopsis Moonbeam to within 6 inches of the ground after it has finished flowering. This stunning native deserves a spot in everyone's sunny garden.
In the St. Louis area, plants will remain evergreen in moderate winters, but may become scorched and tattered in extremely cold weather, particularly if not insulated by snow cover.
Showy daisy-like purple coneflowers (to 5″ diameter) bloom throughout summer atop stiff stems clad with coarse, ovate to broad-lanceolate, dark green leaves. Plants thrive in average soils and withstand hot and dry conditions.
It produces a mass of purple flowers over a long period from mid spring through the summer. Is commonly called rose verbena, clump verbena or rose vervain. Avoid wet, poorly drained soils.
Butterfly weed is a trouble-free perennial that will come up year after year in the same place without crowding its neighbors. Butterfly Weed is one of only a few plants that we do not recommend pruning.
This is a plant you will love for many years. It is noted for its long summer bloom of fragrant fluorescent pink flowers. The best mulch for the plant is pea stone or gravel, which helps keep the plant clean and suppresses weeds without holding extra...
All ferns grow best in soils with high organic matter content. It may be massed in woodland areas as a ground cover. Its variety name, Autumn Brilliance fern , refers to the lustrous orange color of the new growth.
Be careful with products such as miracle-grow as these products can burn newly planted plants when not used at the recommended rates. Remove the brown stems and leaves to give your plant a healthier and more attractive appearance.
Daylily Round Midnight reliably blooms on the seasons new growth, so prune to the ground during late winter or very early spring before growth starts. Espoma products are easy to use, just sprinkle around the base of the plant and water it in.
Flowers primarily bloom from late spring to early summer, but sporadic additional bloom may continue to appear throughout much of the remaining summer. Basal leaves (to 3” long) have petioles.
Growing only 15-“-20” tall (most ox-eyes grow to 3'-4') this little daisy covers itself in sunshine-yellow flowers with orange-gold centers all summer. Enjoy Bright Yellow Flowers all Summer Long Tuscan Sun Sunflower (Heliopsis 'Tuscan Sun' PP18,763)...
Use as a filler in containers for a wonderful foliage accent! This versatile plant has deer resistant foliage and will grow well in sun or shade. Cotton Candy Pink Flowers Lamium Pink Chablis, Lamium maculatum 'Pink Chablis' PPAF, is a new award winning...
A true, but showy, low-maintenance plant. Happy with poor soils and tough conditions, this native beauty handles heat and drought beautifully and can also tolerate the humidity of the deep south.
Mature Height: 18-24" tall
Planting Depth: Plant so that the top of the root is 1" below the soil line.
Excellent ground cover. ‘Angelina' is a yellow leaved cultivar featuring spiky yellow leaves (to 3/4” long) that often sport ginger brown tips. Plants will naturalize over time.
Rhizomes should be planted 1-2” below the soil surface and 1-2' apart. Divide plants as needed when overcrowding occurs and decreased flowering is evident. Plants in the Siberian iris group are chiefly of hybrid origin, primarily being derived from...
Nepeta Walker's Low thrives in harsh conditions. We highly recommend that you mulch your Nepeta Walker's Low with either a ground hardwood mulch or a ground cypress mulch depending on your local availability.
Our top choice for problem areas in the garden. Grows well in dry areas without much care. Through most of the summer, the dense mats are covered with bright, low spikes of lavender-pink.
Tassels disappear as fronds flatten with maturity. Consider planting rhizome at an angle to help combat potential crown rot problems which most often occur in poorly drained soils.
In Perovskia fashion, plant's stems retain calyxes long after flowers have quit, extending the color pleasure. Hardy plants are heat- and drought tolerant, and welcoming to pollinators.
Awarded 2007 Perennial Plant of the Year by the Perennial Plant Association. This low-maintenance catmint keeps its blue-green, aromatic leaves neat through the summer. Violet-blue spikes top this low grower, lending a soft, muted feel to the garden.
Spent flowers should be cut back for a repeat performance in fall. Salvia Blue Hills is a sun perennial with sky blue spikes of flowers rise above a mound of aromatic gray-green foliage and blooms June – September.
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. Loves acidic, organically rich, saturated, moisture-retentive soils.
This Autumn Fern reaches 2 feet in height and width. Here's a plant that will be with you season after season! Nature Hills offers you large, well established 1 gallon plants. One of the Showiest Ferns! Autumn Fern, Dryopteris Erythrosora, is a plant...
