Perennials For Shade Perennials For Sale In Philadelphia

We highly recommend that you mulch your Daylily Happy Returns with either a ground hardwood mulch or a ground cypress mulch depending on your local availability. Uses: Extremely attractive when used as a focal point in the mixed border, mass planting.

This Hosta is a large, outstanding perennial with a big personality and brightly colored foliage. The genus was subsequently renamed in 1817 as // > Some bright, filtered sun but too much will burn the foliage.

Cutting back will promote new growth, giving you a healthier plant with stronger stems. Strong grower that deserves a lot more use We suggest when planting your newly purchased Heuchera Autumn Bride plants that you dig a hole twice as wide as the root...

To perform best wild geranium prefers partial shade to shade. Wild geranium is a beautiful, easily grown perennial wildflower for use in the naturalistic woodland garden. Easily grown in average, medium, well-drained soil in full sun to part shade.

Leaves are evergreen in warm winter climates. It gets its cultivar name from the area in southeastern France adjacent to the Mediterranean and Italy (Provence) where it is commercially grown in large plantings for the perfume industry.

Check the plant daily for the first week or so and then every other day there after. Water using the counting method for the first few weeks. Any type of mulch will do but cypress or hardwood mulch will be of a higher quality and provide better nutrition...

Smaller upper stem leaves are sessile. Plants like cool night temperatures (best performance is north of USDA Zone 7). Plants may spread somewhat rapidly in optimum growing conditions.

A 2 to 3 inch layer of mulch is sufficient but remember to take care not to cover any part of the stem of the plant with mulch. The most common cause of plant death after transplanting is planting the new plant to deep.

Mulching helps to keep weeds away which will compete with your new investment for water and nutrients. After back filling and lightly compacting the 50/50 mix of existing soil and compost give the Aster Divaricatus a good deep watering.

This is not to be rushed. Most of the water you put on the plant at first will run away from the plant until the soil is soaked. Follow this up with another early summer application of , this will again provide the necessary nutrients to promote a flush...

It also makes an excellent accent for plants with dark foliage. Excellent ground cover. Border fronts or rock gardens. This vigorous, mat-forming, evergreen species has electric golden-yellow foliage that holds its color through the heat of summer.

Cut foliage to the ground and remove from the garden in fall after frost. This pure-white double Peony is named for the famous child star of Hollywood in the 1940s and is a big favorite among peony-lovers.

Narrow-ovate leaves (to 6” long) are medium green. Big, pure white flowers with yellow-gold centers brighten the garden from early summer to fall. Plants usually rebloom without deadheading, however prompt removal of spent flowers improves general appearance.

Evergreen perennial with cup-shaped nodding blooms in colors ranging from cream, pink to red in late winter. Hybrid hellebores, sometimes commonly called hybrid Lenten roses or hybrid winter roses, are bushy, clump-forming perennials which typically grow...

1991 Perennial Plant of the Year. Heuchera Palace Purple looks great in the border in clumps, as edging, or in nooks in the rock garden. Attractive foliage and airy flower panicles provide color and contrast to the rock garden, perennial border, open...

A good rule is that you should still be able to see the soil the plant was grown in after back-filling the hole. Remove these brown stems and leaves to give your plant a healthier and more attractive appearance.

You can plant other peonies with staggered bloom times to extend the total peony bloom period to approximately 6 weeks during May and June. Peony Felix Crousse is a bright deep red peony with some silvering.

It is a naturally occurring beneficial fungus that colonizes on the new growing roots of plants. Dainty pink tinged white flowers cover this hardy geranium from late spring well into summer.

Each flower may last up to two weeks! Makes a wonderful and long lasting cut flower. Features large, daisy-like flowers (3-4″ across) with deep yellow rays and dark brownish-black center disks.

Best grown with regular and consistent moisture during the growing season. Avoid using a heavy layer of organic mulch on this plant, because it could hold water during the growing season and over winter, promoting rotting of its crown.

Prefers slightly alkaline soils. Remove spent flowers to promote continued bloom. The best mulch for the plant is pea stone or gravel, which helps keep the plant clean and suppresses weeds without holding extra water.

Water using the counting method for the first few weeks. Apply an early spring fertilizer with a product at the recommended rate this will give the plant like , which will give a boost of nitrogen and potash that will be needed for healthy foliage and...

Each flower (to 3-4″ diameter) features downward-arching, overlapping, deep rose-purple rays which encircle a large orange-brown center cone. It typically grows to 2-4′ tall. Echinacea Pow Wow Wild berry is a 2010 All-America Selection (AAS) winner.

Hosta Patriot boasts strong white margin on dark green heart-shaped leaves. Looks good all season. Prefers bright shade and humus-rich, moist, well-drained soil, but will tolerate average to dry soils and full shade.

A 2 to 3 inch layer of mulch is sufficient but remember to take care not to cover any part of the stem of the plant with mulch. Hibiscus such as Hibiscus Luna Red are late to emerge after the winters nap.

Easily grown in average, dry to medium, well-drained soil in full sun. Flowers are attractive to bees and butterflies. Plants may become somewhat floppy and open up as the summer progresses, particularly in humid climates.

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. After back filling and lightly compacting the 50/50 mix of existing soil and compost give the Asclepias incarnata...