Perennials For Shade Perennials For Sale In San Diego

This Heucheralle is a vigorous, clump-forming, compact coral bells cultivar. Useful in rock gardens, borders and open woodland gardens. Effective as an edger along paths or walkways.

After back filling and lightly compacting the 50/50 mix of existing soil and compost give your Dwarf Mondo Grass a good deep watering. Adding compost or topsoil will help the young feeder roots to spread through the loose, nutrient rich soil, much easier...

The revised edition of Steyermark's Flora of Missouri (Yatskievych and Turner) now lists the plant as based upon a number of factors including plant morphology, chromosome number, style length, reproductive modes and ploidal levels (see Umber, The Genus...

Few plants shine as brightly as Sweet Kate does in the shade garden. The purple iris like flowers are striking against the gold foliage. Sweet Kate is an easy-to-grow perennial that produces a profusion of unusual deep-blue flowers from summer to fall.

In warmer climates, cut it back in the spring before it begins to bud. Most of the water you put on the plant at first will run away from the plant until the soil is soaked. Espoma starter fertilizer is the best product to use at the time of planting.

Butterfly weed does prefer drier soils in the winter so if there was ever a plant that we would recommend not adding topsoil or compost this is one. A tough, drought-tolerant native with intense orange flowers in mid to late summer.

This German selection has a nice compact habit, and flowers of deep violet-purple. Remove faded flowers to encourage repeat blooming, or simply cut back hard after flowering is finished.

Its probably one of the most popular choices for the home landscape. Hosta Albomarginata has soft green leaves with white bands, making it very striking. Hostas are not only known for their flowers, they also provide bright color in shade with wonderful...

Dianthus Baths Pink is a mat-forming dianthus (also commonly called cheddar pinks) produces numerous, fringed and fragrant, star-like, soft pink, 1″ diameter flowers singly atop wiry stems (to 10″ tall) arising from mounds of grassy, blue-green, linear...

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.

We suggest when planting your newly purchased Astilbe Snowdrift plants that you dig a hole twice as wide as the root system but not deeper. We love this product and use it on all plants we install in our own gardens.

Espoma products are easy to use, just sprinkle around the base of the plant and water it in. 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.

Clumps establish fairly quickly. Palmate, serrate, leathery, 8-16″ wide, glossy, basal, dark green leaves (7-9 leaflets) are evergreen in warm climates but deciduous in extremely cold winters.

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. Our ideal fertilizer schedule for you to use is as follows.

Showy perennial for beautiful summer color in shady areas. The most common cause of plant death after transplanting is planting the new plant to deep. A general rule of thumb is to count to 5 for every one gallon of pot size.

An adaptable plant that is tolerant of drought, heat, humidity and poor soil. ‘Echinacea Pow Wow White' is a white-flowered coneflower that typically grows in an upright clump to 2-3′ tall and to 1-1.5′ wide on sturdy, well-branched stems that do...

Narrow, gray-green leaves (to 2 1/2” long) on square stems. Lavender Hidcote is a compact mounded form typically growing to 20” tall and featuring deep purple-blue flowers and gray foliage.

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.

Deeply cut, palmately 5-lobed, dark green leaves (to 6″ across). They rise on a sturdy stem above attractively textured palmate leaves. The 1¼” wide pink to magenta flowers are delicately colored and veined.

Nepeta Walker's Low thrives in harsh conditions. Most of the water you put on the plant at first will run away from the plant until the soil is soaked. Nepeta Walker's Low does prefer drier soils so if there was ever a plant that we would recommend not...

Maiden Grass cultivars have long been beloved by gardeners for their beauty and hardiness, and Little Kitten Maiden Grass is no exception. Plant a few of these for a lovely groundcover or naturalized look in your side yard.

It is a staple item of every sunny garden, and its dried flowers are widely used in potpourris and arrangements. Excellent for fresh cutting, this is an excellent Lavender selection for drying.

Be careful with products such as miracle-grow as these products can burn newly planted plants when not used at the recommended rates. Most of the water you put on the plant at first will run away from the plant until the soil is soaked.

Pick a few stems to bring inside for the vase, too! Beautyberry is a shrub prized for its showy fruit, but this one also sports beautiful purple foliage, all season long. With an upright growth habit, ‘Pearl Glam' dazzles with its pink flowers but saves...

Dense mats may be grown together to form an interesting ground cover. Long flowering German Hybrid with ice-blue foliage forms a tidy mat that stays evergreen. Good edging plant. Prefers slightly alkaline soils.

Looks great in a container. Flowers bloom from late spring to early summer with continued but somewhat sporadic additional bloom to fall. Dianthus Neon Star is a hybrid dianthus that typically grows in an upright rounded mound to 8-12″ tall and to 6-12...

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.