Perennials For Shade Perennials For Sale In Washington

A garden favorite for years, it's fairly tall at 3′, and has evenly spaced pink hearts suspended gracefully on its long stems. It prefers no direct sun—a delight for shade gardeners—and blooms happily in April and May.

It flowers bloom from July to August. Hosta Albomarginata is a widely popular shade perennial with soft green leaves striped with white bands, making it very striking. Hosta Albomarginata has soft green leaves with white bands, making it very striking.

Heuchera Caramel has purplish-red leaf undersides that offers an attractive contrast, along with white flowers float above the 12″ foliage in early to mid summer. This shade perennial is a great addition to your yard or landscape.

Its better to leave a one inch gap of space between the mulch and the stem or base of the plant. Prune the central stems of the yarrow if they begin to die back. Any type of mulch will do but cypress or hardwood mulch will be of a higher quality and provide...

Feeding your plants is probably the single most forgotten part of growing healthy long lasting plants. The showiest of the shade-loving Asters! White woodland asters have clusters of bright white flowers in late summer, brightening up the late season...

Peony Felix Crousse is a shrubby plant that will typically grow to 3′ tall by mid-spring, bloom, display attractive foliage throughout the summer and early fall, and then die to the ground after frost.

Heuchera Citronelle is a vigorous, clump-forming, compact coral bells cultivar. The chartreuse foliage will stand out in any shady garden, be it in a pot, garden bed, or as a mass planting.

However, some important species are native to woodland areas in the East and Southeast. Plants range in size from dwarf alpine plants with flower spikes rising to only 5” tall to much larger woodland plants with flower spikes towering to 36” tall.

This variety features a mound of large, variegated, oval, which have deep green centers and wide irregular white margins. Green leaves edged in white and contrast to the shade garden! Hosta Patriot boasts strong white margin on dark green heart-shaped...

Flat-topped clusters of 5-petaled, rose-pink to rose-purple flowers appear atop ascending stems in a long, late spring to late summer bloom. It is a Missouri native perennial that typically occurs in prairies, fields, pastures, rocky glades, roadsides...

Plants are long-lived, do not need to be divided and can be left undisturbed for years. You can plant other peonies with staggered bloom times to extend the total peony bloom period to approximately 6 weeks during May and June.

Be careful with products such as miracle-grow as these products can burn newly planted plants when not used at the recommended rates. Dwarf Mondo Grass is a darkly colored houseplant that can do well in low light and is an excellent grassy choice for...

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.

Be careful with products such as miracle-grow as these products can burn newly planted plants when not used at the recommended rates. Water using the counting method for the first few weeks.

, commonly called Lenten rose, is a clump-forming, late winter-blooming perennial which typically grows 1-1.5′ tall. New plants can be obtained from division of the clumps (best in spring) and from seedlings which grow up around the plants as a result...

Flowers appear at the tips of branched stems clad with evergreen dark green leaves which are divided into glossy, leathery, deeply-lobed, often toothed, lanceolate to elliptic segments.

This is a semi-woody plant that typically grows to 1.5-3'. Choose a location with excellent drainage. Attractive to butterflies. The hybrid Lavenders are sometimes known as Lavandin.

Good edging plant. Dense mats may be grown together to form an interesting ground cover. Plants may die out in the center, however, if drainage is not superior. May also be grown on difficult sites such as stone walls.

This is not to be rushed. We love this product and use it on all plants we install in our own gardens. Thrives in full sun or part shade. This procedure, called deadheading, encourages the Amsonia hubrichtii plant to produce new flowers, keeping your...

Here's a plant that will be with you season after season! Nature Hills offers you large, well established 1 gallon plants. Use in pots indoors or for a patio or deck plant. It is one of the few perennials that will grow happily beneath large shade trees...

Sweet Kate is an easy-to-grow perennial that produces a profusion of unusual deep-blue flowers from summer to fall. Few plants shine as brightly as Sweet Kate does in the shade garden.

Remove faded flowers to promote continued bloom. Lavender Provence' is one of the tallest of the lavandins. Grow in average, dry to medium, well-drained, alkaline soil in full sun.

Showy daisy-like purple coneflowers (to 5″ diameter) bloom throughout summer atop stiff stems clad with coarse, ovate to broad-lanceolate, dark green leaves. A North American native in the Daisy family, Echinacea produce big, bright flowers from late...

Often repeat blooms in late summer or fall. This selection forms a bushy mound of silver foliage, with long spikes of purple-blue flowers. Lavender Phenomenal is one of the hardiest and is extremely easy to grow, withstanding high heat and humidity.

They are drought and heat tolerant with long-lasting magnificent displays of large daisies with coned centers. Echinacea HARVEST MOON is a new hybrid coneflower in the Big Sky Series from Richard Saul of Itsaul Nurseries in Atlanta, Georgia.

Dianthus Neon Star is a hybrid dianthus that typically grows in an upright rounded mound to 8-12″ tall and to 6-12 inches wide. The common name of pink for plants in the genus is in probable reference to the flower petal margins (they appear to have...

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. Follow this up with another early summer application of , this will again provide the necessary nutrients to promote a flush...