Perennials For Sun Perennials For Sale In Aurora

It is a naturally occurring beneficial fungus that colonizes on the new growing roots of plants. The most common cause of plant death after transplanting is planting the new plant to deep.

Plants may repeat bloom throughout the summer. Spent flowers should be cut back for a repeat performance in fall. Blue Hill's smaller size makes it perfect for a border garden or container.

Narrow, linear, gray-green leaves typically form a dense mound of grass-like foliage. Add lime to acidic soils to adjust the soil pH. Prefers fertile, slightly alkaline, loose, somewhat gritty loams with good drainage.

Blooms last well cut or dried, and the seeds in the large cone at the center of the flower head provide nourishment for birds when finished blooming. Flowers bloom from late spring to late summer, sometimes with additional sporadic bloom until frost.

After back filling and lightly compacting the 50/50 mix of existing soil and compost give the Hibiscus Luna Red a good deep watering. Remove the brown stems and leaves to give your plant a healthier and more attractive appearance.

Ice Ballet prefers to be planted in full sun and needs well drained soil. Showy flowers begin blooming in early summer and last well into fall. Incarnata Ice Ballet, 'Asclepias' is a beacon for butterflies and a low care perennial.

The most popular of our native wildflowers. Doing so can cause rotting of the stem and death to the plant. Blooms last well cut or dried, and the seeds in the large cone at the center of the flower head provide nourishment for birds when finished blooming.

Does well in containers. This Heucheralle is a vigorous, clump-forming, compact coral bells cultivar. Useful in rock gardens, borders and open woodland gardens. The chartreuse foliage will stand out in any shady garden, be it in a pot, garden bed, or...

U.S. Plant Patent PP12,242 issued December 4, 2001. If not cut back, plants may eventually reach 24” in height by the end of the summer. Blooms last well cut or dried, and the seeds in the large cone at the center of the flower head provide nourishment...

A good rule is that you should still be able to see the soil the plant was grown in after back-filling the hole. Depending on the quality of your existing soil you may need to add a locally sourced compost or topsoil to the back-fill soil.

Starter fertilizer is the best product to use at the time of planting. Remove the brown stems and leaves to give your plant a healthier and more attractive appearance. After back filling and lightly compacting the 50/50 mix of existing soil and compost...

Each plant will flower for approximately 7-10 days. Cut foliage to the ground and remove from the garden in fall after frost. The classic double red Peony, this early-season bloomer produces huge, deep red blooms that are showstoppers in the garden and...

Pond edges and moist borders welcome these stately blue blooms. In order to meet these somewhat unusual seasonal cultural requirements, plants may be grown in pots that are sunk half way in water during the growing season but then removed to dryer ground...

Clusters of purple flowers appear and spring and continue off and on through fall. It makes a great woodland ground cover and “spiller” for containers. Plant patented. Purple Dragon forms a spreading patch of small silver leaves with a green edge.

Large variety of color combinations and patterns. Bloom typically commences in mid to late winter extending into early spring. Flowers appear at the tips of branched stems clad with evergreen dark green leaves which are divided into glossy, leathery,...

If grown in full sun, consistent moisture is particularly important. Foliage clump typically rises 5-8″ tall. It is a clump-forming perennial which typically produces a compact, basal mound of rounded to lobed (maple-like) leaves usually with distinctive...

Flowers bloom in a large variety of colors, including various shades and tints of white, pink, red, purple, and yellow, and sometimes have inside spotting. Flowers appear at the tips of branched stems clad with evergreen dark green leaves which are divided...

We recommend feeding your Aster October Skies in the very early spring and again in mid summer after all new growth has hardened off and it begins to set flower buds. Any type of mulch will do but cypress or hardwood mulch will be of a higher quality...

Looks great en masse or as a specimen plant. ‘Lord Baltimore' flowers best in areas with long, hot summers. Hibiscus ‘Lord Baltimore' forms an upright, bushy mound well suited to the back of a perennial border.

After back filling and lightly compacting the 50/50 mix of existing soil and compost give the Achillea Moonshine a good deep watering. This is not to be rushed. The inflorescences are flat-topped, dense, deep lemon-yellow and 2-3″ in diameter, while...

Depending on the quality of your existing soil you may need to add a locally sourced compost or topsoil to the back-fill soil. A favorite perennial for its showy blooms. Apply an early spring fertilizer with a product such as at the recommended rate this...

Older proven variety that's still quite popular! The Peony is an extremely long lived, hardy, shrub-like plant. Once they're established, they're as hardy and dependable as oaks, creating a fantastic season of bloom in your yard year after year.

Plants are easy in almost all soils and grow in full sun to part shade. Water using the counting method for the first few weeks. This is not to be rushed. Sedum Autumn Fire reliably blooms on the seasons new growth, so prune to the ground during late...

That is why we do not recommend planting in a hole any deeper than the soil line of the plant in the pot. We suggest when planting your newly purchased Nepeta Walker's Low plants that you dig a hole twice as wide as the root system but not deeper.

This is not to be rushed. Check the plant daily for the first week or so and then every other day there after. 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 hardiness, the fine foliage and the spectacular fall colors have made 'Gracillimus' a favorite and very popular for years! Plant in spring or early summer when the soil is warm as the roots will grow only in warm soil.

It is a Missouri native perennial that typically occurs in prairies, fields, pastures, rocky glades, roadsides and waste areas in the central and southern parts of the State (Steyermark).