Perennials For Sun Perennials For Sale In Colorado Springs

Wear gloves when dividing the rhizomes. It is a marginal aquatic plant that forms a clump of narrow, arching-to-erect, sword-shaped, blue-green leaves (to 24” long and 1” wide).

Variegated foliage will brighten any woodland or damp garden setting. Cultivars come in single, double and peony flowered forms in a wide range of colors including shades of blue, lavender, violet-red, pink and white.

Sedum Autumn Joy is reliable bloomer, the chameleon-like flower progresses from warm pink, to bronze rose, to a deeper brick red before frost. A good rule is that you should still be able to see the soil the plant was grown in after back-filling the hole.

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...

Even when not in bloom, Crocosmia Lucifer has attractive, tropical looking foliage. It is cold hardy to zone 5, making this is a great perennial for northern gardens that want a tropical look.

Tolerates drought. If plants flop or otherwise depreciate in summer to the point where they look unsightly, consider cutting them back to the basal foliage. It was discovered in Uchte, Germany, by Beate Zillmer of Zillmer Pflanzen and is suitable for...

Propagate from softwood cuttings or division. Plants like cool night temperatures (best performance is north of USDA Zone 7). If plants flop or otherwise depreciate in summer to the point where they look unsightly, consider cutting them back to the basal...

Leaves are lobeless or have 3-5 shallow lobes. New growth shoots are slow to emerge in spring. At the peak of bloom, a large plant can produce 20 or more flowers per day. It typically grows to 3-7' tall and to 2-4' wide.

Forms a dense clump of grassy green foliage, with upright stems of fragrant, golden-yellow trumpet flowers. In warmer climates, cut it back in the spring before it begins to bud. For example a one gallon pot would be watered until you count to 5 a three...

Use in mass plantings, as a border plant, or as a tall ground cover. Excellent for use in dried flower arrangements. Ice Ballet prefers to be planted in full sun and needs well drained soil.

Best grown with regular and consistent moisture during the growing season. The best mulch for the plant is pea stone or gravel, which helps keep the plant clean and suppresses weeds without holding extra water.

Butterfly weed works well in a meadow or a perennial garden We suggest when planting your newly purchased Butterfly weed plants that you dig a hole twice as wide as the root system but not deeper.

Site in locations sheltered from strong winds to protect the fronds. In spring, the new leaves of this evergreen start out a coppery pink, then in summer turn green, and finally in fall, turn a rust shade.

It is a clumping, sprawling plant that grows to 6-18” tall, and can spread rather quickly by pubescent, decumbent stems, rooting at the nodes where they touch the ground, to form an attractive ground cover.

Stems die back completely to the ground in winter, but new growth is slow to appear in spring, so be patient! Old stems can be pruned to the ground in mid spring. Dont be to alarmed if all your other plants are awake and growing and you still havent seen...

But discerning designers have been using this subtle (and not so subtle, at the same time) beauty in designs for a while now. It spills over the edges of pots and walls like liquid gold.

Astilbe Fanal reliably blooms on the seasons new growth, so prune to the ground during late winter or very early spring before growth starts. Be careful with products such as miracle-grow as these products can burn newly planted plants when not used at...

Foliage color may fade to a bronze-green in hot summers. 1991 Perennial Plant of the Year. Heuchera Palace Purple Coral Bells has it all—beautiful showy white flowers on wiry purple stems at 18–24″, and purple-bronze broad leaves with a pink underside.

Tolerates full shade, attracts hummingbirds and pollinators, tolerates urban environments, containers // > This variety features a mound of large, variegated, oval, which have deep green centers and wide irregular white margins.

Water using the counting method for the first few weeks. Starter fertilizer is the best product to use at the time of planting. For example a one gallon pot would be watered until you count to 5 a three gallon pot would be 15 and so on.

In cold winter regions, plant the rhizomes in early spring or late summer. Divide plants as needed when overcrowding occurs and decreased flowering is evident. Morgan Award winner (1953).

Slow-release fertilizer can help prevent rapid soft growth that is vulnerable to diseases and insects. Apply an early spring fertilizer with a product such as at the recommended rate this will give the plant a boost of nitrogen potash that will be needed...

Geranium Biokovo produces airy clusters of dainty pink-flushed white flowers that grace this hardy geranium from late spring into summer. Cut back Geranium Biokovo to within 2 to 3 inches of the ground in the late fall.

Plants are strong and bushy in habit with near-black stems. Meaning hedgehog or sea-urchin in reference to the spiny center cone found on most flowers in the genus. Coneflowers begin blooming in midsummer and continue for months if faded flowers are regularly...

A thick mulch for the first winter is recommended, especially in Zones 4 and 5. After back filling and lightly compacting the 50/50 mix of existing soil and compost give the Hibiscus Luna Red a good deep watering.

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. Feurerhexe', commonly sold undet the trade name of Dianthus Firewitch, is a mat-forming cheddar...

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. Apply an early spring fertilizer with a product such as at the recommended rate this will...