Perennials For Sun Perennials For Sale In Portland

Deep green foliage turns to red hues in fall. 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. Cutting Ceratostigma plumbaginoides down to the soil level will encourage it...

This procedure, called deadheading, encourages the Sedum Autumn Fire plant to produce new flowers, keeping your plant looking attractive throughout the season. We recommend feeding your Sedum Autumn Joy in the very early spring and again in mid summer...

Be careful with products such as miracle-grow as these products can burn newly planted plants when not used at the recommended rates. Any type of mulch will do but cypress or hardwood mulch will be of a higher quality and provide better nutrition overall...

Echinacea are easy-to-grow natives that bloom heavily from summer to fall. Echinacea HARVEST MOON is a new hybrid coneflower in the Big Sky Series from Richard Saul of Itsaul Nurseries in Atlanta, Georgia.

Attracts many varieties of butterflies and is especially attractive to Monarchs. Plant butterfly weed in mixed borders, meadows and natural areas. A 2 to 3 inch layer of mulch is sufficient but remember to take care not to cover any part of the stem of...

Bio-tone Starter Plus is an all-natural plant food that is combined with a stronger concentration of Espoma's beneficial bacteria along with both endo and ecto mycorrhizae. The flower's purple petals are a beautiful contrast to orange/bronze center (cone)...

Iris ensata variegata is slowly spreading clumps of variegated sword-shaped foliage prefer moist, even wet soil during the growing season but are unlikely to survive emersion in water during the winter.

We suggest when planting your newly purchased Gaultheria procumbens plants that you dig a hole twice as wide as the root system but not deeper. Its been our experience that Gaultheria procumbens does not like to be soaking wet for long periods of time.

Mulching helps to keep weeds away which will compete with your new investment for water and nutrients. We suggest when planting your newly purchased Dwarf Mondo Grass plants that you dig a hole twice as wide as the root system but not deeper.

This procedure, called deadheading, encourages the Coreopsis Moonbeam plant to produce new flowers, keeping your plant looking attractive throughout the season. We recommend feeding your Coreopsis Moonbeam in the very early spring and again in mid summer...

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

Best in moist, organically rich soils, but does surprisingly well in average garden soils as long as those soils are not allowed to dry out. Healthy green, maple-like leaves on branched stems form a sizable clump in the landscape.

Incarnata Ice Ballet, 'Asclepias' is a beacon for butterflies and a low care perennial. Butterfly Plant A. Ice Ballet prefers to be planted in full sun and needs well drained soil.

We say this because it is sometimes hard to sell gardeners on bronze-colored grass. Then in the fall when the weather gets chilly, it turns an electric orange that sends shockwaves through the garden.

Interplant Amsonia Hubrichtii in your border to provide texture and color all through the growing season. Feeding your plants is probably the single most forgotten part of growing healthy long lasting plants.

Iris versicolor makes an excellent focal point in a small pond or can be used in an area that is too wet for other garden plants. Will naturalize to form colonies in the wild. Northern blue flag thrives in wetland habitats frequented by rushes and sedges...

It typically grows to 3-7' tall and to 2-4' wide. Showy, dinner plate-sized, hollyhock-like flowers (each to 4-6” diameter) have five overlapping white, creamy white or pink petals with reddish-purple to dark crimson bases which form a sharply contrasting...

This is not to be rushed. Our ideal fertilizer schedule for you to use is as follows. Stella D'Oro Daylily is an early bloomer and a repeat bloomer. Slow-release fertilizer can help prevent rapid soft growth that is vulnerable to diseases and insects.

Plants typically grow to 16” tall. Established plants that become congested may be divided in late summer to early fall. Flowers bloom in a large variety of colors, including various shades and tints of white, pink, red, purple, and yellow, and sometimes...

Remove the old flowers of Daylily Pardon Me as they become brown and unattractive. This procedure, called deadheading, encourages the Daylily Pardon Me plant to produce new flowers, keeping your plant looking attractive throughout the season.

Once they're established, they're as hardy and dependable as oaks, creating a fantastic season of bloom in your yard year after year. Very large carnation shaped flowers with incurved petals, freely produced in clusters.

For the most part, perennials can be planted year around, provided the ground isn't frozen. It can be useful in low spots or wet areas in the landscape or along streams or ponds. We recommend when planting your plants to use Bio-tone starter fertilizer...

Rudbeckia are a super easy way to add color to any sunny garden. Black Eyed Susans are one of the most popular perennials available today, having earned the prestigious Perennial Plant of the Year Award in 1999.

Divide plants as needed when overcrowding occurs and decreased flowering is evident. In comparison to bearded varieties, Siberian irises have smaller beardless flowers, narrower grass-like leaves and an absence of thick fleshy rhizomes.

7-10 buds per stem! Connoisseurs of fine iris recognize this delicately shaded peach as one of the best. Honorable Mention 1989, Award of Merit 1991! Grows to 34'' tall.

In Perovskia fashion, plant's stems retain calyxes long after flowers have quit, extending the color pleasure. Blooms mid summer to fall. Denim and Lace's sturdy, silvery stems are covered with large, fluffy, lavender-blue flowers, complemented by grey-green,...

Large upward facing medium pink flowers are produced in spring on sturdy stems. Provide your LA Hybrid Lilies with a moderately fertile, well-drained soil in a sunny location for the best results.