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Perennials
Understanding Perennial Plants
The Lifelong Companions of Gardens
Perennial plants are the stalwart heroes of the gardening world, offering beauty, resilience, and sustainability year after year. Unlike annuals, which live only for a single growing season, perennials endure, returning each spring to grace gardens with their presence. This characteristic makes them a favorite among gardeners who seek to create lasting landscapes.
Definition and Characteristics
Perennial plants are those that live for more than two years. Their life cycle allows them to grow and bloom over the spring and summer, die back during autumn and winter, and rebirth the following spring from their rootstock rather than from seeds. This cyclical nature is a key aspect of their appeal, as gardeners can rely on them to reappear without the need for replanting.
Types of Perennials
Perennials come in various forms, including herbaceous perennials, woody perennials, and semi-woody perennials.
· Herbaceous perennials: These plants, such as peonies and hostas, die back to the ground each winter and regrow in the spring.
· Woody perennials: Shrubs and trees like roses and hydrangeas retain their structure year-round.
· Semi-woody perennials: Plants like lavender fall between herbaceous and woody, maintaining some above-ground structure during dormancy.
Advantages of Growing Perennials
Perennial plants offer numerous benefits that make them indispensable in garden design.
· Longevity: Their extended life cycle means gardeners can enjoy their beauty for many years without the need for annual replanting.
· Cost-effective: Investing in perennials can be economical over time, as they eliminate the annual expense of purchasing new plants.
· Environmental benefits: Perennials help reduce soil erosion, support pollinators, and improve soil health through their deep and extensive root systems.
· Variety: A vast array of perennials exists, offering endless options for color, texture, and form in garden design.
Marsh Marigold - Shipped
Marsh Marigold is a small native marginal perennial with a mounding habit and long stalked rounded basal foliage. Bright yellow flowers resembling...
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Happy Star Echinacea is a well-branched native perennial with strong upright stems that do not need staking and dark green foliage. The large frag...
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Volcano White Phlox is a compact native perennial with stiff stems covered with medium green lance-shaped foliage. Clusters of highly fragrant cle...
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Volcano Purple with White Eye Phlox is a compact native perennial with stiff stems covered with medium green lance-shaped foliage. Clusters of hig...
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Goldfinger Potentilla is a compact mounding herbaceous perennial with tiny green foliage. Small buttercup yellow flowers bloom from late spring th...
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Nippon Daisy is a mounding perennial with glossy, coarsely toothed dark green foliage. The 3” white flowers with green eyes bloom in summer and ca...
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Marcus Meadow Sage is a compact herbaceous perennial with dense aromatic grey-green foliage. Upright flower spikes holding small, intensely violet...
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Bridal Veil Astilbe is a mounding herbaceous perennial with vivid green fern-like foliage that emerges with a bronze tinge in spring. Feathery pan...
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Blue Hill Meadow Sage is a compact upright herbaceous perennial with aromatic green foliage. Tall spikes holding small two-lipped light violet-blu...
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Raspberry Wine Bee Balm is an upright herbaceous perennial with fragrant dark green foliage. The fringe-like tubular flowers are rich raspberry-w...
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Blue Cardinal Flower is a well-branched upright native herbaceous perennial with finely toothed light green foliage. Full erect stalks of dark bl...
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Maz Fei Bloody Cranesbill is a low-growing semi-evergreen herbaceous perennial with trailing stems holding rich, deeply lobed green foliage that tu...
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Firefinch Echinacea is a compact freely branching native perennial with dense colorful red flowers that range from pinkish-red to orange-red with d...
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Green Twister Echinacea is a freely branching native perennial with strong upright stems that do not need staking and medium green foliage. The lar...
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Blue False Indigo is an upright perennial native with small blue-purple flowers that cover the foot-long raceme that extends above the mound of clo...
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Scutellaria 'Appalachian Blues' Appalachian Blues Skullcap Pollinator friendly Summer bloomer Bicolor flowers Category: PerennialBreeder: America...
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Schizachyrium scoparium 'Standing Ovation' Standing Ovation Little Bluestem: Patent PP25,202 Attracts birds and butterflies Drought resistant Eas...
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