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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.
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Hosta 'Hope Springs Eternal' PP33,266 - PW® Shadowland® Hope Springs Eternal Hosta - Shipped
Hope Spring Eternal Hosta is a shade-loving herbaceous perennial primarily grown for its highly ruffled blue-green foliage with white margins. The...
View full detailsHibiscus 'Ballet Slippers' - Summerific® Ballet Slippers Hibiscus - Shipped
Ballet Slippers Hibiscus is a vigorous woody perennial with a mounding habit and hardy upright stems and lobed rich green foliage with hairy unders...
View full detailsPhlox subulata 'Spring Purple' - Spring Purple Creeping Phlox - Shipped
Spring Purple Creeping Phlox is a native evergreen perennial that forms a carpet of dark green awl shaped foliage. Masses of bright purple flowers...
View full detailsRudbeckia triloba - Three Lobed Coneflower - Shipped
Three Lobed Coneflower is a native herbaceous perennial with an upright clumping habit and lobed dark green basal foliage. The large gold flowers ...
View full detailsPycnanthemum tenuifolium - Slender Mountainmint - Shipped
Slender Mountain Mint is a clumping native perennial with dense branching stems covered with fine deep green foliage that has a strong mint-like ar...
View full detailsEchinacea pallida - Pale Purple Coneflower - Shipped
Pale Purple Coneflower is a native perennial that has an upright habit with coarse, hairy dark green foliage. Rigid stems sporting fragrant pale p...
View full detailsAstilbe 'Verssilvery Pink' - Younique™ Silvery Pink Astilbe - Shipped
Younique Silvery Pink Astilbe is a compact mounding herbaceous perennial with dark green fern-like foliage. Dense blooms of feathery light silvery...
View full detailsRudbeckia triloba 'Prairie Glow' - Prairie Glow Coneflower - Shipped
Rudbeckia triloba 'Prairie Glow' is a beautiful variety of Brown-Eyed Susan known for its unique bicolor flowers that feature burnt red-orange peta...
View full detailsGaura lindheimeri 'Sparkle White' - Sparkle White Gaura - Shipped
Sparkle White Gaura is a compact native herbaceous perennial with narrow dark green lance-like foliage. Soft pink buds open to clean white flowers...
View full detailsEpimedium 'Pink Elf' - Pink Elf Barrenwort - Shipped
Pink Elf Barrenwort is a shade loving semi-evergreen perennial with green and bronze foliage. Wiry stems sporting airy clusters of pink flowers wi...
View full detailsHeuchera 'Mahogany Monster' - Primo® Mahogany Monster Heuchera - Shipped
Mahogany Monster Heuchera is an evergreen herbaceous perennial with a robust low mounding habit grown for its dramatic basal foliage. The massive,...
View full detailsEutrochium rugosum 'Chocolate' - Chocolate Snakeroot - Shipped
Chocolate Snakeroot is a native herbaceous perennial with sharp-toothed dark green lace-like foliage that has a chocolate tint. Fluffy white flowe...
View full detailsLysimachia lanceolata 'Burgundy Mist' - Burgundy Mist Loosestrife - Shipped
Burgundy Mist Loosestrife is a compact native herbaceous perennial with a spreading habit of narrow foliage that emerges wine red and slowly greens...
View full detailsCoreopsis verticillata 'Butter Rum' - Permathreads™ Butter Rum Coreopsis - Shipped
Butter Rum Coreopsis is a tidy perennial native that forms an airy mound of deep green thread-like foliage. The sterile, non-fading warm golden ye...
View full detailsBaptisia 'Periwinkle Popsicle' - Decadence® Periwinkle Popsicle False Indigo - Shipped
This upright dark blue Baptisia is perfect for filling space in the landscape. The habit is taller than it is wide, with an elegant vase shape perf...
View full detailsHosta 'Avocado' - Avocado Hosta - Shipped
Avocado Hosta is a shade-loving herbaceous perennial primarily grown for their broad colorful foliage. The large, curling basal leaves are rich gr...
View full detailsAgastache 'Queen Nectarine' - Meant to Bee® Queen Nectarine Agastache - Shipped
Soft peach flowers are held on mauve calyxes. Calyxes hold their color after the plant stops blooming, extending interest into fall. Type: P...
View full detailsThalictrum dioicum - Early Meadow-Rue - Shipped
Early Meadow-Rue is an upright herbaceous perennial with lacy grey-green compound foliage. Nodding clusters of white to white-purple flowers with ...
View full detailsGaultheria procumbens 'Hokutotakaji-001' - Winter Fiesta™ Wintergreens - Shipped
Winter Fiesta Wintergreens is a native woody evergreen groundcover with a dense low-spreading habit and glossy dark green leaves. Nodding bell-lik...
View full detailsVernonia noveboracensis - New York Ironweed - Shipped
New York Ironweed is a coarse upright herbaceous perennial with serrated light green lance-like leaves and thick central stem. Tiny fluffy purple ...
View full detailsHosta 'Blue Ivory' - Blue Ivory Hosta - Shipped
Blue Ivory Hosta is an attractive shade-loving herbaceous perennial primarily grown for its dramatic foliage. The large, thick basal leaves emerge...
View full detailsHemerocallis 'Bela Lugosi' - Bela Lugosi Daylily - Shipped
Bela Lugosi Daylily is a semi-evergreen perennial with strap-like deep green foliage and large, deep purple flowers with a bold yellow-chartreuse t...
View full detailsHemerocallis 'Alabama Jubilee' - Alabama Jubilee Daylily - Shipped
Alabama Jubilee Daylily is a compact herbaceous perennial with arching grass-like deep green foliage. The lightly ruffled glowing red-orange flowe...
View full detailsHosta 'Voices in the Wind' - PW® Shadowland® Voices in the Wind Hosta - Shipped
Voices in the Wind Hosta is a compact shade-loving herbaceous perennial primarily grown for its beautifully ruffled blue-green foliage with creamy ...
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