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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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Heuchera villosa 'Black Pearl' - Primo® Black Pearl Coral Bells - Shipped
Black Pearl Coral Bells is an evergreen herbaceous perennial with a mounding habit grown for its dramatic basal foliage. The scalloped lobed leave...
View full detailsActaea simplex 'Brunette' - Brunette Bugbane, Cohosh - Shipped
Brunette Bugbane is a striking perennial plant that is known for its deep purple-black foliage. Its tall, fragrant white flower spikes provide stri...
View full detailsHibiscus 'Perfect Storm' PP27,880 - Summerific® Perfect Storm Hibiscus - Shipped
Perfect Storm Hibiscus is a vigorous woody perennial with a mounding habit and hardy upright stems and lobed near-black foliage with hairy undersid...
View full detailsChelone lyonii 'Hot Lips' - Hot Lips Turtlehead - Shipped
Hot Lips Turtlehead is a stiffly erect native herbaceous perennial with red stems and coarsely toothed lace-shaped foliage that emerges bronze and ...
View full detailsPaeonia lactiflora 'Duchesse de Nemours' - Duchesse de Nemours Peony - Shipped
Duchesse de Nemours Peony is a shrubby herbaceous perennial with deep green leaves. The heavy blooms of large, highly fragrant double-petaled whit...
View full detailsHibiscus 'Edge of Night' PP34,359 - Summerific® Edge of Night Hibiscus - Shipped
Edge of Night Hibiscus is a vigorous woody perennial with a mounding habit and hardy upright stems and lobed near-black foliage with hairy undersid...
View full detailsPaeonia lactiflora 'Monsieur Jules Elie' - Monsieur Jules Elie Peony - Shipped
Monsieur Jules Elie Peony is a fast-growing herbaceous perennial with sturdy stems that sport deep green leaves. The heavy fragrant blooms of huge...
View full detailsHappy Face® White Potentilla - Shipped
Happy Face White Potentilla is a compact herbaceous perennial with tiny dark green foliage. Small white flowers with cheery yellow centers bloom f...
View full detailsAstilbe chinensis 'Pumila' - Pumila Chinese Astilbe - Shipped
Pumila Chinese Astilbe is a dwarf mounding herbaceous perennial with dark green foliage. Stiff packed panicles of rich lavender-pink flowers bloom...
View full detailsAnemone hupehensis 'Pocahontas' - Fantasy™ Pocahontas Anemone - Shipped
Fantasy™ Pocahontas Anemone is known for its double, bubblegum-pink flowers that bloom from mid to late summer. The plant's leaves are also quite a...
View full detailsVeronica spicata 'Glory' - Royal Candles Speedwell - Shipped
Royal Candles Speedwell is an erect bushy upright herbaceous perennial with low-growing narrow medium green lance-like leaves. A profusion of vert...
View full detailsCeratostigma plumbaginoides - Hardy Plumbago, Leadwort - Shipped
Hardy Plumbago is a small wiry mat-forming herbaceous perennial that makes an excellent groundcover. Its shiny medium green leaves turn bronze-red...
View full detailsCarex oshimensis 'Evergold' - Evergold Variegated Sedge - Shipped
Evergold Variegated Sedge is a compact evergreen ornamental grass with a clumping habit. It's tidy, slightly arching grass-like foliage has a broa...
View full detailsAnemone hupensis 'September Charm' - September Charm Anemone - Shipped
September Charm Anemone is known for its silvery pink, cup-shaped flowers that bloom from late summer to fall. The plant's leaves are also quite at...
View full detailsAllium 'Medusa' - Medusa Ornamental Onion - Shipped
Allium 'Medusa' is a perennial plant known for its distinctive, snake-like foliage that twists and turns, hence the name 'Medusa'. In late summer t...
View full detailsAster oblongifolium 'October Skies' - October Skies Aromatic Aster - Shipped
October Skies Aromatic Aster is a compact native perennial with stiff hairy blue-green lance like foliage. Clusters of small sky blue flowers with...
View full detailsHosta 'Frances Williams' - Frances Williams Hosta - Shipped
Frances Williams Hosta is a shade-loving herbaceous perennial primarily grown for their foliage. The very large blue-green basal leaves have irreg...
View full detailsHeuchera x 'Plum Pudding' - Plum Pudding Coral Bells, Heuchera - Shipped
Plum Pudding Coral Bells is an evergreen herbaceous perennial with a clumping habit. It large shiny plum-purple leaves with dark purple veining a...
View full detailsRudbeckia fulgida 'Goldsturm' - Black-Eyed Susan - Shipped
Black-Eyed Susan is a native herbaceous perennial with an upright clumping habit and dark green narrow foliage. The large daisy-like gold flowers ...
View full detailsNepeta racemosa 'Blue Wonder' - Blue Wonder Catmint - Shipped
Blue Wonder Catmint is a dwarf herbaceous perennial with aromatic grey-green foliage. The heavy blooms of loose whorls of lavender-blue flower spi...
View full detailsGalium odoratum - Sweet Woodruff - Shipped
Sweet Woodruff is a low-spreading herbaceous perennial with aromatic dark green lance-shaped foliage on square stems. Loose cymes of fragrant whi...
View full detailsHemerocallis 'Stella D'Oro' - Stella de Oro Daylily - Shipped
Stella de Oro Daylily is a semi-evergreen perennial with straplike deep green foliage that remains evergreen in milder climates. The ruffled yello...
View full detailsPhlox subulata 'Emerald Blue' - Emerald Blue Creeping Phlox - Shipped
Emerald Blue Creeping Phlox is a low-growing evergreen perennial native to the eastern and central states. The dark green awl-shaped foliage is ne...
View full detailsPhlox divaricata 'Blue Moon' - Blue Moon Woodland Phlox - Shipped
Blue Moon Woodland Phlox is a spreading semi-evergreen native perennial with small hairy dark green foliage. Dense clusters of fragrant blue-laven...
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