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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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Geranium x 'Rozanne' - Rozanne Cranesbill - Shipped
Rozanne Cranesbill is a low-mounding semi-evergreen herbaceous perennial with a spreading habit and deeply lobed foliage that is lightly marbled. ...
View full detailsAlchemilla mollis - Lady's Mantle - Shipped
Lady's Mantle is a clumping herbaceous perennial that forms a long-stemmed basal mound. The light to blue green circular foliage is scalloped and ...
View full detailsGeranium sanguineum 'Max Frei' - Max Frei Bloody Cranesbill - Shipped
Max Fei Bloody Cranesbill is a low-growing semi-evergreen herbaceous perennial with trailing stems holding rich, deeply lobed green foliage that tu...
View full detailsPerovskia atriplicifolia 'Blue Jean Baby' - Blue Jean Baby Russian Sage - Shipped
Blue Jean Baby Russian Sage is a compact woody perennial with fine upright aromatic grey-green foliage. Whorls of light lavender blue flowers on ...
View full detailsEchinacea purpurea 'Green Twister' - Green Twister Echinacea, Coneflower - Shipped
Green Twister Echinacea is a freely branching native perennial with strong upright stems that do not need staking and medium green foliage. The lar...
View full detailsHemerocallis 'Strawberry Candy' - Strawberry Candy Daylily - Shipped
Strawberry Candy Daylily is a re-blooming perennial with arching grass-like deep green foliage. The ruffled pale pink flowers with a broad strawbe...
View full detailsHeuchera x 'Frosted Violet' - Frosted Violet Coral Bells - Shipped
Frosted Violet Coral Bells is an evergreen herbaceous perennial with a mounding habit grown for its dramatic basal foliage. The round-lobed leaves...
View full detailsLobelia cardinalis - Cardinal Flower - Shipped
Cardinal Flower is an upright native herbaceous perennial with erect stalks of cardinal red tubular flowers that bloom late in summer above the da...
View full detailsCoreopsis verticillata 'Moonbeam' - Moonbeam Threadleaf Coreopsis - Shipped
Moonbeam Threadleaf Coreopsis is a tidy perennial native with a mounding habit. The narrow deep green foliage is topped with daisy-like pale yello...
View full detailsEchinacea purpurea 'Rubinstern' - Ruby Star Echinacea - Shipped
Ruby Star Echinacea is a freely branching native perennial with strong upright stems that do not need staking and deep green foliage. The large ro...
View full detailsAstilbe japonica 'Rheinland' - Rheinland Japanese Astilbe - Shipped
Rheinland Japanese Astilbe is a mounding herbaceous perennial with deeply divided dark green fern-like foliage. Panicles of clear pink flowers on ...
View full detailsAstilbe japonica 'Montgomery' - Montgomery Japanese Astilbe - Shipped
Montgomery Japanese Astilbe is a mounding herbaceous perennial with deeply divided fern-like foliage that emerges bronze-red and matures to dark gr...
View full detailsAstilbe japonica 'Peach Blossom' - Peach Blossom Japanese Astilbe - Shipped
Peach Blossom Japanese Astilbe is a mounding herbaceous perennial with deeply divided medium green fern-like foliage. Wide panicles of light peach...
View full detailsSalvia x sylvestris 'Mainacht’ - May Night Wood Sage - Shipped
May Night Wood Sage is an upright clumping herbaceous perennial with medium green foliage and tall spikes of tiny two-lipped dark violet flowers in...
View full detailsHelleborus 'Walhelivor' - Ivory Prince Lenten Rose - Shipped
Ivory Prince Lenten Rose is a late winter-blooming evergreen perennial with glossy dark blue green basal foliage. Clusters of burgundy buds open t...
View full detailsCoreopsis verticillata 'Zagreb' - Zagreb Threadleaf Tickseed - Shipped
Zagreb Threadleaf Tickseed is a compact clumping perennial with narrow palmate deep green foliage. Its bright yellow daisy-like flowers with unto...
View full detailsEchinacea purpurea - Purple Coneflower - Shipped
Purple Coneflower is a coarse, hairy native perennial with an upright clumping habit with strong stems that do not need staking. The dark green f...
View full detailsAstilbe japonica 'Deutschland' - Deutschland Japanese Astilbe - Shipped
Deutschland Japanese Astilbe is a mounding herbaceous perennial with deeply divided dark green fern-like foliage. Upright triangular panicles of p...
View full detailsEchinacea purpurea 'PAS702917' - PowWow® Wild Berry Echinacea, Coneflower - Shipped
Wild Berry Echinacea is a compact freely branching native perennial with strong upright stems that do not need staking and deep green foliage. The...
View full detailsHosta 'Patriot' - Patriot Hosta - Shipped
Patriot Hosta is a shade-loving herbaceous perennial primarily grown for their foliage. The glossy basal leaves are deep green with wide creamy-wh...
View full detailsSalvia nemorosa 'Blue Hill' - Blue Hill Meadow Sage - Shipped
Blue Hill Meadow Sage is a compact upright herbaceous perennial with aromatic green foliage. Tall spikes holding small two-lipped light violet-blu...
View full detailsLamium maculatum 'White Nancy' - White Nancy Spotted Deadnettle - Shipped
White Nancy Spotted Deadnettle is a mat-forming herbaceous perennial that slowly sprawls and variegated silver leaves with narrow green margins. S...
View full detailsBaptisia australis - Blue False Indigo - Shipped
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...
View full detailsAstilbe x arendsii 'Fanal' - Fanal Astilbe - Shipped
Fanal Astilbe is a compact mounding herbaceous perennial with toothed dark green fern-like foliage that emerges bronze and gains red tints in summe...
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