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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 x 'Tambourine' - Tambourine Hosta - Shipped
Victory Hosta is a large shade-loving herbaceous perennial primarily grown for its foliage on red petioles. The large, lightly rippled heart-shape...
View full detailsEchinops bannaticus 'Blue Glow' - Blue Glow Globe Thistle - Shipped
Blue Glow Globe Thistle is a thorny herbaceous perennial with toothed green foliage. Global clusters of intense steel blue flowers bloom on stiff ...
View full detailsAruncus x 'Misty Lace' - Misty Lace Goat's Beard - Shipped
Misty Lace Goat's Beard is a compact native herbaceous perennial with fine pinnately compound dark green foliage. Airy plumes of creamy white flow...
View full detailsHemerocallis 'Nosferatu' - Rainbow Rhythm® Nosferatu Daylily - Shipped
Nosferatu Daylily is a semi-evergreen perennial with strap-like deep green foliage, and fragrant flowers that holds its saturation even in full sun...
View full detailsKniphofia 'Solar Flare' - PW® Pyromania® Solar Flare Red Hot Poker - Shipped
Solar Flare Red Hot Poker is a semi-evergreen perennial with upright grass like dark green leaves. A succession of thick showy spikes sporting bri...
View full detailsHemerocallis 'Double Pardon Me' - Double Pardon Me Daylily - Shipped
Double Pardon Me Daylily is a re-blooming evergreen perennial with strap-like light green foliage that is notable for its heavy blooms. The large ...
View full detailsHeuchera 'Hopscotch' - PW® Fun and Games® Hopscotch Coral Bells - Shipped
Hopscotch Coral Bells is a compact evergreen herbaceous perennial with a clumping habit grown for its colorful foliage. Theses maple-like basal le...
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Alcea rosea 'Spring Celebrities Carmine-Rose' - Spring Celebrities™ Carmine Rose Hollyhock - Shipped
Alcea rosea 'Spring Celebrities Carmine-Rose' - Spring Celebrities™ Carmine Rose Hollyhock - Shipped
Spring Celebrities Carmine Rose Hollyhock is a dwarf upright clumping biennial with rich green foliage and sturdy stalks. Flower spikes sport 3" s...
View full detailsPhlox paniculata ‘Jeana’ - Jeana Garden Phlox - Shipped
Jeana Garden Phlox is a native upright perennial with stiff stems that are covered with dark green toothed foliage. Dense clusters of small fragra...
View full detailsCalamintha nepeta spp. nepeta - Lesser Calamint - Shipped
Lesser Calamint is a compact spreading perennial with small green foliage that has a strong lemon-mint scent. Huge amounts of tiny, white flowers ...
View full detailsPhlox stolonifera - Creeping Phlox, Star-Rock Phlox - Shipped
Creeping Phlox is a native spreading perennial that forms a mat of oval dark green foliage. Leafy upright flowering stems host loose clusters of f...
View full detailsHosta 'Touch of Class' - Touch of Class Hosta - Shipped
Touch of Class Hosta is a shade-loving herbaceous perennial primarily grown for its dramatic foliage. The large, thick basal leaves are a dark coo...
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Erigeron pulchellus var. pulchellus 'Lynnhaven Carpet' - Lynnhaven Carpet Robin's Plantain - Shipped
Erigeron pulchellus var. pulchellus 'Lynnhaven Carpet' - Lynnhaven Carpet Robin's Plantain - Shipped
Lynnhaven Carpet Robin's Plantain is a low-growing native perennial that forms a dense mat of velvety gray-green foliage. Small aster-like flowers...
View full detailsAnemone hybrid 'Sweetly' - PW® Fall in Love® Sweetly Anemone - Shipped
Fall In Love Sweetly Anemone is a compact mounding herbaceous perennial with dense toothed trifoliate deep green foliage. The bright pink semi-dou...
View full detailsHelenium autumnale - Common Sneezeweed - Shipped
Common Sneezeweed is an erect clumping native perennial with rigid winged stems that branch at the tops and lance-shaped leaves. Clusters of brig...
View full detailsSedum 'Night Embers' - Night Embers Stonecrop - Shipped
Night Embers Stonecrop is a striking evergreen succulent that forms an upright mound of flattened purple-black foliage. Clusters of small mauve pi...
View full detailsZizia aptera - Heart Leafed Meadow Parsnip - Shipped
Heart Leafed Meadow Parsnip is a native woodland perennial with simple heart-shaped basal foliage and thin stems sporting loose umbel clusters of t...
View full detailsSolidago graminifolia - Grass-leaved Goldenrod - Shipped
Grass-Leaved Goldenrod is a native herbaceous perennial with fine grass-like foliage along the stems. Flat-topped clusters of tiny bright yellow f...
View full detailsCoreopsis grandiflora 'DCOREO16' - Solanna™ Golden Sphere Tickseed - Shipped
Golden Sphere Tickseed is a compact mounding perennial with narrow dark green foliage. Its fully double golden yellow flowers bloom on short stems...
View full detailsMentha arvensis - Wild Mint - Shipped
Wild Mint is a fast-spreading native perennial that forms colonies of upright stems with highly aromatic green leaves. The fragrant near white pin...
View full detailsHosta 'Miss America' PP32,068 - PW® Shadowland® Miss America Hosta - Shipped
Miss America Hosta is a shade-loving herbaceous perennial that forms a low mound primarily grown for its foliage. Its large textured heart-shaped...
View full detailsEpimedium rubrum 'Galadriel' - Galadriel Red Barrenwort - Shipped
Galadriel Red Barrenwort is a shade loving semi-evergreen herbaceous perennial with toothed green heart-shaped foliage that emerges bright bronze a...
View full detailsAstilbe chinensis 'You and Me Together' - You And Me Together Astilbe - Shipped
You and Me Series Astilbes offer more bloom power and vibrant flower spikes that stand tall above thick bright green foliage. 'Together' holds beau...
View full detailsHemerocallis 'Rosy Returns' - Rosy Returns Daylily - Shipped
Rosy Returns Daylily is an ever-blooming perennial with arching grass-like deep green foliage. The fragrant ruffled rose pink flowers with a darke...
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