A perennial plant or perennial (Latin per, "through", annus, "year") is a plant that lives for more than two years. When used by gardeners or horticulturalists, this term applies specifically to winter hardy perennial herbaceous plants. Scientifically, woody plants like shrubs and trees are also perennial in their habit.
Perennials, especially small flowering plants, grow and bloom over the spring and summer and then die back every autumn and winter, then return in the spring from their root-stock rather than seeding themselves as an annual plant does. These are known as herbaceous perennials. However, depending on the rigors of local climate, a plant that is a perennial in its native habitat, or in a milder garden, may be treated by a gardener as an annual and planted out every year, from seed, from cuttings or from divisions.
This long-blooming selection features lovely purple flowers topped with burgundy flags. Fragrant silvery-green foliage. Flowers throughout the summer! An excellent container plant.
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More DetailsPhenomenal® is aptly named for superior fragrance, uniform mounding plant habit, resistance to disease and extreme tolerance to heat and humidity. An excellent selection for all the wonderful things Lavender offers: cut flowers, dried flowers, fragrant oils, and culinary interest. Equally beautiful planted in mass, in the perennial border or in patio containers.
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More DetailsThis is another stellar introduction from the same breeding program that brought the hugely popular Phenomenal® to market. Large blossoms are produced above a mound of blue-green foliage that are sure to delight.
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More DetailsThis very showy Shasta Daisy produces an abundance of large, pom-pom flowers above a neat mound of lance shaped foliage. The flowers emerge yellow in color, becoming a mixture of yellow and white before finally maturing to white.
They hold their yellow color much longer than other yellow varieties.
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A wonderful cut-flower! 'Banana Cream', along with its upright stems and abundant blooms, has a wonderful color movement throughout the season. A tart, lemon yellow in late spring changes to a lighter, butter-yellow through summer. 'Banana Cream' makes a sweet addition to your perennial bed or container.
More DetailsUse this to create texture in your garden! Narrow petals with fringed edges create a "spider" look with 3.5" graceful white flowers.
More DetailsAdding height and excitement to its habitat Leucanthemum Daisy May® has pretty little white petals with a sunshiny yellow center and deep green foliage. Deadheading will help allow it to continue to bloom from the spring through the fall. Daisy May® is a compact Shasta daisy that makes a good cut flower.
More DetailsLarge, single white daisies bloom in summer on sturdy stems above shiny, leathery, dark green foliage. Leucanthemum 'Becky' is a hardy, long-lived, heat-tolerant variety that yields excellent cut flowers of heavy substance.
2003 Perennial Plant of the Year.
More DetailsA wildflower in moist meadows of North America, also known as marsh blazing star, 'Kobold' has purple flower spikes that are darker than the species.
Liatris 'Kobold' are excellent garden performers and if propagated by division, as ours are, will reach a sturdy height of 14" which will not require staking as the seed propagated 3' selections do.
More DetailsWhile the striking variegated foliage and compact habit make it a beautiful and versatile option, it's the non-fertile nature that has us most excited about this plant. Deer resistant and best in full sun.
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'Morning Light' is sure to brighten your landscape with its variegated foliage and arching form. A favorite of the Miscanthus grasses, 'Morning Light' will persist as an attractive plant throughout the growing season.
Use as a border or in a bed and the variegated foliage looks great in a dried flower arrangement!
Upright in form, this grass makes a stand in the landscape with slender blades containing a white midrib. The feathery, cream-pink blooms give your garden a whimsical textural contrast throughout late summer and fall.
Blooms a month earlier than Gracillimus and it's non-fertile so reseeding isn't an issue.
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The name will not surprise you when you see the hot pink blossoms this perennial produces! The flowers are large, at up to 3" across, and are prolifically produced through the summer. They are also attractive to hummingbirds.
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More DetailsRaspberry purple flowers over dark purple foliage creates a dramatic and unique color combo among Monarda. Add to that the compact habit, better than average resistance to powdery mildew, deer resistance, and pollinator friendly flowers and you have one heck of a perennial!
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More DetailsThe bubblegum pink flowers over green foliage, compact habit, and better than average powdery mildew resistance make this perennial a solid addition to the sunny border. This plant is attractive to pollinators but not to deer.
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More DetailsBright, cherry-colored blooms pop with color in your summer garden. This compact perennial is attractive to pollinators, but not to deer and shows better than average resistance to powdery mildew.
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More DetailsBright purple flowers atop dark green leaves, compact habit, and better than average powdery mildew resistance make this perennial a solid addition to the sunny border. This plant is attractive to pollinators but not to deer.
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More DetailsClusters of pink tubular flowers top aromatic foliage and are magnets for butterflies and hummingbirds. This species is more tolerant of drought and resistant to powdery mildew as long as good air circulation is provided. Great wildflower for naturalizing.
More DetailsVery finely textured, lime-green foliage with light tan seed heads emerge in May. This native grass is beautiful naturalized in meadows, planted on slopes for erosion, as a specimen in a rock garden or as an element in mixed container plantings.
A cool season grower similar to Fescue, it is also called Stipa tenuissima.
More DetailsA long blooming perennial that’s perfect in small areas of the landscape. Indigo blue flowers are produced all the way from the soil to the tips, providing an intense splash of color when it’s in bloom. Rosy purple calyxes extend the color when the blooms are past peak.
More DetailsGray-green foliage becomes covered with beautiful, sky-blue blooms throughout the late spring and summer months. This low growing, deer-resistant perennial is equally at home in a rock garden, container, or perennial border.
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More DetailsThis native plant has golden yelllow clusters of small, daisy-like flowers in late spring to early summer. Can be grown in full sun to full shade.
More DetailsBlue-green leaves that turn deep red in late spring. Blooms purple flowers in late summer. A native to the U.S., 'Cheyenne Sky' is great in containers and in dried arrangements. This tallgrass was one of many that once grew over the praries of central North America.
More DetailsDense, light pink seed heads set against wide, blue grass blades. In the fall, a pinkish gold color evolves.
More DetailsPrairie Winds® ‘Apache Rose’ is a strong ornamental grass with a columnar habit that can endure unfavorable weather from summer through winter. This grass produces rose colored grass tips and flower panicles in the fall. The Prairie Winds® Collection adds graceful texture and movement.
More DetailsA sturdy, durable ornamental grass that withstands adverse weather conditions. Grey-green leaves form a strictly upright column of steel blue foliage. Golden seed heads in fall.
More DetailsRuby Ribbons™ is an upright ornamental grass with blue-green foliage in the spring maturing into a gorgeous dark purplish-red color. Flower spikes appear in late summer and persist into winter.
This cultivar is tolerant of a wide range of soil and climatic conditions.
A vigorous and compact growth habit makes it ideal as an accent plant in smaller spaces.
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