Perennials
Low-maintenance, easy-care perennials include colorful blooming and decorative foliage plants. They come in all shapes, sizes, and colors and they return year after year. Over time, many perennials expand to fill in spaces in borders. As plants grow and become established, their vigor and resilience increases.
The term, 'perennial', applies specifically to perennial herbaceous plants, not shrubs and trees. Perennials grow and bloom during the months of spring and summer and become dormant through fall and winter. Their new growth each year comes from the plant's root-stock rather than by seeding itself as an annual plant does.
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Achillea millefolium 'Paprika'Common Name: Yarrow
'Paprika' Yarrow offers tight, flat clusters of intense red flowers with bright yellow centers. The fern-like, aromatic, medium-green foliage has a strong, spicy aroma which persists when used in dry arrangements. This achillea is a vigorous growe... [ More Info ]
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Achillea taygetea 'Moonshine'Common Name: Yarrow
'Moonshine' Yarrow offers some of the best of the achillea hybrids' characteristic blue-gray, aromatic, fern-like foliage enhanced with silver highlights. In summer, bright yellow flower heads combine effortlessly in formal or naturalized landsca... [ More Info ]
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Ajuga reptans 'Bronze Beauty'Common Name: Bugleweed
'Bronze Beauty' is an attractive perennial ground cover Ajuga with colorful metallic bronze foliage. Bronze Beauty Ajuga offers spikes of bright blue flowers during the spring. Ajuga, also known as Bugleweed or Carpet Bugleweed, is a good choice for ...
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Ajuga reptans 'Chocolate Chip'Common Name: Bugleweed
'Chocolate Chip Ajuga is an attractive ground cover with a mix of light and dark foliage. The purplish-burgundy foliage forms a tight mat with nice subtle shades of brown throughout. Ajuga reptans 'Chocolate Chip' has thinner, smaller and more elo... [ More Info ]
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Allium cernuumCommon Name: Nodding Onion
Allium cernuum, or Nodding On... [ More Info ]
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Aquilegia 'Winky Blue & White'Common Name: Columbine
Aquilegia 'Winky Blue & White' will add cool color to the early perennial garden. This compact, heavy blooming columbine showcases mounds of three-parted, lobed leaves of soft sea... [ More Info ]
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Aquilegia 'Winky Double Red & White'Common Name: Columbine
The double blooms of 'Winky Double Red-White' aquilegia will add a burst of bright color to the spring perennial garden. This compact, heavy blooming co... [ More Info ]
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Aquilegia chrysantha 'Denver Gold'Common Name: Columbine
'Denver Gold' offers huge yellow flowers with exceptionally long spurs that bloom heavily in spring. Often, Aquilegia 'Denver Gold' will rebloom summer through fall if flowers stems are cut back. As with many other columbines, 'Denver Gold' is gracef...
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Aquilegia vulgaris 'Black Barlow'Common Name: Columbine
'Black Barlow' is a striking variety of Aquilegia with its charming and eye catching near-black double flowers. As an early bloomer, 'Black Barlow' columbine will announce the coming of spring with vibrant color. 'Black Barlow' is graceful, with blu...
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Aquilegia x 'McKana Giants'Common Name: Columbine
The tall and graceful Aquilegia in the McKana Group are heavy-flowering, large and brightly colored. By late spring to early summer they bear tall erect stems of upward facing or nodding large-spurred flowers that are strongly bicolored in a wide ... [ More Info ]
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Asclepias tuberosaCommon Name: Butterfly Weed
Asclepias tuberosa, or Butterfly Weed is native to much of the United States, very much at home in open meadows. old fields, roadsides, and sunny summer gard... [ More Info ]
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Aster dumosus 'Wood's Pink'Common Name: Aster, New York
Aster 'Wood's Pink' boasts densely-packed clusters of bright, clear pink daisy flowers that smother compact mounds of fine, dark-green foliage in late summer... [ More Info ]
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Aster novae-angliae 'Purple Dome'Common Name: Aster, New England
Dark purple daisy-like flowers cover Aster 'Purple Dome' with blooms from mid-August until early October or later. No staking is required on these North American natives. Attractive to butterflies and perfect for the middle of... [ More Info ]
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Astilbe chinensis 'Visions'Common Name: Chinese Astilbe
Astilbes are a popular choice for shade and woodland gardens. They are clump-forming perennials which feature graceful, fern-like mound... [ More Info ]
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Astilbe simplicifolia 'Sprite'Astilbes are clump-forming perennials which feature graceful, fern-like mounds with tiny flowers densely packed into erect to arching, plume-like flower panicles rising above the foliage on slender, upright stems. ‘Sprit... [ More Info ]
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Astilbe x arendsii 'Amethyst'Common Name: False Spirea
An old-fashioned shade garden favorite, Astilble offers gorgeous color to shady spots! The variety 'Amethyst' offers vibrant, soft feathery lavender flowers on tall spikes in late spring. Amethyst Astilbe has a fernlike foliage and will grow in ma... [ More Info ]
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Astilbe x arendsii 'Fanal'Common Name: False Spirea
Astilbe 'Fanal' offers deep red feathery plumes in the summer for a graceful addition to the perennial garden. 'Fanal' is noted for having perhaps the darkest red flowers of any of the astilbes and for its unique foliage. A compact astilbe, Fanal'... [ More Info ]
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Astilbe x japonica 'Deutschland'Common Name: False Spirea
'Deutschland' offers fern-like foliage with tall stalks of pure white plumes that rise above the glossy foliage in early to mid-summer. Astilbe provides lush, deeply-cut foliage that is attractive for the entire growing season and is colored from ... [ More Info ]
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Astilbe x japonica 'Lollypop'Common Name: False Spirea
Astilbe 'Lollypop' boasts hot pink blooms, dark purple stems and dark green shiny foliage. Lollypop's beautiful flowers contrast beautifully with the dark green foliage. This compact astilbe blooms in early summer. Lollypop Astilbe is also an exce... [ More Info ]
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Astilbe x japonica 'Rheinland'Common Name: False Spirea
'Rheinland' astilbe boasts large feathery blooms of luxuriant clear pink that sway in the summer breeze. A wonderful addition to any perennial border, 'Rheinland', like many other varieties of Astilbe, has deeply cut, glossy green fern-like foliag... [ More Info ]
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