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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Hedera helix 'Baltica'

Hedera helix 'Baltica'

Common Name: English Ivy

A wonderful variety of Ivy, Baltic is a delightful evergreen groundcover that has smaller leaves then English Ivy but boasts the same deep green color and interesting white veins. A variety of Hedera that is most ideal for the northern zones for i...


Hedera helix 'Gold Child'

Hedera helix 'Gold Child'

Common Name: Ivy, English

Hedera helix, or English Ivy, ‘Gold Child’ has variegated leaves with a lobed, ivy shape and heart-shaped base. The leaf color is gray-green with irre...


Hedera helix 'Needlepoint'

Hedera helix 'Needlepoint'

Common Name: Ivy, Needlepoint
Needlepoint has small pointed leaves and grows similar to english ivy, but branches better for increased thickness. May be used as a ground cover or climber. In cold regions, the foliage develops a bronze tone during the winter. It looks great in con...

Hedera helix 'Teardrop'

Hedera helix 'Teardrop'

Common Name: Ivy, Teardrop

An award winning variety, 'Teardrop' has dark green leaves that are a unique teardrop shape. This ivy is easy to grow and was awarded Ivy of the Year for 2002. Especially lovely when planted in hanging baskets or along rock walls where it can casc...


Hedera helix 'Thorndale'

Hedera helix 'Thorndale'

Common Name: Ivy, Thorndale

Compared to Baltic Ivy, 'Thorndale' ivy boasts attractive dark green leaves that are a bit smaller, have a more prominent central lobe, and display creamy white veins. Slow growing until rooted, it later spreads at a moderate pace and makes a thic...


Hedera helix 'Yellow Ripple'

Hedera helix 'Yellow Ripple'

Common Name: Ivy, Hardy

Hedera helix 'Yellow Ripple' (also known as Golden Ripple) ivy boasts attractive, evergreen foliage that provides year-round interest. The yellow and green veriagated leaves almost glow! Great for erosion control on steep banks and...


Helenium autumnale

Helenium autumnale

Common Name: Sneezeweed

Helenium autumnale, or sneezeweed, is a Missouri native perennial which occurs in moist soils along streams, ponds or ditches throughout most of Missouri. Typically grows 3-5' tall on rigid, distinctively winged stems which branch near t...


Heliopsis helianthoides 'Summer Sun'

Heliopsis helianthoides 'Summer Sun'

Common Name: Ox Eye

Heliopsis 'Summer Sun' is a compact, clump-forming, upright perennial which features single to double, daisy-like flowers with golden yellow rays and deep orange-yellow centers atop stiff stems that seldom need staking. Noted for it...


Hemerocallis 'Black Stockings'

Hemerocallis 'Black Stockings'

Common Name: Daylily

Hemerocallis 'Black Stockings' is a medium-sized semi-evergreen, tetraploid daylily with large, 6" diameter burgundy-black, ruffled flowers with a green throat. This gorgeous daylily has a heavy blooming habit and extra lush dark green f...


Hemerocallis 'Evening Gown'

Hemerocallis 'Evening Gown'

Common Name: Daylily
Hemerocallis 'Evening Gown' daylily is a peachy-pink blend with wide petals and a satiny texture. 'Evening Gown' is a strong and vigorous tetrapliod daylily. This cultivar has an exceptional high bud count and reblooms in warmer areas. Individual flo...

Hemerocallis 'Happy Returns'

Hemerocallis 'Happy Returns'

Common Name: Daylily

An extremely popular and widely-used reblooming daylily, Hemerocallis 'Happy Returns' boasts ruffled, lemon yellow flowers on naked stems rising above a clump of arching, linear, blade-like leaves. Individual flowers open for one d...


Hemerocallis 'Hyperion'

Hemerocallis 'Hyperion'

Common Name: Daylily

The canary yellow flowers of Hemerocallis 'Hyperion' are carried in profusion above vigorous clumps of arching grasslike foliage. This variety of Daylily has been around since 1925, but Hyperion remains unsurpassed in its color class. It's one of ...


Hemerocallis 'Little Business'

Hemerocallis 'Little Business'

Common Name: Daylily

A delightful dwarf daylily, Hemerocallis 'Little Business' will reward you by blooming twice a year! This outstanding variety produces mounds of tall foliage and boasts raspberry-red flowers with a green eye. Individual flowers open for one day. '...


Hemerocallis 'Pardon Me'

Hemerocallis 'Pardon Me'

Common Name: Daylily

A miniature daylily variety, Hemerocallis 'Pardon Me' offers beautiful, fragrant, cranberry red flowers with a narrow yellow-green throat. The petals of 'Pardon Me' have pie-crust edges, sepals are smooth, both are slightly recurved and appear in ...


Hemerocallis 'Purple de Oro'

Hemerocallis 'Purple de Oro'

Common Name: Daylily
In midsummer, the heavy blooming ‘Purple de Oro’ daylily offers ruffled, lavender-purple flowers with lighter midribs, edges and gold throats. 'Purple de Oro' is tremendously vigorous and heat and drought tolerant. Rising from compact clumps of archi...

Hemerocallis 'Stella de Oro'

Hemerocallis 'Stella de Oro'

Common Name: Daylily
Hemerocallis 'Stella de Oro' daylily features golden-yellow flowers with ruffled edges and deeper yellow throats. Flower is classified as a miniature and appear atop a clump of arching, linear, blade-like leaves. Individual flowers open for one day b...

Hemerocallis 'Strawberry Candy'

Hemerocallis 'Strawberry Candy'

Common Name: Daylily

Hemerocallis 'Strawberry Candy' features large coral-pink flowers with a strawberry-red eye and reddish picotee edge. Midseason, extended (16 hrs or longer) and repeat bloomer. Tetraploid. Semi-evergreen. Very strong grower and very popular d...


Heuchera 'Amethyst Myst'

Heuchera 'Amethyst Myst'

Common Name: Coral Bells

Heuchera 'Amethyst Myst' also known as coral bells, is a clump-forming perennial which features plum-burgundy leaves with a light silver dusting and pink flowers. The rounded leaves form a mound which may spread 15-24" wide. Tiny, pink, bell-shape...


Heuchera 'Georgia Peach'

Heuchera 'Georgia Peach'

Common Name: Coral Bells

Heuchera 'Georgia Peach’ is a vigorous, clump-forming coral bells noted for its vibrant foliage which changes colors throughout the growing season. In early spring, immense, showy leaves emerge peach-orange with darker veins. Leave...


Heuchera 'Snow Angel'

Heuchera 'Snow Angel'

Common Name: Coral Bells

Heuchera 'Snow Angel' features light green foliage speckled with creamy white leaves which are deeply lobed and nicely ruffled. Makes perfect little mounds accented with pinkish-red, bell-shaped flowers borne on wiry, branched spikes extendin...


Heuchera 'Stainless Steel'

Heuchera 'Stainless Steel'

Common Name: Coral Bells

Heuchera 'Stainless Steel' features metallic silver-green foliage with purple veins and eggplant-purple undersides. Early spring foliage is almost pure silver, and large white flowers appear in spring on chocolate brown stalks 18" above ...


Heuchera micrantha 'Palace Purple'

Heuchera micrantha 'Palace Purple'

Common Name: Coral Bells
A garden staple, Heuchera micrantha 'Palace Purple' has clump-forming maple-like leaves which are an attractive deep purple above and beet red beneath. Foliage color may fade to a bronze green in hot summers. Tiny, pinkish white, bell-shaped flowers ...

Heuchera villosa 'Caramel'

Heuchera villosa 'Caramel'

Common Name: Coral Bells

Caramel Heuchera has grayish-red new growth fading to soft apricot-caramel by summer. This variety of Coral Bells has fall color that is an intense salmon red. Caramel's lobed fuzzy foliage has a very sturdy habit, an excellent choice for hot, hum...


Heuchera villosa 'Obsidian'

Heuchera villosa 'Obsidian'

Common Name: Coral Bells

A wonderful variety of Heuchera, 'Obsidian' has wonderful deep purplish-black foliage with a polished glassy luster. The dark color of Obsidian is very unique and is closer to true black than any other Heuchera, also known as coral bells. Undersid...


Heuchera villosa 'Pistache'

Heuchera villosa 'Pistache'

Common Name: Coral Bells

With its glowing exotic-looking foliage, Heuchera 'Pistache' is a must have for the shade garden. Plant Heuchera 'Pistache' in full shade for lovely lime green foliage or plant it in partial shade for electrifying chartreuse-yellow leaves that wil...


Heuchera villosa 'Plum Pudding'

Heuchera villosa 'Plum Pudding'

Common Name: Coral Bells
'Plum Pudding' is very popular Heuchera with its shiny foliage that boasts a shimmering plum purple hue on maple-like leaves with dark purple veining. Foliage should not be trimmed back in the fall, but coral bells may be tidied up in spring by remov...

Heuchera villosa 'Silver Scrolls'

Heuchera villosa 'Silver Scrolls'

Common Name: Coral Bells

'Silver Scrolls' Heuchera, or coral bells, has nice foliage that emerges silver flushed with burgundy, but its wonderful atribute is how the foliage progresses through the season. Throughout summer, the leaves become silver and black with veins re...


Heuchera villosa 'Tiramisu'

Heuchera villosa 'Tiramisu'

Common Name: Coral Bells

A wonderful variety of Coral Bells, 'Tiramisu' is a wonderfully exotic Heuchera that boasts a rainbow of colors that change with the seasons. In the earliest days of spring, the young leaves emerge bright yellow combined with brick red centers tha...


Hibiscus lasiocarpos

Hibiscus lasiocarpos

Common Name: Rose Mallow

Hibiscus lasiocarpos, or Rose Mallow, is a Missouri native plant which typically occurs in wet soils along ponds, in ditches or in damp woods. A vigorous, erect, often woody-based perennial that features large hollyhock-like, 5-pet...


Hosta 'Blue Mouse Ears'

Hosta 'Blue Mouse Ears'

Common Name: Plantain Lily
'Blue Mouse Ears' is a miniature hosta selection with thick, rounded blue-green leaves forming a neat, symmetrical mound. Vibrant lavender flower clusters appear in July. Hostas are an outstanding foliage plant well-suited for the shade in any modera...

Hosta 'Dream Queen'

Hosta 'Dream Queen'

Hosta ‘Dream Queen’ is a medium-sized hosta that forms neat spreading clumps. Its large, round to heart-shaped ribbed leaves are blue-green accented w...


Hosta 'Fire and Ice'

Hosta 'Fire and Ice'

In the spring, Hosta 'Fire and Ice' produces a clump of heart-shaped, wavy, twisted leaves of dark green with shocking white variegated centers. In midsummer, upright, sturdy stems of trumpet-shaped, pale lavender flowers appear above th...


Hosta 'First Frost'

Hosta 'First Frost'

Common Name: Plantain Lily

Hosta 'First Frost' begins spring with deep blue leaves edged in creamy yellow. The border is irregular and turns pure white by midsummer. The leaves keep their blue tones, however, and growth continues right into autumn a...


Hosta 'Liberty'

Hosta 'Liberty'

Common Name: Plantain Lily

Hosta 'Liberty' is a mid-to-large hosta that boasts thick, wide-oval leaves blue-green in color with extremely wide yellow margins. As the leaves mature, the centers become greener and the margins lighten to creamy white. Funnel-shaped p...


Hosta 'Love Pat'

Hosta 'Love Pat'

Common Name: Plantain Lily

Hosta ‘Love Pat’ boasts thick, heart-shaped, bold ice-blue foliage that is heavily quilted and deeply cupped. The leaves often fade to green late in the season, usually after flowering. In the summer months, plants produce tall st...


Hosta 'Pacific Blue Edger'

Hosta 'Pacific Blue Edger'

Common Name: Plantain Lily

Hosta 'Pacific Blue Edger' is a dwarf selection has heart-shaped blue-green leaves, and a good vigorous habit. Pale lavender flowers appear on tall stems above the foliage in July. Hostas, also known as Plantain Lily or Funkia, are...


Hosta 'Praying Hands'

Hosta 'Praying Hands'

Hosta 'Praying Hands' is like no other hosta. This compact hosta has green leaves with white edges, each rolled or folded into a ruffled tube shape like praying hands. Pale lavender flowers appear in August.

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Hosta 'Rainforest Sunrise'

Hosta 'Rainforest Sunrise'

Common Name: Plantain Lily

Hosta 'Rainforest Sunrise' is a small hosta with big color! The leaves emerge a solid light green and quickly turn a bright yellow-gold with dark green edges. They are thick, puckered, and glossy. Blooms are pale lavender to almost white...


Hosta 'Reversed Patriot'

Hosta 'Reversed Patriot'

Common Name: Plantain Lily

Hosta 'Reversed Patriot' is medium size, the reverse color of 'Patriot', with leaves of pure white centers and dark green margins. More vigorous than other white-centered hostas, this lovely hosta features spikes of lavender flowers in mid-su...


Hosta 'Stained Glass'

Hosta 'Stained Glass'

Common Name: Plantain Lily

Hosta are among the most popular of perennials for shady areas, forming sturdy mounds of foliage, topped with lily-like blooms. 'Stained Glass' is a ...


Hosta 'Sum and Substance'

Hosta 'Sum and Substance'

Common Name: Plantain Lily

One of the largest growing and popular hostas of the day, 'Sum and Substance' is widely prized for its size and its huge, heavy leaves that are chartreuse-gold and have a waxy sheen. 'Sum and Substance' is a massive plant, with the leaves rising h...


Hosta 'T-Rex'

Hosta 'T-Rex'

Common Name: Plantain Lily

Hosta 'T-Rex' is a giant hosta, forming huge clumps of blue-green leaves measuring 18" long and 14" wide! Takes about 3 years to reach full size depending on conditions. The leaves have wonderful puckering and deep veins to add interest. ...


Hosta fortunei 'Albopicta'

Hosta fortunei 'Albopicta'

Common Name: Plantain Lily

The dark green leaves of Hosta 'Albopicta' have bright creme centers that eventually fade to soft green with the coming of early summer. Full shade will help keep the margins more distinct. A wonderfully growing Hosta, also known a...


Hosta fortunei 'Aureomarginata'

Hosta fortunei 'Aureomarginata'

Common Name: Plantain Lily

In spring, Hosta 'Aureomarginata' produces a large clump of heart-shaped leaves of dark olive-green with wavy, variegated margins of pale yellow. In midsummer, upright, sturdy stems of trumpet-shaped, lavender-pink flowers appear 30 or more inche...


Hosta fortunei 'Francee'

Hosta fortunei 'Francee'

Common Name: Plantain Lily

'Francee' is another popular variety of hosta that Green Gate Farms offers and this one's variegation holds up very well in sun. Francee's medium to dark green heart-shaped leaves have narrow, clean white margins. This variety forms a wide low mou...


Hosta fortunei 'Minuteman'

Hosta fortunei 'Minuteman'

Common Name: Plantain Lily

'Minuteman' Hosta is a stunning variety with dark green leaves that are surrounded by a pure white margin. Minuteman's foliage has good substance and is usually cupped and slightly wavy. This variety of Hosta, also known as Funkia or Plantain Lily...


Hosta fortunei 'Night Before Christmas'

Hosta fortunei 'Night Before Christmas'

Common Name: Plantain Lily

'Night Before Christmas' is a stunningly beautiful variety of Hosta with its thick, wavy, heart-shaped leaves that have a clear white center surrounded by a dark green border. In early summer, upright, sturdy stems of bell-shaped lavender flowers ...


Hosta fortunei 'Whirlwind'

Hosta fortunei 'Whirlwind'

Common Name: Plantain Lily

Hosta 'Whirlwind' lives up to its name with foliage color that continuously changes throughout the season. Dark green, streaked margins encompass an ever-changing center on this variety of hosta, also known as Plantain Lily or Funkia. With the com...


Hosta plantaginea 'Guacamole'

Hosta plantaginea 'Guacamole'

Common Name: Plantain Lily

This hosta boasts awesome flower power! Guacamole has incredible fragrant blossoms of snow white in mid-summer which contrast beautifully with its light green foliage that has a darker green margin. This variety of hosta, also known as Funkia or P...


Hosta plantaginea 'Invincible'

Hosta plantaginea 'Invincible'

Common Name: Plantain Lily
The very thick, very glossy bright-green foliage of Hosta 'Invincible' is spade-shaped, tapering with wavy margins forming a wide clump. This variety of hosta, also known as Plantain Lily or Funkia, is topped with lavender to white, highly fragrant f...

Hosta plantaginea 'Royal Standard'

Hosta plantaginea 'Royal Standard'

Common Name: Plantain Lily

'Royal Standard' hosta forms a very large mound of glossy, corrugated, heart-shaped bright green leaves. The white trumpet-shaped flowers are highly fragrant with the scent more pronounced in the evening. Divide in spring or fall if plants become ...


Hosta seiboldiana 'Bressingham Blue'

Hosta seiboldiana 'Bressingham Blue'

Common Name: Plantain Lily

'Bressingham Blue' Hosta, or Plantain Lily, offers huge, cupped, powdery blue leaves with a puckered appearance and heavy substance. Near-white bell-shaped flowers appear on tall stems above the foliage in July. More shade retains the blue leaves ...


Hosta sieboldiana 'Big Daddy'

Hosta sieboldiana 'Big Daddy'

Common Name: Plantain Lily

'Big Daddy' is a hosta that lives up to its name with huge 15-inch very blue-grey foliage that exhibits deep texturing and is a wonderful selection for developing a background for bright colors in the landscape. Also known as Funkia, or Plantain L...


Hosta sieboldiana 'Blue Angel'

Hosta sieboldiana 'Blue Angel'

Common Name: Plantain Lily

Blue Angel Hosta is a wonderful selection with gigantic, heart-shaped, blue-grey leaves that are of heavy substance and are very slug resistant. White trumpet-shaped flowers appear in mid-summer above the foliage. Also known as Funkia or Plantain ...


Hosta sieboldiana 'Elegans'

Hosta sieboldiana 'Elegans'

Common Name: Plantain Lily

An old-timed favorite, 'Elegans' has large, heart-shaped, thick-textured, heavily corrugated, surface-cupped, blue-green leaves. In early summer, it produces strong, upright stems lined with white bell-shaped flowers tinged with lavender, tucked a...


Hosta sieboldiana 'Frances Williams'

Hosta sieboldiana 'Frances Williams'

Common Name: Plantain Lily

The giant blue-green leaves of the 'Frances Williams' hosta have very wide, chartreuse to yellow margins. With maturity, the margins of this variety of Hosta, also known as Funkia or Plantain Lily, become wider. Its leaves are leathery, bold, rugg...


Hosta tardiana 'Halcyon'

Hosta tardiana 'Halcyon'

Common Name: Plantain Lily

Boasting foliage of heavily ribbed, frosty blue-green, 'Halcyon' is a surperb grower whose thick leaves are pointed and offer good slug resistance. One of the best and most popular of the blue hosta cultivars. This variety of Hosta, also known as ...


Hosta tardiana 'June'

Hosta tardiana 'June'

Common Name: Plantain Lily

Hosta 'June' has pointed leaves that boast a distinct and beautiful variegation. This variety of Hosta, also known as Funkia or Plantain Lily, exhibits leaves of heavy substance that are wide and streaked with blue-green margins with chartreuse ce...


Hosta tokudama 'Flavocircinalis'

Hosta tokudama 'Flavocircinalis'

Common Name: Plantain Lily
'Tokudama Flavocircinalis' hosta boasts almost round, corrugated leaves with a blue-green center outlined in medium gold to chartreuse. Leaves are above ground and very thick. White to palest lavender flowers appear mid-summer on almost 30 inch scape...

Hosta ventricosa 'True Blue'

Hosta ventricosa 'True Blue'

Common Name: Plantain Lily

Hosta ventricosa 'True Blue' has gorgeous dark green leaves with a twisted tip that are especially attractive when grown in a mass planting. This variety grows quickly and blooms medium purple flowers with distinctive striping on t...

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