P e r e n n i a l s
All perennials are $5.00
      

Name Variety

BUDDLEIA Large Lavender CAMPANULA Joan Elliot Blue Clips COREOPSIS Early Sunrise Moonbeam Zagreb DIANTHUS Agatha Bath's Pink Spring Beauty Helen   Desmond ENCHINACEA Purple Coneflower RUDBECKIA Black-Eyed Susan GAILLARDIA DAISY HARDY BEGONIA HEUCHERA Queen Of Hearts Pretty Polly   Palace Purple LAMIUM Archangel MALVA Pink MONTBRETIA Orange 6 cormels PHLOX Miss Lingard Spring Beauty SHASTA DAISY VERONICA Goodness Grows Icicle YARROW Gold Pink   Red

BUDDLEIA (Common Name - BUTTERFLY BUSH) - Butterfly bushes have long, arching stems covered with long, conical clusters of tiny, exceptionally fragrant summer flowers. Butterflys find the blossoms irresistible, sometimes completely covering the flower heads. These shrubs are superb as specimens or massed as background in a shrub border. Butterfly bushes are vigorous, pest-free plants. Prune flower heads after blossoms fade to prolong the flowering season.
      

CAMPANULA (Common Name - BELLFLOWER) - Bellflowers are some of the most popular perennials and have long been stalwarts of beds, borders, and rock gardens. Flowers are borne in clusters or spikes from late spring through summer. These produce a striking sight in the garden. This is one of the most popular perennials at our nursery. We grow them is full sun but the book says they prefer shade.
      

CAMPANULA - Joan Elliot -deep violet-blue flower
CAMPANULA - Blue Clips - light blue flower

COREOPSIS - Coreopsis is easy to grow and famous for its reliable displays of intense, sunny yellow flowers and dainty, dark green foliage. The plants bloom for many weeks in summer and are eye-catching additions to borders, rock gardens, or naturalistic plantings. Coreopsis is excellent for cutting.
      

COREOPSIS - Early Sunrise - golden yellow double flowers
COREOPSIS - Moonbeam - pale yellow flowers
COREOPSIS - Zagreb - golden yellow flowers

DIANTHUS (Common Name PINK) - Dianthus are perky flowers with a tidy habit, forming mats of grassy foliage with assorted colored flowers with fringed or "pinked" petals. Lower growing types make delightful edgings or rock garden or container specimens, while taller selections are useful in the foreground or middle of a border, and as cut flowers.
      

DIANTHUS - Agatha - Semi-double pink blossoms
DIANTHUS - Bath's Pink - Single pink blossoms
DIANTHUS - Spring Beauty - double pink - red center flowers
DIANTHUS - Helen - Salmon flowers

ECHINACEA (Common Name - PURPLE CONEFLOWER) - Purple coneflowers are robust natives of the prairies and open spaces of the eastern United States. These hardy perennials combine beauty with tough character, making them invaluable additions to borders, massed in beds or herb gardens. The variety that we carry is MAGNUS. It is a long lasting cut flower and has extra large pink-lavender flowers. Where most coneflowers petals point down, Magnus' are held more horizontally. PPA Plant of the year in 1998.
      

RUDBECKIA (Common Name - BLACK EYED SUSAN, CONEFLOWER) - These are prolific bloomers from early summer to frost and are the backbone of many perennial gardens. This variety in our gardens, I call Mama's favorite, because it is. It is a miniature plant with large blooms. These natives of North American grasslands and meadows have daisylike flower heads with intense yellow rays that contrast to their centers of deep brown. Coneflowers have large, hairy leaves and stiff stems. They are excellent in sunny borders.
      

GAILLARDIA DAISY (Common name - Blanket Flower) - Blanket flower is an easy-to-grow perennial with cheerful, very brightly colored, daisylike flowers from early summer to frost. They make an excellent cut flower. The flowers that bloom provide vivid colors to rock gardens and borders.
           

HARDY BEGONIA - Hardy begonia is a delightful addition to shady gardens. Its starts late in the spring and brings a welcome splash of color late in the summer. The plants produce masses of medium green to reddish bronze leaves shaped like small elephant ears. Slender stems rise above the foliage, each displaying loose, drooping clusters of pale pink blossoms in late summer. Hardy begonias are excellent for shaded borders, rock gardens, are as an edging along a wooded path.
           

HEUCHERA - Common name - Coral Bells & Alumroot

The little plants produce handsome mounds of deeply colored lobed leaves and delicate, gracefully arching stems of small flowers. The spring and summer bellshaped blossoms are gentle shades of white or pink or bold hues of red. Some types sport rich ruby red leaves that accent rock gardens, edgings, and perennial beds.
           

LAMIUM - Common name - Dead Nettle

This lamium produces beautiful silver and green leaves and is a very effective groundcover. Archangel grows to 2 foot tall and has 3-inch-long leaves and bright yellow blooms. It is a vigorous colorful groundcover.
           

Pictures of some of the different perennials we have.