Perennials

Perennials

Our enthusiastic and extremely knowledgeable perennials team is here to answer your questions and help you choose the best perennials for your situation. There’s always something in bloom for sun, shade, butterflies, birds or deer resistance  as well as a variety of bulbs for your space.

Stroll through our time-tested favorites and introduce yourself to the newest varieties. We garden with perennials too; we love them and it shows!

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Clematis paniculata

Sweetly fragrant white blooms. Attracts hummingbirds. Tolerates deer & shade. Fast growing. USDA 5-9

Coreopsis 'Jethro Tull'

Height: 18 inches

Spread: 18 inches

Sunlight: full sun

Hardiness Zone: 4b

Other Names: Large Flowered Tickseed, Threadleaf
Coreopsis

Description:
Splendid fluted petals with cheery, daisy-like yellow flowers and a central gold disk; tolerant of pests and drier soils; thriving in sandy and rocky soils; coreopsis needs good drainage

Ornamental Features:
Jethro Tull Tickseed is smothered in stunning yellow daisy flowers with gold eyes and curiously fluted yellow tips at the ends of the stems from early summer to early fall. The flowers are excellent for cutting. Its ferny leaves remain emerald green in color throughout the season.

Landscape Attributes:
Jethro Tull Tickseed is an open herbaceous perennial with a mounded form. It brings an extremely fine and delicate texture to the garden composition and should be used to full effect.

This is a relatively low maintenance plant, and is best cleaned up in early spring before it resumes active growth for the season. It is a good choice for attracting butterflies to your yard, but is not particularly attractive to deer who tend to leave it alone in favor of tastier treats. It has no significant negative characteristics.

Jethro Tull Tickseed is recommended for the following landscape applications:
- Mass Planting
- Border Edging
- General Garden Use
- Container Planting

Planting & Growing:
Jethro Tull Tickseed will grow to be about 18 inches tall at maturity, with a spread of 18 inches. Its foliage tends to remain dense right to the ground, not requiring facer plants in front. It grows at a medium rate, and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for approximately 10 years. As an herbaceous perennial, this plant will usually die back to the crown each winter, and will regrow from the base each spring. Be careful not to disturb the crown in late winter when it may not be readily seen!

This plant should only be grown in full sunlight. It does best in average to evenly moist conditions, but will not tolerate standing water. It is not particular as to soil pH, but grows best in poor soils. It is somewhat tolerant of urban pollution. This particular variety is an interspecific hybrid. It can be propagated by division; however, as a cultivated variety, be aware that it may be subject to certain restrictions or prohibitions on propagation.

Jethro Tull Tickseed is a fine choice for the garden, but it is also a good selection for planting in outdoor pots and containers. It is often used as a 'filler' in the 'spiller-thriller-filler' container combination, providing a mass of flowers against which the thriller plants stand out. Note that when growing plants in outdoor containers and baskets, they may require more frequent waterings than they would in the yard or garden.

Hakonechloa macra 'Aureola'

Golden Hakone Grass | Gracefully arching green leaves variegated with gold striping. Yellow-green flowers appear in loose, nodding panicles in mid-summer. Naturalizing. USDA 5-9

Miscanthus sinensis 'Adagio'

'Adagio' Maiden Grass | Pinkish blooms. Upright clumping grass. Self-seeding. USDA 5-9

Pennisetum alopecuroides 'Hameln' Fountain Grass

Height: 28 inches

Spread: 24 inches

Sunlight: full sun

Hardiness Zone: 4b

Description:
A fine textured dwarf fountain grass suitable for smaller areas; bright green foliage changes to a golden tan in fall; blooms are large bottle brush like plumes of white that persist until winter; beautiful as an accent or massed in borders or rock garden

Ornamental Features:
Hameln Dwarf Fountain Grass has masses of beautiful plumes of white flowers rising above the foliage in mid summer, which are most effective when planted in groupings. Its grassy leaves are green in color. As an added bonus, the foliage turns a gorgeous coppery-bronze in the fall.

Landscape Attributes:
Hameln Dwarf Fountain Grass is an herbaceous perennial grass with a shapely form and gracefully arching stems. It brings an extremely fine and delicate texture to the garden composition and should be used to full effect.

This is a relatively low maintenance plant, and is best cleaned up in early spring before it resumes active growth for the season. Deer don't particularly care for this plant and will usually leave it alone in favor of tastier treats. It has no significant negative characteristics.

Hameln Dwarf Fountain Grass is recommended for the following landscape applications:

- Accent
- Mass Planting
- Rock/Alpine Gardens
- General Garden Use
- Container Planting

Planting & Growing:
Hameln Dwarf Fountain Grass will grow to be about 24 inches tall at maturity, with a spread of 24 inches. It grows at a medium rate, and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for approximately 10 years. As an herbaceous perennial, this plant will usually die back to the crown each winter, and will regrow from the base each spring. Be careful not to disturb the crown in late winter when it may not be readily seen!

This plant should only be grown in full sunlight. It is very adaptable to both dry and moist growing conditions, but will not tolerate any standing water. It is considered to be drought-tolerant, and thus makes an ideal choice for a low-water garden or xeriscape application. It is not particular as to soil type or pH. It is somewhat tolerant of urban pollution. This is a selected variety of a species not originally from North America.

Hameln Dwarf Fountain Grass is a fine choice for the garden, but it is also a good selection for planting in outdoor pots and containers. It can be used either as 'filler' or as a 'thriller' in the 'spiller-thriller-filler' container combination, depending on the height and form of the other plants used in the container planting. It is even sizeable enough that it can be grown alone in a suitable container. Note that when growing plants in outdoor containers and baskets, they may require more frequent waterings than they would in the yard or garden.

Pennisetum alopecuroides 'Cassian's Choice'

Excellent fall color. Versatile with a graceful fountain-like form. White bloom. USDA 5-9

Hakonechloa macra 'All Gold'

'All Gold' Japanese Forest Grass | Bright green arched stems. Dense mounds. Naturalizing. USDA 5-9

Panicum virgatum 'Heavy Metal'

Blue-green foliage with feathery, pinkish-white plumes in summer. Strong, upright habit. USDA 5-9

Pennisetum alopecuroides 'Little Bunny'

White blooms. Dwarf. Compact. Clumping green foliage. USDA 5-9

Hakonechloa macra ?Albostriata?

Dense, clumping, variegated foliage. Low-maintenance. USDA 5-9

Pennisetum alopecuroides 'Piglet'

White blooms. Graceful, spreading clump. Deep green leaves. Tolerates black walnut, Dry & wet soils. USDA 5-9

Pennisetum alopecuroides 'Burgundy Bunny

Bright red accent on blades. Compact. Tan seed heads. USDA 5-9

Gaura lindheimeri Rosy Jane

White flowers with a candy-pink picotee. Open, vase-shaped habit; tolerant of heat, humidity, and some drought once established. USDA 5-9

Hypericum calycinum

Bright yellow flowers bloom in spring to late summer, followed by attractive yellow to orange berries. Deer resistant. USDA 5-9

Gaura lindheimeri 'So White'

Pure white blooms. Compact. Tolerates poor soils. USDA 5-9

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