Drought Tolerant Perennials Perennials For Sale In Baltimore

This selection forms a bushy mound of silver foliage, with long spikes of purple-blue flowers. Two year old plants in our trials measured an impressive 4-4 ½' across! Lavender has been grown for centuries for its intensely fragrant flowers and beautiful...

Leaves of this mint family member are aromatic, wrinkled and soft-hairy beneath with entire or serrate margins. Subsequent to the primary bloom, sporadic additional bloom may continue to appear throughout much of the remaining summer.

Plants do not come true from seed (must be vegetatively propagated). Rudbeckia goldstrum is a beautiful native plant that is a beacon for butterflies and bees. Provides excellent bloom and color for late summer.

In the landscape, it is often used in borders and cut flower gardens where there is full sun to partial shade. If plants flop or otherwise depreciate in summer to the point where they look unsightly, consider cutting them back to the basal foliage.

Super hardy Edelweiss will survive the coldest winter temperatures and the worst summer droughts. This superb perennial produces beautiful cream colored star-shaped flowers and silvery green foliage.

Sedum Autumn Joy has pink flower heads that appear in August about 18″ above fleshy blue-green foliage. Starter fertilizer is the best product to use at the time of planting. Remove the brown stems and leaves to give your plant a healthier and more...

Siberian iris is an adaptable plant which tolerates a wide range of soils, including boggy ones, but will generally perform well in average garden soils. Arching, narrow, grass-like, linear, blue-green leaves form a vase-shaped foliage clump to 2' tall.

Plants may repeat bloom throughout the summer. Salvia Blue Hill has rough green foliage with numerous spikes of sky blue blooms rising a moderate 15″ from the compact plant. Blue Hill's smaller size makes it perfect for a border garden or container.

We highly recommend that you mulch your Sedum Autumn Fire with either a ground hardwood mulch or a ground cypress mulch depending on your local availability. Remove the brown stems and leaves to give your plant a healthier and more attractive appearance.

The plant contains flavonoids (notably rutin) that reduce capillary fragility, which might explain the plants reputation as an eye strengthener. It is native to southern Europe . * The Common Rue ( Ruta graveolens ), also known as Herb-of-grace , is a...

Check the plant daily for the first week or so and then every other day there after. Depending on the quality of your existing soil you may need to add a locally sourced compost or topsoil to the back-fill soil.

* Big Bluestem is a perennial grass. * Big bluestem is tolerant of a wide range of soils and moisture. * Seed germination appears to be dependent on about a 2-week period of moistened seed at a time when soil temperatures have reached 60 degrees Fahrenheit.

The Blues can be divided every 3 years or so in early spring. To keep this plant looking neat, prune back to the ground in early spring before new growth begins. The fall color is a burgundy red.

Dwarf Fountain prefers full sun and well drained-soils. Add Texture & Movement with this Compact Ornamental Grass The Grass, 'Dwarf Fountain Grass', Pennisetum alopecuroides 'Hameln', is a great grass for a specimen or in mass plantings.

This heuchera shade perennial is a robust grower with fuzzy leaves that range in color from apricot to amber with purple-red undersides. The foliage of this tough heat and humidity tolerant Heuchera is golden apricot with a slight earthy green or rose...

Cutting back will promote new growth, giving you a healthier plant with stronger stems. Be careful with products such as miracle-grow as these products can burn newly planted plants when not used at the recommended rates.

Nepeta Walker's Low reliably blooms on the seasons new growth, so prune to the ground during late winter or very early spring before growth starts. The lavender-blue varieties are often used as a substitute for lavender plants, where lavender is not particularly...

It's easy to see why Karl Foerster Feather Reed Grass was once named “Perennial of the Year”. Enjoy Year Round Interest with 'Motion Grass' Sometimes called “motion grass”, Karl Foerster Feather Reed Grass provides vertical definition to your...

* The whole plant contains a very aromatic essential oil, giving out a scent somewhat like lemon peel. It bears large elegant flowers of various colours: red, white, striped or blue.

Through most of the summer, the dense mats are covered with bright, low spikes of lavender-pink. Perfect for keeping out weeds and highlighting shady corners, the silvery leaves are tidy and pest-free.

Flowers are extremely showy, and foliage remains attractive throughout the growing season, either alone or as a frame or backdrop for other flowering perennials. Color is brilliant and of even tone with a silky luster.

'Gracillimus' has an arching shape and looks fabulous in the landscape as a specimen, screen or a nice mass of textured foliage; also looks great near a pond! For a carefree, year round interest grass, you cannot do better than Maiden grass! * Tall Weeping...

In cold winter climates, a winter mulch applied after the ground freezes will help prevent root heaving. Divide clumps in spring every 3-4 years.A repeat bloomer. Scorch and general foliage decline usually occur if soils are allowed to dry out.

Coneflowers begin blooming in midsummer and continue for months if faded flowers are regularly removed. , commonly called purple coneflower, is a coarse, rough-hairy, herbaceous perennial that is native to moist prairies, meadows and open woods of the...

Deadheading will help to limit its spread by seed.. Missouri Ironweed is native to much of the central US. A great perennial for butterflies and other pollinators. This Ironweed is known to spread by rhizomes and will naturalize given the opportunity...

Use lamium in hanging baskets, in mixed containers, trailing over walls or as an edger, but spread must be controlled. Lamium prefers a semi-shady dry area with well-drained soil, but will tolerate a wide range of soils and moisture.

Late Summer Brightness Black-Eyed Susan Deamii, Rudbeckia fulgida var. After the flowers drop off, they leave the black cone which will bring birds and sound to a garden! Deamii prefers full sun to partial shade and moderately fertile, preferably heavy...