Perennials For Ohio

Remove the brown stems and leaves to give your plant a healthier and more attractive appearance. This procedure, called deadheading, encourages Hosta Guacamole to produce new flowers, keeping your plant looking attractive throughout the season.

Mini Pearl Daylily is an easy-to-grow herbaceous perennial for gardens. Check the plant daily for the first week or so and then every other day there after. Slow-release fertilizer can help prevent rapid soft growth that is vulnerable to diseases and...

Peony Sarah Bernhardt is a pink double flowered peony. Remove spent flowers after blooming. Plants are long-lived, do not need to be divided and can be left undisturbed for years. Flowers are extremely showy, and foliage remains attractive throughout...

Performs well in full sun in the north, but prefers some shade (particularly in the heat of the afternoon) in the south. If grown in full sun, consistent moisture is particularly important.

It will also tolerate moist sand or clay soils, and will handle some drought once plants are established. Hosta Sum and Substance prefers a rich, moist humus blend. Indoor/Outdoor is an option as a granular, slow release fertilizer that can be applied...

Like all astilbes, this fine specimen lends a refined presence to semi-shady to shady perennial borders and its graceful flowers flutter in the slightest late spring or early summer breeze.

Green leaves edged in white and contrast to the shade garden! Hosta Patriot boasts strong white margin on dark green heart-shaped leaves. Green leaves edged in white and contrast to the shade garden! Patriot does best in rich, moist, organic soils in...

This pure-white double Peony is named for the famous child star of Hollywood in the 1940s and is a big favorite among peony-lovers. You can plant other peonies with staggered bloom times to extend the total peony bloom period to approximately 6 weeks...

Hostas are not only known for their flowers, they also provide bright color in shade with wonderful foliage. Its probably one of the most popular choices for the home landscape. Hosta Albomarginata has soft green leaves with white bands, making it very...

Any type of mulch will do but cypress or hardwood mulch will be of a higher quality and provide better nutrition overall as they breakdown. It creates a barrier between the roots of the plant and fungus and pathogens that can cause root rot.

An old standard that features very large, very fragrant, red double flowers. Once they're established, they're as hardy and dependable as oaks, creating a fantastic season of bloom in your yard year after year.

Highly popular, this eye catching large flowered daylily produces loads of fragrant, 6 inch reddish-purple flowers in midsummer. Water using the counting method for the first few weeks.

Sweet Kate is an easy-to-grow perennial that produces a profusion of unusual deep-blue flowers from summer to fall. From the lovely chartreuse foliage to the beautiful bluish purple flowers, this is a ground cover unlike any other.

Reddish frond color often returns in autumn after first fall frost. , commonly called Japanese shield fern or autumn brilliance fern, is an arching, evergreen (semi-evergreen in cold winter climates) fern that grows in a vase-shaped clump to 2′ tall...

Does well in containers. The chartreuse foliage will stand out in any shady garden, be it in a pot, garden bed, or as a mass planting. Mass as in a group as a ground cover . Useful in rock gardens, borders and open woodland gardens.

Heuchera Caramel has purplish-red leaf undersides that offers an attractive contrast, along with white flowers float above the 12″ foliage in early to mid summer. The foliage of this tough heat and humidity tolerant Heuchera is golden apricot with a...

Heuchera Palace Purple looks great in the border in clumps, as edging, or in nooks in the rock garden. Foliage color may fade to a bronze-green in hot summers. 1991 Perennial Plant of the Year.

A thick mulch for the first winter is recommended, especially in Zones 4 and 5. For example a one gallon pot would be watered until you count to 5 a three gallon pot would be 15 and so on.

Stems die back completely to the ground in winter, but new growth is slow to appear in spring, so be patient! Old stems can be pruned to the ground in mid spring. A general rule of thumb is to count to 5 for every one gallon of pot size.

Regular deep watering is advisable. Immune to the heat and humidity of the deep South. Cut back stems to approximately 3-4 inches in late autumn. Tolerates some light shade, but full sun with good air circulation produces the best flowers, the strongest...

Hybrid hellebores, sometimes commonly called hybrid Lenten roses or hybrid winter roses, are bushy, clump-forming perennials which typically grow to 12-15” tall. Hellebore Ivory Prince is a complex hybrid whose parents are unknown.

An introduction of Wayside Gardens of Hodges, South Carolina. Flower colors range from pure white to red to near black. Meaning injures/destroys in reference to the plant's toxic leaves, stems and roots which are poisonous to humans if ingested.

Evergreen perennial with cup-shaped nodding blooms in colors ranging from cream, pink to red in late winter. They are noted for producing single, cup-shaped flowers (typically 2-3” diameter) with five showy, usually overlapping petals (technically sepals),...

Sword-shaped, linear green leaves (to 24” long) have prominent midribs. In order to meet these somewhat unusual seasonal cultural requirements, plants may be grown in pots that are sunk half way in water during the growing season but then removed to...

Do not remove the old flowers of St John's Wort Red Fame as they become the beautiful berries in the fall. After back filling and lightly compacting the 50/50 mix of existing soil and compost give the St John's Wort Red Fame a good deep watering.

Cool season plant. Plant patented. Purple Dragon forms a spreading patch of small silver leaves with a green edge. Whorls of hooded, large true purple flowers stand out against silver foliage edged in green.

Slow-release fertilizer can help prevent rapid soft growth that is vulnerable to diseases and insects. Daylily Happy Returns reliably blooms on the seasons new growth, so prune to the ground during late winter or very early spring before growth starts.