Perennials For Sun Perennials For Sale In Massachusetts

Soils must not be allowed to dry out. Great for moist areas in borders, cottage gardens, meadows, native plant gardens, wild/naturalized areas, rain gardens or water margins. Easily grown in abundantly moist, fertile, humusy soils in full sun to part...

Is garden classic with bold texture and upright habit. Rudbeckia are a super easy way to add color to any sunny garden. Provides excellent bloom and color for late summer. Divide when clumps become overcrowded.

Good fresh cut or dried flower. Blooms last well cut or dried, and the seeds in the large cone at the center of the flower head provide nourishment for birds when finished blooming.

After back filling and lightly compacting the 50/50 mix of existing soil and compost give the Coreopsis Moonbeam a good deep watering. In colder climates, cut it back as one of the last chores in your garden before the snow flies.

Dianthus Neon Star is a hybrid dianthus that typically grows in an upright rounded mound to 8-12″ tall and to 6-12 inches wide. It is noted for its long summer bloom of fragrant fluorescent pink flowers.

, commonly called Japanese iris or Japanese water iris, is a rhizomatous beardless perennial iris that grows in slowly expanding clumps to 2-4' tall. The perfect plant in moist borders, at the edge of ponds or streams, or even in pots plunged halfway...

Golden Variegated Sweet Flag has a typical philodendron flower that can be used fresh or dried. The rich golden yellow and green foliage grows to 10 inches high, with a 1 foot spread.

Slow-release fertilizer can help prevent rapid soft growth that is vulnerable to diseases and insects. Espoma products are easy to use, just sprinkle around the base of the plant and water it in.

Remove the old flowers of Daylily Happy Returns as they become brown and unattractive. 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.

Aster October Skies does prefer drier soils in the winter. Be careful with products such as miracle-grow as these products can burn newly planted plants when not used at the recommended rates.

It does not like to stay or sit in water or get too dry. Alternately, Hosta Sum and Substance can be planted with minions, or smaller, variegated hostas at its edges. As a result, they make large, bold additions to any garden.

Fragrant and with good foliage. Excellent cut flower. Peony Sarah Bernhardt is a pink double flowered peony. The spreading clumps form hedges. Also effective as accents or herbaceous hedges along fences, sidewalks, driveways or walls.

Grow Ice Ballet as a Beautiful Monarch Butterfly Habitat Plant No butterfly garden would be complete without a food source for monarch butterfly larvae! And Ice Ballet doesn't just help our winged friends, it's a beautiful plant in it's own right.

Makes a good cut flower. Depending on the quality of your existing soil you may need to add a locally sourced compost or topsoil to the back-fill soil. Feeding your plants is probably the single most forgotten part of growing healthy long lasting plants.

Plant patented. Cool season plant. Makes a great ground cover for shade. Whorls of hooded, large true purple flowers stand out against silver foliage edged in green. Deer resistant.

After back filling and lightly compacting the 50/50 mix of existing soil and compost give the Sedum Autumn Joy a good deep watering. In colder climates, cut it back as one of the last chores in your garden before the snow flies.

Clumps may be easily divided in fall or early spring. Spreads by creeping stems that root as they go along the ground and can be mildly aggressive in rich soils. ‘Big Ears' has better resistance to these problems than the species and many other cultivars.

Mulching helps to keep weeds away which will compete with your new investment for water and nutrients. We highly recommend that you mulch your Geranium Karmina with either a ground hardwood mulch or a ground cypress mulch depending on your local availability.

Are commonly called bleeding heart because protruding inner petals, more obvious in some species than others, purportedly appear to form a drop of blood at the bottom of each heart-shaped flower.

Easily grown in organically rich, fertile, humusy, alkaline, medium moisture, well-drained soils in part shade to full shade. Evergreen perennial with cup-shaped nodding blooms in colors ranging from cream, pink to red in late winter.

Prune the central stems of the yarrow if they begin to die back. Dense, upright, habit and long blooming period. The most common cause of plant death after transplanting is planting the new plant to deep.

Glossy green foliage is divided into oval to lance-shaped leaflets. Remove spent flowers after blooming. Peonies are a standard of the perennial border, both as specimens and in groups.

A 2 to 3 inch layer of mulch is sufficient but remember to take care not to cover any part of the stem of the plant with mulch. In warmer climates, cut it back in the spring before it begins to bud.

The foliage of this tough heat and humidity tolerant Heuchera is golden apricot with a slight earthy green or rose tint on the newer leaves. Looks great in containers or as an edging.

Mulching helps to keep weeds away which will compete with your new investment for water and nutrients. We highly recommend that you mulch your Ceratostigma plumbaginoides with either a ground hardwood mulch or a ground cypress mulch depending on your...

This is not to be rushed. Cut back Hibiscus Luna Rose to within 6 inches of the ground after it has finished flowering. 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.

Below Virginia many nurseries and landscapers plant year around, weather permitting. They are 10 inches across and the pure, crimson red color contrasts nicely with the plant's bright green leaves.