Perennials For Sun Perennials For Sale In Virginia

In colder climates, cut it back as one of the last chores in your garden before the snow flies. Adding compost or topsoil will help the young feeder roots to spread through the loose, nutrient rich soil, much easier than if you used solely the existing...

Provides masses of color and good contrast for the rock garden or small border front. Avoid using a heavy layer of organic mulch on this plant, because it could hold water during the growing season and over winter, promoting rotting of its crown.

Showy daisy-like purple coneflowers (to 5″ diameter) bloom throughout summer atop stiff stems clad with coarse, ovate to broad-lanceolate, dark green leaves. It typically grows to 2-4′ tall.

Mix in with ‘Stella De Ora' daylilies and garden phlox. Remove the brown stems and leaves to give your plant a healthier and more attractive appearance. That is why we do not recommend planting in a hole any deeper than the soil line of the plant in...

We do not recommend using straight topsoil or compost as a back-fill soil because more times than not these products will retain entirely to much moisture and will cause the root system to rot.

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. Remove the old flowers of Daylily Round Midnight as they become brown and unattractive.

Our ideal fertilizer schedule for you to use is as follows. Ideal in sunny beds and borders. 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 is excellent in containers or rock gardens but especially great in containers and window boxes. Avoid wet, poorly drained soils. Deeply lobed dark green leaves (to 4″ long) have triangular bases.

Sedge loves the wet spots. It spills over the edges of pots and walls like liquid gold. You don't need a discerning designer eye to have a garden that looks like you do. Use it beside fountains or ponds, in low wetlands, in that trouble spot that never...

Mulching helps to keep weeds away which will compete with your new investment for water and nutrients. Aster October Skies reliably blooms on the seasons new growth, so prune to the ground during late winter or very early spring before growth starts.

We recommend feeding your Amsonia hubrichtii in the very early spring and again in mid summer after all new growth has hardened off and it begins to set flower buds. Adding compost or topsoil will help the young feeder roots to spread through the loose,...

A general rule of thumb is to count to 5 for every one gallon of pot size. Deadheading also prevents Daylily Happy Returns from spreading through your yard, as it can be an effective self-seeder when the dead flowers are allowed to dry completely and...

Plant rhizomes approximately 2” deep in fall or spring. Sword-shaped, linear green leaves (to 24” long) have prominent midribs. Cultivars come in single, double and peony flowered forms in a wide range of colors including shades of blue, lavender,...

Green leaves edged in white and contrast to the shade garden! Hosta Patriot boasts strong white margin on dark green heart-shaped leaves. They can be used as an edging plant or en mass for a showy ground cover.

Hybrids have now supplanted species plants in the marketplace. Parentage determines the best culture including optimum sun exposure. Small, creamy white flowers borne in open, airy panicles appear in late spring to early summer on slender, wiry stems...

Remove the old flowers of Nepeta Walker's Low as they become brown and unattractive. Nepeta Walkers Low (named after a place in England, not its growth habit) is a stunning non-reseeding Catmint selection with attractive, crinkled blue-green foliage and...

Fragrant and with good foliage. Peony Felix Crousse is a bright deep red peony with some silvering. Glossy green foliage is divided into oval to lance-shaped leaflets. Older proven variety that's still quite popular! The Peony is an extremely long lived,...

Flowers appear at the tips of branched stems clad with evergreen dark green leaves which are divided into glossy, leathery, deeply-lobed, often toothed, lanceolate to elliptic segments.

Mulching helps to keep weeds away which will compete with your new investment for water and nutrients. Its better to leave a one inch gap of space between the mulch and the stem or base of the plant.

Each plant will flower for approximately 7-10 days. Peonies are a standard of the perennial border, both as specimens and in groups. Fragrant and with good foliage. Very large carnation shaped flowers with incurved petals, freely produced in clusters.

Butterfly Plant A. This plant is one of the most attractive plants for butterfly gardens; as a nectar source. Use in mass plantings, as a border plant, or as a tall ground cover. Incarnata Ice Ballet, 'Asclepias' is a beacon for butterflies and a low...

Crocosmias are clump forming and bloom best in crowded conditions. Tropical Flair in a Cold Hardy Perennial The Crocosmia Lucifer, 'Crocosmia x crocosmiiflora', a spring planted corm, produces beautiful red flowers.

Hosta Albomarginata has soft green leaves with white bands, making it very striking. Hostas are not only known for their flowers, they also provide bright color in shade with wonderful foliage.

Young sori are covered by bright red indusia. Triangular, bi-pinnate fronds grow to as much as 2′ long. , commonly called Japanese shield fern or autumn brilliance fern, is an arching, evergreen (semi-evergreen in cold winter climates) fern that grows...

Be careful with products such as miracle-grow as these products can burn newly planted plants when not used at the recommended rates. Adding compost or topsoil will help the young feeder roots to spread through the loose, nutrient rich soil, much easier...

Salvia May Night has deep blue spikes of flowers rise above a mound of aromatic, narrow green wrinkled foliage that blooms June – September. Leaves of this mint family member are aromatic, wrinkled and soft-hairy beneath with entire or serrate margins.

Plants are strong and bushy in habit with near-black stems. Good fresh cut or dried flower. As the flowers mature, they fade to an attractive smoky-rose. Blooms last well cut or dried, and the seeds in the large cone at the center of the flower head provide...