Nursery

Use this large blue hosta to add color to your shade garden! Attractive, heart-shaped, thick and heavily corrugated blue leaves have wavy margins. Pale lavender flowers.

Known for attracting bees, the 'Yellow River' Hosta has rich green centres with wonderful yellow edges, and contrasting lavender flowers that bloom midsummer. Slug resistant and can tolerate moderate sun.

Mature Size:

• Height: 24 - 36"

• Width: 20 - 24"

Zone: 3

Photos courtesy of Van Noort Bulb Co. & Florissa.

Very hardy and easy to grow classic garden flower. After blooming trim off dead heads and enjoy a lovely deep foliage shrub throughout the summer. This plant will look best grown with a peony cage by the 2nd or 3rd year.

Ants are attracted to a sweet nectar on the buds of the peony plant but do not harm them in any way.

Light Requirement: Full Sun 

Mature Size:

• Height: 24-36 "

• Width: 24-36"

Zone: 2

Very hardy and easy to grow classic garden flower. After blooming trim off dead heads and enjoy a lovely deep foliage shrub throughout the summer. This plant will look best grown with a peony cage by the 2nd or 3rd year.

Ants are attracted to a sweet nectar on the buds of the peony plant but do not harm them in any way.

Light Requirement: Full Sun

Mature Size:

• Height: 28-32"

• Width: 24 - 36"

Zone: 3

During its more than 125 years of existence, Monsieur Jules Elie has made as many fans as adversaries. It’s not the easiest peony variety to grow. This peony has stems that are often too slight to carry the huge flowers, opens very soon making it difficult to cut successfully and suffers easily from sooty mould. But it is a true veteran that, thanks to its huge flowers and beautiful colour, has a lot of admirers. A pink dream!

Light Requirement: Full Sun to Partial Sun

Mature Size:

• Height: 24 - 36"

• Width: 24 - 30"

Zone: 3

Hemerocallis 'Desert Icicle' - is a fragrant, re-blooming spider daylily with yellow and pink flowers that bloom at night.

Light Requirement: Full Sun to Partial Sun

Mature Size:

• Height: 24 - 36"

• Width: 12 - 24"

Zone: 3

Photos courtesy of Van Noort Bulb Co. & Florissa.

Rose mallow is a very robust perennial that fills a lot of space in the garden. Find a place in your landscape where it will not be crowded by other plants, because it will quickly out compete your other perennials for space within a year or two. 

Do not prune it to keep it smaller, as this will remove the flower buds. Zone 4 perennial so it will need heavy mulch before frost!

Photos courtesy of Van Noort Bulb Co. & Florissa.

This classic Japanese Peony stands out with its generously-sized, magenta petals, cream filaments, and pink blush. It has garnered an APS Gold Medal and is widely renowned for its stunning beauty. Flowers bloom midseason. This cultivar prospers in fertile, humus-rich, evenly moist soils. Plant in full sunshine to partial shade.

Light Requirement: Full Sun 

Mature Size:

• Height: 24- 36"

• Width: 24 - 36"

Zone: 3

Sweet Kate Tradescantia is a low maintenance perennial ideal for medium borders.

Blue Gold has lime green/gold foliage and deep blue blooms.

Light Requirement: Full Sun to Partial Sun

Mature Size:

• Height: 10 - 12"

• Width: 14 - 18"

Zone: 3

photo courtesy of Jeffries Nursery