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Karl Rosenfeld is bright crimson, 16-18 cm flowers appear in mid to late spring. Garden visitors, as well as butterflies and hummingbirds, will love the fragrant, fully double blooms. The glossy, green foliage is very ornamental and provides a colour show in the spring when new growth is copper-burgundy and when the leaves turn soft yellow in the fall.
Photos courtesy of Van Noort Bulb Co. & Florissa.
Brilliant flowers complement neat, attractive foliage. Wonderful as ground cover, in the rock garden, along walkways or cascading over stone walls. Easy to maintain. Thrives in hot, dry locations. .
Light Requirement: Full Sun
Flowering Season: Late Summer
Mature Size:
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Height: 6"
- Spread: 12"
Zone: 3A
Photos courtesy of Bellwyck Horticolor
Cerastium is a very useful ground cover perennial, often grown in dry, sunny areas with poor soil. Plants form a low, fast-spreading mat of silvery-grey leaves, studded with tiny white star flowers in late spring and early summer. An indestructible choice for difficult sites, but be sure to plant this where its spreading habit will not become a problem. Beautiful spilling over rock walls or on steep sunny slopes, used as a lawn substitute. Also grows well in tubs or mixed containers. Easily divided in spring or fall. Plants should be clipped hard or mowed (to 2 inches) after blooming to maintain a tidy habit.
Light Requirement: Full Sun
Flowering Season: Early Summer
Mature Size:
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Height: 6"
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Spread: 18"
Zone: 3a
The leaves emerge frosty blue with a bright yellow margin that lightens to creamy white during the summer. It forms a medium sized mound topped with light lavender flowers in mid to late summer.
Light Requirement: Partial Shade to Shade
Mature Size:
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Height: 12"
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Width: 24"
Zone: 3
Photos courtesy of Proven Winners
Prairie smoke (Geum triflorum) adds interest to a garden bed from early spring through to fall. This perennial is native to North American prairies. It gets its name from the long, wispy, feather-like achenes (seed heads) that develop during the summer. With their pinkish shades, they create an impression of puffs of smoke remaining on the plant for several weeks. The small, pink, bud-like flowers may not be as impressive as the achenes, but they still add a splash of color to the garden in the spring. And during the fall, the foliage takes on purplish, reddish, and orange hues and then turns to a burgundy shade during winter.
Light Requirement: Full Sun to Partial Sun
Mature Size:
- Height: 4 - 8"
- Width: 12 - 18"
Zone: 3
This selection, of 'Autumn Joy', boasts vibrant rosy flowers from late summer into fall. Developed in Quebec, it's a striking option. Tall sedums form substantial foliage clumps, serving as shrub alternatives. Their sturdy stems bear massive flower heads that bloom in fall, offering winter interest and bird food if left standing.
Light Requirement: Full Sun to Partial Shade
Mature Size:
- Height: 24 - 30"
- Width: 18 - 24"
Zone: 3
Photos courtesy of Jeffries Nursery
Nora Barlow is particularly good for cut flowers as it features a fully double, upward-facing bloom, rising above a ferny foliage of gray-green divided leaves. Plants typically produce 3-5 stems in the first year and 5-10 stems in the second and following years.
Remove faded flowering stems to promote additional blooming.
Light Requirement: Part Sun
Flowering Season: Early Summer
Mature Size:
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Height: 24"
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Spread: 12"
Zone: 3
Photo courtesy of Ball Seed Company
Chrysanthemums are a great choice for the garden, or in tubs and mixed containers. Garden Mums are extremely popular plants for a splash of colour in late summer right through the fall.
Morden strain produces naturally cushion-shaped, compact plants with double and semi-double flowers in a whole range of rich jewel tones. Best in a sunny area, with regular watering through the season.
Pinching plants in June will result in a much greater number of flowers.
Light Requirement: Full to Part Sun
Flowering Season: Early Summer
Mature Size:
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Height: 16"
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Spread: 18"
Zone: 3
Photos courtesy of Jeffries Nursery
Maiden Pinks are easy-care perennials, ideal for the beginning gardener. Plants form a low, spreading mound of green and bronze leaves, studded with bright white & pink bi-colour flowers in late spring, and bloom on and off throughout the summer. Suitable in poor soils, and hot, sunny sites.
Excellent in tubs and mixed containers.
Trim back lightly after first flowering. Plants are easily divided in early spring or fall.
Light Requirement: Full Sun
Flowering Season: Summer
Mature Size:
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Height: 8"
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Spread: 12"
Zone: 3
Hosta Dancing Darling is a beauty with its unique yellow-golden foliage with green edges. The foliage is curled and looks lovely in combination with the lilac flowers. Plant Dancing Darling in a moist, cool, humus-rich and well-drained soil. It can be planted in a sunny or shaded spot. This fast growing Hosta is excellent as a solitary on patio or balcony, for mixed containers, for mass planting and in border.
Light Requirement: Full Shade to Partial Shade
Mature Size:
- Height: 20"
- Width: 24"
Zone: 3
Photos courtesy of Van Noort Bulb Co. & Florissa
'Matrona' Sedum, also called stonecrop, is a beautiful plant with pale pink flowers, gray-green leaves, and purple veins and stems. It loves full sun, blooms in late summer, and attracts many pollinators in the fall. It's also very showy and tolerates low rainfall well.
Light Requirement: Full Sun to Partial Shade
Mature Size:
- Height: 12 - 24"
- Width: 18 - 24"
Zone: 3
Photos courtesy of Van Noort Bulb Co. & Florissa.
From $9.95
Unit price perCoreopsis also known as Tickseed, form a mound of leathery green leaves, bearing many upright stems of daisy type flowers for weeks starting in early summer. Removing faded flowers regularly will encourage blooming to continue into the fall.
Tolerant of hot, humid summer climates and attractive to butterflies.
Light Requirement: Full Sun
Flowering Season: Summer
Mature Size:
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Height: 24"
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Spread: 16"
Zone: 3b
photo courtesy of Ball Seed
It is an outstanding perennial with excellent cold hardiness, vigor, and tolerance of heavy clay soils. Blooming in late spring with a profusion of flower spikes, it re-blooms later in the summer when deadheaded. These plants attract butterflies and are deer/rabbit resistant.
Light Requirement: Full Sun
Mature Size:
- Height: 12 - 36"
- Width: 12 - 36"
Zone: 3
Moss Phlox forms a low mound or cushion smothered by tiny flowers in late spring. Clip plants immediately after blooming to encourage a dense habit. Wonderful in the sunny rock garden, for edging, or in mixed containers. Requires good drainage. Drought tolerant, once established.
Light Requirement: Full Sun
Mature Size:
- Height: 4 -6"
- Width: 12 - 24"
Zone: 2
Photos courtesy of Jeffries Nursery
Developed in 1906, this pink peony is still a favorite. Double flowers of soft seashell pink with petals edged a trifle lighter with a few crimson flecks.
Caring for Peonies:
May/June: Keep your peony watered if there is little rainfall. Use compost or aged manure to your soil. If your peony is newly planted it can take up to two seasons for it to get its first bloom. Be patient, it's worth it.
Late June: Blooming season, like many garden plants you will need to deadhead peony flowers often.
Summer: Herbaceous Peonies do best with an inch of water per week if they are newly planted. If they are established they can handle a drought season more than newly planted roots. Enjoy green peony bush once blooms are gone.
Fall: Cut stems of Herbaceous Peonies back to soil level and remove from the area. If you have new plantings mulch.
Photos courtesy of Van Noort Bulb Co. & Florissa.
This improved Beard-tongue forms low mounds of glossy burgundy leaves, bearing medium-tall stalks of tubular deep pink flowers arranged around the strong stems. Vigorous and easy to grow. Remove faded flowers to encourage continued blooming. Attractive to butterflies and hummingbirds. Stems are nice for cutting. Clumps may be easily divided in early spring. Unlike many of the taller selections, this one is ruggedly hardy in colder regions. Drought tolerant once established.
Light Requirement: Full Sun
Mature Size:
- Height: 24"
- Width: 18-24"
Zone: 3
Images courtesy of vanstone Nurseries & Terra Nova Nursereies
This is one of several Hybrid Goldenrods that have been developed as commercial cut flowers in Europe. Plants form a bushy upright mound of deep-green leaves, bearing large heads of golden-yellow flowers in late summer. Stems are strong and should not need staking. This is a well-behaved garden plant, worthy of growing in any sunny border. Flowers do not cause allergies. Moist soil will help to prevent powdery mildew. Clumps may be easily divided in early spring. Attractive to butterflies.
Light Requirement: Full Sun to Partial Sun
Mature Size:
- Height: 18 - 24"
- Width: 12 - 18"
Zone: 3
Photos courtesy of Jeffries Nursery
From $9.95
Unit price perMcKana's Giant aquilegia is particularly good for cut flowers as it features a fully double, upward-facing bloom, rising above a ferny foliage of gray-green divided leaves. Plants typically produce 3-5 stems in the first year and 5-10 stems in the second and following years.
Remove faded flowering stems to promote additional blooming.
Light Requirement: Part Sun
Flowering Season: Early Summer
Mature Size:
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Height: 30"
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Spread: 24"
Zone: 3
Photos courtesy of Ball Seed Company & Bodger
Vibrant flowers; fantastic in the garden or bouquets. Attractive with veronica and campanula, and later-blooming plants such as coreopsis, rudbeckia or Russian sage–to fill in when the poppy foliage goes dormant in summer.
Light Requirement: Full Sun
Height: 18 - 24"
Spread: 18 - 24"
Photos and data courtesy of Ball Seed, Aubin Nursery & Bellwyck Horticolor.
A Proven Winner Rose Mallow, Cherry Chocolatte is a very robust perennial that fills a lot of space in the garden. Even varieties that are considered “dwarf” grow at least three feet tall and wide, with standard-sized rose mallow growing 4-6 feet tall and wide. 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. It is best to find a permanent spot the first time you plant it to avoid the need for transplanting later. Do not prune it to keep it smaller, as this will remove the flower buds.
Tender Zone 4 perennial so it will need heavy mulch before frost!
Flowering Season: Summer
Mature Size:
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Height: 36"
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Spread: 48"
Zone: 4A
