Perennials

Amethyst Astilbe boasts stunning pink plumes in early to mid-summer, perfect for cutting. Its fern-like leaves stay dark green all season. Thrives in shaded spots with regular watering for abundant blooms and lush foliage.

Light Requirement: Part Shade to Partial Shade

Mature Size:

• Height: 18 - 20"

• Width: 18 - 20"

Photos courtesy of Van Noort Bulb Co. & Florissa.

Delicate white flowers appear in late spring and early summer, over a low mound of fern-like foliage. Plants will forms a dense patch, suitable for a ground cover. Both the flowers as well as the fluffy seed-heads are great for cutting.

Allow this spreader plenty of room, or plan to edge each spring to keep the patch to a reasonable size.

Deer resistant

Light Requirement: Part Sun

Flowering Season: Early Summer

Mature Size:

• Height: 24"
  
• Spread: 18"
  

Zone: 3

Bee balm is a classic American native and cottage garden favorite, it's beloved by gardeners. Grand Parade  blooms in pink with a fragrance given off by foliage warmed by the sun or touched by the gardener.

And it’s just as beloved by wildlife as it is by gardeners. Plant bee balm and you can be sure of the attention of hummingbirds and bees in the summer and by seed-loving finches in the winter. It’s an all-around garden winner that provides so much for so little effort.

This herb that can be harvested for making tea. Pick the leaves just before blooming and dry completely for the best flavour.  

Light Requirement: Full Sun to Partial Sun

Mature Size:

• Height: 16"

• Width: 18"

Zone: 3

Photos courtesy of Jeffries Nursery



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: 24"

Zone: 2

Also known as Blue Cornflower, or Mountain Bluet.

This species of Bachelor Button is low to medium in height and well suited to growing in the sunny border. Plants form a bushy clump of grey-green leaves, setting off a display of clear-blue shaggy flowers in early summer.

Removing faded flower heads will encourage repeat blooming. Ruggedly hardy, this plant will grow in most types of soils and climate regions. Plants may be pruned back  in mid-summer to maintain a compact habit.

Makes for beautiful cut flower.

Light Requirement: Full Sun

Mature Size:

• Height: 18"
  
• Spread: 24"
  

Zone: 2

Photos courtesy of Van Noort Bulb Co. & Florissa.

Dark purple foliage and black stems provide a perfect foil for the flowers bloom is emerge fire red then orange returning to bronze as they fade. Makes great cut flowers and attracts butterflies.

Light Requirement: Full Sun

Height: 36 - 40"

Width: 36 - 40"

Image courtesy of Ball Horticulture

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 - 30"

Zone: 3

Photos courtesy of Van Noort Bulb Co. & Florissa.

Empress Wu features huge dark green leaves with deep veins, measuring over 1½' wide and long. It forms a tall and wide clump with a strongly upright habit. Pale reddish-violet flowers bloom just above the foliage in early to midsummer. An exceptional focal point for your shade garden, it takes about 5 years to reach its mature size.

Light Requirement: Partial Shade to Full Shade

Mature Size:

• Height: 36 - 48"

• Width: 60 -72"

Zone: 3

Photos courtesy of Van Noort Bulb Co. & Florissa.

Oriental Poppies provide a cheerful display of huge, satiny flowers in late spring and early summer. Plants form a low clump of coarse, hairy leaves, and usually go dormant, disappearing completely by late summer. Because they disappear in summer, plant something beside Oriental Poppies that will get bushy later in the season, such as Rudbeckia, Russian Sage, or fall-flowering grasses. Divide in August to September. Flowers are good for cutting, picked just as the buds begin to open.

Light Requirement: Full Shade to Partial Shade

Mature Size:

• Height: 18 - 24"

• Width: 18 - 24"

Photos courtesy of Jeffries Nursery

Bee balm is a classic American native and cottage garden favorite, it's beloved by gardeners not only for its beautiful whorled blooms in red, pink, purple and white; but for the evocative fragrance given off by foliage warmed by the sun or touched by the gardener.

And it’s just as beloved by wildlife as it is by gardeners. Plant bee balm and you can be sure of the attention of hummingbirds and bees in the summer and by seed-loving finches in the winter. It’s an all-around garden winner that provides so much for so little effort.

This anemone grows 24 to 32 inches tall with single, light violet-pink flowers. It’s an extremely robust and vigorous plant that is best suited to naturalizing. This is a Creeping, Mounded, Thicket-forming perennial, meaning it can overwhelm other plants and may become a nuisance in a bed.

Light Requirement: Full Sun to Partial Sun

Mature Size:

• Height: 24 - 32"

• Width: 6 -12"

Zone: 3

Photos courtesy of Jeffries Nursery

Delphiniums are the stars of the early summer border. Plants form a low mound of deeply-cut green leaves, bearing tall spikes of satiny flowers. Removing faded spikes at the base will encourage repeat blooming in fall. 

Cut back hard to encourage fresh foliage. Use a high phosphorous fertilizer each year, in early spring. 

Hot, humid summers can bring on potential mildew. 

Light Requirement: Full Sun

Flowering Season: Summer

Mature Size:

• Height: 60"
  
• Spread: 24"
  

Zone: 3

Photos and Data Courtesy of Ball Seed

 A great choice for rock gardens and natural-looking landscapes. The grass grows to nearly 3 feet tall and is low maintenance. The variegated foliage will turn from creamy white in summer to pink as the weather cools in fall and return to its creamy-white color again in spring as new blades grow.

Light Requirement: Full Sun to Part Sun

Mature Size:

• Height: 12 - 36"

• Width: 12 - 18"

Zone: 4

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With stunningly large 12 in. (30cm) foliage the Frances Williams hosta is a popular pick!

Leaves are variegated with dark green centres and greenish-yellow lining, maturing into a cream-beige. Stems produce lavender blooms throughout spring and summer. The clump-forming perennial grows well in shady boarders, along walkways or in large containers. 

For best growth results plant in moist, well-drained soil.

Light Requirement: Partial Shade to Full Shade

Mature Size:

• Height: 24 - 36"

• Width: 36 -48"

Zone: 3

Photos courtesy of Van Noort Bulb Co. & Florissa

A virtually hassle-free perennial, offering three months of vanilla-scented, white flowers in clean clusters from midsummer to early fall. Deadheading the flowers will stimulate another bloom cycle about a month after the first one. The flowers, which are heavily laden with nectar and pollen, are particularly attractive to hummingbirds, butterflies, bees, and other beneficial insects.

Light Requirement: Full Sun to Partial Sun

Mature Size:

• Height: 18 - 24"

• Width: 18 - 24"

Photos courtesy of Van Noort Bulb Co. & Florissa.

Clouds of butterflies and hummingbirds will be flocking to your gardens this year! Get ready to be amazed by this extremely floriferous and ornamental vine! The vigorously growing, Dropmore Scarlet Honeysuckle (Lonicera x brownii 'Dropmore Scarlet') is an incredibly hardy, Honeysuckle Vine!

Light Requirement: Full Sun to Partial Shade

Mature Size:

• Height: 8'

• Width: 4'

Zone: 2

Intend to plant and reap a harvest in 3 years. Asparagus need well-drained nutrient rich soil. Plant in full sun and mark its planting location as it will die back and can be visually lost in the garden by late summer.

Purple Passion is known for being 20% sweeter than regular asparagus and the colour will fade when cooked. Flavour is known to be mildly nutty. 

Light Requirement: Full Sun

Zone: 2

Photos courtesy of Van Noort Bulb Co. & Florissa.

Mixed pot of Asiatic lilies - 3 per pot

Light Requirement: Full Sun to Partial Sun

Mature Size:

• Height: 48”

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.

Henry Brockstone was bred in 1955, this garden stunner is not only fragrant but features huge, fully double blooms in the most perfect shade of deep red. One of our favourites, a must add addition to every garden!

Light Requirement: Full Sun

Mature Size:

• Height: 24 - 36"

• Width: 24 - 36"

Zone: 2

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:

• Height: 6"
  
• Spread: 12"

Zone: 3A

Light Requirement: Full Sun

Flowering Season: Late Summer

Mature Size:

• Height: 24"
  
• Spread: 24"
  

Zone: 3a

Potentilla Monarch's Velvet boasts captivating flowers with raspberry-red, heart-shaped petals encircling a velvet crimson center. Its common name, Cinquefoil, stems from the foliage's five-leaf structure. Mounding low-maintenance foliage resembling strawberries adds delightful texture, complementing other garden plants.

Light Requirement: Full Sun to Partial Sun

Mature Size:

• Height: 12 - 36"

• Width: 18 - 24"

Zone: 5

Photos courtesy of Van Noort Bulb Co. & Florissa.

In comparison to the muted pink tones found in older sedums, this particular variety showcases vibrant blooms that truly make a statement. Tall and upright, sedums form expansive clumps of foliage, serving as excellent substitutes for shrubs in landscaping. Supported by robust stems, they boast large flower heads that emerge in summer and burst into full bloom during the fall season.

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.

Looking for a compact yet robust Russian Sage? Give 'Blue Jean Baby' a try! Its lavender blue flowers, held in smoky purple calyxes, bloom for an extended period from midsummer into fall. This variety is one of the earliest to bloom among Perovskias, offering enduring appeal in your landscape.

Light Requirement: Full Sun

Mature Size:

• Height: 24 - 36"

• Width: 24 - 36"

Zone: 4

Photos courtesy of Van Noort Bulb Co. & Florissa.

This herbaceous perennial features large, semi-double, lightly fragrant blossoms in white with striking dark lavender central flares, towering above lush, toothed foliage. Known for its exceptional vigor, it can produce up to 50 blooms in a single season, with sturdy flower stems that require no staking. A delightful addition to any spring bouquet.

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: 18 - 36"

• Width: 18 - 36"

Zone: 3

Photos courtesy of Van Noort Bulb Co. & Florissa.

Light Requirement: Partial Sun to Full Shade

Mature Size:

• Height: 

• Width: 

Zone: 3

The Red Baron Japanese Blood Grass features white grassy leaves on an upright spreading plant. Its foliage transitions to a stunning dark red in the fall, complemented by colorful dark red stems, adding to its overall appeal.

Light Requirement: Full Sun to Partial Shade

Mature Size:

• Height: 12 - 24"

• Width: 12 -24"

Zone: 5A

Photos courtesy of Van Noort Bulb Co. & Florissa