Perennials

Aster 'Alert" is a compact mounding selection of our native New England aster.  During spring and summer, plants are clothed in gray-green leaves.  In fall foliage disappears beneath a starry mantle of crimson daisies. Plants are tough and adaptable to moist sunny sites in a variety of garden situations. This cultivar is known for its compact habit, disease resistance and eye-popping flower display.

Light Requirement: Full to Part Sun

Flowering Season:  Late Summer

Mature Size:

• Height: 12"
  
• Spread: 16"
  

Zone: 3a

Deep Pink Colour

Zone 4

Veitch’s Blue Echinops, also known as small globe thistle, is a standout in full-sun gardens. Its showy, true blue, golf ball-shaped flowers add a unique touch. This hardy, low-maintenance plant thrives in dry soils and low rainfall areas, becoming drought-tolerant once mature.

Light Requirement: Full Sun

Mature Size:

• Height: 24 - 36"

• Width: 18 - 24"

Photos courtesy of Van Noort Bulb Co. & Florissa.

The Sweet Daisy series showcases beautiful, robust, and dense flowers that come early and stay late. The plants are naturally compact and well branched.

Light Requirement: Full Sun, Partial Sun

Mature Size:

• Height: 18"

• Width: 20"

Zone: 3

Photos and Data Courtesy of Vanstone Nursery

Burgundy Red

Zone 3b

Full sun

Image Courtesy of Clearview Hort.

‘Bowl of Beauty’ peony features 8-inch anemone-shaped blooms with rose-pink petals and a creamy yellow center. Strong, self-supporting stems, lush dark green foliage, delightful fragrance, and deer resistance make it perfect for borders, mixed beds, or cut flowers. Reaching 24–36 inches tall, this long-lived perennial provides striking, low-maintenance spring color for years.

Light Requirement: Full Sun to Partial Sun

Height: 24 - 36"

Width: 24 - 30"

Zone: 3

Photos courtesy of Van Noort Bulb Co. & Florissa.

Light Requirement: Full Sun

Flowering Season: Summer

Mature Size:

• Height: 12"
  
• Spread: 12"
  

Zone: 3

Sunburst Double Coreopsis form a mound of leathery green leaves, bearing many upright stems of dbl. 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. Attractive to butterflies.

Light Requirement: Full to Part Sun

Flowering Season: Early Summer

Mature Size:

• Height: 24"
  
• Spread: 24"
  

Zone: 3b

Easily grown in average, dry to medium moisture, well-drained soils in part shade to full shade. Best in medium moisture soils in part shade or to be planted in containers. Once established, it tolerates drought.

Spreads by stem fragments, rooting at the nodes, creeping stems, and seed. It can be somewhat invasive in optimum growing conditions.

If plants become leggy, shear back to 4-6 inches or to new fresh basal leaves in order to shape plants and to promote new foliage growth.

 Light Requirement: Part Sun

Flowering Season: Summer

Mature Size:

• Height: 12"
  
• Spread: 24"
  

Zone: 4

Fluffy double blooms are a deep Bing cherry red color with gold wire edges. A rare color in double daylilies. Fragrant

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.

Clustered Bell flower is upright and sturdy and makes for a good edging for any garden, Campanula are also known as 'Bell flowers' because of their distinct, upturned bell-shaped flowers. Can be invasive, so clip spent blooms before they go to seed.

 Light Requirement: Full to Part Sun

Flowering Season: Early Summer

Mature Size:

• Height: 12"
  
• Spread: 18"
  

Zone: 3a

photo courtesy of  Ball Seed

The painted daisy grows as a perennial flowering plant. It closely resembles a classic daisy plant with fern-like leaves and a circle of petals surrounding a dense round centre. They thrive in six to eight hours of full sun and well-draining, moderately moist soil.

Mixed shades of red, pink, or white on ferny green foliage.

Photos courtesy of Jeffries Nurseries 

Photo and data 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.

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.

A beautifully variegated mini hosta. Large, ovate leaves have green centers with brightly contrasting yellow margins. The margins are heavily rippled and give the leaves a lightly wavy overall effect. White flowers appear above the foliage in midsummer. A showy specimen for the shade!

Good for ground covers and underplanting for shrubs.

Light Requirement: Full Shade to Partial Shade

Mature Size:

• Height: 4-6"

• Width: 10 - 12"

Zone: 3

Photos courtesy of Van Noort Bulb Co. & Florissa

Large golden yellow star-shaped flowers completely cover the habit with well-branched stems prolonging bloom. A robust clump of foliage with large leaves ensures longevity in the landscape. Highly resistant to Septoria leaf spot.

Light Requirement: Full Sun

Height: 32 - 38"

Width: 36 - 42"

Zone: 4

Photo and data courtesy of Proven Winners

A clump-forming, densely leafy perennial to 60cm, with narrow-lanceolate leaves and small clusters of blue-eyed white flowers 3-4cm across

Image courtesy of Ball Horticulture

Light Requirement: Full Sun

Flowering Season: Late Summer

Mature Size:

• Height: 24"
  
• Spread: 24"
  

Zone: 3a

Photos courtesy of Bellwyck Horticolor

The 'White Temptation' Daylily is a beautifully bright re-blooming daylily, showing a near white petal and yellow-green centre.

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.

Blanket Flowers are one of the longest-blooming perennials, well suited to hot sunny sites. This selection forms a low mound of olive-green leaves, with large daisy-like blooms. A great choice for edging, borders, rock gardens and containers.

Removing faded flowers will greatly extend the blooming season.

These will not tolerate wet, heavy clay soil, particularly in the winter.

Light Requirement: Full Sun

Mature Size:

• Height: 30"

• Width: 36"

Zone: 3

Photos courtesy of Jeffries Nursery

'Eupatorium Maculatum' , also known as Joe-Pye Weeds,  are bold, architectural specimen plants, perfect for making a statement in the border. Plants forms a huge clump of coarse green leaves, bearing enormous umbrella-like heads of rosy-purple flowers in late summer.

This selection is a little more restrained in height, but still gets large and impressive.

A magnet to butterflies, this is also suitable for planting in a meadow or at the waterside. Excellent for cutting.

Light Requirement: Full Sun to Partial Shade

Mature Size:

• Height: 60 - 72"

• Width: 24 - 36"

Zone: 4

Photos courtesy of Van Noort Bulb Co. & Florissa.

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.

'Lakeside Paisley' Hosta produces heart-shaped leaves with wide and wavy margins. The narrow, creamy white markings in the centre of the leaves shoot out from the leafstalk in a feathered pattern. The thick leaves make a perfect background for the light lavender flowers that bloom in midsummer. 

Light Requirement: Full Shade to Partial Shade

Mature Size:

• Height: 20 - 30"

• Width: 24 - 36"

Zone: 3

Photos courtesy of Van Noort Bulb Co. & Florissa

Light Requirement: Full Sun

Mature Size:

• Height: 30"

• Width: 12"

Zone: 3

Photos courtesy of Jeffries Nurseries & Bellwyck Horticolor

Maltese Cross has masses of beautiful clusters of scarlet star-shaped flowers at the ends of the stems in early summer, which are most effective when planted in groupings. The flowers are excellent for cutting. Its pointy leaves remain dark green in colour throughout the season.

Flowering Season: Summer

Mature Size:

• Height: 36"
  
• Spread: 24"
  

Zone: 2

Photos courtesy of Van Noort Bulb Co. & Florissa.

Chinese Lantern (Physalis alkekengi)  There is high value for this dried species in fall displays. In Japan, the seeds are used during the Bon Festival as offerings to guide the souls of the deceased. This plant spreads underground by rhizomes and should be contained in certain situations. Physalis is a close relative of the Cape Gooseberry but is not cultivated as a food crop. The fruit is tasteless and it should be noted that the unripe fruit and leaves are toxic if enough is ingested. 

 Light Requirement: Full Sun

Flowering Season: Summer

Mature Size:

• Height: 24"
  
• Spread: 24"
  

Zone: 3

Photos courtesy of Van Noort Bulb Co. & Florissa.

White Clips make for beautiful ground covering and edging for any garden, Campanula are also known as 'Bell flowers'  or ' Canterbury Bells' because of their distinct, upturned bell-shaped flowers.

White Clips are not aggressive like other varieties of Bell flowers

 Light Requirement: Full Sun

Flowering Season: Early Summer

Mature Size:

• Height: 6"
  
• Spread: 10"
  

Zone: 3b

Photos courtesy of Ball Seed Company

Delphiniums are the stars of the early summer border. Plants form a low mound of deeply-cut green leaves, bearing mounds of satiny flowers. Removing faded blooms 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: 12"
  
• Spread: 12"
  

Zone: 3