Perennials

Blue Angel features thickly textured, wide dark blueish grey leaves that cascade gracefully in flower beds. Blooms are a pale, almost white, lavender.  

It tolerates the heat well once established. 

Light Requirement: Full Shade to Partial Shade

Mature Size:

• Height: 36"

• Width: 60 - 72"

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.

'Bright Eyes' Garden Phlox is a vibrant and eye-catching variety of Phlox paniculata. It features large clusters of bright pink flowers with contrasting dark eyes that bloom from summer into fall, attracting butterflies and hummingbirds to the garden. This perennial plant is known for its excellent disease resistance and compact growth habit, making it a popular choice for garden borders, beds, and containers.

Light Requirement: Full Sun to Partial Sun

Mature Size:

• Height: 24 - 36"

• Width: 24 - 36"

Zone: 4

Photos courtesy of Van Noort Bulb Co. & Florissa.

Meet Julia Rose, a fast-growing Itoh Peony hybrid adorned with lush green foliage and captivating tricolored flowers in coral-red, salmon-orange, and creamy yellow hues. Known for its remarkable hardiness, this rare collector's plant requires minimal care and seldom needs division or relocation. Best enjoyed in a sunny location, it gracefully dies to the ground in winter.

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 to Partial Sun

Mature Size:

• Height: 24 - 36"

• Width: 24 - 36"

Zone: 4

Photos courtesy of Van Noort Bulb Co. & Florissa.

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

Compact habit and shorter flower stems for a tidier, more attractive perennial garden.

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. Also called orange stonecrop.

Light Requirement: Full Sun

Flowering Season: Late Summer

Mature Size:

• Height: 6"
  
• Spread: 12"

Zone: 3A

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

'Guacamole' Hosta is medium sized with rich coloured foliage, growing in a mound with broad leaves that are striated in texture. The 'Guacamole' Hosta is a relative of the 'Fragrant Bouquet' Hosta, and blooms in midsummer.

Light Requirement: Full hade to Partial Shade

Mature Size:

• Height: 12 - 24"

• Width: 40 - 50"
  

Zone: 3

Photos courtesy of Van Noort Bulb Co. & Florissa. 

Wavy green leaves have white blazes in the center. One of the most popular Hostas, it's a beautiful variety to brighten up shady areas of the garden.

Light Requirement: Full Sun to Partial Sun

Mature Size:

• Height: 18 - 24"

• Width: 24 - 34"

Zone: 3

Photos courtesy of Van Noort Bulb Co. & Florissa

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

Photos and Data Courtesy of Ball Seed

This Flowering groundcover has a clumping habit and is commonly used in borders and rock gardens.

Plants form a mound of deep greens to black leaves, bearing showy spikes of flowers in mid to late spring. Excellent for combining with spring-flowering bulbs. 

Performs well in pots or mixed containers. Easily divided in spring or early fall.

Light Requirement: Full Shade, Partial Shade and Full Sun

Mature Size:

• Height: 6"

• Width: 20"

Zone: 3

Photos courtesy of Bellwyck Horticultural

Astilbe Ostrich Plume features stunning pink weeping panicles on arching stems, complemented by lush dark green foliage. Perfect for shade and woodland gardens, its airy plumes add movement and beauty to summer landscapes. Great for cutting.

Fertilize in April and June.  Seed heads may be removed, or left on the plant for winter interest.

Light Requirement: Part Shade to Partial Shade

Mature Size:

• Height: 20 - 30"

• Width: 18 - 24"

Photos courtesy of Van Noort Bulb Co. & Florissa.