Perennials

Perennials continue to be an area of growing interest for home
gardeners, and we offer one of the best selections in the area. Our
perennials are available from early April through autumn, and we'll
have hundreds of varieties in stock during that time period.

Every year new plants become available, and this year we will offer
some exciting new perennial varieties. To complement last year’s
new Echinaceas, “Sunrise” and “Sunset”, we’ll have “Harvest Moon”,
a deep golden yellow, “Sundown”, a vibrant orange, and “Twilight”,
a vibrant coral pink. Coreopsis “Heavens Gate”, the first all pink
variety that is truly hardy, and “Tequila Sunrise”, with daisy like
flowers and variegated foliage, will also be in available. Gaillardia
“Arizona Sun”, with red flowers tipped in yellow, has impressive
bloom power, with flowers produced through most of the summer.

The Heucheras have become a very popular, and this year we’ll have
an expanded selection, including:“Chocolate Ruffles”, with
incredibly frilled chocolate and burgundy leaves, “Hollywood”, with
dark leaves and white venation, “Dolce Peach Melba”, with
peachy-orange foliage, “Obsidian”, with glossy black foliage that
shines like a gem, “Velvet Night”, with deep plum leaves and
purple overlays, and “Starry Night”, another dark ruffled form but
with lovely pale pink flowers.

We will also have an expanded selection of Daylilies, including
several new ‘Twice as Nice” varieties: “All Fired Up”, with large
peachy-orange blossoms and a reddish eye, “Borderland”, cream
colored flowers with purple edging and a matching eye, and “Paper
Butterfly”, peachy-pink blossoms with a star-burst blue-violet eye.

New Clematis from the Raymond Erison collection, new varieties of
Foxglove from “Plants that Work”, and the 2006 Perennial Plant of
the Year, Dianthus “Fire Witch”, along with hundreds of tried and
true garden standards will complete our selection.

Some categories of plants that have special interest include
Succulents, Clematis, Hardy Ferns, Daylilies, Ornamental Grasses,
and Hardy Bamboos. We will have more information about these
groups of plants soon. Also popular are the specialty groundcovers,
which include many low growing perennials that can tolerate some
foot traffic.