Discover 50+ stunning perennial plants that bloom all summer long, adding continuous color and beauty to your sunny home garden.
These hardy perennials can thrive in part sun, full sun or shade, high heat or freezing temperatures, and still bloom beautifully every year.
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These hardy perennials can thrive in part sun, full sun or shade, high heat or freezing temperatures, and still bloom beautifully every year.
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(aka: Geranium 'Gerwat'; Plant Patent 12,175 Expired) Geranium 'Rozanne' is an amazing geranium that has proven to be an outstanding garden performer...hence, it is one of only a few hardy geraniums ever patented. She was discovered in 1990 in the garden of Donald and Rozanne Waterer of Somerset, England, and released by Blooms of Bressingham. This sterile hybrid of Geranium himalayense x Geranium wallichianum 'Buxton's Variety' makes an 18" wide clump topped, from June until frost, with large, 2.5", blue-violet flowers. We think you should let her do her thing in your garden. Maintenance: In the ground, this superb selection is a very low maintenance perennial. The only thing you might want to consider is to cut the plant to the ground in fall as part of your garden cleanup. The basal rosette will remain evergreen, re-sprouting in spring. Rozanne geranium is quite a scrambler and can overtake smaller adjacent perennials, so there may be a time in the middle of growing season you need to cut it back, which is no problem. Growing Conditions: 'Rozanne' isn't particular fond of shade or saturated soils, but there isn't much else it doesn't like. It responds quite well to rich, organic garden soils. Irrigated gardens are fine, as are all droughts, except those that may be extended with temperatures over 90 for weeks. In this case, some extra water will be appreciated. Garden Value: You'll find this a superb plant to weave in and out of other perennials with no detrimental effects on their neighbors. The lavender blue flowers are produced from spring through fall, for an amazingly long floral show. Natural Impacts: Bees are the dominant pollinator for hardy geraniums.
If you are looking for a low-maintenance flowering perennial that will attract pollinators galore, consider growing hardy geraniums!
Looking for a fuss-free perennial that's attractive, dependable, deer-resistant, multiseasonal and extremely long-lived? Meet baptisia-a prairie native whose beautiful spires are reminiscent of the beloved lupine, minus the maintenance.
The hardy hibiscus is a striking perennial garden plant. Learn how to grow and care for this beautiful blooming plant.
These hardy perennials can thrive in part sun, full sun or shade, high heat or freezing temperatures, and still bloom beautifully every year.
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Astilbe is one of America's most loved ornamental plants, and with good reason. This hardy perennial produces masses of blooms. It is generally a reliable bloomer, but if your astilbe won't bloom, the
Got a tough spot in the garden to fill. This post will show you How to Grow Hardy Geraniums for season long blooms that come back every summer!
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If asked to recommend one Spring flowering garden plant, I would answer with Candytuft, a pretty evergreen perennial! Here's why!
Tough, vigorous, and incredibly pretty, Geranium x oxonianum 'Wargrave Pink' is a superb hardy geranium cultivar with luminous, salmon pink to silvery pink, open-faced flowers from late spring to early fall. Flowers are small (1 in. or 2.5 cm) but abundant and rise atop mounds of deeply lobed, medium green leaves. Bushy, compact, and semi-evergreen, this hardy Geranium is reliable, easy to grow, and provides long-lasting color in the garden.
Here are 15 popular, easy to grow purple perennials with beautiful flowers in shades of lilac, mauve, violet and deep purple.
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How do you choose the best perennials from so many gorgeous options? We picked these 20 for their remarkable flower power and reliability.
These hardy perennials can thrive in part sun, full sun or shade, high heat or freezing temperatures, and still bloom beautifully every year.
What’s the difference between annuals and perennials? In general, annuals need to be replanted every year, and perennials come back year after year. But, when shopping for plants, it's more complicated because hardiness depends on your growing zone. Get all your questions about annuals vs perennials answered here.
Hardy geraniums (Geranium spp.) are also known as perennial geraniums or cranesbill geraniums. They are adaptable, easy to grow, and bloom for months.
These hardy perennials can thrive in part sun, full sun or shade, high heat or freezing temperatures, and still bloom beautifully every year.
These hardy perennials can thrive in part sun, full sun or shade, high heat or freezing temperatures, and still bloom beautifully every year.
11 Ground cover plants for your shady front garden Herbaceous perennials most of them evergreen, for sandy, clay & chalky soils
Hardy geraniums (Geranium spp.) are also known as perennial geraniums or cranesbill geraniums. They are adaptable, easy to grow, and bloom for months.
Each year an especially beautiful, useful and sturdy plant is selected as Perennial Plant of the Year by the Perennial Plant Association, which is made up of landscape designers, contractors, growers, retailers, and educators in the herbaceous perennial industry. 'Rozanne' hardy geranium was selected as the 2008 Perennial Plant of the Year. In addition to this award, 'Rozanne' was selected as Plant of the Centenary at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show. Truly this is an amazing plant to receive such honors, and I have nearly twenty of them growing in my landscape. What is it that makes this plant so useful? It grows in zones 5-8 in sun or part shade. The long bloom time is amazing - from June until an October hard frost in my garden, with no deadheading necessary. The spent flowers just curl up and disappear without leaving an ugly mess. It doesn't reseed or spread outside of its original clump. Basically it's like a perennial Supertunia - loads of color for months with very little maintenance, but then it comes back the next year. It makes a nice companion for hydrangeas like 'Tiny Tuff Stuff,' above. It mixes nicely with many other colors, including the steel blue of ornamental thistle (Echinops 'Ritro'). Yellow myrtle spurge (Euphorbia myrsinitis) is another good match for 'Rozanne.' Even though it starts blooming with the roses in June, 'Rozanne' is still blooming when the Japanese anemones flower in fall. 'Rozanne' happily winds through taller shrubs like this corkscrew hazel (Corylus avellana 'Contorta'). At the end of fall when leaves from surrounding trees are falling, 'Rozanne' continues to flower until a hard frost finally sends it into dormancy for winter. Some sources say 'Rozanne' has good fall color, but I've only noticed a little bit of red on my plants in fall. Here it is next to a 'Shasta' doublefile viburnum (V. plicatum tomentosum). With all of these good attributes, are there any drawbacks to including a 'Rozanne' geranium in your garden? Well, it's rampant growth might be a challenge in a small garden. Some sources suggest planting it 12" apart, but I think that's much too close. In the first year after planting it may stay in a small clump like the one above . . . . . . but a few years after planting it may grow to six feet wide, like the plant above in my front yard. Unlike many other groundcovers, the stems don't root at nodes. And as I mentioned earlier, 'Rozanne' doesn't send out spreading rhizomes or reseed. The plant will die back to the ground in winter and start growing in spring from a small clump, but those stems sure grow long by the end of the season! I'd recommend giving it at least three feet of room to grow, and even then you'll need to trim it back before the end of the season. Another challenge with 'Rozanne' is finding the perfect amount of light. This plant is too shaded, so you can see how it's grown too tall and flopped over to expose the unsightly base. But with too much hot sun or not enough water the leaves will get scorched by midsummer. You can cut it back hard after a heatwave has left it crunchy and it will sprout fresh leaves. But my plants that grow in morning sun with afternoon shade keep a nice shape and fresh leaves throughout the growing season. 'Rozanne' is not reliably deer resistant, so it might not be the best choice if you have deer problems. It does attract lots of honey bees and bumble bees, so if you're allergic you shouldn't plant this in your yard. But I recommend this plant to almost all of my friends for their gardens. Even if it requires a little trimming to control the size, its long season of color with little maintenance makes it a valuable addition to nearly every garden. It is one of my favorites, and well deserving of the honors it has received.
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