Perennial Flowers

Let me be frank. I have had a 30 year love affair with perennial flowers. It wasn't until I discovered how easy some of them were to grow, how challenging others were to propagate and how lovely they all (well, almost all) when they were in bloom in my gardens that I truly became a committed gardener. Shortly afterwards, my small nursery exploded into growth and I found myself growing well over 1800 varieties of new and interesting perennial flowers year after year. I think I usually started about 300 new ones from seed every year just to see if they'd live in my USDA zone 4 garden.

I'm hooked on these plants.

This is not to say that I don't grow and enjoy other plants as well (heck, I've written books on bulbs and roses) but this class of garden plant owns my heart. Or at least it does when there's something in bloom in my garden.

Full Sun Perennial Flowers

Here is a list of perennial flowers for the full sun along with a video of the three things I think yoiu should do in order to succeed with growing them.

Long blooming perennial flowers and a few of my favorites.

Three daisies you want to grow

Shade Garden Plants

Coralbells will be a featured plant in my new shade garden design. Here are a few of the plants I'm going to install and plant combinations I'll be working towards.

New Plants

You can see what I'm adding to my garden and you can upload pictures of your own new plants right here.

Ornamental Grass

Click here to see the ornamental grass I'm learning to love in my garden.

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