Saturday, April 14, 2012



Best Long-Blooming Perennials: favorites?

Creeping Jenny takes over - use only in pots        
garden inspirations





Top Left to Right: Gaillardia 'Goblin',  Liriope 'Variegata', Heuchera 'Palace Purple/Bottom Left to Right:Coreopsis Zagreb', Salvia 'Maynight', Astilbe'Sprite'
http://landscapedesignbylee.blogspot.comresistant.  It can be grown in full sun to partial shade  and forms round compact mounds.  This perennial goes well with coreopsis, daylily and heuchera and is hardy in zones 3-8.








sew seed cosmos and nastursiumgeranium and and african daisy, easy to grow - full sunpetuniasmed low and pink purplesfull sun
 Cosmos ferny light airy asperagus like bright green follage annual?sow from seeds.  - watermellonpumpkinlettucezinniacosmoscoreopsis?sunflower?perennials1. Beginners should start with those perennials that are easiest to grow from seed. Try black-eyed Susan (Rudbeckia), catmint (Nepeta), perennial geranium, centranthus, aster, purple coneflower (Echinacea), armeria, snow-in-summer (Cerastium), or yarrow (Achillea).Large Blue Fescue (Festuca amethystina)and Blue Fescue(Festuca ovinia var. glauca).Fescues are mound-forming, semi-evergreen perennials used as accent and specimen plantings in the foreground of borders and in rock gardens. Large Blue Fescue is hardier than blue fescue and should be considered in zone 4. Fescues are grown for the blue gray foliage.grasses

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