Perennial Plants & Flowers

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• Need advice on shade loving plants

  ...lots and lots of colorful flowers both annual and perennial each spring and summer. Most of my front yard receives no direct sunlight. So I am looking for ideas… More

• Favorite Perennial?

  ...or why it is a fav of yours , and pictures of the plant in question would be cool too. More

• Why Flowers Change Colors

  ...t more easily. http://www.essortment.com/articles/flowers-change-color_104524.htm Article written by Written by Cindi Pearce - Colorful flowers exist for pollination purposes--the pollinators, bees and birds, are attracted to certain colors. However, as gardeners we often select flowers based on their hue,… More

• Continous Blooming Perennial Garden

  ...all. Sooooooooooo I wiould like to add additional perennials so that I will have coninous blooming plants from Spring through Fall. The pesent plants were there when I purchased… More

• What Is This Perennial?

  Once again, this lovely flower is blooming in one of my flower beds and I have no idea where it came from. Can someone please help me put a name to it? More

• Question about fertilizing flowers

  ...l, I just read somewhere that not all annuals and perennial flowers like fertilizer. I use Miracle grow on everything. So could you all tell me which flowers do not like miracle grow? Thanks More

• Anybody know what this tree/shrub and perennial are???

  Hi all, I have a couple things growing in my front yard, in an unkempt area where I want to extend my garden beds. I have to decide what to keep, what to move, and what to remove. The goals of my gardens are not just beauty, but also to… More

• Phlox Photo Perennial

  ...'m so happy it's doing well as I just divided the plant and transplanted it a couple weeks ago from somewhere else in my landscaping. You can check out other garden photos I have at: http://www.indianagardening.blogspot.com Happy… More

• Neeed a short, sun loving August/September blooming perennial

  I just planted a little bed around my lightpost after my husband took out 3 overgrown, deer-eaten euonymous on Sunday. I have a Sarah Bernhardt peony, Mountain Sage, a light yellow coreopsis, and a campanula in there as well as some morning glories (to climb)and alyssum (transplanted). Can anyone suggest… More

• I need a perennial help me decide!

  ...r I relocate a lavender, I have room for one more perennial in my garden that gets full sun. What would you choose? It's at the corner of a deck, middle of the garden bed. Orange crocosmia is behind it, daylilies, lavender, and sedum "Autumn Joy' surround it. My thoughts… More

• Help with this potential perennial :)

  Hello :) I have found a really lovely little plant -- a few of them. My neighbors are snowbirds and won't be back until June, so I have been getting their yard picked up a bit and I also cleaned out her front planter. My neighbor had put some Salvia… More

• Planting a Perennial Garden

  ...know what else would look beautiful in with these plants? It is on the South-side of my shed where… More

• Please Identify this Perennial Flower

  ...t the following picture: My grandmother gave this plant to me and she doesn't know what it is and I can't remember where she got it. She gave me some woody stems to plant in a pot. When it was spring again, the woody stems grew leaves and… More

• New perennial needs ID please

  ...n clearance and couldn't resist it.:) It has pink flowers and variegated leaves. Unfortunately the name tag was missing. Could someone please identify it.....thanks. More

• small blue perennial flowers to ID

  Does anyone know what this is? My grandmother brought it to me yesterday from her own garden. She called it a bluebell, but it doesn't look like any bluebell I could find online. Thanks! More

• Define What a 'Perennial' Is

  ...o start growing flowers, but I'm not sure what a 'perennial' is? Where I live is always warm, year round. I figured it would be better to grow flowers that don't die off after they have flowered. So, if someone could help me out with the definition of… More

• Planting Perennial plants..

  ...hased some Black Eyed Susan plants and Purple Coneflowers on ebay and just got them. Can I stick them in the garden now or should I put them in a pot indoors? Can emerging plants stand a light frost (just in case)? They come from mature plantings.. More

• plant identification perennial without flowers so far

  ...de with a little direct sun. Everything around it flowers just fine. What is it? Thanks,… More

• Perennial Websites?

  ...rder plants from. Most of what I'm looking for is perennials and herbs, but really I'll look at anything. If… More

• Can lantana be perennial?

  In Zone 6B? My neighbor across the road has one of the orange-red-yellow variegated types and it comes back from the root every year. It presents as a shrub and gets almost 6' tall and equally as wide. He has it up against the brick of his house, southwestern exposure.… More

• What are these plants??

  ...s some of you know, I've inherited a fairly large perennial garden, and I'm spending the summer seeing "what comes up". I've got three unidentified plants here and one strange tree (that I've trimmed on the bottom and still waiting for my husband to do the top). Can… More

• Three plants need names!!!

  ...), delicate leaves w/occasional clusters of small flowers. The second photo shows the growth… More

• Lost the name for this perennial ground cover!

  ...Grows 3 to 4 inches high and spreads indefinitly. Flowers are around an inch. Blooms from May into June. More

• Good filler plants for perennial borders

  ...t will stand up to the heat of summer, spread and flower through the fall besides petunias and marigolds? More

• No name perennial!

  ... no idea what it was!! It has small one inch blue flowers...which fell off before I could get a decent picture of it! Any ideas… More

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