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Lavendar, yarrow, delphinium and prunnella

In case you don’t know, a perennial is a plant that comes back year after year, getting bigger and more beautiful each year. With perennials it’s sleep, creep, leap. They don’t do much the first year but gather strength. The second year they will began to put on more growth and the third year they take off.

The cooler temperatures have me searching the nursery sites and catalogs for some of my favorite plants. If you plant perennials now they will have a head start in the spring because they will have a stronger root system.

Here is a list of some of the plants in our yard and so I can vouch for their beauty and ease of growing. In my yard it’s survival of the fittest so if they don’t do well they kind of drop by the wayside on their own. There are so many more plants than this but these are some of my favorites.

Low growing Forget-Me-Nots and Sweet Woodruff,

LOW GROWING

Forget-Me-Nots

Creeping Phlox

Hyacinth

Pulmonaria (Lungwort) (semi-shade)

Prunnella

Lamium (semi-shade)

Sweet Woodruff

Nepeta (Catmint)

Lambsear

MID HEIGHT

Mid-growing plants - Mums and Wormwood (Artemesia) by picket fence

Tulips

Daffodils

Columbine

Sage

Chives

Astilbe (shade)

Heuchera (semi-shade)

Aster

Garden Phlox

Mums

Artemesia (Wormwood)

Agastache

Hosta

Salvia

Lavendar

Yarrow

TALL

Tall growing roses - Queen Elizabeth roses can get 6-8' tall

Centranthus (Jupiter’s Beard)

Delphiniums

Daylilies

Echinacea

Irises

Peonies

Roses

Clematis

Campanula – Canterbury Bells

Foxglove (semi-shade)

We’re in zone 6 and so this is what we can have in our yard. I use to live in zone 8 where I could have Angel Trumpets, Crape Myrtle, Plumbago,Hibiscus, Citrus Trees, Palm Trees and Gardenias.

I really do miss the Natchez Crape Myrtles. They were so big and graceful… but I couldn’t have peonies there.

Do you have any favorites in this list?

Flower bed and end of grape arbor.

Yarrow and roses

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by Eliza Osborn