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This is your gateway and complete guide to 185 popular perennial flowering and foliage plants to grow outdoors in home landscapes, yards and gardens, or indoors as decorative houseplants.
You’ll quickly find the topics you want and answers to your questions. All the information uses a repeating, and easy-to-find pattern. Just find these icons.
Use the visual sort below or the Main-Menu’s two Perennials pulldown tabs to find, choose, plant, and care for 185 common perennial plants with flowers, beautiful foliage, or both.
In one page, you’ll find every important detail needed to choose, grow and care for perennials.
The most-popularly planted flowering and foliage perennials include:
When gardeners choose perennials to plant in their landscape gardens or containers, they usually start with everyone’s favorites.
Besides these all-time favorites, there are scores of other beautiful and fascinating bulbs.
This guide includes 185 species and many thousands of perennial varieties, hybrids, and cultivars. It simplifies your choice when choosing from thousands of options.
Colorful pictures and short videos in the guide provide a visual reference when help you pick perennials to plant.
The perennial plants featured in this guide focuses on true perennials, but includes perennials with rhizomes, stolons, and tubers, along with a few biennials and annuals closely related to perennial species.
Each plant is classified as requiring full sun, partial sun, partial shade, or full shade.
You’ll also quickly find the season of bloom, soil type, and U.S.D.A. plant hardiness zone information for every plant. This information will help you pick the proper perennials for your region and condition.
Expanded descriptions and information are given for the Orchid family and for those genera with large numbers of species that are most frequently planted.
Because the guide helps you find plants by their common names, you’ll also find cross-references to other perennials with the same or similar common names. If you’re looking for plants by their scientific names, use the search box atop each page to find every page that mentions the plants.
When you admire bulbs that you see in a private or public garden near your home, compare them to the guide’s short vidoes and use the detailed information to learn their planting and care needs.
There’s a wealth of other descriptive information given for each plant, including its planting and bloom season; colors; habit; hardiness; complete spacing, depth, and care instructions; plus features that make it distinctive.
Check that seeds, seedlings, and transplants are well adapted your site’s conditions, including its soil, sun and wind exposure, and other climate factors. Also note any special needs they may have for light, watering, fertilizing, post-bloom care, and best storage conditions.
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