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Posted: May/12/2008 1:11 PM PST
What are your top five favorite perennials? Mine are: Coneflower Foxglove Blanket flower Nandina Butterfly Bush I know...hard to limit it to five! haha |
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Posted: May/12/2008 8:14 PM PST
Limiting to 5 is really tough! How about 5 for each phase of the season? LOL Spring: columbine, variegated soloman's seal, celandine poppy, coral bells, centaurea montana (mountain bluet) Summer; purple echinacea, rudbeckia(BES), coreopsis early sunrise, gardenview scarlet monarda, shasta daisies Late summer/fall: Ligularia dentata, sweet autumn clematis, mums,sedum Autumn Joy This is only a fraction of what I have, but are among the most reliable and hardy. I also love May Night salvia, russian sage, gaillardia...Oh Lord, I better stop.  Favorite biennials: foxglove, sweet william, Canterbury bells |
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Posted: May/12/2008 9:06 PM PST
It is hard to limit them to just 5 but here goes. Gaura- pink Coneflowers Daisies Gaillardia Canterbury Bells are my all-time favorite. The list could go on and on but you said 5 was the limit. |
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Posted: May/13/2008 4:23 AM PST
Five IS too hard! 1-clematis 2-coral bells 3-daisies 4-spiderwort 5-astilbe There are just too many not getting their credit!! |
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Posted: May/13/2008 4:29 AM PST
Including, but not limited to: Coreopsis Buddleia Fillipendula Wind anemones Rudbeckia Responding to this post made me realize that I have perennials in my yard that begin with every letter of the alphabet except "Q" and "X". That's just insane 
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Posted: May/13/2008 5:49 AM PST
This will be hard but here goes: Wisteria Gaura Agastache "Blue Fortune" Mexican Eve. Primrose Daylillies Like evryone else, there's loads more- but these are the ones I really look forward to seeing 
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Posted: May/13/2008 6:39 AM PST
LOL, too many to choose from is right! But I narrowed it down to 5. Daffodils--first thing to bloom every spring and completely carefree; dug mine up from a neglected property with the owners blessing. Had been growing there so long that you can't even see any trace of the church that once stood there. Perennial Hibiscus--Huge tropical flowers on plants that come back from the roots each year and bloom from July on (I have a scarlet that gets 8', 2 5' with red centered deep pink flowers, and sa border of 3'burgundy-centered white flowering ones). Vinca minor--makes a lovely shiny green groundcover in the big island bed around a magnificent 90' triple-trunk cottonwood. And my bulbs grow up through it nicely. Bronze Fennel--purty feathery purplish foliage, and swallowtail butterfly caterpillers LOOOOOOVE it! They're like flowers that fly around the yard. LOL---DANDELIONS!---Goldfinch and Indigo Buntings and Bobwhites LOOOOOVE the seeds! They're like flowers that fly---and sing! |
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Posted: May/13/2008 9:51 AM PST
5???? Okay, foxglove, delphinium,daisy,columbine,peony. |
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Posted: May/13/2008 11:07 AM PST
1. Columbine 2. Jacab's Ladder 3. Astilbe 4. Bleeding Hearts 5. Purple coneflower |
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Posted: May/13/2008 8:19 PM PST
Hollyhocks, lantana, roses, hyssop, butterfly bush |
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