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| What are your favorite perennials that grow in zone 5? I'm looking for the ten best (easiest and most popular) flowering perennials to grow, keep, sell or give away. I'd like to start them from seed or liners, grow them in grow boxes for one year then take them out and plant them elsewhere. So far on my list are shasta daisies, coneflowers, black eyed susans, liatris and day lilies. Please offer your suggestions. We all have our favorites and I'd like to hear yours....Gary |
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- Posted by Blossom_Designer 5 (My Page) on Tue, Oct 16, 12 at 22:26
| Crater Lake Veronica, Lady's Mantle (regular and dwarf), leadwort, orange carpet hummingbird, crocosmia, Baptisia australis (false indigo), Veronica prostrata (prostrate veronica), prairie winecups, paprika yarrow |
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| If you attend or organize a plant swap you will probably get a bunch of perennials that are easy to grow and get bigger fairly quickly. Phlox are on my list. I enjoy their fragrance. I think they look good with echinacae / coneflowers. I also like day lilies but not the plain orange ones people call ditch lilies. I love the looks of heuchura/coral bells esp the varieties with colored leaves. Didn't think I liked hosta but I've been won over but I have a couple that I inherited that get too big, too quickly. Also love the look of Lady's Mantle. Yarrows of any color. Monarda. I am contemplating a new flower bed that would contain plants that get tall, like sunflowrs and a plant I've forgotten that I saw at the nursery (late bloomer). |
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| Love the tall alliums and bleeding hearts in Spring. hybred lilies, geranium and clematis in Summer. Rudbeckia, various grasses, and sedum 'Autuum Joy' in Fall. all are easy care and drought tolerant. Pondy |
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- Posted by SunnyBorders 5A (My Page) on Mon, Oct 29, 12 at 18:03
| Doesn't fit most of your criteria, but one of my favourite plants, for our area, is culver's root. The picture is the cultivar Veronicastrum virginicum 'Fascination', that shows fasciation (flower spikes growing along a line rather than to a point). One of the several things I like about this plant is the fact that the flower spikes (shape) apparently appeals to bees. Trimming off the central spike, after flowering, puts me right in the middle of the bees. They just do their thing and I do mine. |
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- Posted by hmacflower Z5 Ontario (My Page) on Tue, Nov 6, 12 at 12:49
| My favorites to grow from seed are digitalis, shasta, primula,alcea (hollyhock),budlia and aquilegia...all are easy and hardy. If any of you don't like hostas, check out Liberty, montana aureomarginata or Guardian Angel, you'll change your mind Heather |
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