2021 Perennials on Laura's Must-Have List!

hey guys how's it going in today's video i want to talk about some of the brand new perennials that are coming out this year we've done a couple other videos prior to this one talking about the new annuals and the new shrubs that are coming out some things to be watching for so today's perennials and i'm excited about it because we are tearing apart large portions of our garden this year just to make way for some fun new stuff like the greenhouse we're putting in the new lawn we're putting in up front and it's just going to create a lot of opportunity a lot of new space for new plants which is always fun and it's muddy and raining right now and i think let's see how many days nine days ago we just had samantha grace so i can't really get out and do a whole lot yet so it's fun to talk about these things and just start dreaming about our gardens this season so i've kind of ordered this list from the ones i'm most excited about and then we're going to work our way down there are 14 new ones some of them are categories i guess because there are several varieties within that specific category of plant so the first one is called a toffee tart hookura this specific color category in hookahra always makes me excited because i feel like they really lend themselves nicely in every single season so when they come out in the spring they're just vibrant and full of color i mean they're like this apricot amber color and then they mellow and deep into this really beautiful ginger color and then they slide right into fall like looking absolutely perfect for the season and then they are a semi evergreen so in more mild climates i think they're zone four through nine but more mild climates they'll stay very nice and full in colder climates i'm in a six and they're kind of like um they do pretty well for us i mean they keep their color they keep their leaves in the more protected spots they do look a little bit better to where in the spring you may have to go in and clean up maybe some tattered leaves around the base but for the most part they stay pretty nice and the other thing i really like about this one like i think it gets eight to ten inches tall but then it sends up its bloom spikes a little bit taller and they're creamy colored and that's my favorite in the hookura family i mean you can get some really wild colored ones like bright pink and red and all those sorts of things but i like the creamy ones because i feel like they almost look like babies breath in a flower arrangement like they're a really wonderful filler and give that kind of wispy beautiful delicate appearance and so i said i think 8 to 10 inches tall maybe 16 to 18 inches white so they like a part shade location that's their favorite where they can get a little bit of light because they will color up better but they will tolerate a shadier location they just may not be colored up quite as nicely and they do tend to like more like average to acidic soil so in our area you know treating them with soil acidifier and things like that where we're really high ph really helps them out but they're just a really nice plant to use in the landscape and in flower boxes a lot of our boxes around our house under our windows are in the shade and so i really lean heavily on hookers because they look so good through the whole season and they are absolutely no maintenance number two is an ornamental oregano called drops of jupiter and this is such a striking plant because they have chartreuse leaves and then their blooms are kind of a dark mauve and they get quite large so like 24 inches tall 36 inches wide and they attract bees and butterflies they're resistant to deer and i just think that they are a striking plant in the landscape i'm super excited to try this one i've seen it in pictures only so far um so i'm hoping that i can get my hands on some this year and try them out um and they are like they have edible leaves but they're not quite as strong as your traditional oregano which i tend to like a little bit i like to have a very kind of mellowed out herb flavor when i'm cooking instead of really strong in your face flavor so i think this is going to be a really fun one both ornamental and edible they're also a zone four through nine so incredibly winter hearty and you can shear them back mid-season if you would like to to kind of encourage some new fresh growth but it's not necessary to do that they typically start blooming about mid-summer and then they go through fall number three is called spot-on pulmonary the common name is lungwort we actually did a video where i planted five of these underneath our crab apple tree in our front garden last year and they're just a wonderful plant for a shady location because not only do they provide beautiful blooms which when they are in bud stage they're salmon pink and when they open they're blue so you get this variation of pink and blue on the same plant but the leaf structure is so gorgeous i love them they're kind of long and and narrow-ish and they're a medium green with a silver kind of variegation kind of silver spotting on the top and they just look good all the time they're also a plant that can tolerate really high ph soil which is what we have here and that is rare it is rare to find a plant that actually wants to go out in our native soil and really thrive and do well and there are zone three through eight so incredibly winter hardy and they do attract pollinators so honeybees and hummingbirds i don't think i was out there enough to notice if hummingbirds were attracted to mine but the honeybees sure loved them i did notice that when i was walking by because those tend to be out in much more quantity than hummingbirds in our area but they grow about 14 to 16 inches tall and 18 18 to 20 inches wide so the five i planted will really turn into a beautiful looking drift number four is a russian stage called sage advice now i've been planting the denim and lace variety for several years now with amazing luck they're one of those plants that you can toss into a hot dry sunny area with poor soil and they will just thrive for you and love you for it they also attract honeybees like nobody's business and all other kinds of there's a bunch of other pollinators that i notice around them i don't know the names of all of the different flying insects but i noticed that there's just a buzz of activity all the time around them and they do attract hummingbirds as well now this variety the sage advice gets a little bit bigger than denim and lace but just by inches i think denim lace grows 28 to 32 inches tall and this one grows 32 to 36 inches tall so we're just talking a few inches bigger 28 to 32 inches wide but this is one that just i cut it back at the end of the season and then it flushes back brand new in the spring it looks fresh and gorgeous and the fact that they don't get so big means that you deal with a lot less structural issues you know some of the traditional varieties of russian sage get huge and they'll flop over either because they're just enormous or because they're getting too much water or not enough light so it's usually one of those three things as to why they'll want to flop but it's just a lot less likely to happen on those more tight growers that stay more compact and this one's just got the most beautiful kind of rich lavender colored flowers that last so they start blooming mid-summer and then they're there for most the rest of the season they're also a zone four through nine and are resistant to deer if that is something that you deal with in your area number five is a baptisia called decadence deluxe blue bubbly and i love baptisia it's one of those beautiful plants that comes up fresh every year and it blooms usually like late spring through early summer so it's really early color that gives you kind of the same vibe as a delphinium or a fox glove or something like that you know they get the long panicles of blooms so this one gets them that are about 16 inches long beautiful blue color and i've got like pink lemonade out there i've got a chocolate decadence i'm trying to remember all the names but they're incredibly long-lived perennial that can handle really crummy soil they like the sun they grow quite large 48 to 54 inches tall about 40 to 48 inches wide every single year so it's one that you cut back every year and then they come back and look beautiful now the leaves on baptisia timmy almost have kind of this eucalyptus-esque look to them like they're more rounded so even when they're done blooming they've got a really beautiful soft look to them that adds a really fun texture into a flower bed because you know a lot of other just green shrubs they've got just regular shaped leaves that come out and they kind of point at the end and this one's just more lobed um like just a rounded i don't know if lobe's the right word rounded which just gives a different look so i just really am a fan of baptisias they're also a zone four through nine and they're resistant to deer and attract bees and butterflies they're just kind of an all-around workhorse great plant to have in the garden for some early color number six is actually two different plants there are two different types of echinacea one is called color-coded the price is white and the other is color-coded frankly scarlet now the price is white really excites me i was really looking forward to like i heard about this plant last year and i was looking forward to adding it to my moon garden which i don't think i'm gonna keep a moon garden but i'm excited to still add this plant into our garden because echinaceas are one of those plants that start blooming right in the middle of summer when our first flush of perennials you know all of our salvias and verbenas monardas all those things have already kind of fizzled we've cut them back and we're waiting for a second flush of bloom but that's when these echinaceas start to really shine and look gorgeous but not only the color that they provide you know mid-summer through fall but if you leave the flowers intact and kind of leave that seed head they're absolutely gorgeous as winter interests they provide forage for wildlife but the color of them so the color of them in season they've got like little orange tips kind of on them really really interesting and i love to even cut the flowers sometimes i'll even pull the petals off because i just want to use that kind of seed head looking thing as an accent in one of my arrangements but if you leave them the color will you know mellow out it'll turn into kind of a brown seed head but they stay really um like upright and really rigid they don't tend to fall over and they just add a beautiful texture to your winter garden so both of these varieties attract bees and butterflies they're both deer resistant both like full sun and both are zone four through eight and they can handle a lot of different kinds of soil they do get a little bit different in size the white one grows 20 to 22 inches tall and 16 to 18 inches wide while the frankly scarlet which is a really bold red for those of you who love that red vibe in your garden it grows about 26 to 28 inches tall and about 18 to 20 inches wide now the frankly scarlet i'm not sure because i've not seen this one in person but in some pictures it looks like a really vivid bright just clear red but in the description and in some of the pictures it says it's got kind of an orange side to the red which i think it kind of gives it almost like it's got a melon kind of vibe underneath which you could pair it with maybe some corally colors and it might be really pretty so it's one i may experiment with i always like to experiment in a small scale with reds in containers if i can keep it contained and kind of move it to a spot excuse me a spot where i don't have a lot of like peachy colors or pinks or something like that then i really do enjoy kind of messing around with colors like that so we may see some in my garden this year number seven is a jacob's ladder called heaven sent and it's just one of those plants that's very nostalgic for me there's some that i remember like weeding around as a child and just really enjoying the look of this one has a very fern-like quality about it the leaves are very soft they've got some purple accents on them and then in late spring they put on these really beautiful kind of cornflower blue blooms that are scented now in some areas they can take quite a bit of sun if you live in the south somewhere very very hot and maybe even here where we don't have you know very much cloud cover or humidity those are great areas to make sure that they have protection in the afternoon from that steering afternoon sun so give them a good block of morning sun protect them in the afternoon if you're a more mild climate you probably get away with putting them wherever you want in the sun maybe in a little bit of a part shade area just to you know make them look the best throughout the whole season and in really hot areas they do prefer to be in an area that's a little cooler maybe a little bit more moist so it might be somewhere where that you can control the water a little bit more and give them extra and those are really hot spells of summer we've got a spot along kind of by our kitchen door entrance for those of you who have been watching our videos for a while we've got that um gray concrete table and then there's the three trellises right behind it right at the base of those trellises it stays fairly moist and it's very shaded and i have put some of those in that area so i'm very much so looking forward to what it looks like because i do have some hostas in there and i think the juxtaposition between the bold hasta leaf and the really ferny jacob's ladder well blooms are not i think it's going to be a really pretty leaf leafy textural beautiful area and i'm not sure i mentioned already 18 to 24 inches tall 15 to 18 inches wide and zone three through seven number eight is a virginia called miss peggy and i'm loving all the shade options this year because oftentimes you know full sun plants are easy to find it's easy to find things that like full sun but shade and to get a lot of variation in a shady spot can be a little bit more difficult and i love the leaf structure of this plant i mean the blooms are beautiful late spring bright pink clusters of blooms that kind of rise up above the leaf canopy but the leaves are really thick and glossy and they really provide an amazing accent and a shady spot i mean think about pairing them with the jacob's ladder it has that ferny more soft green and the virginia is that really deep and then like throw in a toffee tart hookah and maybe a hosta with some white variegation and you've got like a really beautiful mix of color and texture right there this is another one like the jacobs ladder that if you live in a very hot region you would want to make sure to provide a little bit of afternoon reprieve from that bright sun but when they are blooming they do attract bees and butterflies they're resistant to deer and rabbits um they do grow about 16 inches tall 30 to 32 inches wide and it's pretty big for one plant so i mean you don't need a whole lot of them to create a huge impact and did i already mention they were zone four through nine if i didn't there you go number nine are a couple of new types of salvia one is called back to the fuchsia and the other one is snow kiss now there are a couple of salvias that look similar to these there's pink perfusion and white perfusion which i have both of them planted in my garden already and both of those are smaller versions of what the new ones are these share a lot of similar characteristics in that they're a zone three through eight they're resistant to rabbits and deer they will attract every single pollinator that is in your area and those pollinators will be thick on those plants from the moment the flowers open for the rest of the season it's just amazing what they do and even when they're done with their first flush of blooms you kind of shear them back they come back bloom again sometimes i can get three bloom cycles out of these plants we have a fairly long season here and they're just workhorse plants like they just kind of keep producing color and they're just they're gorgeous planted in drifts like i cannot stress that enough i've got pink perfusion and the white perfusion and i'm excited to try these because like the snow kiss looks similar in color because a white is kind of a white but the um back to the fuchsia is a little bit more uh i want to say it's a little bit more on the purple side of pink while the pink perfusion is very pink pink but i've got the pink perfusion in a drift of five or seven and it is such a beautiful show i've got them planted right next to the lemon jade sedum and those two together it's amazing number 10 we've got two different variety of flocks that are the tall type that grow like 30 to 32 inches tall i've planted both of these in my garden last july so there's one variety called opalescence which is a light pink that's got a dark pink eye and then there's ultraviolet which is like very vibrant magenta i was so thrilled with these plants you guys i mean i planted them right in the middle of summer and just typically when they start blooming like mid to late summer and they were behind a boxwood hedge which is just starting to fill in and there's some other plants in there but they provided so much needed color that i just like after that we did that video i just kind of sat back and i stared at those plants just loved them now they are way more disease resistant than your traditional varieties of flocks that tend to want to succumb to powdery mildew you still want to be mindful of air circulation and that kind of goes for a lot of different types of plants plants like to have air flow around and when they're in too tightly a lot of times it can cause problems but these are far less likely to succumb to that which is very nice both zoned three through eight and they both attracted a ton of pollinators and that's something like i don't i'm not actively trying to like making sure every single variety of plant that i put in my garden attracts a pollinator but it's something that i've been thinking about more and more and it's something that i would like to strive for you know creating a haven not only for myself and my family but also creating a haven for wildlife and doing those things that encourage encourages encourages them to come and stay in our garden there's something magical about that number 11 are also flocks but they're the ground cover type and these are the type of plants that every time they're in bloom in the spring which is like mid-spring when they start to bloom people would flock to the garden center like every day i would get multiple questions about what is that plant that ground cover plant that's just full of color right now it was always the ground cover flocks so the first three here there's rose quartz pink sparkles and ruby riot they share some similar characteristics so first off the rose quartz which i did plant some of my garden last year they're kind of a rosy pink color then we've got the pink sparkles i don't have that one yet but that's a soft baby pink flower and then there's ruby riot which i also planted in my garden it has reddish pink flowers so they're a zone three through eight and they grow about four to eight inches tall and then they'll spread out like 28 to 32 inches i think like 30 some inches like that's significant for one plant um so to have those in and around like taller perennials and your flower borders is amazing because they don't really like take up much room vertically but they can kind of grow in and around your other things and provide so much color they also do attract bees and butterflies and kind of prefer a slightly high ph soil which is great for us here in eastern oregon the other two in this category kind of form a tighter more dense kind of mat so four to six inches tall a little tiny bit like within inches less wide i think maybe 28 to 30 inches wide something like that but one is called crater lake which is gorgeous like bluish purple blooms that's the one that i would be the most excited to plant i think because i love the color on that one so much and you can see just by looking at this plant the bloom to leaf ratio when they're in bloom like all you can see is color and there's also majestic magenta which is a bright pink these also attract the pollinators they are slightly less winter hardy so a zone four through eight rather than a three three like the other three that we um just talked about and they do prefer a slightly higher like average to higher ph soil number 12 are a couple of new types of hibiscus like the big dinner plate hibiscus so one is called french vanilla and the other is spinderella so french vanilla produce these huge flowers they're like seven to eight inches wide and i have some of these in the greenhouse i saw bloom last year i had them i didn't have a chance to plant them yet so i'm itching to get them in the garden but like seven to eight inch flowers that are this kind of creamy custard yellow color they will be more of a yellow tone in more mild cooler climates and where it's hotter they'll be more on the white side and then right at the middle the center of the flower there's like a little red right around um yeah like a red throat almost so it just like provides this huge amount of color they grow about 42 to 48 inches wide and this is the type that grows up from the ground fresh every spring and they're one of the last ones to break dormancy so it's one of those that you think is dead but you want to give it like another month and then usually they spring forward and then when they start growing they grow fast and these have kind of a deep green leaf so that contrast between the light colored bloom and the deep green is really beautiful they're also zone four through nine as is the next variety which is the spinderella and i think i actually like this one um i like this one a lot i think it has a really unique look to it like pink and white almost kind of swirl-ish i don't know i have this one as well and i shared some pictures of it last year when it was in bloom um it also has kind of that deep pink kind of red eye but the color around it is just really unique in the way it's kind of like marbled i don't even know how to explain it the flowers are about eight inches across and these plants can handle really high moisture conditions so if you have a boggy really moist area in your garden this is a great option full sun like it needs to be a full sun spot that's where they perform the best it grows a little bit bigger 48 to 54 inches wide and 54 to 60 inches tall and they're both resistant to deer i don't think i mentioned that before number 13 is a couple new varieties of day lily one is called king of the ages and the other is a lake of fire so we'll start with king of the ages which actually it's kind of funny i look at the pictures of this plant and i have some of these on hand as well bloomed gorgeous last year their tall one like 38 inches tall 18 to 24 inches wide so like super striking in the garden and the flowers are big six and a half inches but the color um is like this blend of uh apricot kind of yellow and then there's a dark burgundy eye and then like dark burgundy around the ruffly edges but that's my high school colors my high school colors were cardinal and corn and this flower like this is the flower for my high school so i should probably have them somewhere in my garden they are a zone three through nine and prefer a really sunny location as most day lilies will want um and they do attract all the pollinators and they're resistant to rabbits but a super tough perennial that provides crazy vertical interest i think it's a really uh fun one to try so the next variety lake of fire doesn't grow quite as big so 24 inches tall rather than the 38 but the flower like in passing if i were just to look at it quickly i would think iris i don't know if you guys get that from this but i do just because the the petals rather are so ruffled they're so ruffled and kind of downturned and there's so much color variation so the eye is this really vivid kind of red orange and then it goes out to like an orange peach then you've got like a darker burgundy striping and then you've got like really thin yellow margin all the way around the ruffles like there's so much going on in this flower and they're big like seven inches big and these attract all the pollinators as well resistant to rabbits zone three through nine um and i do really like daily i you know i have got some in our garden and i do get the question sometimes like i don't see any day lilies why don't you have them and i do really like the leaf structure i like the fact that they look like a grass kind of but they also give you blooms at the same time and i just haven't put a whole lot of them in our garden yet but just wait for it we'll have more and the last ones on my list number 14 are a couple different types of dianthus there's paint the town red and paint the town fancy now dianthus aren't super high up on my list of like my favorite perennials i can't deny that they provide a ton of color when they're in bloom and i don't know if i just haven't figured out the best ways to care for them or how to share them back properly but i'm always like maybe like i missed the window but i always feel like there's a ton of buds still there when i want to go in and cut mine back and so i'm afraid that i'm going to cut off a ton of buds while trying to deadhead my plant and i don't want to spend a ton of time like individually deadheading if that makes sense i don't know if any of you have found that um so i just need to figure out how to do it better anyway these are vibrant though the paint the town red single flowers red paint the town fancy bright pink single flowers but on the paint the town fancy they do have the pink flowers have a little bit of a red eye so there's some variation there in color and the leaves on both of these are really pretty blue and i do really like that like so i really need to figure i love to have that blue color in my garden with the kind of spikier leaf structure so i really need to get after like maybe i'll just try a handful of them and see how i do and they do like slightly high ph soil so i think if i were to get them in the ground and get them going they really would perform well for me in terms of like you know their their staying power and really thriving in our soil but they're both a zone four through nine grow about six to eight inches tall and 16 to 18 inches wide they do attract bees and butterflies and are resistant to deer so that's it you guys that is my list of new perennials for this year so 14 different categories a lot of different varieties though because i think one of the categories had five in it right the ground cover flocks so i think we talked about quite a number of new plants a lot of stuff to be excited for i mean i've got some spots that are earmarked for some of these plants already um and then you know i've got a few of them going already in the garden it'll fun be fun to see how they do their second year it's fun to give you guys updates like when we do garden tours and show you how some of the plants are doing of course this year is going to be wild with updates i think because some of the stuff that we have planted will have to be torn out some of it will stay and we'll move to other parts of our property some are going to friends and families homes it's just going to be it's going to be fun so we have a lot in store this year and i hope you guys enjoyed this video i hope you found it inspiring or exciting i always find it exciting talking about plants so anyway thanks so much for watching and we will see you in the next one bye

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Length: 24min 36sec (1476 seconds)

Published: Wed Feb 10 2021