7 Hardy Perennials for Flower Gardens

hi everyone welcome back to my channel my name is Cheryl and I Garden in zone 8A and today I'll be sharing seven of my favorite flowering perennials that are easy to grow in most soil conditions and generally like at least some sun so let's get started for those who are new to gardening there are typically two types of plants you can buy when you go to a garden center of Nursery they're annuals or perennials and as their name suggest the annuals are plants that typically last one season and the perennials are the the plants that return year after year while it may take more than one season for some perennials to flower they do tend to get heartier and larger as time goes by so let's get started on seven of my favorite flowering perennials for the Sunny Spot in your garden if you saw my first video you might have heard me say that the peon is one of my favorite flowers so first on my list is the peion p yies like full sun and they are hearty in zones 3 through 8 and here where I am in zone 8A they do really well even in part sun so in this bed for example this is the first year this peon has bloomed for me in this bed and look how gorgeous it is that hot pink almost a neon pink at the edges flower bud or Bloom I should say um takes a couple of years for the plant to get established so it's not a great idea to move them very often but as the plants get larger you can divide them and move them to different locations and as I say this is a part sun bed um couple years in this plant is now blooming for [Music] me and you don't have to do much to the peon it doesn't need any you know Special Care they do very well in the clay soil that I have in my garden I haven't done much amendment I I do um I do try to fertilize my plants and I use mulch and I have started to incorporate as much compost and garden soil as I can to kind of amend the clay but even before I was doing these things to kind of enrich the soil in my garden beds these peonies were very hearty so um as I say they were in my lawn and I found them and pulled them out and put them in my garden beds and after a couple of years they started to bloom so as my garden beds have become um the soil has become better the plants have gotten larger but I think they would have done that on their own I don't think peonies are all that fussy I I've grown them in other places where the soil was also very you know not so great and they do really well the hardest thing about the Pion is trying to keep it upright it wants to lean out to the Sun and it often Falls over the blooms are really big and so the blooms weigh down the stems so you have to get creative with how you will stake these and this is a plant that only has one bud this year it's kind of a young plant this must be about 2 or 3 years old um so this small cage will probably be sufficient for it this year but as you can see the chicken wire in the previous little section that I showed that that was not a complete failure but I think it would have been more successful if I had raised the chicken wire up just a little bit more staking is definitely the biggest challenge I I find with the peon um the flowers usually last about a week and they bloom in some bloom in Spring and others bloom in the summer you'll find peonies in the pink ranges purples Reds whites and even yellows I don't have any yellow peonies but I have or purple I don't think I have a purple peon either but I have the pinks and reds and a couple of pale Almost White peonies I will add that you you do need to give peonies enough room for the air to move around them they can be susceptible to mildew so I I guess that is one of the things you need to consider about peonies and you also do need to cut them back at the end of the growing season or at least at the end of the year um because the you know cold and damp weather can kind of bring in some pests and disease in the season to come so you you you don't want to cut back the plants after it finishes blooming or at least at the end of the summer or the fall cut the cut the foliage back and then it'll grow back new in the spring and start over but you want to give them some good um air flow so that they don't develop any kind of milde number two on my list is the Rose now this may surprise some of you who know that the rose has a reputation for being not so easy to grow and I certainly have not had great luck with roses in the past I remember in my early 20s wanting to grow a beautiful rose garden and failing miserably because all the plants got black spot on the leaves and they yellow and I had a lot of trouble keeping my roses looking good but in the more recent years plant Growers have developed this hearty variety called The Knockout rose and it is a stunningly beautiful plant shrub rose that blooms all summer long well ear mid spring it is now and this one is already blooming from Spring till first Frost this will just keep on blooming continuously and you can dead head it or not it will keep on blooming and the flowers are This brilliant hot pink redish pink um it grows to a good siiz shrub and in fact the it grows pretty fast I I planted one in front uh uh near my front door and it got so large last year I had to cut it back really hard and it's doing just fine you can cut these back really hard and they'll be just fine I've moved these a couple of times not this particular plant but I you actually I did move this plant last year so they're very hearty now this Rose is called the David Austin golden celebration and oh my goodness this is stunning this year I am just in love with this plant the flowers are incredibly big and I think the David Austin website says that there are 75 petals on this Bloom look at that it's as big as my my hand it's a g it's a large large rose bloom and it is so fragrant the David Austin website describes the fragrance as a strong tea fragrance I I don't know if I would describe it that way I don't know I can't especially remember what tea smells like but I wouldn't this isn't what would come to mind I I think it's it's a it's a perfumey kind of smell in my opinion but not a uh heavy perfumey it's just a deep rich Rose fragrance and it is wonderful and this plant is just gorgeous this year and it did Bloom for me last year but this year it's even more magnificent um I've had to to use this trellis to kind of support it because you can see this stems are still a little thin but I'm hoping that it will get stronger as it gets a little older but this is number two on my list of perennials that are easy to grow and Hardy um not too much work to have some beautiful flowers in your perennial garden so if you're looking for a not too difficult flowering perennial for your garden consider the rose the new varieties make it much easier to have beautiful roses in your garden you might consider starting with a knockout rose r or there's another variety called the oo easy rose or maybe you want to try a David Austin Rose there are many others I'm not familiar with all of them but these are a few that I have been experimenting with and finding such pleasure in seeing these beautiful flowers in my garden and I'm particularly crazy about this one with this amazing fragrance and just big beautiful blooms so number two the rose number three on my list is the aliam now if you have not seen these flowers before they are really interesting and Whimsical aliums belong to the onion and garlic family but they are ball-shaped spheres that are made up of small little star flowers it's a cluster of flowers on a tall stem and they just kind of wave in the wind above your other flowers now this one's called the purple sensation and it gets about 2 to 4 in across and I think this one is about 24 in tall um it's grown by planting bulbs in the fall and I think as I go forward I'm going to plant these in clusters of more than just one I've up to now been planting just one little bulb here and there so that they kind of pop up in the garden but I think I'm going to put a few in each hole that I dig going forward now this is a different variety called Millennium and it's it's really one of my favorites because it BL rooms all summer long and the bees you can see love this thing this is one of the favorites of the pollinators in the garden and I have them planted along the front of my garden bed out front they kind of line the bed you see there this variety is kind of a clumping variety it didn't I didn't grow these from bulbs I grew it from a little plant and I have about five on each side of the side walk so there's five on this side and maybe five on the other side of the stoop um the ones on this side are uh smaller they're newer plants so they're not blooming yet it's right beside the rose there and then the back you can see this tall spiky thing that's a gladiator alium that has already flowered and lost its flower but when it's finished it has these really interesting spiky kind of architecturally interesting looking Globes so I just leave them I think they're fun but there's some more of those Millennium aliums there beside of the pink cone flowers and I I just love those they they line the front of the bed you can see them better on the left side those are the older ones number four on my list is the cone flow oh my goodness I love the cone flowers this is called eonia and they come in a couple of different varieties this is a native plant like a um considered a prairie native I think and here's one in my garden right now I don't have any In Bloom but this is one that's returning from last year um I like the purple ones but I also have a yellow one and I also have a deep kind of a red one I don't know if it's called Cayenne something like that it's kind of spicy I don't have a picture of it here but um when it blooms I'll try to show you that later in another video but the purple is my favorite and they get really kind of hard little spikes the seeds kind of form a spiky seed head and the birds love these seeds so as the flowers kind of fade and die away and the plant kind of declines the seeds are um really attractive to the birds so you'll see a lot of birds come to this plant and I always leave the seeds um for the birds but it the flowers last a very long time once it starts blooming it blooms throughout most of the summer and it's uh it's pretty easy to grow um I do have a little pressure from Rabbits the rabbits seem to like this plant so I have to sometimes put something around it in fact there's two of the plants in the front this year that have some have been nibbled on by the rabbits so I hope they make it I need to maybe go out there and put some kind of little um little fence up around them or something to kind of keep the rabbits out but it's one of my favorites I just think it's so bright and cheerful and they're they're great cut plants these are really beautiful to cut and put in a vase I do that a lot I have um I don't do it so much now that I have cats CU cats like to nibble on everything so I'm always try to be careful not to put plants in the house that might hurt the cats I've forgotten totally what number we're on I think we're on number fives but this is coreopsis and I don't believe I have any video footage of the coreopsis but this is a mounding perennial that is low about probably 20 in maybe a little taller and it gets these bright Sun colored small flowers all over it and it stays in bloom throughout the summer now here's a couple of Mounds you can see on this this is a a former Garden I had um at a different house but you can see I have two little Mounds there and they're nice and bright and these will spread over time you can divide them and um and it doesn't affect how how soon they start uh flowering again the ones that I've divided just flower again the next season here's one that's spread out pretty good you can see they kind of make a a nice big large clump coreopsis likes full sun and again it's not very fussy about the soil it does very well here in our clay soil it's hearty in zones 3 through 9 so try coreopsis number six on my list of favorite perennials are lies now what you're looking at here is the kala Lily and while it is not a true lily it is still one of my favorites and these are hearty in zones 8 through 10 so where I live this is a perennial but for others of you it may be an annual or a plant that you will need to take up in the winter and store inside and then bring it back out in the spring again but the true lies are the oriental lily one of my favorites is the Stargazer lily and the Asiatic lilies I have this red variety and a yellow one and these Bloom earlier in the year and they're not quite as tall as the stargazers I only had that one snippet of video of the stargazers I'll see if I can put it up again but the stargazers can get up to 4T tall and these are a star-shaped flower um they're really good in Cut Flower Arrangements and they last a good long time in a cut flower arrangement but they um the Oriental variety has a really beautiful fragrance they're almost too strong you if you if you plant the Stargazer lily you might want to move it away from your front door I I planted Mine by the front door and it was a little too strong coming and going into the house so I moved it around to the corner of the house but they're very fragrant and and really beautiful and you can see this one is a I believe this is an Asiatic variety and um they get quite bushy they get thicker as time goes on this is one that could be divided um and they're very Stout plants they they uh they don't need much once they're established they may struggle a little in the beginning I have some in my newer garden beds that are taking a while to get established but once they do get established um they perform really well and number what are we on seven on my list is the Claus now the Claus is a Vine I think there may be Bush varieties now out I'm not sure but the ones I'm most familiar with are the are the Claus Vines and these do die back every year but they come back and each year they become more vigorous and they they take off quicker so they get heartier as time goes on and perform better and better but this one is called Nelly modes or and I showed it in my first video and it's uh they say Claus like their feet in the shade and their heads in the Sun so it's a good idea as you can see this one is planted kind of under a rose bush and they do need to be on a trellis of some kind so that they can climb upwards but they're beautiful um plants that are kind of the showstopper if you get one to do well so the Claus definitely makes my top seven list list of my favorite perennials for the flower garden I hope this video has been helpful to you that you learned something or that you are emboldened to try one of these flowers in your garden and if you have any questions or you know something that I did not mention uh if you have any information that 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Channel: Garden Hardy

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Keywords: flowering perennials, perennial, sun-tolerant perennial, flower garden plants, peony, Knock-Out Roses, David Austin roses, David Austin Golden Celebration rose, allium, gladiator allium, purple sensation allium, millenium allium, purple coneflower, Echinacea, coreopsis, calla lily, asiatic lily, stargazer lily, clematis, Garden Hardy, hardy perennials

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Length: 24min 2sec (1442 seconds)

Published: Mon Apr 29 2024