Brand New Perennials in 2022! 🌿😍🙌 // Garden Answer

hey guys how's it going today we're going to talk about some of the brand new perennials coming out this year in 2022. we recently talked about some of the new annuals coming out and i just love doing this type of video because it makes me so excited about spring and planting i mean i'm still looking out at the snow floor i know many of you are as well so every time we do something like this my plant list it grows it gets longer we have 22 perennials to talk about today a few of which i've had a chance to plant i got my hands on them early last season so they're in the ground this will be their second growing season so we'll be able to see a little bit more of what they can do uh but they're all really pretty let's just jump right in first one is a new summarific hibiscus called edge of night the contrast factor of this plant alone makes it really interesting so they've got the dark black leaves the buds even before the flowers open are bright green so they really i mean show up on the plant beautifully and then once they open bright pink seven to eight inch diameter blooms with dark pink striping and they're really full so it's really different from the older varieties of hibiscus i remember and i might have a picture oh look i'm not sure when erin and i first got married one of the first things i planted was one of the older varieties of red hibiscus and i put it in a container a kind of a taller container and it was just like kind of sparse the leaves dropped all the time these newer varieties of hibiscus i would put in a container any day as a specimen kind of centerpiece plant because they are so full and so dense and they provide so much color we put ours out in the new south garden we have a big grass walkway and at the end of the swoop we planted a little hedge of limelight prime hydrangeas so you've got the green leaves the whitish blooms age pink and then right at the end of that hedge you've got this edge of night hibiscus so the contrast of the two things is beautiful they provide such a beautiful weight in the garden and this variety is a little bit more compact or small than the other summerific hibiscus they grow about three and a half feet tall four and a half feet wide still a good sized perennial i mean you would almost look at it and think it's like a small to medium sized shrub but the difference is these come back fresh from the ground every year so we wait until late winter early spring to cut them back to about six inches above the ground and then we wait and it's they're one of the last things to break dormancy in the spring in fact a lot of times especially if you're new to hibiscus you'll think they're dead um but you know come may or so when everything else is like butted and growing and blooming then you'll start to see the growth on your hibiscus but once they start to grow it's it's kind of crazy like you almost want to put a ruler out there so that you can track their growth progress because they grow so fast to their full size fresh every single year they're a zone four through nine which is incredible very winter hardy while their blooms make them look like they belong in a tropical garden and they also can tolerate boggy areas so if you've got a very sunny spot they do prefer full sun but if you've got a sunny spot that's a low area that kind of collects water perfect plant for that situation the next one is a hearty geranium also known as a cranesville called boom chocolata i love this one i have some behind our chicken coop and i've got a lot of green leaved things back there baptisia iris pincushion flower veronica fox glove i needed something with depth of color so the leaves on this one's even when it's not in bloom which beautiful purple blooms the leaves are kind of bolder and they're a dark bronze green really beautiful that provide that depth and dimension in that flower bed which was really needed they do get quite tall though so 26 inches i want to say mine maybe got a little taller than that 30 inches wide so there are other varieties of geraniums though so if you wanted something next to the edge of a border you could choose something that stays a little bit shorter i kind of put mine right up against our palette walkway and i love the look of it they are a zone four through eight pollinators love them and they're easy to maintain one shear back in the summer so you wanna treat them kind of like a salvia and that they'll come out with their first flush of bloom early in the summer you can cut them back and that will encourage a new it'll encourage new growth in new blooms however some years i don't get to it some years i don't cut my geraniums back and they do just fine the new blooms kind of cover over the other ones that were left from earlier on i love that i love it if i don't quite get to it it's not going to look mangy and bad for the rest of the year the next one is an amsonia called string theory which provide the most beautiful soft periwinkle blue blooms late spring through early summer so they come up on stocks and have clusters of blooms at the top of each stock and each bloom is in the shape of a star i think the common name of this plant is blue star which is very appropriate but the leaves on this one are really interesting as well they're more fine more thread like as opposed to the other variety we have talked about before and i've shown in my garden called storm cloud that one has more bold leaves so this one has more of a wispy ethereal kind of cloud like look looks beautiful beautiful structure through the summer even after they're done blooming but the fall color is just it's insane that's when we planted ours last year so i actually didn't get to see mine blooming we'll hopefully see that this spring but when we planted them they were in their beautiful bright kind of gold orange fall color i loved it so this one stays a bit more compact than storm cloud 22 inches tall 36 inches wide and kind of this broad base shape zone four through nine the next three are varieties of sedum see them do really well for us here in high desert they like full sun they don't want a lot of care they don't want to be fertilized they don't need a lot of water they're just overall a wonderful plant also no matter what variety of sedum you plant you will have pollinators all over them and they look great almost the entire year even if you get snow in the winter so what happens like in the spring when they push new growth you'll see these beautiful rosettes coming out of the ground they almost look like a tender succulent like an echeveria or sempervivum which is not tender but anyway it has that kind of rosette structure then they just keep growing and you don't have to do a thing to them they form their buds and their blooms mid-summer then they just start to be in their beautiful color for the rest of the year usually starting when it's really hot and then i leave mine through the winter because typically they have strong enough stems to stay upright they take a frost and look beautiful they provide some forage for wildlife and it's not until late winter early spring that's when we cut them back so we've just got this few week window before they start pushing new growth where you don't really see them but other than that they're providing something for the garden the first one is back in black i planted this one in our west side garden along a brick walkway with some pink profusion salvia in front of it the contrast of the two plants was absolutely beautiful the back in black grows about two feet tall and 30 inches wide so i did space them out i think with enough space for them to get to their full size it would remind you of maybe the older variety you might be familiar with called maestro i planted some of those behind our gazebo when we still had the gazebo a little bit different color in bloom like maestro had more pinkish blooms this one back in black has they call it a garnet red bloom so when they open the middle of the bloom is that red color but then the outer kind of petals i don't know if they're actually petals but they're cream colored so when you're standing back it gives it an overall appearance of being pink so i really like it but maestro tended to want to flop for me no matter what i did it was getting full sun it um i adjusted water you know where it wasn't getting a lot of water we didn't fertilize and it still kind of did the flopping thing back in black is resistant to that it maintains its upright structure throughout the season and resists flopping over which i appreciate greatly there they're also a zone three through nine so very winter hardy great for cold climates the next one is coral jade and if the word coral is in the name of a flower just go ahead and sign me up i'm gonna want to plant it anything coral or salmon pink i love that color palette and this one grows a lot like lemon jade which i have in my garden and have for years and i absolutely love it this one grows about 18 inches tall 30 inches wide so sizable perennial it would remind you in bloom color of autumn joy which is kind of an industry standard a lot of you will know what that one looks like i have some in my garden this one is a little bit deeper in color and it doesn't flop my autumn joy flops every single year no matter what i do i really should be staking mine but i don't really want to have a bunch of things that i have to stake in my garden so if i can get the same color out of a different variety of plant same structure same same flower color i'm going to opt for that one i planted some of these alongside some serendipity alliums benjamin help me i remember serendipity allium some supreme cantalope echinacea and then some of these i think it's gonna be a really pretty little grouping right there it's also a zone three through nine just like the last variety of sedum here that i don't have in our garden yet it's called tiramisu this one has a very different look it looks more delicate like the leaf structure the leaves aren't as big it has more of a dome kind of full rounded appearance and it looks like a dark colored sedum and a green colored seed i'm kind of put together in leaf color kind of a purpley green very soft and the buds are a soft pink and they open up cream it grows upwards of 20 inches tall and 32 inches wide which is quite large and it's also resistant to flopping so it should keep its nice structure through the season the next two are varieties of flocks the first is a tall garden flocks called luminary backlight beautiful bright creamy white flowers with that strong upright structure it's about 30 inches tall by two feet wide i have these in containers ready to go out in our garden this next spring but i don't have any currently planted i do have the opalescence varieties kind of in the same line the good thing about these flocks is that they're highly resistant to mildew because in the past some of the old traditional varieties the one that looks most like this to me is the david white but they've dealt with such or they've had such bad mildew problems throughout the years especially for those of you in areas with high humidity or you know more of a wet climate that i know a lot of people shy away from them i mean even here in our dry high desert climate we can deal with mildew on flocks so to have one that's resistant and still give you those bright white clusters of flowers is really fun they are a zone three through eight and their leaves are very dark colored so if you see them in contrast to that bloom bright bloom color it's a really pretty blend the next blocks is opening act romance rich lavender flowers with a white halo more of a domed kind of rounded appearance as opposed to like the luminary backlight has that really strong upright uh sort of structure and the opening act romance blooms pretty much the whole season so they start early summer and they just keep on going they're a zone four through eight that grow about 22 inches tall three feet wide also highly resistant to mildew there are several others in the opening act series i'm trying to remember all of them but i know there's an ultra pink which is super bright pink super vibrant this one i think is one step down in vibrancy it's got more of like a soft rich color then there's blush which is a light pink there's pink a dot which is kind of a bi-color pink and white the next one is a new bush clematis called stand by me lavender it matches the growth habit performance flower size all of that of these regular stand by me clematis it's just a different color which i'm excited for because these stand by me clematis the blue variety has done so well for us in our area it's planted in full sun they get about 38 inches tall so they do benefit from a little bit of support if you plant them all together they'll kind of support each other a little bit but i think you almost need like a peony ring sort of situation and i miss my window every single year i need to like go out there before they even break dormancy and get some things in place because they would grow a little bit better if they had a little bit of extra support they are a zone three through seven their flowers are about three inches or so in diameter and they always seem to be in some sort of bloom stage there's always color on them even the faded blooms have a really neat like they're they're spent flowers or like seed heads are gorgeous the next one is a hooker called dressed up evening gown so this one has huge black roughly leaves it looks kind of like a black pearl but the leaves are more ruffled almost like cherry truffles so it's kind of got the cherry truffles growth habit but in that dark black color it's so beautiful and it can take sun or shade grows 14 inches tall 24 inches wide zone four through nine i can imagine a lot of different areas to use this hooker in our garden both in containers and in the landscape next we have two new varieties of hosta the first one is hope springs eternal this is another big one so this one has big blue leaves with creamy white almost like the softest yellow of margins they're kind of roughly they grow about 22 inches tall almost four feet wide that's a big hosta they do send up a bloom stock about mid-summer the bloom is white i usually cut the bloom stocks off my hostas because i don't really love it's kind of like when coleus bloom i like to deadhead the blooms off i don't really want the coleus to have the blooms on them i like to just have them for their leaf structure and canopy same with hostas there are some hosta blooms that smell really good though and typically like with new ones when i get them in the ground i will let them uh bloom so i can see if they smell good and if they do i will leave them because i like the scent they add to the air and they usually attract hummingbirds as well this is a zone three through nine i'm actually excited for the bloom stock on this next variety of hosta it's called miss america and it grows about 19 inches tall 55 inches wide green with white variegation but the bloom stalks that it sends up the the flowers are lavender and they're outward facing instead of kind of being usually the hosta blooms look a little bit kind of messy and they're a little bit downturned you really can't see the bloom structure but with this one i'm excited to see what how these look because i think the outward facing blooms might be a little bit of a game changer for me the next three are varieties of shasta daisy the first one is called banana cream 2 which is an improvement from the old banana cream i planted some of these out in my parents garden last summer i'm so excited to see what they do this year my mom commented on them quite a number of times last year just telling me how much she enjoyed them she loved the color they always seem to be in bloom so it's fun to plant things other than just in our own space just to see how they do around our own valley and i love the color you know that soft yellow the banana cream color i think it's a perfect name for that plant but the banana cream too in terms of how it's been improved it has a tighter growth habit now it has better flower coverage so more flowers per plant and they bloom quite a bit earlier and also for those of you who live in more mild climates or areas with very short winters they will still bloom for you they don't need a tremendously long cold period in order to perform like some other perennials do their flowers are huge too for a daisy like three and a half inch flowers they grow about two feet tall almost two feet wide and they are a zone five through nine the next two i also don't have planted out in our own garden but i do have them in containers ready to plant out this spring the first one is called marshmallow fully double white flowers three and a half inch in diameter and they hold really nicely i had these long enough last season to actually have them bloom in our greenhouse so i got to experience what their blooms look like and i can really tell a lot from a plant you know coming from a garden center background and now you know taking care of plants here in containers i can tell if a plant is really going to be a good one a good performer based on how it does in a container because plants don't love to be in containers for very long especially nursery containers you know you're usually pushing it in terms of you know how long how much of a root reservoir they have and all that sort of thing and sometimes the water can be a little erratic if they're not on drip and so if a plant performs really well for you in a container all season long in a greenhouse when it's 100 plus degrees you know it's going to do well out in your landscape and these held so beautifully for us the plant itself grows about 20 inches tall 22 inches wide and it is also a zone five through nine i love double flowers i'm so excited for this one and the last variety of daisy is spun silk which is a spider type uh daisy it has fringed petals huge blooms four and a half inch in diameter maybe a little bit bigger i'll have to look back i think i took a picture of one in the greenhouse when it started to bloom up next to my hand just to show scale how big that flower was it was so incredibly well the texture of it's beautiful but so incredibly huge i was really excited about the potential of that one out in the garden it grows 24 inches tall 22 inches wide and it's also a zone 5-9 one note that i did notice on the website when i initially was learning about this plant is that they do recommend in really warm climates to provide a little bit of shade in the afternoon so that's something that i will probably be mindful of when i get ready to place the spun silk i will probably put it in an area that gets a good block of morning sun but then gets maybe dappled light or shade in the afternoon just to protect those blooms and keep them looking really nice and fresh the next five are all varieties of monarda or bee balm is the common name they're part of the mint family and as a whole they're an amazing group of perennials and they attract all the pollinators bees hummingbirds butterflies they're resistant to deer they have a very pleasant smell to me do you have those things that when you smell them it takes you straight back to a specific time in your life for me it's my childhood in the spring right about the time when the sun was warming up the stones in our pathways or the concrete walkways and i could feel the warmth on my bare feet i never wore shoes when i was a kid and so i'd run through the garden and i remembered like that turning point in the spring when things started to feel really warm in the morning and the heat would warm up plants and i could smell some of those smells i don't know how to explain it but it's one of those plants that does it for me they're just they're a wonderful plant they're all a zone four through eight i'm going to run through these fairly quickly because there's not a ton different about each one of these so the first one is lady leading lady amethyst so you can see the color there that just beautiful bi-color kind of pink it's a little bit more uh light on the edges of the petals deeper in the throat that one grows upwards of 14 inches tall 28 inches wide the next one is leading lady pink so this one is vibrant and you can see kind of the spots on the petals there grows 14 inches tall 28 inches wide as well then there's leading lady raspberry these are vibrant look at that the green looks vibrant the pink looks vibrant and this one's almost opposite in that the outer petals look really bright and the interior like the throat of the bloom looks a little bit more light in color also 14 inches tall by 28 inches wide the next one is parted my lavender two so this one grows just a tiny bit taller 18 inches tall so just four inches taller 28 inch spread as well this one has a really beautiful like so far i think this is my favorite color it's got kind of that uh is it like orchid pink like lavender paint kind of color really pretty and really clear colors the last one is pardon my rose so if we look in close at this one hot pink petals i mean that's the obvious there and then the white striping and the tips of the petals but if you look right beneath all the petals at the bracks so that's what holds the petals in they are really beautifully colored kind of a dark pink color so even when those petals the actual flower petals dry up and fall off that plant's still going to look like it's still in bloom i love it when plants have that it makes the just extends the season of interest on your plant the next one is an ornamental grass called lemon squeeze it's a type of pennisetum or fountain grass but hardy in zones five through nine grows three and a half feet tall by four and a half feet wide but the flowers oh they're so pretty so it's a gold-leafed penicidum lighter colored green or kind of on the gold side of things they've never observed any burn in evaluating this variety there's never been burn on the leaves which is wonderful you always worry about that with gold varieties of things it's something that they really watch out for but this one seems to hold up really well but the flowers come out creamy white in the middle of the season and then they age when the seed heads start to form after the flowers they're a copper color amazing fall winter interest i would leave these up through the whole season cut them back in the late winter early spring before new growth emerges but i'm excited to get some of those a big bank of those somewhere would be beautiful and the last perennial is buried treasure pink strawberries i've had really good luck with the buried treasure line as a whole there's buried treasure red white and pink fully double flowers they bloom at the same time as they're producing fruit they're ever bearing so they're always producing fruit throughout the whole season i have noticed because i've grown these for several years now that they produce more and larger fruit the second year could just be me i don't know but they seem to like once they've rooted in and gotten used to their spot they seem to be happier they do term them a snack size berry and i do think that that is a good description but they are quite a bit bigger the second year for me and the flavor was better the second year for me too which could be watering or weather related who knows they grow 16 inches tall a couple feet wide they are a zone four through eight pollinators of course love them and i like to tuck them all over the place i have them in containers raised beds i have them in our blueberry containers um i put them in just flower containers just as a flower exit because they're always in some sort of flower and then they produce these beautiful berries that kind of spill over the edge they're just a really versatile plant and that's it for today's video those are the 22 perennials for this year ones to be watching out for you should start seeing them show up at your garden centers come spring do talk to somebody at your garden center though if there's something that really interests you we always i remember that from the garden center i always loved to hear from people because then it let us know what to be watching out for what to be looking out for and what we should be ordering so anyway thank you guys so much for watching i really hope you're having a great day and we will see you in the next video bye

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Length: 21min 16sec (1276 seconds)

Published: Tue Jan 25 2022