Perennials are our most faithful garden friends and the backbone of most borders. Year after year, they return to fill gardens with lovely flowers and a variety of foliage textures and shades of green. They give a garden a sense of permanence and continuity, filling their allotted areas with little fuss or bother for the gardener. The heights and widths of the taller perennials, such as the peony, hosta, and veronica, give vertical dimension and mass against which interplantings of annuals and bedding plants display their colorful blooms. Perennials are more expensive than annuals, but when the costs is spread out over their years of service, they are actually bargains.

Color abounds in the mixed annual-perennial garden along the stone path to the right. Large blocks of the same kind of plants, often a dozen or more, make bold, interlocking masses of color. Included here are sweet williams, calendulas, pinks, yellow and white violas, and coralbells.

To see our entire selection of perennials, click here:  Complete List.