Ideas & Inspiration Perennial
With lifespans greater than two years, perennials add a reliable character to your garden. With proper upkeep, these plants return each spring from their rootstocks, ready for another year of blooming. From mint plants to hibiscus and everything in between, Sunnyside Garden has a great selection of perennials to choose from!
Heuchera ‘Frosted Violet’ (Coral Bells)
This vigorous, densely clumping coral bell features broad leaves that seem to glow from a distancy. Â The stately deep-maroon purple leaves age to a deep…
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Heuchera ‘Sashay’ (Coral Bells)
This stunning heuchera selection sports contasting, bi-color foliage – dark green on top with heavy purple underneath. Â Â The edges are heavily ruffled, nicely displaying…
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Hemerocallis ‘Rocket City’ (Daylily)
‘Rocket City’ boasts impressive blooms of bi-color reddish orange that bloom mid-to late season. Â Flowers are heavily multicolored and make a stunning impact in the…
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Hemerocallis ‘Pardon Me’ (Daylily)
This vigorous cultivar features small, cranberry red flowers with distinct yellow throats. Â ‘Pardon Me’ is compact, and a definete re-bloomer.
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Hemerocallis ‘Orange Vols’ (Daylily)
‘Orange Vols,’ bred at the University of Tennesse and named after their sports team, boasts giant bitone brilliant orange blooms with showy yellow throats. Â A…
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Hemerocallis ‘Mary Todd’ (Daylily)
Startling heavily ruffled, bright yellow flowers with a green throat bloom mid-summer on this award winning daylily.
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Hemerocallis ‘Chicago Apache’ (Daylily)
Intense scarlet, star-shaped red flowers with noticably ruffeled edges produce a boom of color mid-season on 26″ stalks.
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Hemerocallis ‘Baja’ (Daylily)
Huge (6″) bright red flowers with yellow throats are borne on 26″ stems, ‘Baja’ makes a huge color impact and is a repeat bloomer.
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Hemerocallis ‘Happy Returns’ (Daylily)
This ever-popular daylilly shares many of the strengths of it cousin ‘Stella d’Oro’ – long bloom time and abundant rebloom, compact size and early season…
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Hosta ‘Wolverine’ (Plantain Lily)
This unique hosta features slim, lance-shaped leaves that are rippled and tapered and give this hosta an pristine cascading effect. Â The shiny foliage of ‘Wolverine’…
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Hosta ‘Wide Brim’ (Plantain Lily)
Largely textured, deep green leaves with attractive, large creamy margins that age to a brilliant yellow, ‘Wide Brim’ is eye-catching and boasts a ton of…
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Hosta ‘Thunderbolt’ (Plaintain Lily)
A sport of the ever famous ‘Elegans,’ this amazing selection features very thick, rubbery, corrugated dark blue-green leaves with lightning-like golden strips down the center.
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Hosta ‘Sun Power’ (Plantain Lily)
This interesting hosta is uinque among most in its love of the sun – the more sun the more amazing golden color! Â Upright, twisty leaves…
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Hosta ‘Sum and Substance’ (Plantain Lily)
The botanical incarnation of the Jolly Green Giant, this amazing hosta boasts an huge impact of nearly 30″ in height with a spread of 60″.…
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Hosta ‘Sagae’ (Plantain Lily)
Considered to me among the most dramatic hostas ever introduced, ‘Sagae,’ the Hosta of the Year in 2000, features huge, wavy  medium green leaves with…
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Hosta ‘Paul’s Glory’ (Plantain Lily)
A truly excpetional hosta boasting heart shaped leaves with gorgeous golden yellow centers and dark, blue green margins. Â This 1999 Hosta of the Year is…
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Hosta ‘Olive Bailey Langdon’ (Plantain Lily)
This improved sport of ‘Frances Williams’ as it does not have the tendency to burn in the heat of summer, ‘Olive Bailey Langdon’ features beautiful,…
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Hosta ‘Night Before Christmas’ (Plantain Lily)
A sport of the classic ‘Patriot’ hosta, ‘Night Before Christmas’ boasts a medium mound of dark green, lance shaped foliage with vigiours white striping in…
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Hosta ‘Krossa Regal’ (Plantain Lily)
One of the classic large hosta, ‘Krossa Regal’ puts on quite the show in the garden with its think, upright, frosty blue green leaves that…
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Hosta ‘June’ (Plantain Lily)
This gold centered sport of ‘Halcyon’ features beautiful chartreuse foliage with dark blue green margins. Â A low mounded and dense hosta, this selection is very…
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Hosta ‘Halcyon’ (Plantain Lily)
A classic, medium sized, powdery blue hosta with narrow pointed foliage retains its attractive color even in dense shade. Â An low-maintence and versitile hosta, ‘Halcyon’…
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Hosta ‘Guacamole’ (Plantain Lily)
Giant, glossy apple green leaves with streaked, dark green margins make the foliage of this favorite hosta look like a delicious serving of guacamole. A…
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Hosta ‘Golden Tiara’ (Plantain Lily)
A compact hosta with heart-shaped, light green leaves with an attractive yellow variegation. Â A fast growing and dense hosta, ‘Golden Tiara’ provides a nice burst…
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Hosta ‘Gold Standard’ (Plantain Lily)
This classic golden hosta emerges a light green and ages into a brilliant gold as summer arrives. Â A fast growing and medium sized hosta, ‘Gold…
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Hosta ‘Frances Williams’ (Plantain Lily)
Giant blue-green leaves with heavy corrugation and and very wide margins with a pristine array of chartreuse and shades of yellow make this large hosta…
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Hosta ‘Elegans’ (Plantain Lily)
Long the first choice for blue leaved hostas, ‘Elegans’ features 12″ leaves and can reach 30″ in height. Â The deep smoky blue, heart-shaped foliage…
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Hosta ‘Cherry Berry’ (Plantain Lily)
A unique hosta remarkable for the bright red stalks of its flowers which appear mid-season, Cherry Berry is a small to medium sized hosta featuring…
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Hosta ‘Brim Cup’ (Plantain Lily)
Brim Cup feature dark green leaves with irregular creamy margins which are downward facing and cupped. Â A long-time customer favorite.
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Hosta ‘August Moon’ (Plantain Lily)
A classic gold/chartreuse hosta with finely cut, corrugated, wavy leaves. Â A great hosta for a sun situation as the foliage becomes more gold with greater…
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Hosta albomarginata (Plantain Lily)
Albomarginata is Latin, literally, for white margin – one of the all-time class hostas that grows 20″ tall and features perfectly pointed dark green leaves…
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Hosta ‘Blue Mouse Ears’ (Plantain Lily)
Blue Mouse Ears, the 2008 Hosta of the Year, has small, round heart shape blue leaves. Â The most popular of the miniature hostas, with leaves…
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Hosta ‘Blue Angel’ (Plantain Lily)
Blue Angel features a large tiered mound of enormous heart shaped, heavily textured blue-grey leaves. Â Foliage can be as large as 18″ in diameter.
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Hosta ‘Stained Glass’ (Plantain Lily)
This stunning variety of hosta features huge (10″) brilliant gold leaves with wide dark green margins. Â Variegation appears in early spring and prominent veining give…
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Hosta ‘Patriot’ (Plantain Lily)
Patriot, the 1997 Hosta of the Year, sports beautiful dark green centers engulfed by a wide, crisp cream margin. Â A very showy hosta that can…
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Delphinium ‘Royal Aspirations’ (Larkspur)
Royal Aspirations produces tall, stately spires of purple-blue flowers with contrasting white centers. Deeply-cut leaves form a mound at the base of the plant.
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Alcea ‘Fiesta Time’ (Hollyhock)
Fiesta Time produces spikes of double, pink, fringed blossoms. It is one of the shorter hollyhock varieties, making it suitable for smaller spaces than its…
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Digitalis ‘Candy Mountain’ (Foxglove)
Candy Mountain was the first foxglove to have upward facing flowers, rather than the usual downward facing ones. This enables you to see the beautifully…
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Heuchera ‘Palace Purple’ (Coral Bells)
Palace Purple is the original purple-leaved heuchera. In addition to its dark foliage, the plant has dainty white flowers that appear in early summer. Plant…
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Digitalis ‘Camelot Rose’ (Foxglove)
Camelot Rose is an especially prolific bloomer. The biennial plant features pink tubular flowers with speckeled throats held on sturdy stems.
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Pachysandra ‘Green Carpet’ (Japanese Spurge)
Green Carpet is especially compact and has darker and glossier leaves than other varieties of pachysandra. This vigorous, spreading, evergreen groundcover grows exceptionally well in…
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Gaillardia ‘Gallo Yellow’ (Blanket Flower)
This compact gaillardia variety produces huge flowers, with yellow petals radiating from a yellow cone.
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Salvia ‘Viola Klose’ (Sage)
Viola Klose is a gardener’s favorite, with purple flower spikes that are much deeper in color than those of any other perennial salvia.
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Lamium ‘Purple Dragon’ (Dead Nettle)
This may be the most heavily flowering variety of lamium. The purple, snapdragon-like flowers stand out over the silvery leaves of this hardy, low maintenance…
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Dianthus ‘Frosty Fire’ (Carnations and Pinks)
This charming perennial produces bright, fragrant, red-pink double flowers above a mound of icy blue foliage.
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Liatris spicata ‘Kobold’ (Blazing Star)
Kobold has grass-like foliage and will offer your garden spikes of purple, fuzzy-looking flowers in late summer. This cultivar of a Minnesota-native plant will attract…
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Festuca glauca ‘Elijah Blue’
Soft powdery blue foliage makes this grass a top pick. Elijah Blue grows in a small, compact clumps and looks great snuggled up against large…
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Hakonechloa macra ‘Aureola’ (Japanese Forest Grass)
This golden variegated grass can grow in the shade! Its light color illuminates shady areas of your yard and compliments the dark green leaves of…
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Gaillardia ‘Bijou’ (Blanket Flower)
Bijou’s flowers are long-lasting, bright, and bold. The flower petals are hot red with yellow tips and have a ruffled appearance. Bijou is the shortest…
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Sedum ‘Bronze Carpet’ (Stonecrop)
Bronze Carpet looks like its name suggests: its reddish leaves form a dense, cascading mat. The foliage offers a unique contrast to the starry, pink…
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Sedum ‘John Creech’ (Stonecrop)
John Creech has small emerald leaves and produces bright pink flowers in mid- to late-summer. The densest of the sedum groundcovers, John Creech looks great…
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