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!
Echinacea ‘Pixie Meadowbright’ (Coneflower)
‘Pixie Meadowbrite’ is as cute and small as they come for a coneflower variety. This hybrid version is small, compact, and grows more dense than…
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Echinacea ‘Merlot’ (Coneflower)
Echinacea ‘Merlot’ is aptly named for it’s unique wine red stem and leaf stalk. It’s color and fragrance are wonderful for cut arrangements, as well…
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Echinacea ‘Magnus’ (Coneflower)
The Magnus coneflower boasts extra pink petals that grow more horizontal than the typical drooping rays. This gives the flower heads an even larger appearance,…
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Viola ‘Purple Showers’
A fantastic clump forming, long flowering perennial featuring medium sized deep purple flowers that bloom in abundence from spring well through summer. Some call this…
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Viola ‘Etain’
Blooming practically all season, ‘Etain’ boasts masses of small pale lemon flowers with gorgeous blue borders and forms well-behaved clumps. Â One of our longest blooming…
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Echinacea ‘Kim’s Knee High’ (Coneflower)
‘Kim’s Knee High’ is a compact variety of cone flower, named after Kim Hawks of Niche Gardens in Chapel Hill, NC. It features long droopy…
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Viola ‘Black Magic’
True to its name, the flowers on this stellar variety are a deep matted black with tiny yellow eyes. Â The plant blooms profusely in the…
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Tricyrtis ‘Miyazaki Hybrids’ (Toad Lily)
Also known as Toad Lily, Tricyrtis features one of the most unique flowers I have ever seen. Â The color of the flower is white to…
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Tradescantia ‘Zwanenberg Blue’ (Spiderwort)
Triangular violet-blue flowers bloom en mass atop green, grass-like foliage. Â This variety offers a great blue color that provides nice color contrast with green hosta…
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Tradescantia ‘Concord Grape’ (Spiderwort)
Spiderwort boats a lot of color for a shade plant, and ‘Concord Grape’ does it in style, featuring meduim size flowers of triangular
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Veronica ‘Royal Candles’ (Speedwell)
This excellent dward variety is both a customer and staff favorite. Â ‘Royal Candles’ produces show-stopping deep blue flower spikes that cover the entire plant and…
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Veronica ‘Giles van Hees’ (Speedwell)
A dwarf variety with giant blooms, ‘Giles van Hees’ features 6″ tall flower spikes covered in a rich rosy-pink. Â This variety will spread slowly, provide…
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Scabiosa ‘Butterfly Blue’ (Pincushion Flower)
This 2000 Perennial Plant of the Year sports lacy lavender blue flowers 2″ in diameter. Â This selection will bloom the entire season if deadheaded and…
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Salvia ‘Marcus’ (Sage)
A nice tidy dwarf variety of salvia, ‘Marcus boasts a ton of color for its size, becoming almost entirely covered in attractive purple-blue flower spikes.…
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Pulmonaria ‘Moonshine’ (Lungwort)
Also know as Lungwort, ‘Moonshine’ offers an attractive mound of rounded leaves that are almost completely speckled with silver, and boasts a profusion of blue…
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Dianthus ‘Neon Star’
This special little plant is perhaps our most popular perennial and there is little mystery why – outstanding deep neon pink flowers bloom all year…
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Perovskia atriplicifolia (Russian Sage)
Known as Russian Sage, and the 1997 Perennial of the year winner, this wonderful summer blooming perennial shows off spkies of rich blue flowers on…
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Phlox ‘Junior Dance’
A great low-growing and mildew resistance phlox, ‘Junior Dance’ features huge flower clusters of light pink florets with white eyes.
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Dianthus ‘Sweet William’
The blossoms of ‘Sweet William’ are a gorgeous collage of reds, pinks and whites atop small flower stalks. Â A vigorous grower and confident spreader ‘Sweet…
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Phlox ‘Starfire’
This excellent phlox selection blooms in vibrant deep crimson red atop three foot tall stalks. Â Â It also sports deep dark green foliage that provides…
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Phlox ‘David’
The 2002 Perennial of the Year, ‘David’ has been the king of white phlox since its early propagation in the early 1700’s. Â Sporting long lasting…
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Lychnis ‘Vesuvius’ (Maltese Cross)
A truly unique and eye-catching perennial, this variety of Lychnis boasts one of a kind vivid bright blood-orange flowers. Â The plant also has attractive purple…
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Galium odoratum (Sweet Woodruff)
Also called Sweet Woodruft, Galium is a wonderfuly dense groundcover of deep green lanced shaped leaves that feature dainty fragrant white flowers in spring. Â The…
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Lilium ‘Stargazer’ (Lily)
The most popular of the lilies for as long as I can remember, gardeners have come to know and love ‘Stargazer’ by its name and…
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Coreopsis ‘Zagreb’
An awesome variety of threadleaved Coreopsis, ‘Zagreb’ is slightly shorter than ‘Moonbeam’ and boasts intense deep yellow flowers that bloom en mass atop daintily leaved…
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Echinacea ‘Tiki Torch’ (Coneflower)
An exciting introduction to the coneflower family, ‘Tiki Torch’ feature large bright orange flowers that fade to a pumkin color as they age. Â Especially…
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Echinacea ‘Tomato Soup’ (Coneflower)
Simply put – ‘Tomato Soup’ is the best red coneflower of all time. Â 32″ tall clumps are topped with huge 5″ deep red flowers in…
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Salvia ‘May Night’ (Sage)
This 1997 perennial plant of the year features deep indigo blue flowers on sturdy stalks. Â A particularly dense blooming salvia, expect to see mulitple flowers…
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Salvia ‘Caradonna’ (Sage)
A truly unique selection of Salvia, ‘Caradonna’ boasts deep regal purple blooms on sturdy wine-red stems. Â More upright and spiky than other varieties, ‘Caradonna’ needs…
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Salvia ‘Blue Hills’ (Sage)
The truest blue of all the salvia, ‘Blue Hills’ feature a dense mound of foliage that boasts dense sky blue flower stalks in spring. Â A…
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Phlox ‘Junior Dream’
A great introduction from the ‘Junior’ sereies of phlox, ‘Junior Dream’ features giant round purple flowers held atop short sturdy stems. Â A great low-maintenence variety…
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Penstemon ‘Sweet Joanne’ (Beardtogue)
Attractive glossy green leaves that form a dense clump and feature deep pink buds brone on tall stalks that open to bright lavender pink with…
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Penstemon ‘Praire Dusk’ (Beardtongue)
A neat and low growing Penstemon that blooms earlier than other varieties, ‘Praire Dusk’ features leaved stems of rose-purple tubular flowers that reach a little…
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Penstemon ‘Dark Towers’ (Beardtongue)
This attractive variety of Penstemon is noted for its stunning deep wine-red foliage and an erruption of towering stems of tubular flowers that are a…
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Monarda ‘Raspberry Wine’ (Beebalm)
A Â wonderful selection of bee balm that features large flower heads of stunning deep purple-red flowers, ‘Raspberry Wine’ is a vigorous spreader and grow to…
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Monarda ‘Jacob Cline’ (Beebalm)
Long regarded as the best of the red bee balms, ‘Jacob Cline’ boasts pure, deep red flowers that are slightly larger, longer lasting, and bloom…
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Monarda ‘Marshall’s Delight’ (Beebalm)
Sunnyside’s most popular monarda, ‘Marshall’s Delight’ grows to three feet and boasts exceptionally large bright showy pink flowers. Â Popular for its exceptionally long bloom time…
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Papaver ‘Brilliant’ (Poppy)
‘Brilliant’ features the awesome orange-red flower made famous by Georgia O’Keefe in her classic paintings. Â The flower simply has no equal in the garden and…
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Malva alcea fastigata (Musk Malva)
Also know as Hollyhock mallow due to the resemblance of its flowers to hollyhocks, Malva fastigata grows two to three feet tall and displays masses…
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Agastache foeniculum ‘Blue Fortune’ Anise Hyssop
A particularly vigorous and easy to grow perennial that can withstand intense heat and some drought, Agastache ‘Blue Fortune’ is an award winning perennial that…
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Astilbe ‘Rheinland’ (False Spirea)
Clear, rose-pink flowers held in large, diamond-shaped panicles characterize the ‘Rheinland’ Astilbe. Â It is a vigorou perennial that blooms in the early summer and grows…
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Astilbe ‘Red Sentinel’ (False Spirea)
Distinguished by its dark, forest green leaves, mahogany-red stems, and scarlet-red flowers, the ‘Red Sentinel’ is a gorgeous perennial and will definitely catch eyes in…
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Artmenisia ‘Silver Mound’ (Wormwood)
One of the most popular foliage perennials, the ‘Silver Mound’ is known for its ferny, silvery leaves. Â It does well in hot, dry areas and…
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Calamagrostis ‘Karl Forester’
Named after a German nurseryman, ‘Karl Forester’ became the first ornamental grass to win “Perennial Plant of the Year” in 2001. Â This reed grass is…
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Achillea ‘Paprika’ (Yarrow)
This variety of Achillea features large clusters of ruby-red flowers with yellow eyes. Â A perfect addition for any garden, the Paprika will fade to pink…
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Achillea ‘Oertel’s Rose’ (Yarrow)
An excellent, care-free variety that features gorgeous long-lasting pink flowers. Â The flowers will fade to white as the season progresses and will continue blooming…
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Dianthus ‘Fire Witch’
A long flowering dianthus featuring a small grassy mound of attractive blue-grey foliage. Â Single pink flowers with ruffled edges errupt throughout the season.
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Campanula ‘White Clips’ (Bellflower)
A low dense carpet of attractive dense foliage topped with masses of upward facing white bell-shaped flowers. Â No equal as an edging plant and looks…
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Corydalis lutea
This shade garden must have is finnaly beginning to get the recognition it deserves – lacy blue-green foliage covered with soft yellow flowers in spring.…
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Coreopsis ‘Moonbeam’
A consistent bestseller, ‘Moonbeam’ features masses of tiny pale yellow daisy-like flowers atop thin airy foliage. Â One of my personal favorites as the abundant flowers…
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