Perennials
| Type | Botanical Name | Native | Common Name | Description | Height | Light Req. | Zone | Add to My List |
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| Perennial | ECHINACEA purpurea ‘Ruby Star’ | Cone Flower | Large flowers with horizontally held petals and a deeper pink coloration. |
24-36 | Sun/Part Shade | 3 | ||
| Perennial | ECHINACEA ‘Sombrero Adobe Orange’ | Hybrid Coneflower | Lots of large orange blooms on a well-branched plant. |
18-20 inches | Full sun | 4 | ||
| Perennial | ECHINACEA ‘Sombrero Granada Gold’ | Hybrid Coneflower | A compact, well-branched cultivar with non-fading golden yellow blossoms. |
18-26 inches | Sun | 4 | ||
| Perennial | ECHINACEA ‘Sombrero Lemon Yellow Improved’ | Hybrid Coneflower | Lots of lemon-yellow blossoms with wide overlapping petals on a compact, well-branched plant. |
18-20 inches | Full sun | 4 | ||
| Perennial | ECHINACEA ‘Sombrero Salsa Red’ | Hybrid Coneflower | Fiery-red, lightly-fragrant 3″ blooms from early summer through fall. |
24-26 inches | Sun | 4 | ||
| Perennial | ECHINACEA ‘Sunseekers White Perfect’ | Hybrid Coneflower | Lovely creamy white flowers have a multilayered, dahlia-like look. June through fall. |
20 inches | Sun | 4 | ||
| Perennial | ECHINACEA ‘Sweet Sandia’ | Cone Flower | Double rows of salmony-pink petals transitioning to fresh green with some soft yellow petals on short, upright stems. The petals then mature to pale pink with large, fragrant, dark crimson cones. Attracts bees & butterflies Deer resistant Drought tolerant Good cut flower |
12-24" | Full sun | 4 | ||
| Perennial | ECHINACEA ‘White Swan’ | Cone Flower | Honey scented, copper-colored cones with pure white petals blooms throughout the summer months. Drought tolerant Attracts bees, butterflies and song birds Cut flower Deer resistant |
24-36" | Full sun | 3 | ||
| Perennial | ECHINOPS bannaticus ‘Blue Glow’ | Globe Thistle | Intense blue flowers that pollinators love, with leaves more hairy and deeply cut than E. ritro. Early to late summer. Resilient to most pests/diseases/drought. Deer/rabbit resistant. |
48-54 inches | Sun | 4 | ||
| Perennial | EPIMEDIUM ‘Amber Queen’ | Barrenwort | A vigorous cultivar with large, spidery yellow blooms fading to orange. Stiff-textured holly-like foliage is veined with red in spring. |
16-18 inches | Part Shade | 4 | ||
| Perennial | EPIMEDIUM grandiflorum ‘Benedict’s Violet’ | Spring brings a mound of green leaves with a rosy edge over which grape-purple flowers arrive floating on delicate stems. A shorter epimedium that will form a tidy clump. |
Part Shade/Shade | 4 | ||||
| Perennial | EPIMEDIUM grandiflorum ‘Pseudo-Larchmont’ | Pale pink spiders with darker pink inner cups. Newest leaves show a marbling of bronze and green. |
Part Shade/Shade | 4 | ||||
| Perennial | EPIMEDIUM grandiflorum var. higoense ‘Confetti’ | Unique leaves are speckled with purple in spring. This variety produces masses of white flowers that appear very delicate with spider-like appendages. |
Part Shade/Shade | 4 | ||||
| Perennial | EPIMEDIUM lishihchenii | Barrenwort | Bright yellow long spurred flowers in spring. Deer/rabbit/drought tolerant. |
10-12 inches | Part Shade/Shade | 5 | ||
| Perennial | EPIMEDIUM pinnatum ssp. colchicum ‘Thunderbolt’ | The glossy foliage turns deep marron in colder weather with prominent ‘thunderbolt’ like veining. Bright yellow spidery flowers are a wonderful contrast. |
Part Shade/Shade | 4 | ||||
| Perennial | EPIMEDIUM sempervirens ‘Mars’ | Rose-red flowers are produced in abundance over shiny green heart-shaped leaves with a second flush of bloom making this a long blooming cultivar. |
Part Shade/Shade | 4 | ||||
| Perennial | EPIMEDIUM ‘Spine Tingler’ | Barrenwort | Unlike other epimediums, sends flowers and foliage up at the same time. Dark green leaves with spiny margins. Soft yellow “jester-like” flowers on compact plants in mid to late spring. Deer/rabbit resistant. From Darrell Probst. |
8-10 inches | Part Shade/Shade | 5 | ||
| Perennial | EPIMEDIUM x rubrum ‘Galadriel’ | Barrenwort | Gorgeous bronze foliage in spring with roe-red flowers late spring, in fall the foliage turns brilliant orange & red. Makes a great groundcover |
8-12" | Part Shade/Shade | 4 | ||
| Perennial | EPIMEDIUM warleyense ‘Orange Queen’ | Barrenwort | Copper-orange flowers in spring on a slowly spreading groundcover. Attractive foliage year-round. |
18-20 inches | Part Shade | 5 | ||
| Perennial | EPIMEDIUM x youngianum ‘Ruby Tuesday’ | A later blooming form this one begins blooming at a very small size and continues to send up successive leaves and flowers throughout the spring reaching its ultimate height of 14”. Rich red flowers have paler pink spurs. |
Part Shade/Shade | 4 | ||||
| Perennial | EPIMEDIUM youngianum ‘Japanese Cultivar’ | A smaller Epimedium with rose-pink flowers over small bright green leaves with paler veining. |
Part Shade/Shade | 4 | ||||
| Perennial | ERICA carnea ‘Springwood White’ | Winter Heath | Low-growing, mounding groundcover for sunny areas. Abundant silver-white from late-winter to early-spring. Can be sheared just after blooming, but next year’s buds form in summer. Deer/drought/salt tolerant. |
8 inches | Sun | 5 | ||
| Perennial | ERIGERON ‘Lynnhaven Carpet’ | Fleabane | Dense, mat-forming habit and astonishing ability to thrive in a wide range of challenging conditions. In early May, individual flower stalks give rise to lightly tinted lavender flowers with a yellow inner eye. |
12-15" | Sun/Part Shade | 4 | ||
| Perennial | ERYNGIUM alpinum ‘Blue Star’ | From mid-summer to fall the finely toothed foliage is topped with sturdy stems each bearing one steel-blue thistle-like flower that is collared by a soft blue frill. |
Full sun | 2 | ||||
| Perennial | ERYNGIUM planum ‘White Glitter’ | Sea Holly | A profusion of silvery-white teasel-like flowers on sturdy stems creating height and drama to the border. Drought tolerant Attracts bees & butterflies Good cut flower |
24-36" | Full sun | 4 | ||
| Perennial | ERYNGIUM yuccifolium | Rattlesnake Master | Tough, blue-green, yucca-like spiky leaves. Smooth, rigid stem with individual, greenish-white flowers cluster into unique, globular heads throughout summer. Deer/rabbit tolerant. |
4-5 feet | Sun | 3 | ||
| Perennial | ERYTHRONIUM americanum | Trout Lily | Our native “trout lily” prevalent throughout Vermont woods in early spring. Nodding yellow bells over mottled foliage. Summer dormant. |
4-6 inches | Part Shade | 3 | ||
| Perennial | ERYTHRONIUM ‘Pagoda’ | Trout Lily | Large lemon-yellow nodding flowers with up-tipped petals and up to 10 flowers per stem. Foliage can be mottled with bronze, most noticeable when first emerging . After flowering the entire plant goes dormant until the next spring. |
12-18" | Full Sun/Part Shade | 4 | ||
| Perennial | EUPATORIUM dubium ‘Baby Joe’ | Joe Pye Weed | Large, dome-shaped flower heads of lavender-mauve. Even more compact than E. ‘Little Joe’! |
28-30 inches | Sun/Part Shade | 3 | ||
| Perennial | EUPATORIUM dubium ‘Little Pye’ | A more compact Joe-Pye Weed with the same lavender flower heads on sturdy stems. Can take a wide variety of growing conditions. |
Full Sun/Part Shade | 3 | ||||
| Perennial | EUPATORIUM hyssopifolium | Hyssop-leaf Thoroughwort | Lacy umbels of white flowers over fine-textured foliage in late summer. Best in dry situations. |
2-3 feet | Full Sun/Part Shade | 4 | ||
| Perennial | EUPHORBIA myrsinites | Myrtle Spurge, Creeping Spurge | Mostly evergreen. Oval, blue-green, succulent-like leaves in close spirals around the stems. Non-showy greenish flowers/showy yellow bracts bloom in spring. Deer/rabbit/drought/salt tolerant. Readily self-seeds. |
4-8 inches | Sun | 5 | ||
| Perennial | EUPHORBIA polychroma | Cushion Spurge | Colorful yellow bracts in May on dome-shaped plant. Red fall foliage. |
16-18 inches | Sun | 4 | ||
| Perennial | EUPHORBIA polychroma ‘Bonfire’ | Cushion Spurge | Green spring foliage quickly matures to a dark mahoghany red. Great contrast with acid yellow flowers. |
16-18 inches | Sun | 4 | ||
| Perennial | FILIPENDULA palmata ‘Nana’ | Meadowsweet | Airy pink flower heads in early summer on a compact plant. Attractive lacy dissected foliage. |
14-16 inches | Sun/Part Shade | 3 | ||
| Perennial | FILIPENDULA palmata ‘Elegans’ | Meadowsweet | Feathery plumes of white to pink from June into July. Great for moist sites. Forms a wide mound. |
24-30 inches | Sun/Part Shade | 4 | ||
| Perennial | FILIPENDULA rubra ‘Venusta ‘ | Queen of the Prairie | Deep pink fluffy plumes on tall stems in summer. Slowly spread by rhizomes to form nice clumps. Seed heads turn attractive fall color. Attracts bees and butterflies Clay and wet soil tolerant Deer and rabbit resistant |
6-7 feet | Sun/Part Shade | 3 | ||
| Perennial | FILIPENDULA ulmaria ‘Plena’ | Meadow Sweet | Finely cut foliage that is almost fern-like holds upright stems of creamy-white double puffs that are sweetly fragrant. Deer and rabbit resistant |
18-24" | Full Sun/Part Shade | 3 | ||
| Perennial | FILIPENDULA ulmaria ‘Variegata’ | Variegated Meadowsweet | Dark green palmate leaves with gold centers and creamy white summer flowers. Try with red Astrantias. Both prefer moist sites. |
24-26 inches | Sun/Part Shade | 4 | ||
| Perennial | GALIUM odoratum | Sweet Woodruff | Excellent groundcover with delicate scented foliage and tiny white flowers in May. |
8-10 inches | Part Shade | 4 | ||
| Perennial | GAULTHERIA procumbens | Wintergreen | Native woodland groundcover. Red berries and dark green aromatic foliage which turns purplish red in fall/winter. Charming. |
6-8 inches | Part Shade | 2 | ||
| Perennial | GAULTHERIA procumbens ‘Winter Splash’ | Wintergreen | Showy white and green leaves that turn pink in the winter. Small white flowers in summer are followed by bright red edible berries. Makes a nice colorful groundcover. Deer resistant Drought tolerant |
4-6" | Part Shade/Shade | 3 | ||
| Perennial | GAURA ‘Bantam Pink’ | Spikes of hot pink flowers are formed on dark burgundy stems over deep green foliage flowering all summer and into fall. It loves a hot sunny spot with well drained soil. |
Full sun | 5 | ||||
| Perennial | GENTIANA ‘True Blue’ | Gentian | We saw this new floriferous gentian from Darrell Probst a few years ago and couldn’t wait till it was available! Large, upward-facing true blue bells from midsummer until fall. |
24-26 inches | Part Shade | 4 | ||
| Perennial | GERANIUM ‘Blue Sunrise’ | Cranesbill | Foliage in spring emerges orange to gold and changes to lime-green. Violet-blue flowers from summer to fall. |
12-14 inches | Sun/Part Shade | 4 | ||
| Perennial | GERANIUM ‘Dragon Heart’ | Cranesbill | Large magenta flowers with a black center and black veins. blooming abundantly from early to late summer. |
22-24 inches | Sun/Part Shade | 5 | ||
| Perennial | GERANIUM macrorrhizum ‘Bevan’s Variety’ | Bigfoot Geranium | A cultivar with bright magenta red blooms in the spring over fragrant spreading foliage. |
10-12 inches | Sun/Part Shade/Shade | 4 | ||
| Perennial | GERANIUM macrorrhizum ‘Spessart’ | Bigroot Geranium | Fragrant semi-evergreen foliage is tidy and neat all season and will spread to make a lovely ground cover in sun or shade. White flowers appear in spring and will rebloom sporadically through the summer. In fall the foliage turns bright orange-red. Drought tolerant |
10-12 inches | Full Sun/Part Shade | 3 | ||
| Perennial | GERANIUM maculatum | Wild Geranium | Clump forming with mounds of attractive foliage and sweet lavender flowers with darker veins. |
12-24 inches | Part Shade/Shade | 4 | ||
| Perennial | GERANIUM maculatum ‘Huggy Bear’ | Light lavender-pink blooms contrast beautifully with the deep chocolate-bronze foliage. Even when not in bloom it’s a standout! |
Full Sun/Part Shade | 3 |