Perennials
| Type | Botanical Name | Native | Common Name | Description | Height | Light Req. | Zone | Add to My List |
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| Perennial | HIBISCUS moscheutus ‘Pink Clouds’ | Rose Mallow | Intense, large, deep pink flowers that catch the eye from a long distance. This robust Hibiscus blooms over a long period and has beautiful, mature leaves that are the size, color, and shape of Norway maple. |
4-5 feet | Full Sun/Part Shade | 5 | ||
| Perennial | HIBISCUS ‘Summer Carnival’ | Rose Mallow | A new vigorous cultivar with interesting pink-edged green/white varigated leaves and 8″ fuchsia blooms in late-summer to fall. Deer resistant; pollinator friendly. |
3-4 feet | Sun/Part Shade | 4 | ||
| Perennial | HIBISCUS ‘Summerific Starry Starry Night’ | Rose Mallow | From Walters Gardens, their darkest leaved Hibiscus yet. Almost black foliage contrasts with the 7-8” pale pink blooms streaked with rose. Forms a compact bush. |
40-48 inches | Sun/Part Shade | 5 | ||
| Perennial | HOSTA ‘Alakazaam’ | Dwarf Hosta | A mini with long, narrow ruffled leaves edged in yellow and held horizontally. |
4-6 inches | Part Shade/Shade | 3 | ||
| Perennial | HOSTA ‘Angel Falls’ | Hosta | Large green leave are centered in irregular splashes of cream aging to gold. Arching foliage forms a medium-sized clump. |
16-18 inches | Part Shade/Shade | 3 | ||
| Perennial | HOSTA ‘Appletini’ | Hosta | A mini hosta with thick, waxy yellow leaves that mature to apple green. |
4-6 inches | Part Shade/Shade | 3 | ||
| Perennial | HOSTA ‘Austin Dickinson’ | Hosta | Rounded blue-green foliage with creamy white margins. Slight puckering. Fragrant purple flowers. Medium. |
18-20 inches | Part Shade/Shade | 3 | ||
| Perennial | HOSTA ‘Blue Mouse Ears’ | Mini Hosta | Heavily substanced, rounded mini leaves are gray-green. Mini. |
3-6 inches | Part Shade/Shade | 3 | ||
| Perennial | HOSTA ‘Cool as a Cucumber’ | Hosta | Long tapered green leaves are centered in white and form a large arching mound. |
26-28 inches | Part Shade/Shade | 3 | ||
| Perennial | HOSTA ‘Dancing Queen’ | Hosta | Gold ripple-edged foliage holds its color through the season. Medium. |
16-18 inches | Part Shade/Shade | 3 | ||
| Perennial | HOSTA ‘Diamonds are Forever’ | Hosta | A sport of H. ‘Diamond Tiara’ with wide, crisp white margins and purple flowers in summer. Small. |
8-10 inches | Part Shade/Shade | 3 | ||
| Perennial | HOSTA ‘Diana Remembered’ | Hosta | Broadly ovate, blue-green foliage with white margins extending down to the petioles. Very fragrant white flowers. Medium. |
14-16 inches | Part Shade/Shade | 3 | ||
| Perennial | HOSTA ‘Earth Angel’ | Hosta | Large, sprawling, bold heart-shaped, blue-green leaves with chartreuse edges that will gradually soften to creamy white. Pale lavender flowers in midsummer. |
2 feet | Part Shade/Shade | 3 | ||
| Perennial | HOSTA ‘Electrocution’ | Hosta | The long narrow green leaves edged in yellow are rippled and twisted. Medium. Habit is upright and mounded. |
14-16 inches | Part Shade/Shade | 3 | ||
| Perennial | HOSTA ‘Eternal Flame’ | Hosta | Quilted black-green foliage centered in bright white. Medium. |
18-20 inches | Part Shade/Shade | 3 | ||
| Perennial | HOSTA ‘Fire Island’ | Hosta | Brilliant yellow foliage highlighted by red petioles. Medium. |
18-20 inches | Part Shade/Shade | 3 | ||
| Perennial | HOSTA ‘First Frost’ | Hosta | A sport of H. ‘Halycon’ with blue foliage edged in cream. Like Hosta ‘June’ in reverse! Medium. |
12-14 inches | Part Shade/Shade | 3 | ||
| Perennial | HOSTA fortunei ‘Francee’ | Plantain Lily | One of the best white margined Hostas with dense arching dark green leaves with an irregular white margin. Lavender blooms in late summer. |
20-24 inches | Part Shade/Shade | 3 | ||
| Perennial | HOSTA ‘Ginkgo Craig’ | Hosta | Small, lance-shaped leaves edged neatly in white. Good edger. Miniature. |
4-6 inches | Part Shade/Shade | 3 | ||
| Perennial | HOSTA ‘Glad Rags’ | Hosta | Thick, heart-shaped corrugated leaves have broad gold margins. |
16-18 inches | Part Shade/Shade | 3 | ||
| Perennial | HOSTA ‘Happy Dayz’ | Hosta | A sport of H. ‘Orange Marmalade’ with wider green margins around a bright yellow center. |
16-18 inches | Part Shade/Shade | 3 | ||
| Perennial | HOSTA ‘Humpback Whale’ | Hosta | A massive hosta with large, puckered blue-green foliage. |
36-42 inches | Part Shade/Shade | 3 | ||
| Perennial | HOSTA ‘Invincible’ | Hosta | Medium-sized mound of shiny, green foliage. Fragrant lavender flowers in mid to late summer. |
20-22 inches | Part Shade/Shade | 3 | ||
| Perennial | HOSTA ‘Island Breeze’ | Hosta | Bright yellow leaves with dark green margins. Unique red stems in spring. Centers turn chartreuse in shadier spots and lighter yellow in more sun. Purple flowers in midsummer. |
12 inches | Part Shade/Shade | 3 | ||
| Perennial | HOSTA ‘June’ | Hosta | A sport of H. ‘Halycon’ with gold centers and blue-green margins. Small. |
12-14 inches | Part Shade/Shade | 3 | ||
| Perennial | HOSTA ‘Katherine Lewis’ | Hosta | Thick gold-centered leaves are pointed with narrow blue-green margins. Small. |
10-12 inches | Part Shade/Shade | 3 | ||
| Perennial | HOSTA ‘Katsuragawa Beni’ | Hosta | Narrow, pointed and shiny foliage lightly speckled with red and held on red petioles. Medium. |
12-14 inches | Part Shade/Shade | 3 | ||
| Perennial | HOSTA ‘Koriyama’ | Hosta | Shiny leaves edged in gold fading to cream. Very dark purple flowers. Good spreader. Medium-grower. |
10-12 inches | Part Shade/Shade | 3 | ||
| Perennial | HOSTA ‘Krossa Regal’ | Hosta | Frosty blue, pointed upright leaves form vase-shaped plant. Spikes of white flowers to 6’. Large. |
30-36 inches | Part Shade/Shade | 3 | ||
| Perennial | HOSTA ‘Lakeside Paisley Print’ | Hosta | Wavy green heart-shaped leaves are centered with a streak of cream which feathers out from the cream petioles. |
10-12 inches | Part Shade/Shade | 3 | ||
| Perennial | HOSTA ‘Lemon Snap’ | Bright yellow foliage with a strong contrasting red stems make this smaller Hosta a standout in your garden. Rounded and corrugated leaves and striped purple flowers in mid-summer on dark purple scapes. |
Part Shade/Shade | 3 | ||||
| Perennial | HOSTA ‘Little Miss Sunshine’ | Dwarf Hosta | New foliage is chartreuse intensifying to bright yellow. Elongated, wavy leaves. Small. |
10-12 inches | Part Shade/Shade | 3 | ||
| Perennial | HOSTA ‘Mini Skirt’ | Hosta | This petite hosta forms a miniature mound of very wavy, thick, blue-green leaves with creamy yellow margins in spring. In summer, the center turns more green and the edge lightens to creamy white. Pale lavender flowers with deeper purple stripes appear closely packed together on short scapes in early to midsummer. |
5" | Part Shade/Shade | 3 | ||
| Perennial | HOSTA ‘Minuteman’ | Hosta | Similar to H. ‘Patriot’ but with heavier substance, a darker green center and a more creamy white margin. Medium. |
16-18 inches | Part Shade/Shade | 3 | ||
| Perennial | HOSTA montana ‘Mountain Snow’ | Hosta | Narrow pure white margins on a shiny green leaf. Large. |
26-28 inches | Part Shade/Shade | 3 | ||
| Perennial | HOSTA ‘Neat Splash’ | Hosta | Compact green and gold variegated hosta. Excellent late summer purple flowers. Small. |
8-10 inches | Part Shade/Shade | 3 | ||
| Perennial | HOSTA ‘Olive Bailey Langdon’ | Hosta | Large dark green foliage edged in gold — a sport of H. ‘Frances Williams’ without the tendency to get leaf-burn. Large. |
36-42 inches | Part Shade/Shade | 3 | ||
| Perennial | HOSTA ‘Pandora’s Box’ | Hosta | A tiny gem of a hosta (great for a fairy garden!) with 2″ tightly packed leaves that have blue-green margins and white centers streaked with green. Deep lavender flowers in summer. |
4-6 inches | Part Shade/Shade | 3 | ||
| Perennial | HOSTA ‘Pineapple Upside Down Cake’ | Hosta | Narrow, rippled, gold foliage edged in green. Leaves are very long and pointed. Fast-growing. Medium. |
18-20 inches | Part Shade/Shade | 3 | ||
| Perennial | HOSTA ‘Prairie’s Edge’ | Hosta | Very dark green leaf margins frame the bright green-gold centers, and light green colorations appears where the margin and the centers overlap. Lavender flowers in midsummer. |
18 inches | Part Shade/Shade | 3 | ||
| Perennial | HOSTA ‘Purple Lady Fingers’ | Hosta | Compact mounds of very narrow, lance-shaped green foliage are topped with 20 inch scapes of showy dark purple buds that never fully open. |
12-15 inches | Part Shade/Shade | 3 | ||
| Perennial | HOSTA ‘Queen Josephine’ | Hosta | Very glossy dark green leaves with yellow margins fading to cream. Medium. |
16-18 inches | Part Shade/Shade | 3 | ||
| Perennial | HOSTA ‘Raspberry Sundae’ | Hosta | Small hosta with foliage centered in cream and dark burgundy petioles and flower stalks. Deep lavender purple flowers appear in August. |
8-10 inches | Part Shade/Shade | 3 | ||
| Perennial | HOSTA ‘Red Hot Poker’ | Hosta | Shiny green foliage of good substance with cream margins and striking red flower scapes. Medium. |
14-16 inches | Part Shade/Shade | 3 | ||
| Perennial | HOSTA ‘Reversed Patriot’ | Hosta | As name suggests, this hosta has the reverse color of H. ‘Patriot’: white centers and dark green margins. Vigorous. Medium-large. |
22-24 inches | Part Shade/Shade | 3 | ||
| Perennial | HOSTA ‘Royal Standard’ | Hosta | Vigorous hybrid of H. plantaginea with white fragrant flowers in the summer.Medium. |
24-26 inches | Part Shade/Shade | 4 | ||
| Perennial | HOSTA ‘Shade Fanfare’ | Hosta | Light green to yellow heart-shaped leaves with wide creamy margin. Medium. |
18-20 inches | Part Shade/Shade | 3 | ||
| Perennial | HOSTA sieboldiana ‘Frances Williams’ | Hosta | Round, puckered blue-green leaf with a wide gold edge. White flowers. Large. |
28-30 inches | Part Shade/Shade | 3 | ||
| Perennial | HOSTA ‘So Sweet’ | Hosta | Wonderfully fragrant white flowers in late summer that attract hummingbirds. Glossy dark green leaves are edged in yellow; margins fade to creamy white by late summer. |
12 inches | Part Shade/Shade | 3 | ||
| Perennial | HOSTA ‘Sugar and Cream’ | Hosta | Fragrant white flowers in August above creamy-margined green leaves. Medium. |
20-22 inches | Part Shade/Shade | 3 |