Perennial plant selection lists...
...to help you choose new and replacement perennials.
We've been creating these lists for over 25 years as part of
gardening, writing and teaching. Most contain not only plant names
but essential growing or care information.
Choose a topic...
...to read a description of its list. Once you're within its
description, click to download that perennial line-up.
Butterfly host and nectar perennials
Childrens' garden perennials
Clay soil perennials
Difficult, challenging places: Perennials
for challenging sites
Dividing perennials: Which when and
how
Doubling up with perennials
Easiest, best perennials
Easy-from-seed
perennials
Fabulous foliage perennials
Fine vining perennials
Great perennial combinations
Growing perennials from seed: Easy
species
Hypo-allergenic perennials
Invasives: Run-Amuck perennials invasive
by running root
Late summer perennials
Long interest perennials
Native perennials, Great Lakes region
Renovation perennials: Plants for
make-overs
Shade
perennials: Shade gardening lists with annuals, shrubs, vines
and small trees, too
Wildlife garden perennials
You will see this list grow. We're building this master list as
we identify useful materials in our files. Today it includes
children's plants, clay soil species, dividing, easiest species,
foliage plants, vines, combinations and 10 more....
Some items on the list are asterisked (*) because they are not
yet available. During all the years we've been creating these
lists, computer systems as well as our own preference for formats
have changed. Bear with us as we reformat the lists for posting
here. Check in from time to time for what becomes available.
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list you're interested in.
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Children's' garden plants:
7-page outline for designers including one page chart of plants
especially suited to children's gardens; text. Download the
pdf
*Clay soil
solutions: Outline for improving clay soil, with lists of
suitable plants.
Dividing
perennials: Which perennials, when and how
Download the
pdf
Dividing Perennials
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Easiest, best
perennials: Perennials that come closest to the
ideal of great color and low care.
Go to
the article and download the fully illustrated
chart.
*Fabulous foliage plants: Great
plants listed by foliage color, best use and suggested
combinations.
*Fine Vines: List of perennial,
annual and tender vines, best uses and how to grow.
Download the pdf
Great perennial combinations: Perennials
in design groups by harmonious form and texture, in spring-to-fall
blooming sequence, grouped by growing condition. Six growing
situations from sun to dry shade. Text with line drawings.
Download the
pdf.
*Hypo-allergenic garden
plants:
Practical guide for those with allergies who want to enjoy their
yard, with lists of plants to grow and some to avoid.
Run-amuck
perennials:
Invasive perennials. Article
with list of perennials often gifted that become running-root weeds
in many gardens.
*Late Summer
Color:
Plants to add to revive the hot and tired garden, plus tactics for
refreshing what's already there.
*Long-interest perennials:
Plants that offer more than just flower, charted to show
what features can be expected to provide interest, when.
Native Great
Lakes Region Wildflowers for Gardens:
Ten pages include an outline of ideas for growing native species
in gardens, six pages of plants sorted by shade and sun, further
divided into easy-to-find and more rare. With two pages of
resources: Books, nurseries and websites. Focuses on the region
including Michigan, south central Ontario, northern Illinois, and
Indiana, Wisconsin.
Download the
pdf.
*Perennials
for doubling-up:
Extended interest through crafty plant combination
Plants
for Landscape Renovation:
3-page outline of a process for renovating an older landscape,
plus 5 pages of charts listing trees and shrubs suited to
renovation projects, and 3 pages of charts with perennials for
renovations. Text, charts.
Download
the pdf.
Plants for
wildlife - Butterfly host plants:
Nectar's important to butterflies but leaf-eating
caterpillars must come first. Each caterpillar has specific needs,
so this list names the plant and the type of caterpillar
it supports.
Download the pdf
Butterfly plants lists
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Plants for
wildlife:
Plants that provide food and shelter for birds and small
mammals
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*Perennials
for challenging sites
Wet, dry, shady, exposed to rapid temperature changes,
salt or wind
Woodland Wildflowers of the Great
Lakes
From our workshop The Natural Gardener and the Wooded
Lot. Shade loving and woods edge perennials listed in groups
as they occur by site, cross referenced to descriptions and nursery
sources. Text, charts.
Download the
pdf
You can help put all these lists and more on the site,
now:
Butterfly host plants list
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Dividng perennials list Sponsored
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