I have a few favorite perennials that I've come to love over the last few years in my garden. If you are just beginning a garden or redoing some beds, check out these sun loving work horse perennials. They are reliable perennials that are not fussy, and bloom their heads off for a really long time. Of course they need proper growing conditions, the right climate, soil, water, and light. But otherwise, these sun loving perennials will bring you lots of color and joy in your garden for years to come! Comment below if you have any of these perennials in your garden? Thanks for watching! - Steph My Amazon Store Where You Can Find Many of My Favorite Garden Items 👉 amzn.to/49F9RTU
Yes! I lived 4 years in the Denver area. Nothing grows in the high desert. Well…almost nothing. But, Russian Sage did great! It’s gorgeous and smells amazing.
@@ltldxy71 I live in Fruita, CO and Russian Sage loves our heavy clay soil with full sun and no additional water. It's a must have for my garden and the bees love it.
I live in Finland and the pink scabiosa grows all over the place. They're so cute! But I found a colour of them that just blew me away: Scabiosa atropurpurea Cherry Red.
I’m a new gardener and I’m surprised to see I have all those plants except for the yarrow, I’ve been watching all of your past videos, your garden is one of my favorites here on UA-cam
I have them! They are beautiful! I show them in my favorite foundational shrubs video, and they make an appearance in my August Garden Tour! Thanks for sharing!
Beautiful garden. I agree with your 5 top picks! Just a quick suggestion. Could you put the names up on the screen? I take screenshots to remember the flowers when I’m next at the nursery or garden center. Names would be super helpful. My memory isn’t what it used to be.
Your garden is just gorgeous. As a fellow Massachusetts gardener, I love seeing what you are growing. I have been marveling over your bonus choice myself! I bought them this Spring and never expected such a long bloom time. They deal with a hot sun, not so great soil area, and an ever growing bunny family without flagging! I definitely need to up my coneflower game! Thank you so much. ❤️🌸🌼
Hi there!! Yay another Massachusetts gardener, welcome!! Those scabiosa are great!! this is only my second year with them, and I'm already in love! They bloom for soooooo long!! I had some through frost last year! I just went through last night and cut mine all back to encourage new blooms, only left a few standing so i expect them to be gorgeous again in a couple weeks. I even bought 2 more this spring when Lowes was having a 2/$10 perrenial sale and put them in planters on my front porch, and even in containers they are blooming their heads off. We have bunnies too, and they don't seem to bother the scabiosa. I do spray my coneflowers though because we have deer too. I use invisible fence deer and rabbit. Thanks for watching!
Scabiosa = Just starting YESTERDAY I was thinking to have this plant, too when I stumbled upon it in local nursery (Scabiosa "Fama Deep Blue", so gorgeous). But I read this plant is "short-lived", i.e. 2-3 years. That gave me a pause whether it is worth to have it ... ☹
I am also in Massachusetts 6b! I am thankful to have found you. Your videos and knowledge is so helpful. Especially knowing your garden plants are in the same zone as mine.
That comparison of the Autumn Joy sedum growth in part shade vs sun is fascinating. Side by side, there's the evidence of actual growth, and thanks so much for showing us! Love the yarrow with the echinacea, such a nice pairing both in color and height, with the echinacea coming just a little above the yarrow.
oh that's a bummer Janet! I thought they were pretty resistant to deer and rabbit based on their scent, but they all have different palets. Thanks for sharing.
Wow very beautiful garden, thank you for sharing your top choices of long blooming perennials. I live in Toronto, Canada which is zone 5 and I have a few Geranium Rozanne plants in my garden. They bloom from Spring to end of Fall. The flowers start to disappear sometime in November. They are absolutely a must in any garden.
Thank you so much, and thanks for the recommendation of the Geranium. I've heard that from many Gardeners. Sounds like I'll have to add some at some point 🌱
@@HookedandRooted Hi Steph, thank you so much for reading and replying to my comment. I highly recommend this perennial. It adds a bit of whimsy to the garden and is a pollinator magnet. The flowers are sterile and won't go to seed ever, that's why they are long lasting, plus one plant spreads and covers about 2-3 sq. foot area. You're gonna love this plant and the bees will love you for it. Good luck and keep up the excellent work.
Your gardens are so lovely. Thank you for this video. I enjoy them very much. I live in the High Desert of CA, so it's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. Just enjoy your GREEN so much.
Welcome to the channel! I just purchased some russian sage last fall on clearance. I'll see how it goes this year. Autumn joy is great, and so is yarrow and coneflower. Happy Gardening!
Hello! I am new to your channel. I just Love gardening. So thank you for sharing the names with us and showing what they look like. So until next time God Bless you and your family and have a Blessed day and stay safe my dear and Special u -tube friend. ❤❤❤
Your garden is lovely and all is thriving well. The vase you planted the daisies in made them even more striking. Thank you for your video,Steph and I am starting off the season by planting Ivory Halo Dogwoods in the front of the house. Happy Gardening!🌻
Nice looking, well laid out garden. I have been gardening over sixty years and even though I deadhead my shasta daisies I have never had them rebloom as your daisies do.
Oh this video couldn't have come at a better time!!! We cleaned up a weed infested portion of our backyard. It is just sitting there with nothing because I couldn't decide what could go in this very hot, dry spot. I love every pick you made and am sure I saw all of these at Lowe's. Can't wait to get started!! Thanks again.
Spot on with every plant you name. All wonderful with little help. Well worth the investment. My coneflowers get eaten by both deer and rabbits. Bought them again last year and covered them with netting. Worked and worth it.
Thanks so much Maureen, I hope your coneflowers stay safe this season as well. Its really hard to have beautiful flowers when were living among nature. Glad the netting helped. Have a great weekend!
Deer came and ate my 5 ruby spider lilies 5 autum joy sedum and my sun flowers . was planted in my front yard . I want to move it this fall to my backyard and plant cone flowers instead . Your flowers are so beautiful
Hi there! Thank you so much. Oh no!!! I have lots of deer too. The only way I get to keep most of my blooms is by trying to be diligent with spraying a repellent every week. I like invisible fence deer and rabbit.
lol, we all love different things, and thats why our gardens are all different and unique, beautiful in their own way. Whats your favorite perennial flower?
thanks! this is great info! i just bought a home in taunton ma with lots of garden space & have been looking for long lasting flowers to plant in my sunny spots. i love many of your choices! thanks again!
It's always interesting to watch these types of videos from different parts of the country. Here in Texas, a top-5 perennial list would almost certainly include one or more Salvia, which blooms a lot during the Texas summer heat (Mystic Spires Blue Salvia being a particularly prolific bloomer). A lot of wonderful blooming plants in other parts of the country don't do so well here, which is why these videos are always great to get a different perspective.
Great, great advice on plant choices, especially autumn joy sedum, which grows prolifically here in Virginia. Small pieces just placed in open space grows a new plant pretty quickly. Hence, I have them all,over my garden. Love coneflowers but rabbits devour them. Need to cover with netting to get them to be more than 10 inches. Might try again.
I do not have a green thumb but came across your channel and I enjoyed it. I live in Central NH Zone 5 and I struggle with an ugly garden with a lot of bittersweet or bitter root. So invasive.
I am also a Massachusetts gardener and this year the rabbits have destroyed my white cone flowers. All you other suggestions are good choices and the rabbits leave them alone. It's funny as the cone flowers have been in my yard for over 10 years without any problems until this year. I guess the bunnies taste buds have changed.
Hi there, Sorry to hear that. Each year brings new challenges right? I have a number of deer, rabbits, chipmunks, and even groundhogs that hang out in or around my garden. I'm constantly spraying something or trying to be vigilent. But they still get some things. I guess the key is to have so many things blooming that we don't notice lol. It is so disappointing though so I'm sorry this is happening to you. I hope the bunnies lose interest in your coneflowers, and you still get some this year. Is it possible to put something around them? Even a dollar tree laundry basket temporarily to see if they recover yet this year? They bloom for a long time so with some clever outsmarting you could potentially get a couple blooms.
Love the beautiful coneflowers amazing wish i had some. I bet the bees and butterflies love them wish i was a bee or beautiful butterfly so i could enjoy those beautiful flowers. I never knew there were so many colors in the coneflowers.
I have a few favorite perennials that I've come to love over the last few years in my garden. If you are just beginning a garden or redoing some beds, check out these sun loving work horse perennials. They are reliable perennials that are not fussy, and bloom their heads off for a really long time. Of course they need proper growing conditions, the right climate, soil, water, and light. But otherwise, these sun loving perennials will bring you lots of color and joy in your garden for years to come! Comment below if you have any of these perennials in your garden? Thanks for watching! - Steph
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Shasta daisy, Sedum autumn Joy, Yarrow, Napeta, Coneflower, Scabiosa. Thanks so much for a great video.
I never get tired of looking at beautiful flowers!😍💓👍
My honorable mention would be Russian Sage with its long bloom time and great glaucous foliage.
great option! I don't grow it yet, so I couldn't speak from experience. But I picked some up this year, and will be planting it soon.
Yes! I lived 4 years in the Denver area. Nothing grows in the high desert. Well…almost nothing. But, Russian Sage did great! It’s gorgeous and smells amazing.
@@ltldxy71 I live in Fruita, CO and Russian Sage loves our heavy clay soil with full sun and no additional water. It's a must have for my garden and the bees love it.
The rusion sage i planted became way to big
I love them next to my arborvitae.
Hello from Idaho! I love your shirt! California girl here. I’m a transplant from California to Idaho.
I want ALL of those gorgeous flowers! Thanks for sharing.
I live in Finland and the pink scabiosa grows all over the place. They're so cute! But I found a colour of them that just blew me away: Scabiosa atropurpurea Cherry Red.
I’m a new gardener and I’m surprised to see I have all those plants except for the yarrow,
I’ve been watching all of your past videos, your garden is one of my favorites here on UA-cam
I'm so happy to hear that you enjoy my content. Thank You!
Love all those varieties of coneflowers! Need some for my garden next yr.
Yay, another MA gardener 😊
Hi! yes!! Welcome!
How do you keep everything from being eaten flat by rabbits etc?
Wearing a California shirt! I started watching because I thought you were showing California perennials, because of the shirt!
I'm quite excited by Hardy Hibiscus....you should try one.
I have them! They are beautiful! I show them in my favorite foundational shrubs video, and they make an appearance in my August Garden Tour! Thanks for sharing!
I love her simple but very informative information. She gives all the details how to care for,when and how long flowers bloom etc.!
Thank you for your kind words Marty! 🌱
Thank you for sharing, you certainly do enjoy your garden!🌷🌸🌻
YOUR GARDEN IS BEAUTIFUL & UR VID WAS VERY INFORMATIVE. I'M ENVIOUS.
THANK YOU!
So nice of you, Thank you Deborah!
Hello thanks you for sharing the great video 👍
I love coneflowers too. They make me smile. ❤
Beautiful garden. I agree with your 5 top picks! Just a quick suggestion. Could you put the names up on the screen? I take screenshots to remember the flowers when I’m next at the nursery or garden center. Names would be super helpful. My memory isn’t what it used to be.
As a fellow 6b'er, also in Massachusetts, I really appreciate your content. Many thanks!
Hi Molly, Welcome! Thanks for being here 🌱
I really like the fact that it's kind to flowers.Thank you very much
Your garden is just gorgeous. As a fellow Massachusetts gardener, I love seeing what you are growing. I have been marveling over your bonus choice myself! I bought them this Spring and never expected such a long bloom time. They deal with a hot sun, not so great soil area, and an ever growing bunny family without flagging! I definitely need to up my coneflower game! Thank you so much. ❤️🌸🌼
Hi there!! Yay another Massachusetts gardener, welcome!! Those scabiosa are great!! this is only my second year with them, and I'm already in love! They bloom for soooooo long!! I had some through frost last year! I just went through last night and cut mine all back to encourage new blooms, only left a few standing so i expect them to be gorgeous again in a couple weeks. I even bought 2 more this spring when Lowes was having a 2/$10 perrenial sale and put them in planters on my front porch, and even in containers they are blooming their heads off. We have bunnies too, and they don't seem to bother the scabiosa. I do spray my coneflowers though because we have deer too. I use invisible fence deer and rabbit. Thanks for watching!
Scabiosa = Just starting YESTERDAY I was thinking to have this plant, too when I stumbled upon it in local nursery (Scabiosa "Fama Deep Blue", so gorgeous). But I read this plant is "short-lived", i.e. 2-3 years. That gave me a pause whether it is worth to have it ... ☹
I am also in Massachusetts 6b! I am thankful to have found you. Your videos and knowledge is so helpful. Especially knowing your garden plants are in the same zone as mine.
Your beds are gorgeous!
You are blooming like those flowers I love you❤❤❤
Major garden envy
Its very hard u.pick favorites.i love all.🤣🤣🤣 thanks for sharing this video.love it.
Thank you for sharing. I hadn't seen 🕑 of the coneflowers. Truly beautiful
Loved the plant-specific care tips sprinkled in.
OMG! Your garden is beautiful and your knowledge is inspiring.Thank you for sharing.
Thank you so much for your kind words Ruth!
This is one of the most informative and fast-paced garden videos I've seen. Every sentence is intentional and packed with facts. Thank you!
LOVE THIS
thanks for sharing beautiful blooming
Great list! I’m a big fan of Cats PJ’s and All echinacea varieties.
Very informative and enjoyable
Thank you Patti!
I really enjoyed your video. Your description and deadheading instructions were very helpful. Your presentation was great.
Thank you so much Michelle, and you are very welcome 🌱
Love Black eye Susan my favorite
TY for sharing your knowledge! You have such beautiful garden just like U!
Your videos are very informative.
Hi there! Your welcome! Thank you so much 😊 and thanks for watching 🌱
Love your garden, Thank You for sharing!
Thank you so much! ☺
Coneflowers are my favorites also!
That comparison of the Autumn Joy sedum growth in part shade vs sun is fascinating. Side by side, there's the evidence of actual growth, and thanks so much for showing us! Love the yarrow with the echinacea, such a nice pairing both in color and height, with the echinacea coming just a little above the yarrow.
Fantastic and informative! Thank you!
Love the "Normal" coneflower the most! I think it is the only native species in your list. Very beautiful garden.
Those coneflowers are gorgeous. The yarrow-coneflower combination was especially super gorgeous! Wonderful taste in flowers!
Thanks so much 😊
I like your garden the flewers are so beautiful injoy your your beautiful flewers keep going with its❤
Thank you so much!
My catmint rarely gets a chance to flower. It is a favorite part of my house bunny’s “salad”, so it's constantly being pruned.
oh that's a bummer Janet! I thought they were pretty resistant to deer and rabbit based on their scent, but they all have different palets. Thanks for sharing.
You've obviously spent a lot of time and effort on your garden! Great job!
Wow very beautiful garden, thank you for sharing your top choices of long blooming perennials. I live in Toronto, Canada which is zone 5 and I have a few Geranium Rozanne plants in my garden. They bloom from Spring to end of Fall. The flowers start to disappear sometime in November. They are absolutely a must in any garden.
Thank you so much, and thanks for the recommendation of the Geranium. I've heard that from many Gardeners. Sounds like I'll have to add some at some point 🌱
@@HookedandRooted Hi Steph, thank you so much for reading and replying to my comment. I highly recommend this perennial. It adds a bit of whimsy to the garden and is a pollinator magnet. The flowers are sterile and won't go to seed ever, that's why they are long lasting, plus one plant spreads and covers about 2-3 sq. foot area. You're gonna love this plant and the bees will love you for it. Good luck and keep up the excellent work.
Beautiful collections
Oh, I just received three Shasta daisies from Proven Winners…the variety is called Marshmallow…can’t wait to get them in the ground tomorrow!!
Hi Carolyn! oh how fun, love the name!! Happy Planting!!
Your gardens are so lovely. Thank you for this video. I enjoy them very much. I live in the High Desert of CA, so it's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. Just enjoy your GREEN so much.
Hi Patti, Oh wow! When I think of CA, i always imagine warm year round. Very interesting. I love our green also. Thank you so much for watching.
Hi, I'm also a MA gardener. I have Russian Sage and the Autumn Joy Sedum. I will get the yarrow and coneflower too.
Welcome to the channel! I just purchased some russian sage last fall on clearance. I'll see how it goes this year. Autumn joy is great, and so is yarrow and coneflower. Happy Gardening!
@@HookedandRooted I went to Home Depot in Somerville and picked up Yarrow and Shasta Daisy.
Nice, thanks for the great flower types.
My pleasure 😊
Great selection!
In Australia, we pronounce Nepeta.......NE-PEET-AH.
Cool, welcome from Australia! And thank you 😊
Hello! I am new to your channel. I just Love gardening. So thank you for sharing the names with us and showing what they look like. So until next time God Bless you and your family and have a Blessed day and stay safe my dear and Special u -tube friend. ❤❤❤
I love the coneflowers!
عمل يدك جميل جدا سبحان الله احسنتي اتمنى لك السعادة بارك الله فيك كل شيء جميل ماشاء الله
Beautiful garden! My favorites are echinaceas and Shastas! 👌🏽👌🏽
Those shastas are ❤️❤️❤️❤️
I love Yarrow…so many beautiful varieties.
There really are so many pretty ones. And they bloom forever! Even the aged stems are gorgeous.
@@HookedandRooted I know…some of the new varieties are stunning. They make great dried flowers as well.
Hello from Fall River, MA!!! 👋✌️
Beautiful garden. Very useful information.
Thank you! 😊
New gardener here and your coneflowers are gorgeous. I have the traditional one grown from seed. Didn't know there were so many beautiful varieties.
You sold me on the cone flowers. Now I have to add them to my garden :)
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Your garden is lovely and all is thriving well. The vase you planted the daisies in made them even more striking. Thank you for your video,Steph and I am starting off the season by planting Ivory Halo Dogwoods in the front of the house. Happy Gardening!🌻
Totally agree with your list! Beautiful! I love the native coneflowers around here. You've got a beautiful garden! Cheers Steph!
Thank you so much Rich!! 🌱 hope all is well. Your veggies are looking AMAZING!! Well done!
Wonderful 💕 I really enjoyed your video. Thank you for sharing. 🥰🌺 🔔
Thank you so much, and thanks for watching! 🌱
Nice looking, well laid out garden. I have been gardening over sixty years and even though I deadhead my shasta daisies I have never had them rebloom as your daisies do.
Also, I have never had shasta daisies rebloom even though I have dead headed them as you have shown.
amazing collection of your perrenials plants
Thank you so much!
Have you grown a zebra mallow. Will sometimes bloom well into the late fall.
I haven't but now I'm interested! I'll add it to my seed list for next year to check it out. Thanks for the suggestion!
Your garden is gorgeous! 😍
Thank you so much Megera!
@@HookedandRooted you’re welcome 😉
Your perrenials are beautiful! Thanks for sharing!
I LOVE your videos! And I agree with your first choice - Coneflowers are #1 for me too!
Oh this video couldn't have come at a better time!!! We cleaned up a weed infested portion of our backyard. It is just sitting there with nothing because I couldn't decide what could go in this very hot, dry spot. I love every pick you made and am sure I saw all of these at Lowe's. Can't wait to get started!! Thanks again.
now I have idea to add the honorable mention, not sure it will do on zone 7b
thank you for sharing
As usual, I loved your choices! Gah!
Hi Meghan! Yay, thank you!
Spot on with every plant you name. All wonderful with little help. Well worth the investment. My coneflowers get eaten by both deer and rabbits. Bought them again last year and covered them with netting. Worked and worth it.
Thanks so much Maureen, I hope your coneflowers stay safe this season as well. Its really hard to have beautiful flowers when were living among nature. Glad the netting helped. Have a great weekend!
Your gardens are beautiful! Thanks for sharing!
Deer came and ate my 5 ruby spider lilies 5 autum joy sedum and my sun flowers . was planted in my front yard . I want to move it this fall to my backyard and plant cone flowers instead . Your flowers are so beautiful
Hi there! Thank you so much. Oh no!!! I have lots of deer too. The only way I get to keep most of my blooms is by trying to be diligent with spraying a repellent every week. I like invisible fence deer and rabbit.
Beautiful garden very nice i like it
Thank you so much!
Your list is perfect and the additional information is super useful
Thank you Anne!
I love how much you seem to love cone flowers but I don't think they're for me lol
lol, we all love different things, and thats why our gardens are all different and unique, beautiful in their own way. Whats your favorite perennial flower?
Nice list of favorites 😊
Thanks! 😃
I never was a fan of those simple, daisy-looking flowers, but ones that go all out like iris, roses, peonies, hibiscus, etc. ^^
thanks! this is great info! i just bought a home in taunton ma with lots of garden space & have been looking for long lasting flowers to plant in my sunny spots.
i love many of your choices!
thanks again!
Thank you for the info! You have a beautiful garden :)
Thank you! I love yours vídeos!😘
It's always interesting to watch these types of videos from different parts of the country. Here in Texas, a top-5 perennial list would almost certainly include one or more Salvia, which blooms a lot during the Texas summer heat (Mystic Spires Blue Salvia being a particularly prolific bloomer). A lot of wonderful blooming plants in other parts of the country don't do so well here, which is why these videos are always great to get a different perspective.
Thanks for these fab tips!
Your very welcome! Thanks for watching! 🌱
Thanks! Lovely garden!
Beautiful garden. I have to get that Nepeta. Your favorites are mine too.
Great, great advice on plant choices, especially autumn joy sedum, which grows prolifically here in Virginia. Small pieces just placed in open space grows a new plant pretty quickly. Hence, I have them all,over my garden. Love coneflowers but rabbits devour them. Need to cover with netting to get them to be more than 10 inches. Might try again.
Beautiful garden!
Thank you . Loved your choice.
You’re welcome! Thanks for watching😊
thank you~~ great picks!
I just found your channel, and I am loving it. Your gardens are beautiful.
Thank you so much! and welcome!
8b here. Sedum grows in any light for me . Western wash.
I do not have a green thumb but came across your channel and I enjoyed it. I live in Central NH Zone 5 and I struggle with an ugly garden with a lot of bittersweet or bitter root. So invasive.
Hi Carolyn, No worries, you can turn that black thumb green in no time with a little patience and practice. Gardeners aren't born they are cultivated
In CT, I cannot get Shasta daisy’s to grow. My cone flowers are crazy good.
I'm sure it depends on the garden, light and soil conditions. They like lots of sun, and low nitrogen.
I am also a Massachusetts gardener and this year the rabbits have destroyed my white cone flowers. All you other suggestions are good choices and the rabbits leave them alone. It's funny as the cone flowers have been in my yard for over 10 years without any problems until this year. I guess the bunnies taste buds have changed.
Hi there, Sorry to hear that. Each year brings new challenges right? I have a number of deer, rabbits, chipmunks, and even groundhogs that hang out in or around my garden. I'm constantly spraying something or trying to be vigilent. But they still get some things. I guess the key is to have so many things blooming that we don't notice lol. It is so disappointing though so I'm sorry this is happening to you. I hope the bunnies lose interest in your coneflowers, and you still get some this year. Is it possible to put something around them? Even a dollar tree laundry basket temporarily to see if they recover yet this year? They bloom for a long time so with some clever outsmarting you could potentially get a couple blooms.
Love the beautiful coneflowers amazing wish i had some. I bet the bees and butterflies love them wish i was a bee or beautiful butterfly so i could enjoy those beautiful flowers. I never knew there were so many colors in the coneflowers.
Coneflowers really are so beautiful! the pollinators love them.