Hi Garden Friends! In this video I show you 5 workhorse perennials that every garden should have. These perennials come back every year, and are easy and don't need much care. This makes them beginner friendly, and great for busy gardeners. These 5 perennials thrive in full sun and heat! As an added bonus, they are also pollinator friendly, and mostly deer and rabbit resistant. Lastly, they are all easy to divide and to spread around the garden, making them a great investment and budget stretcher. Do you grow these perennials in your garden? Do you have a favorite? Let me know in the comments. Thanks for watching - Steph (Gardening in Massachusetts zone 6b). My Amazon Store Where You Can Find Many of My Favorite Garden Items: 👉amzn.to/49F9RTU
My nine hyssop plants are the foundation of my border garden. Pruned into tidy spheres, they are the furniture of this garden room whereas annuals act as "accessories" next to them. I'm really happy with their expected performance and low maintenance.
Your thoughtful selection of the top 5 perennials that every garden should have showcases your deep understanding of gardening and your commitment to creating a lasting and vibrant space. Your dedication to planting flowers that bloom year after year reflects your passion for nurturing beauty and growth. And I am Floating Village Life.
These are great selections for easy care perennials! The sedums are always reliable and as you showed in another video, can be divided to add more of them in the garden beds. Thanks Steph, your gardens look so beautiful with the range of colors this time of year is spectacular!
I would love to add these to our gardens but we don’t have an area that gets 6 hours of sunlight. One garden looks like it would be full sun but our neighbors pine trees cast quite a shadow. I love your videos and I’m learning so much. Thanks for explaining it so well.
Looking out my window while watching this video and it makes me smile that I have free rudbeckia in full bloom that came with the irises from fb marketplace ❤. How fun to see it spread out in my garden.
Oh yay!! a free bonus plant 🌱I used to not like rudbeckia, but now as the summer goes on and they show up in that beautiful golden yellow, I just love it. Plus its such a gorgeous companion plant to other plants. Our tastes are always changing in the garden.
Steph your gardens are always beautiful, i think they even get more beautiful every year. I would love to have some alliums and a few more plants you showed us today. ❤
I have all the plants you listed and would agree they are all reliable, low maintenance and long blooming. Rabbits do get to my sedum and the black eyed susan self seed prolifically but all great plants.
Wonderful list of plants - I have all of these and totally agree - everyone needs them in their garden. One more that I would add is Rudbeckia lacinata ‘Herbstonne’. It's a tall rudbeckia and one of my favorites! It pairs nicely with Joe Pye weed, hydrangea paniculata and asters.
Rabbits eat my rudbeckia and the ground hogs also love them. They don’t eat all the flowers but have pretty much eaten all the leaves. I’ve sprayed, but its hard to keep up with the rain washing the spray off. Cone flowers have the same trouble but my cone flowers have been protected with screening this year. The screening is not so nice looking, though. I’m thinking I’ll need to put a fence around my whole yard if I want to keep growing those plants or somehow get at least the groundhog to move away.
The rabbits ate some of my blackeyes Susan's this year, first time ever. Then they just stopped eating them. Mine are just the wild kind, they don't stay pretty and alive as long as the tame kind. I'm going to invest in some of these next year. I just put seven dust on them and that stopped the rabbits fast. Rabbits also ate my sunflowers, they would the leaves and tear the blooms off and throw them on the ground, same seven dust stopped them fast. Never bothered them again. Also eat one my pincushion down to the ground. Just seven dust them all and incompletely got rid of rabbits.❤
And somehow difficult for some of us. After 5 years of planting mature coneflowers and losing them within a few weeks every time, I’m not sure I will try again. My soil and semi-arid climate seem not to work for them. Or I haven’t found the right spot yet.
Hi Ann, They sure are! I love them. I have already featured them in other videos and wanted to highlight a fresh selection. Also, coneflowers are a plant that many gardeners struggle with according to my comments sections. As such, I don't think its as easy to grow without fuss, compared to the 5 really easy plants I featured in this video.
@@GMarieWrites I also find that store bought coneflowers are hard to keep alive. Most of mine that have survived are self seeded and the regular pink ones. Tho Pow Wow white did come back from last year and I see leaves from another plant from last year. Don't know what color that one will be or if it'll just be leaves this year. It usually takes 2 years for my coneflowers to bloom if they grow from seed.
I too live in a semi arid climate, California zone 8b/9a, but the common purple echinacea do well for me. You might try planting seed directly in the soil. I also have a Green Twister variety that I planted as bare root and it's doing great. I haven't had any success with the Rudbeckia though, and have totally given up.
Very beautiful! I would love to see a video of your beds and landscape in the winter. I want beds full of perennials that also look good during winter.
Thank you for pointing out that some - particularly native - Agastache can self seed - we love our Giant Purple H, and our goldfinches but they are not zero maintenance, and to extend bloom, require a Chelsea chop strategy. NB We are having great luck with Purple Rooster monarda excellent mildew resistance - not aggressive
Hey there Steph, hope you’re having an awesome summer! I have to agree with you on agastache. It has got to be one of my favorite plants, aromatic and loaded with bees always.
I have all these plants and even when I try out something new I go back to those tried and true. Just this morning I was thinking about a spot that needs me to move some rudbeckia into it.
Hi Steph & George, Zone 6B Northern KY Question: anyone else starting to feel ready for cooler days? I usually hold on to summer, my flip flops and flowers 🌸 well into November but this constant dang heat & humidity has taken a toll on my enthusiasm this season. It’s a constant battle to keep my (45) pots watered, fed, sprayed (bud worms & aphids). It takes me almost 2 hours daily with the small amount of rain this year! Thank goodness my landscaping is on irrigation! I’m already planning on eliminating 2/3 of my flower pots for 2025. I’m 54 this year and I’ve really started to notice my energy is not the same as my 40’s!
I’m down to 2 urns, 2 flower boxes, 1 palm tree, and 1 snake plant on my porch. It’s so liberating to not have to water numerous pots everyday. I sold all my large pots and donated the money to a wildlife rescue. We are having a hot and humid summer in Southern Ontario with plenty of rain, so I don’t have to turn on my irrigation system to water my perennials that often. Ditch the flower pots and enjoy your summer!
Thanks for this helpful video. New gardener here and planted some of the perennials you suggested in one of your top 10 perennial videos from a while back. I’m also in MA so happy to see what works for you should work for me. First year planting rudbeckia and the bunnies think it’s their personal salad, same with my salvia (Back to the Fuchsia) plant. Second year for my Autumn Joy and not doing as well so plan on moving them next year to a sunnier spot in the garden. Planted cone flowers and bunnies love them too. What plants are working well are my Shasta daisies, yarrow blue salvia, cat mint and a dwarf butterfly bush. I have a mix of different alliums and the millennium is the only one with blooms, bunnies got the others, lol
I love love love watching your videos 😊 I always learn something, am inspired by, or reminded about other things as well! Like why do I not already have some of those top 5’s in my gardens!!?? 🤣 I knew the plants right away, so thank you!! I am on a mission to get ahold of them before it’s too late to plant this year!! (I’m a zone 5 upper lower Michigan gal) I’m obsessed with coneflower and know how much you enjoy them too! Yours are amazing!! Every year I try to pick up a color that I do not already have 😁
Hi Stef 🌺. These perennials are amazing in your garden . I have the red flowers of sedum and will look for the pink flowers from it and the the joe pye weed . Have a fantastic day .🌺🌻🌺
Hi Steph: Your garden looks great & was not familiar with Joe Pye Weed so thanks for the information about the beautiful & very tall perennial. Enjoyed seeing the deer on your property and saw many in our backyard in Ohio and there would be sometimes a few running together. Hope they are behaving and not doing any nibbling in your garden! Have a good week!
Madam - how old is your matured garden? It's beautiful! Just started mine this year. Yes - i have the Rudbeckia/ coneflowers Hyssop/ Joe pye weed/ Agasthache.The hunmers & finches are all around.
Hey Steph! Thanks for sharing which perennials are trouble free. 😊 I have agastache as well…love how all the pollinators are so attracted to it! The variety I have is Sunny Sparks Pink Glow. I have clay soils so have it in containers and even so it still reseeds itself. Is it that the Blue Fortune variety was bred to be sterile?
Beautiful Landscape. The Japanese Maples look healthy in the sun. Mine are in sun and look wilted unfortunately. How do you keep your maples looking healthy?
Hi Marcy! Its true that most JM's do better with some shade, especially from the hot afternoon sun. I have several lighter leaved varieties (yellow/chartreuse), that do burn up in the sun at the height of the summer. This should happen less as the trees acclimate. With that said, I find the red leaved varieties can tolerate more sun. I have some bloodgood, as well as 2 fireglows (the one seen in the video), and those handle the sun well here in our zone 6 garden. Hope this helps.
Hi Tom! This rudbeckia spreads by rhizomes. Mine (goldsturm) also self seeds very well. However, I can't be sure that the variety comes true from seed. I can say they all look the same.
Hi Garden Friends! In this video I show you 5 workhorse perennials that every garden should have. These perennials come back every year, and are easy and don't need much care. This makes them beginner friendly, and great for busy gardeners. These 5 perennials thrive in full sun and heat! As an added bonus, they are also pollinator friendly, and mostly deer and rabbit resistant. Lastly, they are all easy to divide and to spread around the garden, making them a great investment and budget stretcher. Do you grow these perennials in your garden? Do you have a favorite? Let me know in the comments. Thanks for watching - Steph (Gardening in Massachusetts zone 6b).
My Amazon Store Where You Can Find Many of My Favorite Garden Items:
👉amzn.to/49F9RTU
My nine hyssop plants are the foundation of my border garden. Pruned into tidy spheres, they are the furniture of this garden room whereas annuals act as "accessories" next to them. I'm really happy with their expected performance and low maintenance.
Your thoughtful selection of the top 5 perennials that every garden should have showcases your deep understanding of gardening and your commitment to creating a lasting and vibrant space. Your dedication to planting flowers that bloom year after year reflects your passion for nurturing beauty and growth. And I am Floating Village Life.
Great info love deer resistant perennials ❤
Steph you always wear such beautiful dresses 👗 ❤
These are great selections for easy care perennials! The sedums are always reliable and as you showed in another video, can be divided to add more of them in the garden beds.
Thanks Steph, your gardens look so beautiful with the range of colors this time of year is spectacular!
You do have the prettiest garden!!! I love the things you've planted close by one another. Such a great combination of colors and textures.
I would love to add these to our gardens but we don’t have an area that gets 6 hours of sunlight. One garden looks like it would be full sun but our neighbors pine trees cast quite a shadow. I love your videos and I’m learning so much. Thanks for explaining it so well.
Your gardens are ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL ❤
Everything is looking so good. I particularly love the combination of plants around the blue spruce.
I have the super tough plants you show. Yes they are hard workers. Your garden looks amazing.
Such flower power for little maintenance… love
Your garden looks so beautiful, Steph! Love the black dress on you too! ❤️
Looking out my window while watching this video and it makes me smile that I have free rudbeckia in full bloom that came with the irises from fb marketplace ❤. How fun to see it spread out in my garden.
Oh yay!! a free bonus plant 🌱I used to not like rudbeckia, but now as the summer goes on and they show up in that beautiful golden yellow, I just love it. Plus its such a gorgeous companion plant to other plants. Our tastes are always changing in the garden.
I absolutely love these perennials 🥰
Hi Steph, the garden is looking BEAUTIFUL ❤❤❤
Thank you so much Maria! 💚
Steph your gardens are always beautiful, i think they even get more beautiful every year. I would love to have some alliums and a few more plants you showed us today. ❤
Thank you for the detailed information on each plant! ❤🌻
You are so welcome! Thank you so much for watching 🥰🌱
Thanks for the 5 p.plants to grow easy and goregeous you have a beautiful garden bed🌞💚💐
I have all the plants you listed and would agree they are all reliable, low maintenance and long blooming. Rabbits do get to my sedum and the black eyed susan self seed prolifically but all great plants.
Wonderful list of plants - I have all of these and totally agree - everyone needs them in their garden. One more that I would add is Rudbeckia lacinata ‘Herbstonne’. It's a tall rudbeckia and one of my favorites! It pairs nicely with Joe Pye weed, hydrangea paniculata and asters.
Rabbits eat my rudbeckia and the ground hogs also love them. They don’t eat all the flowers but have pretty much eaten all the leaves. I’ve sprayed, but its hard to keep up with the rain washing the spray off. Cone flowers have the same trouble but my cone flowers have been protected with screening this year. The screening is not so nice looking, though. I’m thinking I’ll need to put a fence around my whole yard if I want to keep growing those plants or somehow get at least the groundhog to move away.
same, I planted rubeckia and cone flowers last year and groundhogs ate all of them. :(
@@sharyncats960 Them buggers! Grrr!
The rabbits ate some of my blackeyes Susan's this year, first time ever. Then they just stopped eating them. Mine are just the wild kind, they don't stay pretty and alive as long as the tame kind. I'm going to invest in some of these next year. I just put seven dust on them and that stopped the rabbits fast. Rabbits also ate my sunflowers, they would the leaves and tear the blooms off and throw them on the ground, same seven dust stopped them fast. Never bothered them again. Also eat one my pincushion down to the ground. Just seven dust them all and incompletely got rid of rabbits.❤
Maybe plant them next to allium, which rabbits and deer dislike.
Hi, Steph! You are such a joy to watch, and I learn so much... even as a 20+ year gardener. Thank you! ❤
How come you didn't include coneflowers?! Those are the best. Trouble free, self seeding and super pollinator magnet. (Your gardens are gorgeous!)
I just bought my first one. The plant farm only had two and only one looked good. I’m excited to find more
And somehow difficult for some of us. After 5 years of planting mature coneflowers and losing them within a few weeks every time, I’m not sure I will try again. My soil and semi-arid climate seem not to work for them. Or I haven’t found the right spot yet.
Hi Ann, They sure are! I love them. I have already featured them in other videos and wanted to highlight a fresh selection. Also, coneflowers are a plant that many gardeners struggle with according to my comments sections. As such, I don't think its as easy to grow without fuss, compared to the 5 really easy plants I featured in this video.
@@GMarieWrites I also find that store bought coneflowers are hard to keep alive. Most of mine that have survived are self seeded and the regular pink ones. Tho Pow Wow white did come back from last year and I see leaves from another plant from last year. Don't know what color that one will be or if it'll just be leaves this year. It usually takes 2 years for my coneflowers to bloom if they grow from seed.
I too live in a semi arid climate, California zone 8b/9a, but the common purple echinacea do well for me. You might try planting seed directly in the soil. I also have a Green Twister variety that I planted as bare root and it's doing great. I haven't had any success with the Rudbeckia though, and have totally given up.
I have all 5 in my garden ,for the first time this year something messed with my alliums, I’m surprised
Very beautiful! I would love to see a video of your beds and landscape in the winter. I want beds full of perennials that also look good during winter.
Hi there, I do have some videos that show my garden in the winter. Here's one ua-cam.com/video/XnIs4F_La9Q/v-deo.htmlsi=dlDAhHFv2ltBek0T
Thank you for pointing out that some - particularly native - Agastache can self seed - we love our Giant Purple H, and our goldfinches but they are not zero maintenance, and to extend bloom, require a Chelsea chop strategy. NB We are having great luck with Purple Rooster monarda excellent mildew resistance - not aggressive
Hey there Steph, hope you’re having an awesome summer! I have to agree with you on agastache. It has got to be one of my favorite plants, aromatic and loaded with bees always.
I agree!! Its one of my new favs! Just this morning I was thinking about where else I wanted to add some more. Thank you so much for watching 💚
Thank you for these recommendations. I have all of these perennials except agastache which I will be looking for next.🦋🦋🦋
Your garden looks amazing!! I have 2 of these recommendations, now just to get the others! I enjoy your channel, thank you for sharing your knowledge!
I really, really enjoyed what I learned in this video & thank you for sharing whether they are deer resistant. ❤
I agree,Steph. We have several of these highly dependable perennials too. 🌈
I have all these
plants and even when I try out something new I go back to those tried and true. Just this morning I was thinking about a spot that needs me to move some rudbeckia into it.
Hi Steph & George,
Zone 6B Northern KY
Question: anyone else starting to feel ready for cooler days? I usually hold on to summer, my flip flops and flowers 🌸 well into November but this constant dang heat & humidity has taken a toll on my enthusiasm this season. It’s a constant battle to keep my (45) pots watered, fed, sprayed (bud worms & aphids). It takes me almost 2 hours daily with the small amount of rain this year! Thank goodness my landscaping is on irrigation! I’m already planning on eliminating 2/3 of my flower pots for 2025. I’m 54 this year and I’ve really started to notice my energy is not the same as my 40’s!
You’re not alone!
I’m down to 2 urns, 2 flower boxes, 1 palm tree, and 1 snake plant on my porch. It’s so liberating to not have to water numerous pots everyday. I sold all my large pots and donated the money to a wildlife rescue. We are having a hot and humid summer in Southern Ontario with plenty of rain, so I don’t have to turn on my irrigation system to water my perennials that often. Ditch the flower pots and enjoy your summer!
Always great suggestions and beautiful gardens. Love your segments. Thanks 🙏. Ha the deer are funny 🤣
Hi Paulie! Thank you so much. They are frequent visitors here lol cute, but oh so destructive!
I really enjoyed this, Steph. I just added Agastache to my list as an option for a sloped area that doesn't hold moisture.
So beautiful, I’m hoping to get my hands on some of the plants you mentioned.
thanks for sharing. love those flowers. garden is beautiful as always. be safe and watch this heat that we are having.
Thanks for this helpful video. New gardener here and planted some of the perennials you suggested in one of your top 10 perennial videos from a while back. I’m also in MA so happy to see what works for you should work for me. First year planting rudbeckia and the bunnies think it’s their personal salad, same with my salvia (Back to the Fuchsia) plant. Second year for my Autumn Joy and not doing as well so plan on moving them next year to a sunnier spot in the garden. Planted cone flowers and bunnies love them too. What plants are working well are my Shasta daisies, yarrow blue salvia, cat mint and a dwarf butterfly bush. I have a mix of different alliums and the millennium is the only one with blooms, bunnies got the others, lol
Critters eat my Autumn Joy - no joy!
Oh no, I'm so sorry😢
Great video and info...so happy I have 4 of them:)
I love love love watching your videos 😊 I always learn something, am inspired by, or reminded about other things as well! Like why do I not already have some of those top 5’s in my gardens!!?? 🤣 I knew the plants right away, so thank you!! I am on a mission to get ahold of them before it’s too late to plant this year!! (I’m a zone 5 upper lower Michigan gal) I’m obsessed with coneflower and know how much you enjoy them too! Yours are amazing!! Every year I try to pick up a color that I do not already have 😁
Garden is looking gorgeous!!!
I have all of the plants you mentioned 😊🪴👒🪴
Those deer! Brave to come out while humans were so close by.😅
Hi Stef 🌺. These perennials are amazing in your garden . I have the red flowers of sedum and will look for the pink flowers from it and the the joe pye weed . Have a fantastic day .🌺🌻🌺
❤❤❤love them alllll
So pretty! 🤩 Your colors and textures are on point! Nice!
Thank you so much Denise 💚
Beautiful Steph! ❤❤❤
Great video, beautiful combination thanks.
Hi Steph: Your garden looks great & was not familiar with Joe Pye Weed so thanks for the information about the beautiful & very tall perennial. Enjoyed seeing the deer on your property and saw many in our backyard in Ohio and there would be sometimes a few running together. Hope they are behaving and not doing any nibbling in your garden! Have a good week!
Beautiful ❤❤❤❤
Thank you so much Judy! 😊
Steph your gardens look so beautiful. I have 3 agastache plants and I want more!
Thanks for the tips. I might try the Black Eyed Susan😊
I would love this for shade plants too!
Hi Stephanie! I recently made a similar video about shade plant combinations here: ua-cam.com/video/bmBjW-gNAqE/v-deo.htmlsi=z7c52ED0Hl2yxTMd
Beautiful
All lovely and great Info .. thank you
Thank you for sharing.
This is a dumb question, but how many years did it take your rudbeckia to get that large? Love all your videos so much! Your voice is so relaxing!
Great video. Thank you !🌷
Just found your channel, like the way you explained everything, liked & subscribed 🙂🌻 I'm in Fresno, CA
Thank you so much for subscribing, and for watching 🌱
Madam - how old is your matured garden? It's beautiful! Just started mine this year. Yes - i have the Rudbeckia/ coneflowers Hyssop/ Joe pye weed/ Agasthache.The hunmers & finches are all around.
Great ideas - I love all your suggestions. Do you deadhead your hyssops?
Have you tried various perennial euphorbia species? Easy to grow plants that are quite spectacular, as are acanthus plants.
Hey Steph! Thanks for sharing which perennials are trouble free. 😊 I have agastache as well…love how all the pollinators are so attracted to it! The variety I have is Sunny Sparks Pink Glow. I have clay soils so have it in containers and even so it still reseeds itself. Is it that the Blue Fortune variety was bred to be sterile?
Hi Jaisa! I agree, so fun to watch the pollinators on the Agastache. Yes, the 'Blue Fortune' variety is sterile, so it will not reseed everywhere.
@@HookedandRooted Oooh…good to know! No wonder everyone seems to love it. On my list of “must have”plants for next spring. ✏️📋🌿Thanks! 😁
Thank you Steph! Quick question, does the millenium allium seed all over the place if you leave the seed heads on?
Beautiful Landscape. The Japanese Maples look healthy in the sun. Mine are in sun and look wilted unfortunately. How do you keep your maples looking healthy?
Hi Marcy! Its true that most JM's do better with some shade, especially from the hot afternoon sun. I have several lighter leaved varieties (yellow/chartreuse), that do burn up in the sun at the height of the summer. This should happen less as the trees acclimate. With that said, I find the red leaved varieties can tolerate more sun. I have some bloodgood, as well as 2 fireglows (the one seen in the video), and those handle the sun well here in our zone 6 garden. Hope this helps.
my issue with black eyed susans is that the plants get top heavy with blooms and flop over.
😊
Muy buen video
Gracias! 🌱
Stef, what is the weeping plant behind your sedum? Beautiful. Thanks for the info. My garden is full sun in zone 6B-7.
Hi there, love your videos. Is the Joe Pye Weed invasive in your experience?
Do you re sow them every year? Do they grow back next year?
Hi Steph
A question on planting sedums…even though they don’t like fertilizer, do you still use biotone during initial planting?
Hi Cheryl, If I've recently divided I would add it to help the root development. Hope this helps. Thank you so much for watching 🌱
@@HookedandRooted thank you for info yes it was helpful😊
Does anyone know if bunnies like bleeding hearts heliopsis? I’m planning to put in a bed that rabbits treat as a buffet
Since Rudbeckia goldsturm is a hybrid, I have read that the seedlings don't come true. What is your experience?
Hi Tom! This rudbeckia spreads by rhizomes. Mine (goldsturm) also self seeds very well. However, I can't be sure that the variety comes true from seed. I can say they all look the same.
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