Low Maintenance Garden
Perennials don’t have to be high maintenance. Select ‘carefree’ ones that are easy to cultivate, fill in well, and don’t need a lot of water. Enjoy the movement of ornamental grass, bright blooms, and coloured foliage from this group of sturdy and reliable performers.
Baby Doll Bergenia
- Large glossy green leaves that turn burgundy colour in the fall
- Clusters of light pink flowers that turn darker as they mature
- Excellent as an edging plant, in mixed containers, rock gardens or border plantings
Viking Bellflower
- Clump-forming perennial producing mats of foliage with unusual, upward facing, blue-violet, very fragrant flowers blooming throughout the spring
- Re-blooms with deadheading
Fire Star Pinks
- A low growing clump of grassy blue-grey foliage and a long display of fragrant fiery-red single flowers with a crimson eye zone
- Perfect for rock gardens or as a border edging
- Grows well in sun
Pop Star Pinks
- Compact selection covered with deeply fringed, lavender pink double flowers with deep magenta centres
- Heaviest bloom in spring with re-bloom in summer and fall
- Hardy, heat tolerant and disease resistant
- Grows well in sun
Virgin Coneflower
- Large fragrant blooms have a row of clear white petals surrounding a mossy green eye
- Blooms in mid-summer and continues for weeks
- Great in mass and container plantings, cottage gardens, and front borders
Joan Senior Daylily
- Daylilies grow in dense forming clumps of grass-like foliage and upright stems that hold trumpet shaped flowers
- Large, fragrant, creamy white flowers with ruffled edges
- Great for mass plantings, cottage gardens, front of borders and container plantings
Ginger Ale Coral Bells
- Lobed shaped leaves have an unusual tone of ginger-gold overlaid with silver markings
- The leaf underside is red
- Sprays of soft pink flowers appear in spring
- Excellent as an edging plant, in mixed containers, rock gardens or border plantings
June Hosta
- Clump forming perennial producing heart shaped, folded centre foliage with irregular blue-green to yellow-green margins
- Bears bell shaped, light violet flowers on 45 cm scapes in summer
- Excellent choice as an accent plant, ground cover or mixed border
Blue River Lavender
- Compact habit on a densely mounding plant
- The fragrant, intense purple flower spikes are held above the silver green foliage
- Excellent as an edging plant, in mixed containers, rock gardens or border plantings
Raspberry Sundae Peony
- Large colourful, fragrant blooms
- An upright bush of attractive foliage bears double flowers of pale pink and creamy white with yellow blush in late spring
- Excellent as a specimen plant, or in the sunny border
- Makes an excellent cut flower
Schwellenberg Salvia
- A compact selection with bushy mounds of grey-green leaves and spikes of rich pink flowers
- Reasonably drought tolerant
- Useful in containers, or in the front of beds or borders
- Excellent as a ground cover
Autumn Charm Stonecrop
- Green leaves edged with creamy yellow support large heads of rose flowers
- Mature to attractive reddish-brown seed heads
- Plant in groupings as an edging plant or use in container gardens
- Grows well in sun
