Week 7 - Hardy Herbaceous

Angelonia angustifolia (Annuals) |Summer Snapdragon

A bushy plant with upright spikes of pink, purple, or white snapdragon-like flowers all summer.

• do well in beds and containers

Brassica oleracea var. acephala (Annuals) |Ornamental Cabbage

compact, rosette-forming plant with frilly green, pink, red, or white foliage that intensifies in cool weather.

-ornamental cabbage deosn’t make traditional head like vegetable cabbage, color and form, leaf margins are curly or smooth

-ornamental kale, more variety in leaf forms and colors, white, pink, purple etc. Bigger plant. (Don’t like warmer weather?)

Calendula officinalis (Annuals)|Pot Marigold

A mounded herb with aromatic leaves and bright orange or yellow daisy-like blooms.

• container or ground

• reseed

Cordyline australis ‘Red Sensation’ (Annuals)|Cordyline

A striking accent plant with upright, sword-like deep red leaves forming a dramatic clump.

-originates from New Zealand

-thriller

Actaea simplex 'Hillside Black Beauty’ (Common Perennials)|Black Bugbane

A tall, elegant perennial with dark purple foliage and fragrant white bottlebrush flowers on arching stems.

-good cultivar

-black beauty comes from the foliage

-texture and color

-moist

-slow to establish

Digitalis purpurea (Common Perennials)| Foxglove

A vertical plant with tall spikes of tubular pink, purple, or white flowers above a basal rosette.

-see in english gardens

-biannual - self seeds

-plant two years in a row

Dryopteris erythrosora (Common Perennials)|Brilliance Autumn Fern

A graceful fern with coppery-orange new fronds that mature to deep green.

-semi evergreen

-hold onto some foliage- some winter interest

-some shady area

Gaillardia x grandiflora (Common Perennials)|Blanket Flower

A low, mounded plant with red daisy-like blooms edged in yellow, flowering all summer.

-short term perennial/inconsistent

-self seeds, from new seedlings

Adiantum pedatum(Native Perennials)|Northern Maidenhair Fern

delicate, deciduous fern 1–2 feet tall with fan-shaped, bright green fronds on shiny black wiry stems that arch gracefully in a circular pattern, forming airy clumps in moist, shaded woodland habitats.

Matteuccia struthiopteris (Native Perennials)|Ostrich Fern

A large, vase-shaped fern with tall, feathery fronds resembling ostrich plumes.

Polystichum acrostichoides (Native Perennials)|Christmas Fern

A clumping evergreen fern with glossy, leathery fronds that remain green through winter.

-frons more stiff, more arching than ostrich,

Aquilegia canadensis (Cousins)|Wild Columbine

A graceful, airy perennial with nodding red-and-yellow spurred flowers on slender stems.

-bell shaped flowers

-self seed

-powdery mildew 

-good in shade garden

Aquilegia x hybrida ‘Earlybird’ (Cousins)|Columbine

A compact columbine with upright, colorful flowers in shades of red, blue, or purple.

-shorter than the other one (canadensis)

Hibiscus laevis (Cousins)|Smooth Rose Mallow

A tall, wetland-loving perennial with large white to pink hibiscus-like blooms.

-tall 3-7’

-true perennial, doesnt branch out

Hibiscus ‘berry Awesome’ (Cousins)|Rose Mallow

A shrubby perennial with huge, bright pink flowers and bold foliage in midsummer.

• the last perennials to sprout, like warm soil temperature

Hibiscus rosa-sinesis (Cousins)|Tropical Hibiscus

A glossy-leaved tropical shrub with large, showy flowers in vivid colors.

-annual

• good in containers

• can get leggy, so trim