PERENNIALS & GROUNDCOVER
Unlike annuals, perennials return year after year to brighten our gardens. Fresh shipments arrive each week!
HELLEBORES
The queen of any winter garden is the hellebore, with glossy evergreen foliage and showy flowers in a variety of colors. Available year round, but best selection from November - January.
EVERGREEN PERENNIALS
These plants stay leafy and beautiful, even through our dreary winter weather. A few favorites include heuchera, (coral bells) Euphorbia, cascading vines like ivy and vinca, liriope and more.
WINTER ACCENTS & BLOOMS
Winter gardens/containers can be a challenge. What to plant when there are so few flowers? We carry cheerful, hardy plants like wintergreen, primrose and cyclamen coum to brighten gray days.
HEATH, HEATHER & HEBE
The best time for heather and heaths is fall and winter, when these plants have their strongest color and flower. Hebe are generally available year around, but supplies can be limited.
TRAILING PERENNIAL VINES
Cascading creeping jenny, vinca, slow-growing english ivy, and wire vine etc. make great additions in container arrangements. Find these in the ground covers section of the greenhouse.
FERNS
Underappreciated ferns offer texture, shape and balance to more fanciful plants. Visit March - June for best selection; evergreen varieties available year-round. Plant in shade - part sun.
GROUNDCOVERS
Whether you are preventing soil erosion, patching a bare bit of soil, or adding to a container, there's a plant for the job! Also, look for PNW natives like salal, redwood sorrel and more.
PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIVES
We love native plants and recognize their vital role in local ecosystems. Look for native iris, camas, ferns, shade plants, ground covers and more. We carry PNW natives whenever they are available.
LAVENDER
The fragrant, beautiful woody perennial that's beloved by bees (especially Spanish varieties!) and humans alike. Plant in a dry, full sun location, these plants love the heat, once established.
COLLECTOR'S PERENNIALS
If you're looking for something you've never seen before that might offer a horticultural challenge, seek out the collectors table in spring/summer for unique and new species.
GRASSES
Many evergreen grasses like fescue, black mondo are available year round. For the best deciduous selection, shop April-June for Hakonechloa, Japanese blood grass and more.
SEDUM & SUCCULENTS
We carry sedum year round, with the best selection available from April-August. These rock-garden favorites thrive in sunny, dry spots, and come in an amazing array of colors and shapes.
EARLY SPRING BLOOMERS
Bleeding hearts, aubrieta, candytuft, anemone, saxifrage and more. All of your early-blooming favorites start to arrive in early March and continue throughout the springtime.
4" POT PERENNIALS
We carry a great selection of younger perennials in cost-saving 4” containers from late February and into May. If you don't mind waiting for them to mature, this is a great way to stock up
PEONIES
Itoh peonies, a hybrid of tree and garden peonies, begin arriving in May with classic garden varieties. Limited availability, visit early for best selection. Look for bare root peonies in October.
DROUGHT TOLERANT PLANTS
Tired of watering? Maybe it's time to create a drought tolerant landscape! Once established, these plants grow with little or no need for supplemental water, even in the later summer!
POLLINATOR PLANTS
In spring and summer, we stock tons of plants for butterflies, hummingbirds, and bees. Shop our Nectar Bar starting in June for neonic-free plants grown locally with pollinator health in mind.
SHADE PERENNIALS
A beautiful shade garden is more than possible with plants like hostas, ferns, ligularia, epimedium, hardy fuchsia, etc. Explore our shade perennial aisles in the greenhouse to make shopping a breeze.
HARDY FUCHSIAS
A classic shade to part sun shrubby perennial that adorns itself with fairy flowers in shades from red to white to purple. Hummingbirds love to visit wherever hardy fuchsia grows!
SUMMER BLOOMERS
The warmth of summer brings a riot of blooms to our perennials section. Shop June - Aug. for delphinium, gaillardia, hardy geranium penstemon, salvia, lilies and more at peak performance.
FALL BLOOMERS
Rudbeckia, Japanese anemone, asters, perennial sunflowers, and cyclamen are among the special flowers that will thrive while summer blooms start to fade. Shop Aug. - Oct. for best selection.
PERENNIAL BULBS
Feb - March, we carry summer blooming, bare-root bulbs like iris, lilies, peonies, dahlias, hostas, daylilies, bleeding hearts & more!
PERENNIALS A' PLENTY
Divide your mature perennials to keep them in excellent health, and create more plants for your garden! Learn more in our blog post below.
PERENNIALS ON THE BLOG
We receive a HUGE selection of apples, plums, cherries, and other fruits every February. Get the details on these and other edibles below.
Our selection is always changing, with fresh shipments arriving throughout the week. Please give us a call to check availability.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Most perennials bloom for about one month, although some are especially long-blooming. We recommend planting both long-blooming perennials and ones with shorter bloom times that are staggered from each other. That way, there will always be something fresh and seasonal blooming in your garden. Check out our perennials by bloom time info sheet to learn more about which perennials bloom in each season.
Most herbaceous (non-woody) perennials can be divided once they reach a mature size, simply by cutting through their roots with a sharp shovel. Many perennials benefit from being divided periodically, and you can transplant the newly-divided pieces elsewhere in your garden or give them away to friends. Typically, the best time to divide or transplant is in the fall or early spring, when the weather is cool and damp. It’s always a good idea to do some research before dividing any particular species, since each one is a little different.
It might sometimes seem like every plant tag says, “Full sun, well-drained soil, and even moisture.” If you don’t have any or all of those conditions, you’ll need to search specifically for plants that suit your space. Don’t worry — we have them. Our perennial section is divided into sun vs. shade plants, so that’s one way to start narrowing your search. We have plant lists with some ideas to start with for drier conditions, especially wet soil, and shade gardens. Of course, we’re always here to offer personalized recommendations.
Many perennials are great for wildlife, whether you grow just a few in a container or integrate them into a larger wildlife-friendly landscape. During the spring and summer, our “nectar bar” display is a great place to start for pollinator-friendly perennial blooms. Try to choose several plants with different bloom times, so to provide a long-term nectar supply. Besides nectar plants, choose plants with woody branches for shelter, nutritious berries and seeds, or even narrow leaves that birds can use to build nests. Native plants are often the best of all for native wildlife, but many non-native plants and cultivated varieties of native plants still provide excellent habitat and resources. Check out our plants for butterflies, birds and bees for some ideas to help you get started.
We love natives, and recognize their vital role in native ecosystems. In fact, they're a key group of plants that we like to carve out space for, both in our nursery beds and aisles, and in our online messaging. We carry natives like Iris tenax, Mahonia nervosa, Kinnickkinnick and more whenever they are available to us, but unfortunately, local wholesale native growers can be few and far between.
If you're looking for more natives then we have at the moment, we recommend Go Natives, MsK Nursery, Hima Nursery, or Oxbow Farms. Happy planting, and thanks for doing your part to contribute to our local ecosystem!