perennials

This beautiful flowering Native perennial provides an abundance of radiant fuchsia flowers from July till Autumn.  Echinacea is considered deer resistant in the Hudson Valley but you will need to protect young plants while they are rooting in and getting started.  Deer will occasional graze and pull on the purple cone flower.  Its more out…

Good selection of an ornamental grass.  Karl Foerster Reed Grass produces Blooms by June in the Hudson Valley region outpacing other ornamental grass varieties.  You can expect this clumping grass to get no larger than 2ft. and the plums reach typically 5ft. in height. in autumn you can expect a more reddish color color on…

Japanese Painted Fern is a unique small growing fern.  It has a beautiful display of showy deer resistant fronds and grows well in shady locations.  I have seen this fern grow in full sun but by the time summer rolls around I have noticed scorching on the leaves.  This fern requires well draining organic soils…

Flowering Astilbe is an excellent perennial for part shade to shady locations.  Astilbe can tolerate dry conditions and its foliage resembles a fern.  Flowering occurs in late spring and this hardy perennial is also deer resistant.  Have seen this perennial survive hostile locations where there is heavy deer feeding over at my mother in law’s…

A deer resistant native perennial to the Hudson Valley.  Yarrow is a tough drought resistant summer flowering perennial.  It colors range in pinks and whites. < Back to Perennial Library