The Well-Tended Perennial Garden The Essential Guide to Planting and Pruning Techniques, Third Edition

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Salvia uliginosa
Schizachyrium
scoparium
Sidalcea malviflora*
Silene coronaria*
Silphium perfoliatum
Solidago hybrids

Stylophorum
diphyllum
Symphyotrichum
Tanacetum
parthenium
Thalictrum
aquilegiifolium

Thymus
Tradescantia
×andersoniana
Tricyrtis hirta
Verbascum*†
Vernonia
noveboracensis

* plants are often short-lived; seeding may ensure permanence in the garden
†biennial plants; allow seeding to foster new plants, or deadhead to promote
perennial nature of existing plant


  1. Perennials with attractive seedheads


Actaea
Anemone pulsatilla
Arisaema
Arum italicum
‘Pictum’

Asclepias tuberosa
Astilbe ×arendsii
Baptisia australis
Begonia grandis
Ceratostigma
plumbaginoides
Chelone lyonii
Clematis heracleifolia
Clematis recta

Crocosmia
Dictamnus albus
Echinacea purpurea
Eutrochium macula-
tum ‘Gateway’

Filipendula rubra
‘Venusta’
Fragaria ‘Pink Panda’
Gaillardia
×grandiflora
Gentiana andrewsii
Gillenia trifoliata
Helianthus
salicifolius
Heterotheca villosa

Iris domestica
Iris sibirica
Kirengeshoma
palmata
Liatris
Ligularia dentata
Limonium
platyphyllum
Liriope spicata
Oenothera
macrocarpa
Ornamental grasses,
most
Papaver orientale
Phlomis
Rudbeckia fulgida
‘Goldsturm’
Rudbeckia nitida
‘Herbstsonne’
Sedum ‘Matrona’
Stylophorum
diphyllum
Telekia speciosa
Thalictrum
aquilegiifolium
Thermopsis villosa

Ceratostigma plumbaginoides

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