Practical Flower Gardening

A trained horticulturist’s working handbook: what to plant, how to prepare the ground, and how to keep a flower garden going through the year without pretending it is effortless.

The Perennial Garden

20 pages in this part of Practical Flower Gardening.

The Perennial Garden (Aconitum Monkshood Aconitum)

Aconitum, Monkshood. Aconitum is one of the most beautiful and stately of the autumn blooming perennials. Their chief blooming period is…

The Perennial Garden (Tallest growing sometimes)

the tallest growing, sometimes attaining a height of 5 feet. Italica variety Opal is the best of all lovely turquoise blue flowers in June.

The Perennial Garden: Spiræa

Astilbe, Spiræa. Spiræa is also the name given to a large group of flowering shrubs which is entirely distinct in its habits of growth and…

The Perennial Garden: Asters

Asters, Michaelmas Daisy. Asters are not valued [48] for the beauty of their individual blooms, but rather for the mass of color they…

The Perennial Garden: Medium

Campanula Medium Canterbury Bells. Campanulas may be treated as perennials or biennials. Finer blooms are produced from young plants, and…

The Perennial Garden: Pompon

The Pompon varieties are the oldest and hardiest of the out-of-door chrysanthemums, they will stand more neglect than other kinds and are…

The Perennial Garden: Sweet

Dianthus barbatus, Sweet William. Sweet William is a low-growing hardy perennial or biennial, suitable for use as an edging plant, or as a…

The Perennial Garden: Eupatorium

Eupatorium, Mist Flower. Eupatorium blooms in September, and its resemblance to the annual ageratum is so marked, that it often goes by the…

The Perennial Garden: Helianthus

Varieties. Paniculata, old-fashioned single. Paniculata flore plena, double flowering form. Helianthus, Hardy Sunflower. Helianthus is a…

The Perennial Garden: Hemerocallis

Hemerocallis, Lemon Lily, Yellow Day Lily.

The Perennial Garden (Season is May and June Plant)

season is May and June. Plant in an open sunny location, in fertile well-drained soil. When the plants become bushy and the bloom is not so…

The Perennial Garden: Kaempferi

Iris Kaempferi, Japanese Iris. Iris Kaempferi comes from Japan and Siberia. It is hardy, blooms in June and July, any good soil that…

The Perennial Garden: Lupinus

Lupinus Polyphyllus, Lupine. Lupinus blooms in late May and June, the flowers come in white, blue, and shades of pink. They require a rich…

The Perennial Garden: Pentstemon

Pentstemon, Beard Tongue. Pentstemon is a useful perennial for the hardy garden as it blooms chiefly during July when the glory of the…

The Perennial Garden: Phlox

Phlox. The phlox paniculata, or summer blooming hardy phlox is one of the most reliable and showy [72] of the herbaceous perennials. It is…

The Perennial Garden: English

Hardy Primula, English Cowslip, English Primrose.

The Perennial Garden: Rudbeckia

Rudbeckia, Cone-Flower. Rudbeckia is valued for the length of its blooming season, which begins about July 15th and lasts from three to six…

The Perennial Garden: Salvia

Salvia, Blue Sage. Salvia Azurea and Pitcheri bloom in September, they appear their finest when grown in masses and planted close together…

The Perennial Garden: Veronica

Veronica, Speedwell. Veronica Spicata blooms in July, and its spikes of dark blue flowers are showy when they are seen in masses. This is…

The Perennial Garden: Yucca

Yucca, Adam's Needle. The Yucca is a large, bold plant that is suitable for planting toward the back of wide borders, or as an accent…

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