This delicious Daylily brings so much style, and color to the perennial garden. Rich, custard colored flowers have contrasting red wine eye, and coordinating wine colored ruffled pictoee edging. A robust growing Daylily producing colorful five inch flowers all summer. El Desperado Daylily works in the mixed perennial border, in a cutting garden, on a slope area, or around a water feature. Shop for El Desperado Designer Daylily online...

Quick Facts About El Desperado Daylily:
    BLOOM TIME: Late spring through late summer
    MATURE SIZE: 28 inches height x 24 inches spread
    PESTICIDE-FREE: Grown pesticide-free and organically
    GROWS BEST IN: Full Sun/Light Shade,
  
    USDA HARDINESS ZONE: 3 -9
    BLOOM SIZE: 5 inches, blooms last up to 16 hours

Oriental and Asiatic lilies are hardy perennial plants that offer weeks and weeks of showy flowers mid summer. Asiatic lilies bloom earlier than Oriental lilies, and have brighter flowers, but lack fragrance. Oriental lilies are extremely fragrant, making them an ideal cut flower. Read more about how to grow lilies on our website... Shop for lily bulbs online

Quick Tips For Growing Lilies:

1. Lilies look best when planted in groups of odd numbers of plants such as groups of 3, 5 or 7. By grouping Oriental or Asiatic lilies, the flower show has maximum impact. You can group several complimentary lilies together to produce a unique display of color.
   
2. Plant Asiatic and Oriental with the foliage and blooms in the sun, and the roots in the shade. The easiest way to accomplish this is to plant Oriental lilies amongst other garden perennials. The lilies will then grow 'up' through the plants. When using this planting method verify that, the plants that are in front of the lilies are shorter by 6 inches to 8 inches to allow the flowers to be displayed properly.
   
3. Lilies require regular watering and well-drained soil, in an area that receives sun, and is shielded from high winds.

Echinacea Hot Summer is the hot new coneflower that every garden needs! Hot Summer is a large, vigorous Echinacea growing to three feet tall and as wide. The flowers open up a lush deep golden yellow, and then start to change colors as they age, turning vibrant mango-orange, salmon-pink, and deep rose-red, creating a multicolored floral explosion in the garden. Like all Echinacea perennial plants, Hot Summer is deer resistant, attracts butterflies, garden bees, and the flower cones provide food for winter birds in the fall.

For best results, grow Hot Summer in a full sun location with well-drained soil. Fertilize once in the spring with an organic slow-release fertilizer. If needed, fertilize with a liquid Kelp fertilizer mid-summer. Do not use high nitrogen fertilizers, which can cause the flowers to flop! Drought tolerant once established, water on a regular basis for the first year or so.

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Beautiful, hardy running bamboo that grows to 25 feet tall producing golden culms that are touched with reddish tint in the spring especially when exposed to the sun and often have crooks near the base. This is the hardiest golden-stemmed bamboo, thriving in gardening zones 5 - 10.

Plant Golden Crookstem Bamboo in a part-sun to part-shade exposure where it can have room to grow. Makes a soft screen when planted in groups of 2 or more. Use in Asian plantings, to create a bamboo grove, adjacent to large water features or ponds, or plant at the back of large ornamental landscape islands.

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Delightful new Blanket Flower which produces lemon-yellow flowers that meld to a rich apricot in the center. The large 3 to 3.5" flowers are free flowering, blooming all summer long. We adore this Gaillardia for its non-stop flowering and for unsurpassed cold hardiness, drought tolerance and heat tolerance, making it ideal for all U.S gardens! Plant in containers, along walkways, or in raised beds. Large flowers are borne on stiff, straight stems.

Arizona Apricot grows to 12 inches tall and as wide. The flowers start up in mid June and continue until early October if deadheaded on a regular basis.

Find out more about Arizona Apricot on our website, or shop online for Gaillardia Arizona Apricot.

Blue is often a hard color to incorporate into the garden, and especially in the shade garden, but Nikko Blue Hydrangea changes all of that. Pure robin-egg blue flowers make Nikko Blue Hydrangea a top selling flowering shrub. Nikko Blue grows to 4-5 feet high and as wide, in the classic Hydrangea form, creating a soft mounding shrub with attractive deep green foliage.

Plant this vigorous Hydrangea under conifers or as a specimen in the shade perennial garden, and enjoy in the  large round, blue flowers in the garden, as a cut flower, or in dried flower for floral arrangements. Nikko Blue Hydrangea is a marcophylla Hydrangea and is cold hardy for gardening zones 6-9. As with all macrophylla Hydrangeas, Nikko Blue grows best in well-drained soil that is high in organic matter and in shade to filtered sun locations.

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A delightful, delicious hardy rose, Morden Sunrise is a welcome addition to any garden. Rich apricot orange buds open with lightly ruffled edges, fading to rose pink and then yellow, creating a bi-color explosion of color all summer long. We especially like the deep, glossy green foliage that is very disease resistant.

Facts About Morden Sunrise Rose:
    FRAGRANCE: strong rose
    PESTICIDE-FREE: sustainably grown , using pesticide-free methods.
    MATURE SIZE: 3' x 3'
    COLOR: orange-yellow with wavy petals
    USDA HARDINESS: Zone 3-8
    BLOOM SIZE: semi-double, 12 petals and 3 1/2 inch flowers
    FOLIAGE: Dark green glossy

At our farm we planted Morden Sunrise in a half-circle around a Blue Spruce; just stunning. This rose also looks great when planted with perennials, or plant in the center of a large whiskey barrel, adding annuals around the base for a unique patio container planting.

Add a Morden Sunrise rose to your garden today. Morden Sunrise is available in a 1 gallon nursery trade container and ships from early May - late October depending on availability.

Chamaecyparis Soft Serve is an evergreen that has it all! This hardy, lush evergreen is deer resistant, very tolerant to cold and windy conditions, and ideal for smaller gardens. The bright green soft foliage has an attractive blue tint to the underside of the foliage. Soft Serve grows to a nice compact height of 7-8 feet and a width of 5 feet.

Soft Serve is a perfect substitute for the common Dwarf Alberta Spruce. A slow-growing dwarf evergreen for sun or part shade, Soft Serve is perfect for containers, hedges, mixed shrub-perennials borders, and specimen plantings

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Stargazer Perennials Farm & Nursery German Iris Are Easy To Grow Perennials! Easy To Grow: German Irises are easy to grow, hardy perennials that thrive in full sun and well-drained soil. Reblooming German Iris will bloom once in the late spring and then flower again in the early fall. German Iris, or Bearded Iris as they are also known, are deer resistant and produce blooms that are ideal for use as cut flowers. Reblooming German Iris Varieties: German Iris Double Click German Iris Harvest of Memories German Iris Rock Star German Iris Rosalie Figge German Iris Sugar Blues German Iris Ziggy German Iris English Charm German Iris Immortality NEW Plants For 2011: Japanese Maple Acer Palmatum Emperor: An outstanding, fast-growing upright Japanese Maple with superior deep burgundy-red foliage. SHOP for Acer Palmatum Emperor... Morden Blush Own Root Rose: A fragrant rose that produces clusters of full flowers that open ivory and fade to blush-pink. SHOP for Morden Blush Rose... Hosta Great Expectations: Sea-green margins trim the large bold, bright yellow centered leaves. SHOP For Hosta Great Expectations ... SAVE 15% OFF All German Iris! Valid until 3/8/2011 Enter Coupon Code GERMAN11 during checkout in the shopping cart, to receive 15% off all German Iris plants. Offer valid until 3/8/2011 SHOP For Iris Plants Gardening Articles: Morden Sunrise Rose Shade Gardening Growing Potatoes Oriental Lilies Redtwig Dogwood Iris Growing Tips: Iris Articles: Rock Star Iris Superstition Iris How To Grow Iris * Iris plants grow best when planted in full sun and well-drained garden soil. * Avoid overly wet soil, which can cause bulb rot. * Plant Iris with the fleshy shoulder of the main  rhizomes exposed to the air, and above the soil. * If wind is an issue, stake flowers once they start to bloom. * Deadhead spent blooms to encourage more flowers. * Once Irises are finished blooming, trim the entire flower stack back to the ground to prevent seed heads from forming. * In the fall, trim back Iris foliage and mulch for winter protection. A nice layer of snow makes a good blanket for hardy Iris. * Fertilize with a slow release, organic fertilizer. German Iris plants start shipping May, 2011!

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