Perennial Garden

This garden in the southwestern portion of The Fairest Garden showcases perennial plants that are found to be the most successful and robust in Midwestern gardens. It is no accident that these plants commonly show up on lists for native, drought-tolerant, and rabbit and deer-resistant plants. 

Plant list

A  Ninebark – Physocarpus ‘Donna May’

B  Blue fescue – Festuca glauca ‘Elijah Blue’

C  Stonecrop – Sedum ‘Lime zinger’

D  Tickseed – Coreopsis ‘Moonbeam’

E  Stonecrop – Sedum ‘Sunsparkler Angelina’s teacup’

F1  Clematis – Clematis ‘Asao’

F2 Clematis – Clematis ‘saphire indigo”

G  Coral bells – Heuchera ‘Autumn Leaves’

H  Coral bells – Heuchera ‘Palace Purple’

I  Stonecrop – Sedum ‘Dark Magic’

J  Oxeye – Heliopsis helianthoides

K  Shasta daisy – Leucanthemum ‘Becky’

L  Feather reed grass – Calamagrostis acutiflora ‘Karl Foerster’

M  Hydrangea – Hydrangea ‘Renhy’ Vanilla Strawberry

N  Coneflower – Echinacea purpurea

O  Rudbeckia – Rudbeckia fulgida “Goldsturm”

P  Rose mallow – Hibiscus ‘Kopper King’

Q  Rudbeckia – Rudbeckia fulgida ‘Goldsturm’

R  Pigsqueak – Bergenia ‘Bach’

S  Rudbeckia – Rudbeckia fulgia “Little Goldstar”

T  Foxglove beardtongue – Penstemon digitalis ‘Husker Red’

U  Russian sage – Perovskia Atriplicifolia ‘Little Spire’

V  Wild bergamot – Monarda fistulosa

W  Bee balm – Monarda ‘Raspberry Wine’

X  Bee balm – Monarda ‘Balmy Rose’

Y  Ajuda – Ajuda reptans “Black Scallop“

Z  Cranesbill – Geranium ‘Dark Reiter’

AA  Cranesbill – Geranium ‘Rozanne’

BB  Spotted Joe-Pye weed – Eutrochium maculatum

CC  Fringed loosestrife – Lysimachia ciliata

DD  sSonecrop – Sedum ‘Autumn joy’

EE  Stonecrop – Sedum ‘Sunsparkler Wildfire’

FF  Dwarf calamint – calamintha ‘montrose white’

GG  Stonecrop – sedum ‘Sunsparkler Dazzleberry’

HH  Turtlehead – chelone lyonii ‘Hot Lips’

KK Coneflower – echinacea ‘magnus’