Perennials

Perennials

Welcome to the Perennials Department! Perennials are important to every garden because of their vast uses, along with the great fact that they come back year after year. Fragrance, pollinator capability, ground cover, soil stabilization, and a full range of color palettes are just a few of the characteristics that make them great for your garden. The team at Van Wilgen’s researches all perennials to make sure only the very best are brought in to help create the dream garden for each customer’s needs and desires. We also grow our own line of perennials right here on the property. These are plants are tried and true as great plants that are well adapted to our growing region. We take pride in working with each customer individually to help them find the exact plants that would be perfect for their garden.

Please note, below is a sample of some of our favorite plants that we carry throughout the year, and not a representation of current inventory. To find out what’s in stock, pay us a visit or give us a call. We’re here to help.

Hairy Lip Fern

Hairy Lip Fern

Love ferns for your native garden but you worry about how big they get? If that is the only worry you have in your garden world, you’re in pretty good […]

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Northern Sea Oats

Northern Sea Oats

It’s amazing how tolerant this grass is without giving up anything in the beauty department. New stems emerge from the soil each spring forming an upright clump with wide, deep […]

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Double Flowering Chamomile

This plant’s foliage is irresistible with ferny, evergreen, delightfully fragrant foliage forming a spreading mound that lends itself magnifi_cently to edging or grouping to cover ground in hot, dry spots. […]

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Flame Thrower® Eastern Redbud

Flame Thrower® Eastern Redbud

This Cercis has pink flowers that are followed by unique foliage, emerging burgundy-red, followed by bright yellow and green as it ages. The color display is persistent throughout the season, […]

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Leadwort

Leadwort

What better fall color than this 12″ spreading groundcover, perfect in large rock gardens. The deep blue flowers bloom continuously from August through October, accented by the bronzy red hue […]

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Yo Yo Snow in Summer

Yo Yo Snow in Summer

This groundcover has a more restrained, compact habit than other Cerastium but still provides great form and striking gray foliage. It is covered with small white bloom in June making […]

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Snow-in-Summer

Snow-in-Summer

A profusion of tiny white flowers explodes from the wooly white-gray foliage in late spring. Its spreading, mat-forming habit makes a great groundcover for sunny locations. May to June. See […]

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Mountain Bluet

Mountain Bluet

An old fashioned favorite, this selection is one of the true joys of spring with large, long, silvery-gray foliage forming a substantial mound from which a parade of delicately cut, […]

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Amethyst in Snow Bachelors Button

Amethyst in Snow Bachelors Button

Bachelor’s Buttons have always been one of the most dependable growers in the garden but not really one of its most exciting plants. ‘Amethyst in Snow’ is about to change […]

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Amethyst Dream Bachelor Button

Amethyst Dream Bachelor Button

Looking for a plant that can tolerate it hot and dry and still look great? ‘Amethyst Dream’ does that and more. This compact beauty starts to bloom in mid May […]

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Fox Sedge

Fox Sedge

This beautiful sedge is one of the most widespread species of carex in North America. The common name comes from the seed heads that mature in late summer and resemble fox tails. The […]

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Tussock Sedge

Tussock Sedge

Tussock sedge grows in 2-3′ tall clumps about 2′ wide. As old leaves die, they build up around the living plant, making a “tussock” or little hill. It grows in […]

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