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.

Wizard of Ahhs Spike Speedwell

Wizard of Ahhs Spike Speedwell

Joining the popular Magic Show® Collection, this plant brings early blooming, outstanding flower color, and neat habit. One of the earliest Veronica to bloom, this plant produces thick spikes of […]

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Blue Bomb Speedwell

This vibrant selection produces relatively short spikes of double, cerise pink blooms beginning midsummer. Ideal for use in borders or to attract hummingbirds. Excellent cut flowers.

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Purple Leia Spike Speedwell

Purple Leia Spike Speedwell

Columnar and upright but still compact, this selection boldly fills the middle of the garden with a powerful show of late spring into early summer purple bloom on spikes atop […]

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Bubblegum Candles Speedwell

Bubblegum Candles Speedwell

Bubblegum Candles has a compact form and flower spikes that are densely filled with vivid, deep pink blooms. The spikes truly look like clusters of candles above the clean, glossy […]

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Southern Cross Ironweed

Southern Cross Ironweed

Compact and lower growing than its native relative, ‘Southern Cross’ brings great summer color to the garden on a plant that is incredibly tolerant and easy to grow. Tall, strongly […]

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New York Ironweed

New York Ironweed

New York Iron Weed is tall and upright with strong stems that are covered with narrow dark green leaves. This aggressive grower bursts into bloom in August with deep purple, […]

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Iron Butterfly Narrow-leaf Ironweed

Iron Butterfly Narrow-leaf Ironweed

Iron Butterfly’ is a tough, tolerant, drought resistant native perennial that can produce the colorful beauty you crave for your native landscape while attracting butterflies and growing where most plants […]

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Hoary Vervain

Hoary Vervain

There are not many place you will find this p[lant at the garden center yet it is native in every lower 48 state except Maine and California. Nature can’t be […]

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Blue Vervain

Blue Vervain

Tall, slender stems hold up 5 to 6 inch spikes of the most beautiful, lavender blue, flowers that bloom for several months! Some say the flower spikes are reminiscent of […]

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Cheddar Globeflowers

Cheddar Globeflowers

Vigorous grower with elegant, goblet-shaped flowers of pale, creamy yellow. Blooms are held well above the dark, contrasting green foliage. A charming addition to the garden. Great for mixed perennial […]

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Lemon Queen Globeflower

Lemon Queen’ will remind you of the old world charm of cottage gardens and gardening when you were a kid. The soft lemon double flowers featured by this old fashioned […]

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Golden Queen Globeflower

Golden Queen Globeflower

This plant is truly the queen of the summer garden with a regal presence that starts with deep, dark green, heavily toothed foliage that forms an upright mound in the […]

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