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Specialty Gardening

Looking to grow special gardens such as one that would attract Hummingbirds and Butterflies? Or maybe you would like to grow a beautiful all shade garden.

We can help you build your special gardens - This is what our staff here is for. We will walk you through all of the steps.

Here are a few idea lists of perennials perfect for those special areas and needs.

Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardens: Butterflies and hummingbirds in the garden are such a wonderful site to see. Wouldn't you just love to have a garden dedicated just to attracting them.

  • Photo Credit: US Fish & Wildlife Service
Achillea
Alcea
Aster
Astilbe
Buddleia
Caryopteris
Chrysanthemum (Leucanthemum)
Coreopsis
Delphinium
Digitalis
Echinacea
Ereigeron
Heuchera
Iberis
Iris
Lavandula
Liabris
Lobelia
Monarda
Penstemon
Phlox
Salvia
Scabiosa
Veronica

A Perennial Cut Flower Garden: Who doesn't love fresh cut flowers? Wouldn't you just love to step out into your garden and clip a few blooms to perk up your interiors? This is a great list of easy to grow hardy blooms.

  • Lillium
  • Achillea yarrow
  • Aconitum-Monkshood
  • Alcea-Hollyhocks
  • Anemone-Windflower
  • Aquilegia-Columbine
  • Aster
  • Astilbe-False Spirea
  • Baptisia-False Indigo
  • Belamcanda-Blackberry Lily
  • Boltonia-Bolton's Aster
  • Buddlea-Butterfly Bush
  • Campanula-Bell Flower
  • Caryopteris-Blue Mist
  • Centaurea-Cornflower
  • Cimifuga-Bugbane
  • Coreopsis-Tickseed
  • Crocosmia-Montbretia
  • Delphinium-Larkspur
  • Dianthus-Pinks
  • Dicentra-Bleeding Heart
  • Digitalis-Foxglove
  • Echinacea-Coneflower
  • Echinops-Globe Thistle
  • Gaillardia-Blanket Flower
  • Gaura-Wandglower
  • Geum-Avens
  • Gysophila-Baby's Breath
  • Helenium-Helen's Flower
  • Heliopsis-False Sunflower
  • Hemerocallis-Daylily
  • Hesperis-Sweet Rocket
  • Iris
  • Kniphofia-Red Hot Poker
  • Lavendula-Lavender
  • Liatris-Gayfeather
  • Llium-Lily
  • Lobelia-Cardinal Flower
  • Lupinus-Lupine
  • Lychnis-Maltese Cross
  • Lysimachia-Loosestrife
  • Lythrum-Purple Loose
  • strife
  • Malva-Hollyhock Mallow
  • Monarda-Beebalm
  • Paeonia-Peony
  • Pardancanda-Candy Lily
  • Penstemon-Beard Tongue
  • Perovskia-Russian Sage
  • Phlox-Garden Phlox
  • Physostegia-Obedient Plant
  • Platycodon-Balloon Flower
  • Rudebeckia-Black-eyed Susan
  • Salvia-Meadow Sage
  • Scabiosa-Pincushion Flower
  • Sedum-Stonecrop
  • Sidalcea-Miniature Hollyhocks
  • Stachys-Lamb's Ear
  • Stacie-Sea Lavender
  • Stokesia-Stoke's Aster
  • Traddecantia-Spiderwort
  • Trollius-Globeflower
  • Veronica-Speedwell

Rock Gardens : Many of us in the great state of Connecticut have sloping yards and rocky areas in our gardens. This limits what can be or rather what types of perennials are suited for rock gardens. Many listed here are low growing and compact. Here is a short list of rock garden perennials.

  • Phlox subulata

For sunnier area of the rock garden select:
Low growing Sedums

Sempervivum -Hens and Chicks
Penstemon
Rock Cress
Saxifrage
Alchemilla -Basket of Gold
Phlox subulata
Groundcovers such as Euonymous & Myrtle

  • For shadier area of the rock garden select these:
    Ferns
    Hostas
    Dicentra -Bleeding Hearts
    Lillium
    Columbines

Groundcover such as Ivy and Pacnysandra


If you are looking for a few detailed landscape designs and lists - Walter's Gardens Perennial Resource offers 3 free specialty designs from their website to also include trees, shrubs and grasses.

   
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