The Appeal of Perennials - Favorites, Care Tips, and More! | Gardening Simplified Show 33

Learn all about perennials in today's episode! Stacey and Rick discuss the best care practices, what their favorite perennials are, and why. Stacey highlights a compact butterfly bush that fits perfectly into any perennial garden. In Branching News, Rick tells us about a moose on the loose!

00:00 Introduction
10:10 Lo & Behold Pink Micro Chip butterfly bush - Plant on Trial
20:36 Questions Answered
31:18 Branching News

[richbishop]

So glad you are talking about one of my favorite subjects. My gardens are likely 80% perennials. I like them because they look good early in the season instead of annuals that take later in the season to look their best in my zone 5b garden. Just a reminder to new gardeners that perennial hibiscus is late coming up in the spring. Thanks for the pointers for butterfly bush. I've tried different butterfly bushes over the years with no luck returning after winter.

[jlp]

My Russian Sage, no cultivar name, planted in 2004, can not be killed! It once was in full sun, now growing in /shade/pt shade and runs everywhere where it’s not wanted. I’ve dug up what I thought were it’s root, but it still pops up and is immortal in my garden!

[jeansandhoodiegardengal]

❤️❤️❤️love this series and you both are fabulous

[amywatkins]

Faith and patience. Great characteristics to master through gardening.

[renaeboonstra]

Thank u 🙏 for all your great info 🍃❤️🍃

[suemerryman]

Love your show😂 Wondering if you'll ever do a show from the trail gardens of the owner of Spring Meadow on the Grand River. I was lucky to have toured a few years ago. Beautiful gardens. 🌺

[rootsshootsgardenboots]

Thanks for sharing your favorites. Summerific cranberry crush sounds like something I should be drinking this summer 😎.

Oh, don’t dig up the Huechera ?!? Got it.

Great show 💛💛💛

[WalkersWay-]

I have this stray stringy vine which has leaves that sort of resemble an ivy. It is sprouting throughout my front flowerbed and is difficult to uproot. Would you have any suggestions on how to rid my garden of it without destroying my Creeping Jenny, Liriope, and lambs ears?

[annedriesenga]

My perennial salvias didn’t come back. Are we too cold here in Michigan? Aqua Net and a torch 😅😅❤ sometimes ya gotta miss Kristi.

[mariondukes]

Hello, this past week across the pond they cut down several Evergreen trees, hence my Birds are fewer. So 😥. My morning ☕ coffee has become black less flavor... Species, Blue birds, Wood peckers, Blue Jays, to name a few.
So quite.

[barbarablackburn]

Hostas I use peppermint candy cane sticks crushed and sprinkled on the new hostas that are coming up. the deer won't touch them

[michaelcloud]

I have a Lo & Behold® 'Blue Chip' Butterfly Bush that I have had for many years. I still have the tag. Every year it dies back almost to the ground if not all the way. Every year it gets taller and taller. I’m talking like >6’ tall! The PW website as well as my tag says the maximum height is 2’6”. Why is it getter so tall? Has it reverted to one of its original genetic varieties? Or, was it labeled wrong? I’ve kept moving it until I found a spot where it fits, but I can’t help but wonder why it gets so big each year. Love your show!

[lilyw.]

I had planted two small PW butterfly bush last year and just one week ago, I cut the woody stems and saw that it was all brown with no green . So I continued to cut it down to the ground. Did I just killed the plant ? Zone 5b

[TrixieJFerguson]

I am in south-central Texas, so we are long into spring at this point. A couple of months ago, I was on my front porch drinking my coffee and witnessed a gorgeous male cardinal swoop in under the porch roof and slam himself right into my glass storm door. I was absolutely devastated. I pondered whether or not CPR was possible for a bird … unfortunately, I don’t think that would have helped either. Cardinals are my favorite bird (followed by hummingbirds) so I literally mourned that poor bird. 😢

[wendycummings]

Rabbits eat my coral bells to the ground. All 30 of my coral bells. They like the purple best! 😂❤

[altheajackson]

Great show but sad you did not answer my question on air 😢

[WalkersWay-]

I have a guara in that flowerbed I asked another question about. It fell back over our Alabama crazy winter of below 20 degree weather, but it is trying to come up. Can I expect it to reach a decent height after that winter?

[HOMERDisk]

could penstemons and geums get dug out and moved at this time? I am in zone 7B.