Lush green, perfectly sheared, and shaped Privet hedges impart a regal, streamlined appearance to your landscape! So how do you achieve those beautiful green rows or high-style specimen topiaries for your yard without losing your cool?
If you are like us, you like collecting some of the dizzying arrays of different perennial Hosta plants for your yard. The diversity of size and color is endless and the new cultivars continue to be introduced every year.
Keep your Hosta collection healthy and happy with these tips and tricks!
All About Hosta!
Some of Nature Hills Best Hosta Plants
Hostas With Blue-Green Foliage
Largest & Smallest Hosta
Hostas White Variegated Leaves
Hostas With Yellow Variegated Foliage
Hostas With Chartreuse Foliage
Beautifully Unique Hosta Varieties!
Planting Hostas
Great Ideas for Hostas in the Landscape:
Basic Hosta Care
Pruning & Hosta Division
Hosta Pruning
Happy Healthy Hosta
All About Hosta!
A popular perennial with striking good looks, Hosta plants are a landscaping favorite. You’ll find a spectacular selection of Hostas for sale right here at Nature Hills Nursery.
Also known as Plantain Lily, Hostas originally came from Japan, China, and Korea. Introduced to the United States in the mid-1800s, the Hosta is a shade-tolerant foliage plant. Hostas are perennials sporting ornate leaves that vary widely in size, with the smallest varieties called miniatures.
Broad and coarse heart-shaped leaves with prominent veins, crinkled or quilted leaves, and the unique ability to let water bead up on their surfaces!
Hosta flowers have six petals and are generally white, lavender, or violet, held on stems called scapes. These plants provide an ornamental focal point in any garden with eye-catching foliage. They are also edible and grown as vegetables in some Asian cultures, although they are toxic to some animals in large quantities.
These blooms are loved by Hummingbirds and pollinators, and look great in floral bouquets indoors too!
You’ll find Hostas for sale online in a wide range of sizes, shapes, and colors. Some are variegated, while others display brilliant hues of blue, green, and even chartreuse.
You can find the perfect Hosta plant for your planting zone using our USDA zone filters. You can also filter the Hosta selection by sun exposure levels, color, and other options.
Some of Nature Hills Best Hosta Plants
With so many Hosta to choose from, here’s a quick rundown of our best sellers!
Hostas With Blue-Green Foliage
Elegans Hosta
Blue Angel Hosta
Krossa Regal Hosta - Large, nearly silvery/gray blue-green leaves
Arctic Blast Hosta
Largest & Smallest Hosta
Big Daddy Hosta - Big softly matte blue-green leaves
Empress Wu - Can grow 6 feet wide!
Mighty Mouse Hosta - Little foot tall and wide blue-green and white leaves
Blue Mouse Ears Hosta - Little leaves in ribbed blue-green, 6-8 inches tall
Krossa Regal
Hostas White Variegated Leaves
Patriot Hosta
Francee Hosta
Wheee Hosta - Ruffled and rippled leaves!
Fire and Ice Hosta
Remember Me Hosta
Hostas With Yellow Variegated Foliage
Stained Glass Hosta - Big green and chartreuse leaves
Hosta Paul's Glory
Rainbow's End Hosta
Guacamole Hosta - Bright green mix with fragrant blooms
Satisfaction Hosta - Light green-edged green leaves that turn gold in summer
Hostas With Chartreuse Foliage
August Moon Hosta - bright lemon-green leaves
Fire Island Hosta - Lemon-lime leaves
Key West Hosta
Maui Buttercups Hosta
Sum and Substance Hosta - Very light lime-green leaves
Beautifully Unique Hosta Varieties!
Hosta Waterslide - Curvy and wavy blue-green foliage
Fragrant Bouquet Hosta - Fragrant lavender blooms with white and green leaves
Praying Hands Hosta - Folded foliage that grows upright to the sky
Hosta Fireworks - Curvy leaves are more white than green
Abiqua Drinking Gourd Hosta - Big textured, cupped, and curled leaves that catch water
Planting Hostas
The process for planting Hostas is not much different than any other Perennial. The planting hole should be dug at least a foot deep but the width should be one and a half times the expected mature size of the clump. Check the Plant Highlights section to find your Hosta’s mature spread and situate it so it can achieve its full potential without being crowded.
Generally, Hosta roots grow and spread horizontally, so a large wide hole is best. When planting Hostas that are grown in a container:
Carefully remove the plant from the nursery pot
Sometimes the roots may be bound to the container
Tapping the container sides should loosen the roots from the pot
If the roots are difficult to loosen, it may be necessary to cut through some of them
Shake the excess soil from the roots and set it into the prepared planting hole
Take care to plant Hosta at the same level as it grew in the container
The area where the leaves and roots meet should be at ground level
Soak the root zone thoroughly with water to remove dry pockets and air pockets in the surrounding soil.
Top off with a 3-4 inch thick layer of arborist mulch over the entire surface of the root system of your Hosta to keep the roots cool and moist while enriching the soil.
For bareroot Hosta, the process is about the same, just ensure the crown of the root is just below the soil surface as far as depth and backfill with native soil, topping with mulch to insulate the roots.
Great Ideas for Hostas in the Landscape:
Big shade garden perennials
Bold color and large-sized foliage
Dramatic array of colors - Bright color lights up shade gardens and dappled shade
Scented trumpet-shaped blooms for Pollinator Gardens
Loves having more moisture - Rain Gardens
Spread and are great groundcover/living mulch
Edging and great along pathways and driveways
Great lawn replacement in areas too shady for Turf
Flowers for cut flower bouquets
Lovely skirting and underplanting around larger shrubs and trees
Great facer plants to hide bare leggy stems
Easy to grow and low-maintenance for en masse installations
The silvery/blue-leaved varieties look great in Moon Gardens!
Basic Hosta Care
Vigorous, very easy-care, and fast-growing, Hosta are fantastic herbaceous perennials that are great to use en masse without requiring much in the way of maintenance, and ideal for beginner gardeners and busy gardeners alike!
Some Hostas need full shade and appreciate the morning sun, especially when planted in hotter growing zones, which can range throughout USDA planting zones 3 and up to 11. In mid-range climates and cooler growing zones, Hosta’s can tolerate partial sun/shade and especially afternoon shade.
Hostas grow best in moist, well-drained, highly organic soils with a pH between 5.5 and 7.5. These perennials do best in well-drained soil that is enriched and won’t become soggy after a rain or water-logged in the winter. Provide regular moisture for young plants and do not let them dry out. Use the ‘Finger-Test’ to ensure your plant is watered deeply. Mulch helps to retain moisture and keep the root system cool.
You can top the crowns with mulch or compost for the winter to give them added protection from the frost and snow.
Pruning & Hosta Division
Dividing Hostas is easy and helps maintain the vigor of the root system and will improve the plant's appearance. Most home gardeners will propagate their Hostas by division and be able to expand their collection!
Divide every 3-5 years, Hosta division is best done when no shoots are growing from the center of the mature clump as this bare area detracts from the appearance of the plant.
Early spring is a good time for dividing and relocating Hostas because the new shoots are only a few inches high and the leaves have not expanded. Divide just as you see where the plants are emerging before any foliage unfurls and move a small portion of the plant to a new location. Hosta can also be dug and divided in September in the colder regions so they have plenty of time to re-establish.
Going around the entire plant with a shovel, push down straight about a foot deep
Lift the entire Hosta clump and remove excess soil carefully (a hose works great)
Plan out where to make your cuts and how many are needed
Use a sharp knife, or sharp spade to make the cuts (2-4 cuts depending on their size)
Place the divided plants in their planting holes and backfill, tamping down firmly
Water in very well to ensure it reaches the lowest section of the root system
Keep them well-watered for the first two weeks
Keep the plants consistently moist after plant division
Hosta Pruning
During the summer, once the flowers have finished flowering, it's time to deadhead to clean up your mounds.
Have a little patience, and wait until mother nature puts your Hosta to sleep before pruning. Wait until Jack Frost comes along and kills back the tops of your Hosta plants and let them turn brown before cutting your plants back at the end of the season. This helps keep the dead leaves from retaining fungal issues or harboring snails and slugs over the winter.
Allowing your Hosta leaves to turn brown and dry before cutting the leaves off will prevent the spread of viruses between plants. Remove the foliage from the area and either compost it or place it in yard waste bags away from your Hosta and other plants.
Happy Healthy Hosta
Big bold foliage, and lovely trumpet-shaped blooms on tall scapes, this gorgeous ornamental foliage perennial Hosta will add its outstanding leafy clumps to your garden for years to come! Keep your low-maintenance herbaceous perennials happy and healthy with just a few easy steps!
Order your new Hosta and add their delightful color and unique leaves to your landscape with the help of Nature Hills!
Happy Planting!
Trees with seeds and fruit have their benefits - and problems - that go along with them. Luckily, there are so many options available these days that it can be confusing when hearing all the various terminology that goes with plant options.
So what’s the difference between all these new types of trees and shrubs?
Botanical Terminology - Types of Plant Gender
Monoecious
Dioecious
Perfect Flowers
Sterile and Seedless Plants
Other Oddities
The Pros and Cons
Perfect and Female Plants
Pros and Cons of Male Trees
Pros and Cons of Sterile/Seedless Plants
Weighing Your Options
Botanical Terminology - Types of Plant Gender
In the world of plants - anything goes! Ma Nature regularly makes up rules, breaks them, remakes them, and then changes her mind once again. So plants have every possibility of reproduction available because of how ‘stuck’ in one place they are! So they of course had to get creative!
Monoecious
Monoecious plants have separate male flowers and female flowers on the same plant. The term "monoecious" is literally "one house". Squash for example has male flowers and female flowers on the same plant.
Dioecious
These plants have male on one plant, and female flowers on another. Some Holly, Ash trees, Kentucky Coffeetrees, and Ginkgo trees are good examples. You need a male plant nearby to pollinate your female plants in order to see any fruit on the female plants.
Perfect Flowers
Hermaphroditic flowers have both male and female structures within each individual flower, which are known as ‘perfect’. Each bloom can potentially pollinate itself without another flower. Bees or insects help distribute the pollen, and sometimes even wind.
Perfect flowers can either be self-fertile or cross-pollinated. Cross-pollination needs another of the same plant nearby, or a slightly different variation of that plant. For instance, a Royal Ann Cherry Tree needs a Van, Stella, or a Black Tartarian Cherry tree nearby to pollinate it and set fruit. Bees are happy to visit both flowers and pollination occurs.
Ma Nature's curveball - In a process called agamospermy, a plant egg can mature into a seed without being pollinated at all! The offspring is genetically identical to the parent plant.
Sterile and Seedless Plants
Sterile and seedless plants are hybrid cultivars that have been bred not to produce seed at all. This creates a triploid, like seedless watermelons and seedless grapes for instance. The genetics have been tweaked within these plants to make them entirely seedless or sterile.
A normal diploid (like you and I) has two complete sets of chromosomes - one from each parent. White a triploid plant has three sets of chromosomes and retains many desirable characteristics, including increased vigor; larger flowers, or a larger fruit set.
Then there are Triploids or Polyploidy, which as the name suggests, have three or more sets of chromosomes.
Seedless watermelons are triploid which causes them to be seedless. These seeds are created by crossing a normal diploid as the pollinator with a tetraploid (Four sets of chromosomes) parent. Each parent contributes half its respective chromosomes, resulting in one from the diploid parent and two from the tetraploid parent. Sounds confusing but luckily the scientists have it all figured out and you don’t have to worry about seeds while munching on your favorite summertime fruit!
Some plants and animals are bred (or have genetic abnormalities) and can become Polyploids that contain three, five, or some other odd number of chromosomes.
A sterile perennial Geranium we love is Rozanne, which tries so hard to produce seed that it simply keeps on producing flowers all season long in that quest of trying to make seed.
Other Oddities
Then there are flowers like those on the Avocado tree which are perfect flowers, but they don’t function at the same time! The flowers are either male or female in the morning and then become the opposite later on or the next day. This means Avocado trees require a Type A and Type B tree planted in close proximity to increase pollination chances.
The Giant Amazon Water Lily (Victoria amazonica) is another unusual perfect flower that has evolved a unique process of pollinating itself. Called co-sexual, the flowers open white in the evening, and are fragrant and warmer (called thermogenesis) than the surrounding male flowers. These close for the night trapping insects inside. In the morning, the flowers become female and open, and pollen gets distributed while the insect searches for a way out. Finally, the beetle is released to find another flower and gets trapped to start it all over again.
Other plants can even change their sex based on the availability of other plants in the area, or based on their age and their height/sun availability.
Lastly, plants like non-flowering Mosses, Liverworts, Hornworts, Lycophytes, and Ferns dispense with flowers entirely and reproduce by spores.
The Pros and Cons
There are always upsides and downsides to everything, and toying with the genetics of plants has come under scrutiny these days. Plausible, because everything in our environment does eventually affect us.
So let's break down the pros and cons of all these types of plants!
Perfect and Female Plants
By planting trees, shrubs, and plants with perfect flowers, or a female plant with a male nearby, you then enjoy nuts, seeds, and fruit! When this comes to the perfect flowers of our favorite fruit trees like Grain, Nut trees, Apples, Pears, most Berries, and Grapes; having fruit is a great thing! Most of the world is fed on these wonderful plants! Fruit and seeds of these plants also feed birds and other wildlife.
But these fruits do have seeds and those seeds do want to grow. Good if you are propagating and expanding your garden, but bad when those seeds come up everywhere and get into trouble. Like a mast year on Maples, or invasive plants like Purple Loosestrife.
Especially if we don’t eat the fruit or seeds, like those winged Maple tree seeds, Elms, or Ash tree seeds, and Kentucky Coffee trees, or trees that produce tons of messy fruit like Mulberry trees. These fruits can spread themselves everywhere, come up where they shouldn’t, can clog drains and gutters, and sometimes become invasive. So that’s why having a male-only or seedless cultivar is preferred in today's urban landscapes.
Pros and Cons of Male Trees
Male-only trees solve the problem with fruit drop and seed dispersal. No fruit means clean driveways and patios, no stains on sidewalks and deck furniture, and you don’t have to worry about birds eating the fruit and spreading their droppings and those seeds far and wide. A sterile Walnut tree will give you the shade without the nuts staining pavement, and a male-only (or sterile) Maple will give you that fantastic fall color and shade without all the little helicopters that sprout up everywhere.
The problem with male-only trees though, is that they still produce flowers - flowers chock full of pollen! Great for Bees and pollen-eating insects, but bad for our noses! Those who suffer from allergies are noticing an increase in their symptoms and increased frequency of pollen-related issues now that there are more male trees in the neighborhood!
Pros and Cons of Sterile/Seedless Plants
From an environmental aspect, having sterile plants reduces the chances of spreading invasive plants around where they are not native, and choking out local flora. Not necessarily meaning fruitless, it simply means the fruit won’t have viable seeds or any seeds at all. In fact, food harvest and fruit size can be increased in sterile plants. Plus, sterile plants can be shipped into areas where their seeded versions cannot due to invasive concerns.
However, by planting these in areas they are not indigenous, and local pollinators and native insects often don’t recognize them as a food source. Good if you are trying to reduce pest damage, bad if you are trying to feed the bees, butterflies, and their larvae. Also having sterile plants means your feathered friends go hungry.
Most of the issue with sterile plants that won’t produce fruit comes from those who think that changing the genetic structure of these plants (especially those we eat) will ultimately result in changes to our own DNA. While this may seem like woo-woo science, the increase in cancers, behavioral disorders, and the increase in general health issues around the world may just give you some new, literal, food for thought.
The other concern is food sustainability and maintaining native plants and landscape cultivars. With reduced genetic diversity and the ability to save seeds for planting next year, having a landscape full of sterile plants leaves us hanging should they die. Entire crops can be taken out with no way of replacing them with their seeds.
Some companies make their patented seed and plants with aptly named ‘Terminator’ genes so no one can replicate and grow their own plants and food without a tissue culture lab, or need expensive licensing and permission just to grow them.
Weighing Your Options
So there’s the good, the bad, and the ugly side to plant gender and how it affects us and our environment. There are benefits and worries to all sides of bringing new and exciting plants to every corner and environment in the US.
So take a look at your options and see what is available before making a decision when landscaping. Alternatives are increasingly easier to find! Look into more careful site selection and your personal needs when choosing plants for your landscape!
Cheap prices, massed produced crops, and pretty faces have hidden downsides lurking in their roots, so educate yourself before buying! As always Nature Hills is here to help with our knowledgeable staff, informative #ProPlantTips and Garden Blog, and our innovative ecosystem protecting Plant Sentryâ„¢ that ensures compliance with all Federal Agricultural laws and regulations concerning the shipment of plants throughout the country.
We are committed to protecting you and your landscape with quality-grown plants that set your garden apart from the rest while ensuring it's safe for all!
Happy Planting!
Yellow or orange flowering perennials add a stunning sizzle to the landscape and are instant highlights to any garden or patio!
Looking for something to plant in those hot spots in your yard?
Plant yellow and orange flowers in your garden this year! You’ll brighten up the landscape with these fruity and juicy hues!
The Science Behind Yellow & Orange Color
Why Yellow and Orange Perennial Plants:
Top Rated Yellow Perennial Flowers
Top Rated Yellow Perennials
Top Rated Orange Perennial Flowers
Designing a Garden with Warm-Tone Perennials
Flowering Perennial Care
Warm and loving colors of yellow and orange have long been associated with joy amusement, gentleness, humor, spontaneity, wisdom, connection, envy and jealousy, avarice, and, cowardice depending on where you are in the world. Also associated with gold and the sun, it’s no wonder why so many plants are named so - like Goldenrod and Sunflowers!
The color of carotenes in many fruit and veggies, and no fall display would be the same without these colors showing up once the chlorophyll retreats in the cold. Yellow or orange flowering or foliage plants add a stunning sizzle and ensure visual highlights to any garden or patio! The opposite of purple and blue on the color wheel and melding beautifully with the green of most plants.
The Science Behind Yellow & Orange Color
The dominant wavelength of light in the human eye, yellow and orange are frequent colors found in nature. The Lascaux cave in France has a painting of a yellow horse 17,000 years old because Yellow is so easily available in nature, so it’s no wonder why ochre pigment was one of the first colors used in art.
Yellow and orange absorb the sun's light energy and protect plants from photodamage and embody natural light and warmth.
Why Yellow and Orange Perennial Plants:
Yellow is the color of the sun, warmth & illumination
Happiness, youthful color, full of hope and positivity
Orange represents refreshment, fruity, joyfulness, and optimism
Enthusiasm, creativity, success, encouragement, change, determination, health
Warm tones blend with everything!
Color of the sun, of the autumn, and all things cozy
Top Rated Yellow Perennials
The color of sunshine and joy, yellow flowers add instant cheer and bright color to the garden! Here are some of our favorite Yellow and Orange flowering Perennials!
Coreopsis
Sunrise and Moonbeam, Jethro Tull and Zagreb, sunny Coreopsis are heat and sun-tolerant plants that are positively butterfly favorites! Low water usage, neat and tidy mounds, and blooms for bees and bouquets alike. Anywhere in the sun seems to glow with a Tickseed plant! Hardy natives and native cultivars, Coreopsis thrive on neglect!
Iris, Bearded Iris, Siberian Iris & Japanese Iris
So many to choose from, the Iris family embraces the color yellow! Almost every type has at least a touch! Others go completely buttery to brilliant yellow in color! With long foliage, unique two-layer blooms of falls and flags, Iris captivates the senses with fragrance, long stems for bouquets, nectar for pollinators, and an easygoing nature! Check out Sunfisher or Honey Fruit Cocktail for buttery blooms!
Goldenrod
It’s right there in the name, so you know Goldenrod embodies the color yellow! Gilded little blooms on long, arching sprays are wonderful full-sun, late-season-blooming plants that feed beneficial insects galore and are airy floral arrangement filler! Tall waving blooms resemble fireworks on both the native and the hardy ornamental cultivars drawing you in as they sparkle in the sun. Great xeric plants that won’t take much water or fuss, Goldenrod got a bad rap for allergies - but it is really Ragweed to blame! My favorite is Fireworks Goldenrod!
Black-Eyed Susan
Accented with their warm brown, raised centers, Black-Eyed Susans are perennial mini sunflowers that thrive in a wide range of climates and conditions! Their gilded petals shine and act like prime pollinator landing pads! Easy to grow and return year after year, they are living sunshine! Check out Little Suzy, or Dreamii for some great examples!
Daylilies
Sun-worshiping Daylilies might only last a day, but they keep popping out new buds all summer long! With long cascading foliage and cheerful open trumpets, they are fantastic edging and border plants for the heat, sun, and lazy gardener. Try a Happy Returns, Buttered Popcorn, or Stella de Oro to light up your garden borders.
Honorable Mention
Go big with yellow foliage plants, both entire and variegated green and yellow-leafed perennials like Lemon Supreme Coral Bells and Champagne Coral Bells, or yellow variegated Color Guard Yucca, Lil Miss Sunshine® Bluebeard or Sunshine Blue® Bluebeard II, and Golden Variegated Sweet Flag Grass!
Top Rated Orange Perennial Flowers
Warm, juicy hues that instantly make you think of sunsets and citrus, orange can range from almost peachy to red. The color of summer - Glow up a hanging basket, brighten an edge of a flowerbed, or install a vibrant mass planting.
Coneflower
Soaking up the heat and sun with their spiky, raised centers, Coneflowers are stout perennials that take orange to new heights and enhance flower bouquets! Try a Sombrero® Adobe Orange or Hot Coral Coneflower, or the radiant Julia Coneflower.
Daylilies again
Just like yellow, the Daylily has the corner market in vibrant orange hues! Check out Rainbow Rhythm® Orange Smoothie, Alabama Jubliee, or a ruffled South Seas!
Hyssop (Agastache)
While many Hyssops are known for their purple blooms, there’s an entire range of juicy orange, fine-textured and highly aromatic versions too! Fantastic Hummingbird and butterfly plants, plus many with medicinal and culinary uses, the tropical colored Kudos™ Mandarin Hyssop and POQUITO™ Orange Hyssop will add an extra pop of color to your landscape without any of the extra fuss!
Canna Lily
Tropical bold foliage and dramatic blooms that look like a cross between an Iris and a Hibiscus, the heat-loving Canna Lily can be an annual or perennial summer bulb! Try a Tropicanna® Gold Canna, or the dark red/orange-leafed Tropicanna® Canna.
Coral Bells
Not everything has to be about the flowers, Coral Bells have upstaged their own blooms by providing dramatic colored foliage! Loving more shade than sun, these gorgeous foliage plants include the delectable Caramel Coral Bells, Peach Crisp Coral Bells, and dramatic Zipper Coralbells with stunning multi-orange hues!
Honorable Mentions
You can’t forget the unique Orange New Zealand Sedge Grass, or Toffee Twist Sedge Grass. Or the showy Butterfly Weed Plant and Hermes Tall Bearded Iris.
Designing a Garden with Warm-Tone Perennials
From shade gardens to full-sun backyard landscapes, you can utilize yellow and/or orange flowering perennials in an endless array of layouts!
Add plants with burgundy or chartreuse foliage to deepen or brighten the effect. Add reds to complete your exotic sunset garden. Soften these colors with silver, gray, or white. Or, contrast with blue or purple flowering plants.
The tans and browns from Ornamental grasses just set things off beautifully, and as always, green is the natural complementary color for either of these hues! Separate orange and yellow blooms with intermittent splashes of red, pink and magenta to create a hot-toned flower bed.
Juiced Up Butterfly Garden
Butterfly Weed Plant
Tiki Torch Coneflower
Sedum Lemon Drop
SpinTopâ„¢ Orange Halo Gaillardia
Little Lanterns Columbine
Disco Music Tall Bearded Iris
Stiff Goldenrod
Orange Smoothie Daylily
Sun in the Shade
Lady’s Mantle
Amber Queen Barrenwort
Othello Leopard Plant
Yellow Trillium
Hermes Tall Bearded Iris
Sunshine Columbine
Zipper Coral Bells
Little Lanterns Columbine
Rock Garden For Sun
Julia Coneflower
Fire Dance Red Hot Poker
Coreopsis Sunray
Dwarf Goblin Gaillardia
Dwarf Little Lemon Goldenrod
Stella de Oro Daylily
Verbascum Honey Dijon
Autumn Gold Willowleaf Sunflower
Moist Soil Rain Garden
Little Rocket Leopard Plant
Marsh Marigold
Sunfisher Siberian Iris
Purple Lance-Leaved Loosestrife
Native Black Eyed Susan
Golden Alexander Sundrops
Golden Ragwort
Tropicanna® Canna
Sunshine Garden Part Shade
Fireworks Goldenrod
Lanceleaf Coreopsis
False Sunflower
Arizona Apricot Blanket Flower
TEMPOâ„¢ Orange Geum
Goldfinch Shasta Daisy
My Angel Clematis
American Gold Rush Black-Eyed Susan
Mellow Yellow Garden
Moonshine Yarrow
Coreopsis Creme Brulee
Moonbeam Coreopsis
Banana Cream Shasta Daisy
Banana Dwarf Red Hot Poker
Spirit of Memphis Tall Bearded Iris
Bartzella Itoh Peony
Xeric Sunset Garden
Fire Spinner Ice Plant
Showy Goldenrod
UpTickâ„¢ Gold & Bronze Coreopsis
Sundown Coneflower
Arizona Sun Gaillardia
Primal Scream Daylily
Mango Popsicleâ„¢ Dwarf Poker
Gilded Pollinator Garden
Hello Yellow Butterfly Weed
Dwarf Little Lemon Goldenrod
Glitters Like Gold Black-Eyed Susan
Decadence® Lemon Meringue Baptisia
Goldcrest Foxglove
Mouse Ear Coreopsis
Dark Eyes Verbascum
Siloam Peony Display Daylily
Warm Tones Cut Flower Garden
Goldsturm Black-Eyed Susan
Sunny Seduction Yarrow
Double Scoop Lemon Cream Coneflower
Orange or Yellow Asiatic Lily
Glamazon Tall Bearded Iris
Rainbow Rhythm® Tiger Swirl Daylily
Jethro Tull Coreopsis
Orange and Yellow Foliage Garden
Delta Dawn Coral Bells
Caramel Coral Bells
Lemon Supreme Coral Bells
Rock 'N Lowâ„¢ Boogie Woogie Sedum
Sun King Aralia
All Gold Japanese Forest Grass
Fire Island Hosta
Golden Hot Growing Zone Garden
Martin's Spurge
Lemon Drop Evening Primrose
Fanfare Blaze Gaillardia
Creme Caramelâ„¢ Coreopsis
Kudos Gold Hyssop
Chicago Sunrise Daylily
MiniBeckiaâ„¢ Flame Rudbeckia
Mango Popsicleâ„¢ Dwarf Poker
Helenium Mariachiâ„¢ Salsa
Sunbeam Cold Growing Zone Garden
Flame Sundaze Strawflower
Tequila Sunrise Tickseed
Solar Flare Prairieblues False Indigo
Autumn Sun Coneflower
Fringe of Gold Tall Bearded Iris
Honey Gold Peony
Solar Flare Prairieblues False Indigo
Basket of Gold
Baby Sun Coreopsis
Flowering Perennial Care
Many perennials, especially native perennials, are so easy to care for! First, always make sure to read the care instructions found on the Nature Hills Product Pages. This will let you know how much sun, water and what type of soil a plant needs to thrive. Then find your growing zone here to get started!
Perennials do best in well-drained enriched soils and need regular fertility. Water new plants regularly until they are established during their first year. During the hottest months of the year, you’ll want to take extra care to make sure your perennials are getting enough water.
One of the best things you can do for your flower gardens is to add a 3 to 4-inch layer of arborist mulch chips around the plants. This helps conserve water and protects the roots from the heat in the summer and the cold in the winter.
Most perennials are herbaceous perennials, meaning they will die back to the ground and should be pruned in late fall when they do die back. A few exceptions prefer pruned in early spring. All appreciate some deadheading right after their flowers bloom for a cleaner effect and often to encourage a rebloom later in the growing season! You’ll find each plant's pruning needs on each plant description page.
Easy Warmth & Brilliant Color With Yellow & Orange Plants!
Yellow flowering perennials can represent the return of spring while orange can harken to the start of summer and autumn! Combine both and you have a delightfully exotic combination! Brighten, excite, and invigorate your garden today!
Browse the huge selection of yellow and orange perennial flowers for sale at Nature Hills Nursery, and reserve your plants today!
Happy Planting!