Regional Gardening, Best Perennials, Midwest Gardening
Perennial flowers are fabulous additions to our gardens. When carefully selected, waves after waves of colorful blooms will be enjoyed in your midwestern garden from spring to fall. Reliable plants, they come back stronger and bigger when winter turns to spring, ready to start another spectacular show.
Selecting the right perennial plant might be challenging for Midwestern gardeners. If you are looking for beautiful, low-maintenance, and hardy perennial plants that will sail through the challenges of the seasons in the Midwest region, you may want to consider these top-performing perennial varieties which all won the GreatPlants award, which is a joint effort between the Nebraska Nursery, Landscape Association, and the Nebraska Statewide Arboretum. The GreatPlants award's goal is to identify superior ornamental landscape plants that meet the challenging growing conditions of the region. Each year, this program selects new plant winners in 4 categories: perennials, shrubs, ornamental grasses, and trees.
Below is the list of the prestigious perennial winners. As you will note, some of them have also received the prestigious Award of Garden Merit of the Royal Horticultural Society!
| Hardiness |
3 - 6 |
|---|---|
| Plant Type | Perennials |
| Exposure | Full Sun, Partial Sun |
| Season of Interest |
Spring (Mid, Late) Summer (Early, Mid, Late) Fall Winter |
| Height | |
| Spread | |
| Maintenance | Low, Average |
| Water Needs | Low, Average |
| Soil Type | Chalk, Clay, Loam, Sand |
| Soil pH | Acid, Alkaline, Neutral |
| Soil Drainage | Moist but Well-Drained, Well-Drained |
| Characteristics | Cut Flowers, Fragrant, Plant of Merit, Showy |
| Tolerance | Drought, Deer, Salt, Rabbit, Dry Soil, Clay Soil, Wet Soil |
| Attracts | Birds, Butterflies, Hummingbirds |
| Landscaping Ideas | Banks And Slopes, Beds And Borders, Edging, Ponds And Streams |
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| Hardiness |
3 - 6 |
|---|---|
| Plant Type | Perennials |
| Exposure | Full Sun, Partial Sun |
| Season of Interest |
Spring (Mid, Late) Summer (Early, Mid, Late) Fall Winter |
| Height | |
| Spread | |
| Maintenance | Low, Average |
| Water Needs | Low, Average |
| Soil Type | Chalk, Clay, Loam, Sand |
| Soil pH | Acid, Alkaline, Neutral |
| Soil Drainage | Moist but Well-Drained, Well-Drained |
| Characteristics | Cut Flowers, Fragrant, Plant of Merit, Showy |
| Tolerance | Drought, Deer, Salt, Rabbit, Dry Soil, Clay Soil, Wet Soil |
| Attracts | Birds, Butterflies, Hummingbirds |
| Landscaping Ideas | Banks And Slopes, Beds And Borders, Edging, Ponds And Streams |
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Becoming a contributing member of Gardenia is easy and can be done in just a few minutes. If you provide us with your name, email address and the payment of a modest $25 annual membership fee, you will become a full member, enabling you to design and save up to 25 of your garden design ideas.
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