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Phoenix Perennials E-Newsletter

July 2023

The nursery is now open for our 20th anniversary season! Seven Days a Week, 10am-5pm, including all holidays until November 13th, 2023.

Upcoming Garden and Botanical Tours

With the relaxation of Covid travel restrictions, we are looking forward to some amazing tours. Join Gary to explore the horticultural and botanical world up close and personal!

In this Issue

1. Summer Sales
2. 26 Top Hummingbird Plants
3. New Daffodils
4. Spring Bulbs and Bare Root Pre-Order Launched
5. Cypripedium - Save $10 per plant
6. Opuntia Cactus Pad Pre-Order
7. Tons of Succulents Available Now
8. You can plant new plants all summer long
9. Main Mail Order Catalogue
10. Ground Cover Book Updates
11. Fab at Phoenix

Summer Sales

Keep on Keeping on with your Summer Planting! 

AND SAVE!

We are pleased to present to you a series of sales over the next few weeks leading up to our Summer Sizzle Sale when all plants will be 25% off for 3 days.

We look forward to seeing you at the nursery!

In-person shopping only for plants currently in the nursery. Sorry. Not for mail order.

There are no exceptions to the above dates and items for sale on specific dates. To purchase plants on sale in different weeks you will need to visit in different weeks.

*Annuals on sale are those on the designated table. Ground covers refers to plants in our ground cover sun and shade sections.

26 Top Hummingbird Plants

Attract everyone's favourite pollinator to your garden and patio!

Hummingbirds are perhaps the most beloved of all wildlife visitors to our gardens. Their small size, their speed, their ability to hover in place and drink on the fly, and their antics all endear them to us. 

Here are 26 top hummingbird attracting plants to include in your garden and on your patio. You can also click the link at the bottom to discover more than 140 different hummingbird plants. If you're local, just come in and shop. All these plants should be ready now. If you're a mail order customer, you can place your order online for shipping. 

Enjoy!

Agastache 'Tango' - Hummingbird Mint - Lamiaceae (The Mint Family)

Agastache 'Tango' is a dwarf cultivar with big flower power in firey orange for containers or the front of the border.

Agastache Kudos 'Red' - Hummingbird Mint - Lamiaceae (The Mint Family)

Agastache Kudos 'Red' hummingbird mint has bright true red flowers atop aromatic foliage for months in the sunny garden.

Agastache 'Morello' - Hummingbird Mint - Lamiaceae (The Mint Family)

Agastache 'Morello' is a dramatic hummingbird mint with huge, dense infloresences of deep burgundy rose flowers.

Agastache 'Blue Boa' - Anise Hyssop - Lamiaceae (The Mint Family)

Hot sunny spots will never be the same with long-blooming Agastache 'Blue Boa'. Butterflies and bees will love you!

Buddleia 'Birthday Cake' - Butterfly Bush - Buddlejaceae (The Butterfly Bush Family)

Buddleia 'Birthday Cake' is a butterfly bush with upright, fragrant purple flowers that bloom from summer into fall.

Buddleia 'Buzz Hot Raspberry' - Dwarf Butterfly Bush - Buddlejaceae (The Butterfly Bush Family)

Buddleja 'Buzz Hot Raspberry' is a dwarf, sterile butterfly bush that blooms continuously with fragrant, hot-raspberry-pink flowers.

Cuphea 'Hummingbird's Lunch' - Cuphea - Lythraceae (The Loosestrife Family)

Cuphea 'Hummingbird's Lunch' has masses of tubular flowers in red and yellow that will feed hummingbirds all season long.

Cuphea 'Vermillionaire - Cuphea - Lythraceae (The Loosestrife Family)

Cuphea 'Vermillionaire' is a low-mounding, tender, evergreen perennial with tubular, orange and yellow flowers popular with hummingbirds.

Dicliptera suberecta - Firecracker Plant - Acanthaceae (The Acanthus Family)

Dicliptera suberecta is commonly known as the firecracker or hummingbird plant with nectar-filled, deep orange flowers.

Eriogonum umbellatum 'Kannah Creek' - Shale Barrens Buckwheat - Polygonaceae (The Buckwheat Family)

Eriogonum umbellatum 'Kannah Creek' has bright yellow umbels maturing to orange atop green foliage turning purple-red in winter.

Kniphofia 'Lady Luck' - Red Hot Poker - Asphodelaceae (The Asphodel Family)

Kniphofia 'Lady Luck' offers torches of flowers on dramatic 5 foot spikes with chartreuse buds that open to white.

Kniphofia rooperi - Red Hot Poker - Asphodelaceae (The Asphodel Family)

Kniphofia rooperi is a late summer blooming red hot poker with large, red, egg-shaped flowers fading to yellow.

Lonicera 'Mandarin' - Honeysuckle - Caprifoliaceae (The Honeysuckle Family)

Lonicera 'Mandarin' is a honeysuckle that offers glorious shades of deep yellow, orange, peach, and pink.

Lonicera sempervirens 'Honey Coral' - Coral Honeysuckle - Caprifoliaceae (The Honeysuckle Family)

Lonicera sempervirens 'Honey Coral' is a honeysuckle with red flowers for hummingbirds, butterflies and humans alike!

Monarda Sugar Buzz 'Blue Moon' - Beebalm - Lamiaceae (The Mint Family)

Monarda Sugar Buzz 'Blue Moon' is a short, compact, mildew-resistant bee balm with lavender blue flowers.

Monardella macrantha 'Marian Sampson' - Scarlet Monardella - Lamiaceae (The Mint Family)

Monardella macrantha 'Marian Sampson' is a unique ground cover with clusters of long, tubular, flaming red flowers popular with hummingbirds.

Penstemon 'Cha Cha Cherry' - Penstemon - Scrophulariaceae (The Figwort Family)

Penstemon 'Cha Cha Cherry' offers tubular bright bright red flowers all summer long.

Penstemon pinifolius - Pineleaf Penstemon - Scrophulariaceae (The Figwort Family)

Penstemon pinifolius has bright scarlet red, tubular flowers that will draw every hummingbird from miles around.

Pulmonaria 'Shrimps on the Barbie' - Lungwort - Boraginaceae (The Borage Family)

Pulmonaria 'Shrimps on the Barbie' has white-spotted green foliage and clusters of large, pink, bell-shaped flowers.

Salvia 'Love and Wishes' - Sage - Lamiaceae (The Mint Family)

Salvia 'Love and Wishes' is a bold and beautiful sage with large, purplish magenta flowers emerging from dusky purple sepals.

Salvia greggii 'Cool Cream' - Autumn Sage - Lamiaceae (The Mint Family)

Salvia greggii 'Cool Cream' has evergreen aromatic foliage and long-blooming white flowers with a pink flush.

Salvia greggii 'Wild Thing' - Autumn Sage - Lamiaceae (The Mint Family)

Salvia greggii 'Wild Thing' is a vigorous selection with cherry pink flowers blooming constantly from June to frost.

Salvia microphylla 'Hot Lips' - Baby Sage - Lamiaceae (The Mint Family)

Salvia 'Hot Lips' is the number one most popular hummingbird plant that we grow as voted on by the hummingbirds!

Spigelia marilandica 'Little Redhead' - Indian Pink - Loganiaceae (The Logania Family)

Spigelia marilandica 'Little Redhead' is an improvement upon the striking, long-blooming eastern North American native.

Veronica 'Perfectly Picasso' - Spike Speedwell - Scrophulariaceae (The Figwort Family)

Veronica 'Perfectly Picasso' is a long-blooming spike speedwell with spikes of white buds opening to pink flowers.

Zauschneria arizonica - Hardy Hummingbird Trumpet - Onagraceae (The Evening Primrose Family)

Zauschneria arizonica is smothered in hummingbird-adored, tubular, orange-scarlet flowers from late summer into fall.

All of these plants - and more! - are available now at the nursery and for mail order shipping.

16 Amazing New Daffodils

Long-lived, easy-to-grow performers for garden or containers

Daffodils are easy and they're beautiful. They come back year after year and their clumps get bigger and fuller with more spring cheer as time passes. 

New breeding is bringing us all kinds of new and exciting forms such as doubles and split coronas plus cool new colour combinations and richer, truer salmon and pink tones. Choose a simple form for quiet elegance or a double for a rambunctious show. 

Here are 16 new daffodils available this year. Click the link to visit our mail order site and learn more about them as well as our full selection of daffs for fall pick-up or shipping.

Spring Bulbs & Bare Root Launched!

637 Amazing Species & Cultivars for your Spring Garden

We are always excited to launch a new pre-order. But we really do love launching our spring bulbs and bare root! There is so much diversity. So much colour. So much intrigue.

This year we have expanded our peony, bearded iris, and tulip selections and, as always, are bringing you tons of new options for your garden - more than 140 different bulbs and bare root that we have never offered before.

Have fun exploring!

Cypripedium Hardy Lady's

Slipper Orchids

36 Stunning Treasures for Part Shade

+ Save $10 Per Plant When You Pre-Order

Are you ready to explore the beautiful and rewarding world of hardy orchids? Try our lady's slippers. Most are hybrids with extra vigour and ease of growth. They can double in size each year under good conditions! That is something to behold.

Learn more about growing lady's slipper orchids.

Save $10 on Each Bare Root Cypripedium

Every year we offer lady's slipper orchids as bare root in the fall and potted in the spring. Bare root is the best way to establish Cypripedium when they are freshly dug. We'd like to acknowledge your efforts and encourage fall planting by offering $10 off each bare root. Your savings will be automatically added at check out. Have fun! 

Opuntia Cactus Pad Pre-Order

28 Dangerous Suspects Available for Pre-Order Now!

The garden can be a dangerous place, especially when it includes hardy cactus! We're pleased to offer a selection of 28 different Opuntia and Cylindropuntia for pick-up or shipping in August and September once this year's pads are fully developed. We are discontinuing growing cactus rooted in pots so both local and mail order customers will need to order from the pre-order. Cactus pads are easy to root in free draining media by laying them flat on the ground or by burying a small portion of the base. 

Have fun exploring!

Tons of Succulents Available Now!

Our succulent section is filled with lots of amazing things

Every week we've been adding more succulents to our succulent section. Come see all the amazing options. Or shop online for shipping.

Local customers: we have so many different succulents that not all are presented in our succulent section. It is best to place an online order in advance or to ask about specific cultivars when you visit. We'll do our best to locate them, though Gary our succulent expert will be away for the next few weeks leading a garden tour.

We have many rare succulents available and lots of conventional and more common ones too!

You Can Plant New Plants All Summer Long

A few careful steps are all that is required to successfully plant new perennials, shrubs, and trees in the summer

Many gardeners assume that once the hot weather arrives in June, July and August that it is too late to plant new perennials, shrubs, vines, and trees. Indeed, the best seasons for planting are spring and fall. But you can also plant new plants in the summer. Just follow a few easy steps and you can plant new plants in your garden all summer long!

This common misconception is likely due to confusion between the planting of new plants and the transplanting of existing plants.

Transplanting of existing plants refers to moving plants already established in the garden which results in the uprooting and damaging of established root systems, especially the fine white tip roots that are the primary conduits for water and nutrients. Once transplanted into a new location, the remaining roots will usually not have enough capacity to uptake water to support the foliage in summer’s hot, sunny conditions, even if you trim back the foliage by a third to a half.

While this type of garden work should be avoided in the summer months, the planting of new plants can continue with great success. This is because new plants can be planted with little to no damage to established root systems. Your new plant comes out of its pot and goes into the ground with its roots intact and just like when it was in a pot, the only thing you have to do is keep it watered.

Here are a few secrets of success for summer planting:

1. While still in the pot, water your new plant so that water flows freely out the bottom of the pot and the root ball is thoroughly saturated.
2. Dig a generous hole. Once dug, fill it with water and allow the water to slowly soak into the surrounding garden bed. This helps moisten the soil around your planting hole.
3. Remove your new plant from its pot and gently scuff up the edges of the root ball with your fingers. Just a little damage to the roots will encourage them to grow and branch out into their new space. Plant your new plant and fill the hole three quarters full with a half and half mix of existing soil and new compost or Sea Soil. Now fill the hole again with water and allow it to slowly drain away as before. This will thoroughly moisten the soil immediately adjacent to the new plant’s root ball.
4. Fill the remaining quarter of the planting hole with soil and gently tamp down the soil around the root ball of your new plant.
5. Collect the excess soil left over from planting and build a rim or bowl around your perennial about six to 12 inches from the base of the plant. This will create a bowl for you to water guaranteeing that water will collect in the bowl and sink straight downwards into the root ball. This step should be done with all trees and shrubs in their first year of planting even if you plant in early spring – woody plants are slower to develop good root systems than perennials.
6. Water your new plant two to three times a week during dry sunny periods by filling the bowl with water two or three times and allowing the water to sink straight down into the root ball.
7. To encourage faster rooting and long term success you can use up to three different products:

• Use a transplant fertilizer – The product we carry has rooting hormone and kelp extract which both encourage fast root growth.
• Use Root Rescue – This is soil mycorrhizae which helps plants find more water and nutrients in the soil for the life of the plant.
• Use Soil Activator – This product contains soil microbes and beneficial bacteria that also support plant and soil health in the long term.

Voilà! You can plant one new plant or a whole new garden bed and you don’t have to wait until fall! Follow these easy steps and you can plant new perennials, shrubs, and trees all summer long!

Have fun!

Check out this video of Phoenix Perennials owner, Gary Lewis, speaking to Breakfast Television host Michael Kuss on CityTV about tips and advice for summer planting.

PS. These steps are also great for success with spring and fall plantings too, especially if you’re planting trees and shrubs which are slower to establish than perennials.

Main Mail Order Catalogue

1200 Amazing Plants for Canadian Gardeners

We are so excited to launch our Main Mail Order Catalogue for the new season. We have so many amazing plants to share with you this year including more than 300 plants that are new to horticulture or new to our mail order catalogue. At 1200 plants, this is our largest selection ever. We hope you enjoy shopping for your new treasures.

We welcome orders for both shipping and pick-up. If you're a pick-up customer, please follow this link to our Plants to the People page and read the "What type of customer are you?" section to understand how your order will be handled and for advice on how to best use the services connected with our mail order site.

Please remember to place separate orders for the Main Catalogue and the Pre-Orders as all must ship at different times. Please don't mix main catalogue items with pre-order items and please don't mix pre-orders together. All the sections in the main catalogue can be ordered together as these plants all come ready in May and June.

There are lots of plants to go around. Please forward this email to all your gardening friends across Canada!

Ground Cover Book Updates

Books Available Now!

After nine years of research, photography, and writing The Complete Book of Ground Covers has been published by Timber Press and is now available at the nursery and across North America. It will be available around the world starting in December.

Here is Gary with our shipment of books which has just arrived.

Pick-ups of pre-ordered signed copies will be available for pick-up starting this afternoon. Orders for mailing will ship this week. We have lots of extras available as well so you can get one for yourself and everyone you know. After all, Christmas is coming!

It is an encyclopedia of more than 4000 different species and cultivars that is a textbook of ground covers for the temperate gardening world with sections on the practical, aesthetic, and environmental benefits of ground covers.

And it was written right here in BC by Phoenix Perennials owner Gary Lewis!

Order Your Book Now!

You can order signed copies for pick-up or shipping within Canada from Phoenix Perennials. You can order from your favourite neighbourhood book seller. Or you can order online around the world from your favourite online sources.

Please Review the Book

Whether it's social media or online sales, everything is about clicks and engagement. When it comes to online sales of books, the algorithms of online retailers will prioritize selling titles that receive more reviews - especially positive ones! If you have an account with any online book sellers - especially Amazon - you can go online and leave a review.

Thank you so much for your help!

Please Ask Your Local Library to Offer the Book

Ground covers offer many benefits to make our communities more sustainable and more beautiful. The more people who can access the book, the better.

Please bring The Complete Book of Ground Covers to the attention of your local librarian and ask them to add it to their collection.

Fab at Phoenix 

Gary's picks of what's exciting right now at the Phoenix Candy Store

These plants are available now for in-person shopping at the nursery and for ordering online for shipping this spring.

For those paying close attention you'll notice that we have not changed this section from last time. With apologies, fellow gardeners, I'm leading a garden tour in France and am too busy in the gardens to add more plants to this section. The nursery is currently packed with colour from these and other plants. It's worth a visit to see it all!

Ratibida columnifera 'Red' - Mexican Hat Plant - Asteraceae (The Aster Family)

Ratibida columnifera 'Red' is a Mexican hat plant with blooms of deep red and yellow that appear to float above feathery foliage.

Salvia 'Ember's Wish' - Sage - Lamiaceae (The Mint Family)

Salvia 'Ember's Wish' has large, bright coral-red flowers are produced all summer long atop scented foliage. Plant, stand back, and watch the hummingbird madness begin.

Salvia 'Wendy's Wish' - Sage - Lamiaceae (The Mint Family)

Salvia 'Wendy's Wish' blooms from spring to summer with large, magenta flowers and scented foliage. A hummingbird magnet.

Salvia Color Spires 'Violet Riot' - Garden Sage - Lamiaceae (The Mint Family)

Salvia 'Violet Riot' has fragrant two-lipped flowers in violet-blue with dark purple sepals and aromatic, green foliage.

Viola walteri 'Silver Gem' - Prostrate Blue Violet - Violaceae (The Violet Family)

Viola walteri 'Silver Gem' is a trailing, ground-covering violet with silver foliage and reblooming purple flowers.

Delosperma hybrida Ocean Sunset 'Orange Glow' - Ice Plant - Aizoaceae (The Carpet Weed Family)

Delosperma Ocean Sunset 'Orange Glow' is an ice plant with mats of orange blooms with hot pink tips and bright yellow centres. 

Vasconcellea x heilbornii - Babaco Papaya/Champagne Fruit - Caricaceae (The Papaya Family)

Vasconcellea x heilbornii is a hybrid related to papaya that produces similar-looking fruit but is more cold tolerant.

Ananas comosus 'Florida Special' - Pineapple - Bromeliaceae (The Pineapple Family)

Ananas comosus 'Florida Special' produces delicious pineapples studded with red highlights.

Fragaria ananassa Berried Treasure 'Red' - Everbearing Strawberry - Rosaceae (The Rose Family)

Fragaria x ananassa Berried Treasure 'Red' is long-blooming with semi-double red flowers and sweet fruit all summer long.

Fragaria x ananassa Berried Treasure 'White' - Everbearing Strawberry - Rosaceae (The Rose Family)

Fragaria x ananassa Berried Treasure 'White' is an everbearing strawberry with semi-double white flowers and sweet red fruit.

Mentha requienii - Corsican Mint - Lamiaceae (The Mint Family)

Mentha requienii or Corsican mint has a delicious fragrance when caressed. It is the flavouring for creme de menthe.

Fragaria x ananassa 'Gasana' - Strawberry - Rosaceae (The Rose Family)

Fragaria 'Gasana' has beautiful pink flowers that produce mid-sized yummy strawberries.

Delphinium elatum 'Red Lark' - Larkspur - Ranunculaceae (The Buttercup Family)

Delphinium 'Red Lark' is a compact larkspur with fully double flowers in bold coral-red atop lacy green foliage.

Delphinium Highlander 'Sweet Sensation' - Larkspur - Ranunculaceae (The Buttercup Family)

Delphinium Highlander 'Sweet Sensation' is magnificent with ruffled, fully double flowers in shades of deep lilac purple and blue.

Delphinium New Millennium 'Purple Passion' - Delphinium - Ranunculaceae (The Buttercup Family)

Delphinium New Millennium 'Purple Passion' blooms with dense spikes of frilly, warm, rich, purple, single flowers with white centres.

Delphinium New Millennium 'Blue Buccaneers' - Delphinium - Ranunculaceae (The Buttercup Family)

Delphinium New Millennium 'Blue Buccaneers' offers dense spikes of glowing deep blue, single flowers with black centres.

Senecio candicans 'Angel Wings' - Senecio - Asteraceae (The Aster Family)

Senecio candicans 'Angel Wings' is a "wow" plant with large, silver-white, ruffled, velvety leaves with toothed edges.

Romneya coulteri - California Tree Poppy - Papaveraceae (The Poppy Family)

Romneya coulteri or Matilija poppy has incredible, crepe-paper thin, pure white petals with large yellow centres atop bluish foliage!

Echeveria 'Trumpet Pinky' - Echeveria - Crassulaceae (The Stonecrop Family)

Echeveria 'Trumpet Pinky' is one of the craziest succulents with bluish to lavender leaves rolled into trumpet-like, flared tubes!

Echeveria 'Christmas' - Mexican Hen and Chicks - Crassulaceae (The Stonecrop Family)

Echeveria 'Christmas' forms attractive rosettes of thick, apple-green foliage edged in dark red with yellow-orange flowers.

Echeveria 'Chroma' - Mexican Hen and Chicks - Crassulaceae (The Stonecrop Family)

Echeveria 'Chroma' offers a kaleidoscope of colours from blue-green, apricot, pink, gold, rose-red and near-white all swirled together!

Echeveria 'Cupid' - Mexican Hen and Chicks - Crassulaceae (The Stonecrop Family)

Echeveria 'Cupid' has long, narrow, succulent leaves with truncated, diamond-shaped tips each with a terminal dimple.

Echeveria 'Lenore Dean'/'Compton Carousel' - Mexican Hen & Chicks - Crassulaceae (The Stonecrop Family)

'Lenore Dean'/'Compton Carousel' is a stunning Echeveria with blue green leaves with broad ivory to creamy white margins.

Haworthia 'Hime Jukin' ('Princess Jukin') - Haworthia - Asphodelaceae (The Asphodel Family)

Haworthia 'Hime Jukin' ('Princess Jukin') is a spectacular variegated cultivar with long, pointed, tongue-like, variably variegated leaves.

Haworthia truncata 'Jade Fan Variegated' - Horse's Teeth - Asphodelaceae (The Asphodel Family)

Haworthia truncata 'Jade Fan Variegated' is a large, robust cultivar with bright green leaves variably streaked with ivory white. Every plant is different.

Haworthia limifolia 'Variegata' - Fairy Washboard - Asphodelaceae (The Asphodel Family)

Haworthia limifolia 'Variegata' is has grey-green rosettes of sharply-pointed leaves with raised ridges and bold, variable gold striping.

Arbutus menziesii - Pacific Madrone - Ericaceae (The Heath Family)

Arbutus menziesii is an attractive evergreen tree with peeling red/brown bark, clusters of fragrant white or pink flowers and edible scarlet fruit.

Haworthia pumila 'Emperor' - Haworthia - Asphodelaceae (The Asphodel Family)

Haworthia pumila 'Emperor' has long, pointed, grey-green leaves covered with pure white, raised dots.

Sanguisorba hakusanensis 'Lilac Squirrel' - Burnet - Rosaceae (The Rose Family)

'Lilac Squirrel' comes from a rare species of Sanguisorba or burnet. It has intriguing, pendulous, lilac-pink bottlebrushes.

Sanguisorba tenuifolia 'Pink Elephant' - Burnet - Rosaceae (The Rose Family)

Sanguisorba 'Pink Elephant' produces masses of squiggly bottlebrushes on tall stems that are deep pink with light pink stamens.

Cuphea 'Vermillionaire - Cuphea - Lythraceae (The Loosestrife Family)

Cuphea 'Vermillionaire' is a low-mounding, tender, evergreen perennial with tubular, orange and yellow flowers popular with hummingbirds.

Ugni molinae - Chilean Guava - Myrtaceae (The Myrtle Family)

The Chilean guava, Ugni molinae, is an evergreen shrub with fragrant late spring flowers and tasty ruby red fruit.

Cordyline 'Dancing Paso Doble' - Cabbage Palm - Asparagaceae (The Asparagus Family)

Cordyline 'Dancing Paso Doble' is a subtropical cabbage palm with dramatic deep purple foliage with hot pink edges.

Colocasia esculenta 'Mojito' - Taro - Araceae (The Arum Family)

Colocasia 'Mojito' has incredible black-speckled taro/elephant ear leaves. A magnificent focal point for containers or garden.

Agastache 'Blue Boa' - Anise Hyssop - Lamiaceae (The Mint Family)

Hot sunny spots will never be the same with long-blooming Agastache 'Blue Boa'. Butterflies and bees will love you!

Agastache 'Morello' - Hummingbird Mint - Lamiaceae (The Mint Family)

Agastache 'Morello' is a dramatic hummingbird mint with huge, dense infloresences of deep burgundy rose flowers.

Agastache Kudos 'Red' - Hummingbird Mint - Lamiaceae (The Mint Family)

Agastache Kudos 'Red' hummingbird mint has bright true red flowers atop aromatic foliage for months in the sunny garden.

Agastache 'Pink Pearl' - Hummingbird Mint - Lamiaceae (The Mint Family)

Agastache 'Pink Pearl' is a stunning hummingbird mint with dense spikes of mid pink buds opening to glowing light pink flowers.

Agastache 'Crazy Fortune' - Anise Hyssop - Lamiaceae (The Mint Family)

'Crazy Fortune' is a sport of Agastache 'Blue Fortune' with lavender blue flowers and variegated foliage.

Agastache 'Black Adder' - Anise Hyssop - Lamiaceae (The Mint Family)

Among the best of the blue Agastache, 'Black Adder' has blue flowers and deep purple blue bracts for a bicolour effect.

Pulmonaria 'Shrimps on the Barbie' - Lungwort - Boraginaceae (The Borage Family)

Pulmonaria 'Shrimps on the Barbie' has white-spotted green foliage and clusters of large, pink, bell-shaped flowers.

Pulmonaria 'Trevi Fountain' - Lungwort - Boraginaceae (The Borage Family)

Pulmonaria 'Trevi Fountain' has silver-spotted foliage with profuse clusters of large cobalt-blue flowers.

Dryopteris wallichiana Jurassic Gold - Alpine Wood Fern - Dryopteridaceae (The Wood Fern Family)

Dryopteris wallichiana Jurassic Gold 'Hollasic' has stunning gold and orange new foliage.

Geum 'Pretticoats Peach' - Avens - Rosaceae (The Rose Family)

Geum Pretticoats Peach is a gorgeous avens with highly ruffled, double flowers in shades of peach, pink, yellow, and cream.

Loropetalum chinensis 'Jazz Hands Pink' - Chinese Witch Hazel - Hamamelidaceae (The Witch Hazel Family)

Loropetalum chinensis 'Jazz Hands Pink' is a vigorous evergreen shrub with purple foliage and fragrant pink flowers.

Loropetalum chinensis 'Jazz Hands Variegated' - Chinese Witch Hazel - Hamamelidaceae (The Witch Hazel Family)

Loropetalum chinensis 'Jazz Hands Variegated' is an evergreen shrub with pink and white foliage maturing to purple with pink flowers.

Buddleia Monarch 'Prince Charming' - Butterfly Bush - Buddlejaceae (The Butterfly Bush Family)

Buddleja Monarch 'Prince Charming' is a mid-sized, long-blooming butterfly bush with huge cones of fragrant, raspberry-pink flowers.

Buddleia Cascade 'Pink Cascade II' - Butterfly Bush - Buddlejaceae (The Butterfly Bush Family)

Buddleia 'Pink Cascade II' is a mid-sized, long-blooming, sterile butterfly bush with huge cones of fragrant, pink flowers.

Fatsia japonica 'Spider's Web' - Japanese Fatsia - Araliaceae (The Aralia Family)

'Spider's Web' is a version of Fatsia japonica with dramatic evergreen foliage speckled with white.

Darmera peltata 'Nana' - Umbrella Plant - Saxifragaceae (The Saxifrage Family)

Umbrella plant (Darmera peltata 'Nana') is a great shade perennial that is smaller than the species.

Penstemon xylus 'Tushar Blue' - Beard Tongue - Scrophulariaceae (The Figwort Family)

Penstemon xylus 'Tushar Blue' is an evergreen ground hugging perennial with lavender-blue tubular flowers.

Penstemon pinifolius - Pineleaf Penstemon - Scrophulariaceae (The Figwort Family)

Penstemon pinifolius has bright scarlet red, tubular flowers that will draw every hummingbird from miles around.

Penstemon pinifolius 'Mersea Yellow' - Pineleaf Penstemon - Scrophulariaceae (The Figwort Family)

Penstemon pinifolius 'Mersea Yellow' has lemon yellow flowers that will draw every hummingbird from miles around.

Penstemon 'Cha Cha Lavender' - Penstemon - Scrophulariaceae (The Figwort Family)

Penstemon 'Cha Cha Lavender' offers tubular lavender purple and white flowers all summer long.

Penstemon 'Cha Cha Cherry' - Penstemon - Scrophulariaceae (The Figwort Family)

Penstemon 'Cha Cha Cherry' offers tubular bright bright red flowers all summer long.

Penstemon 'Flock of Flamingos' - Penstemon - Scrophulariaceae (The Figwort Family)

Penstemon 'Flock of Flamingos' offers tubular, two-tone pink flowers all summer long.

Gerbera Garvinea 'Sweet Memories' - Gerbera Daisy - Asteraceae (The Aster Family)

Gerbera Garvinea Sweet Memories has soft-pink, white, and yellow flowers, blooms from spring until fall, and is hardy to zone 7!

Gerbera Garvinea 'Sweet Sparkle' - Gerbera Daisy - Asteraceae (The Aster Family)

Garvinea 'Sweet Sparkle' is a gerbera daisy with pink flowers and dark centres that blooms from spring to fall. Hardy to zone 7!

This is just the tip of the Phoenix Perennials iceberg.

For the rest you'll need to visit us in person or online!

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