PERENNIALS 

Planting the right perennials will bring new waves of colour to your garden from early spring through to the first frost.  Perennials are hardy and will return and expand in your garden year after year.  Taylor’s greenhouses abound with colourful perennials including new varieties and unusual specimens for the avid gardener.

CONFUSED ABOUT PERENNIALS? 
Landscape Ontario has some recommendations that we pass on to our customers for six basic perennials. Each of these plants has beautiful, long lasting flowers…and together they can provide interesting focal points and colour from spring into fall.

Tall Bearded Iris—flowering in May and June—need a sunny, well-drained location—very hardy
Peonies—flowering in May and June—long lived plants that will flower for generations
Oriental Poppies—flowering in June and July—will set the garden afire with a blaze of colour—do well in full sun or partial shade
Delphiniums—flowering in June and July and again in September—stately, spectacular tall plants with spikes of flowers—best if staked against wind/thunderstorms
Day Lilies—flowering in July and August—fabulous range of colours to choose from—tough, hardy, reliable
Tall Phlox—flowering in August and September—invaluable for continuing the summer-long display of colour—choose from pinks, white, oranges, purples—plant in irregular drifts

We also recommend the addition of clumps of ornamental perennial grasses to your garden. Try mass-planting small grasses as groundcover or in a rock garden and use taller grasses as focal points in garden beds or as lawn ornamentals. Grasses are hardy, distinctive and often very elegant.

PERENNIALS 

Planting the right perennials will bring new waves of colour to your garden from early spring through to the first frost.  Perennials are hardy and will return and expand in your garden year after year.  Taylor’s greenhouses abound with colourful perennials including new varieties and unusual specimens for the avid gardener.

CONFUSED ABOUT PERENNIALS? 
Landscape Ontario has some recommendations that we pass on to our customers for six basic perennials. Each of these plants has beautiful, long lasting flowers…and together they can provide interesting focal points and colour from spring into fall.

Tall Bearded Iris—flowering in May and June—need a sunny, well-drained location—very hardy
Peonies—flowering in May and June—long lived plants that will flower for generations
Oriental Poppies—flowering in June and July—will set the garden afire with a blaze of colour—do well in full sun or partial shade
Delphiniums—flowering in June and July and again in September—stately, spectacular tall plants with spikes of flowers—best if staked against wind/thunderstorms
Day Lilies—flowering in July and August—fabulous range of colours to choose from—tough, hardy, reliable
Tall Phlox—flowering in August and September—invaluable for continuing the summer-long display of colour—choose from pinks, white, oranges, purples—plant in irregular drifts

We also recommend the addition of clumps of ornamental perennial grasses to your garden. Try mass-planting small grasses as groundcover or in a rock garden and use taller grasses as focal points in garden beds or as lawn ornamentals. Grasses are hardy, distinctive and often very elegant.