{"title":"Perennials For Containers","description":"\u003cdiv title=\"Shop Perennials For Containers\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThese perennials are perfect for pots, planters, and small-space gardening—offering big style in compact form.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"perennial-shasta-daisy-real-sunbeam","title":"Real Sunbeam Shasta Daisy","description":"\u003cp\u003eCheerful blooms abound with 'Real Sunbeam' Shasta Daisy. With blooms 3-4 inches across, this perennial is a summer garden essential, flowering from early summer into fall. Deadhead spent flowers to keep more blooms coming, and enjoy some in summer bouquets, too. Happy in full sun to part sun and not fussy, it will thrive in average, well-draining soil, and is drought tolerant once established. At 18-20 inches tall and 18-20 inches wide, 'Real Sunbeam' mixes into a perennial bed where its lush yellow will lift the pinks, purples, and blues of garden favorites such as Delphinium, Echinacea, Penstemon, and Coreopsis. Leucanthemum superbum can be toxic to dogs and cats and may cause skin and eye irritation. USPPP\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"AMI Production","offers":[{"title":"Plant - 3\" Pot","offer_id":46472243511535,"sku":"AM019696","price":13.32,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0731\/9535\/6399\/files\/leucanthemum-real-sunbeam-close-up.jpg?v=1761078661"},{"product_id":"perennial-russian-sage-lacey-blue","title":"Lacey Blue Russian Sage","description":"\u003cp\u003eDwarf Russian Sage only grows to be about 12-18\" in height and boasts blooms larger than most! This deer-resistant beauty brings extended color to the sun or partial shade garden, blooming from mid-summer until early fall. 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Their efforts have created a mini-sensation in the world of perennials, as more and more gardeners discover these great plants.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Some of the natives are alpines from the Rockies, others are dwellers in lowland southeastern forests. But all have several wonderful things in common.  They have beautiful foliage, with large leaves in several colors that remind many of grape leaves, and the foliage lasts through the winter.  With hybridization, some of the foliage colors have become truly spectacular, with rich shades and fascinating bi-colors. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNow there are new \u003cem\u003eHeuchera\u003c\/em\u003e hybrids almost every year, and the group gains popularity all the time.  They take full sun or partial shade.  And while most of these are grown for their handsome foliage, many also have lovely flowers, some spectacular.  Best of all, the plants bloom for weeks and weeks. The flowers rise from a clump of leaves on elegant, thin stems which are lined with the small bell-like blooms.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"AMI Production","offers":[{"title":"Plant - 3\" Pot","offer_id":46472250392815,"sku":"AM014066","price":24.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0731\/9535\/6399\/files\/heuchera-georgia-peach-coral-bells-brer03445_1.jpg?v=1761078674"},{"product_id":"perennial-violet-etain","title":"Etain Violet","description":"\u003cp\u003eSome gardeners have a strong love-hate relationship with violets, due to their tendency to spread and naturalize, but it all depends on where they are planted! Of course, everybody loves the flowers. Use them anywhere that you want a drift of blooms, expanding year after year, to delight and surprise you! 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This plant is easy to grow, blooms profusely, and has that magical quality:  Butterflies can’t resist it.   \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHere's why: It’s not just the pretty flowers that attract the butterflies, like any bright flower.  Buddleias emit a special honey-scented fragrance that lures butterflies like a moth to a light, and then once there, they find the flowers super-rich in nectar.  \u003c\/p\u003e\nA butterfly bush in the garden will often be seen with a mass of butterflies on the flowers, especially during hot sunny afternoons.  Buddleias attract other insects too, like moths, and the reddish ones strongly attract hummingbirds.  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Native to the far east, these beautiful plants and their hybrids have revolutionized the perennial possibilities of moist, shaded American gardens.  They are companions of ferns and our favorite annuals, impatiens--one of the few flowers that make big color in full or partial shade.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThe vast majority of the scores of hybrids now available are the work of one man, master hybridizer Georg Arends (Yes, that's why you keep seeing arendsii tacked onto hybrid names.) Mr. Arends, working in Ronsdorf, Germany spent decades hybridizing Sedums, Phlox, Campanulas....and his first love, Astilbes. In 1933, Arends introduced 74 different Astilbe cultivars, and there have been hundreds since.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e These plume-flowered plants have ultra-handsome fern-like foliage, (usually dark glossy green) and stiff stems that always hold the elegant plumes aloft without any staking. 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