Perennial Photo Gallery Page 5
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Scabiosa columbaria – Pincushion flower – (Dipsacaceae). Produce mainly basal leaves and blue, white or pink flowerheads with domed, pincushion-like central florets and larger florets on the margins. |
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Sedum ‘Autumn Joy’ – Autumn Joy stonecrop – (Crassulaceae incl. Sempervivum). Succulents perennials producing star-shaped, 5 petaled flowers. Autumn Joy produces a bushy clump of stalks with mid-green, leaves. Bears flat corymbs of pink to pinkish bronze flowers. |
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Salvia argentea – Silver sage – (Lamiaceae). Grown for the rosettes of silver-wooly leaves. Produces a branched, flower stalk with 2-lipped, white flowers. |
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Rhamnus frangula – Smooth buckthorn – (Rhamnaceae). A more genteel small tree (15 feet) of the buckthorn family than weedy common buckthorn, R. cathartica. Green fruit turns red then black in fall. Bark is smooth and gray. Has attractive, glossy-green leaves. |
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Veronica spicata ‘Goodness Grows’ – Spike speedwell – (Scrophulariaceae). Spiked speedwell forms a mat of leaves with erect racemes of star-shaped, 4-5 lobed bright blue flowers with long purple stamens and only 2 functional ones. Goodness Grows bears dark blue flowers all summer on 12-16 inch plants. |
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Viola sp. – violets – (Violaceae). |
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Verbascum phoenecium – Purple mullein – (Scrophulariaceae). Short, 18 inch stalks of white, pink or violet flowers. |
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Veronica 'Sunny Border Blue'. This plant was chosen Perennial Plant of the Year in 1993. |
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Achillea – White yarrow – (Asteraceae). |
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Solidago ‘Golden Baby’ – Golden baby goldenrod – (Asteraceae). Goldenrod does not cause hayfever, ragweeds (Ambrosia sp.) do. Golden Baby is a compact dwarf with mid-green leaves growing to 24 inches. |
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Achillea – Colorado yarrow – (Asteraceae). |
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Stachys byzantina. – Lamb's ears – (Lamiaceae). Grown for the mat of densely white, wooly rosettes of leaves. |
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Photographs courtesy of Carl Wilson and Judy Sedbrook.
Plant list provided courtesy of Greg Foreman, Lakewood Parks and Recreation.
