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Perennial plants are the backbone of the flower garden because they're the plants with staying power. Their leaves die back as winter approaches, but with luck, the following spring, they come back. Some plants are short-lived, but old favorites like daylilies, and hostas can thrive for decades.

Butterfly & SongBird Plants
Creeping Phlox
Daylilies, Re-Bloomers
Ferns, Our Best Value
Ferns, Premium Container
Grass - Cool Season
Grass - Warm Season
Herb Garden
Hostas
Iris
Flowering perennials
Wildflowers
Perennials

Butterfly and Song-Bird Plants
You can expect the plants in this section to be attractive to butterflies songbirds. In fact, they’re more than attractive; they’re a magnet for all the butterflies and songbirds who pass through your garden seeking nectar and seed.
Creeping Phlox
Creeping Phlox are ground-hugging plants. They are vigorous growers and ideal cover plants for difficult edges and for rock gardens. It is equally at home in the front of a traditional flower border or planted along the edges of flagstone walkways.
Daylilies
There are literally hundreds of daylily varieties offered on the market today. Coming home with Greenwood makes it simple by making selections we consider to be the best all around daylily varieties available.

Ferns, Our Best Value
A selection of quality ferns purchased in quantity for naturalizing at a great value. Ferns add a delicate touch to the landscape. Ferns used in shaded areas, around trees, and small garden pools.
Ferns, Premium Container
NEW! You’re invited to Come Home with Greenwood and visit our premium fern selections. We have the best ferns available that are grown in large quart containers for one full season before we ship them.
Grass - Cool Season
Cool season grasses start into growth and flower while the weather is still cool, in spring and early summer, and tend to go into summer dormancy as temperatures rise. Usually look better in the summer if grown woodland or a cool, shady spot.

Grass - Warm Season
Grasses that flower after mid-summer are warm-season grasses, because they wait until the warmth of summer before starting into growth, then grow rapidly and come into flower between mid and late summer.
Herb Garden
You don’t need a garden to grow herbs. Add these perennial herbs to your landscape and enjoy their beauty, fragrance, and culinary benefits year around. Browse our selections and read our related articles below the sale items.
Hostas
Hostas are extremely popular, hardy herbaceous perennials grown primarily for their beautiful foliage. They are easy to grow, shade-tolerant plants. Leaves come in a wide range of shapes, colors, sizes, and textures and may be solid in color

Iris
Iris flowers have three petals often called the "standards", and three outer petal-like sepals called the "falls"
STEP–UPS ™ Flowering perennials
Introducing, exclusively for Greenwood Nursery Club members and customers,
our NEW STEP–UPS ™ Perennial Plant collection. What are Step-Ups ™?
Wildflowers
Wildflowers are becoming an increasingly popular landscape alternative by adding color and natural beauty to any area. Unlike the typical European-style formal gardens of straight lines, square corners and manicured edges, wildflower gardens.
Our Featured Perennials:

Hosta, Francis Williams
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Perennials and Investment Landscaping;

Gardening and landscaping can be considered investments. Much as you would put money into a savings or retirement account for future use, plantings are there for future enjoyment. There are three levels of investment to consider for plants.

The first level is the one which can give the quickest return on investment. Annuals fall into this category. Many will be blooming when you pick them up and will continue to bloom for the season. Their return is short lived since fall brings an end to the plants.

Second level plants will require a little more investment in time, but the payoff is much longer in duration. Perennials will last for years and bring a steady return with each returning growing season.

The third level is plants which may take years to reach maturity. Most trees fall into this category, with some taking a lifetime to deliver the payoff of shade, fruit, and flowers.

Careful planning of your planting will deliver the most for years to come.

Perennials make a great investment, and to make the most of your investment good initial planning will produce the most returns with the minimum maintenance. Selecting plants based on the location is the first step. Some plants prefer full sun, while others prefer partial sun and shade. Some will grow in most any soil while others need specific content to perform their best.

Plant perennials for glorious color and texture to the garden and landscape all season long

When you start gardening with perennials, it's easy to think that all you have to do is get your plants into the ground, and with the exception of weeding, watering and cutting back, your garden will be done.

But here's what really happens:

The first year – if you use small plants your new plants are underwhelming – the clumps small, the flowers sparse.

With our larger sized plants – our plants are like most second year perennials and grow fuller with more flowers the first season after planting.

But in the second and third season – watch out – your plants look like they're on steroids, and you look like an accomplished gardener.

After that, many plants get bigger each season, while the odd one confounds you by doing a disappearing act. Responding to the inevitable change is your challenge as a flower gardener. Perennials are plants that no garden, large or small should be without. They are hassle free plants that once planted will grow back year after year giving a wonderful show in your garden. Most or our varieties offered here are established plants grown in approx 1 QUART size pots or larger and will be ready for planting directly in the garden. (Exceptions are the herbs, creeping phlox, and the butterfly bush grown in 4 inch containers.)

Perennial plants are the backbone of the flower garden because they're the plants with staying power. Their leaves die back as winter approaches, but with luck, the following spring, they come back. Some plants are short-lived, but old favorites like daylilies, and hostas can thrive for decades.

The charm of a flower garden is the fact that it changes month by month, giving you new blooms to appreciate as spring moves into fall. The trick is to arrange your plants so that you will have continuous color all season long.

Greenwood  Nursery: perennial plants, garden designs, flowering trees, shrubs, vines, and ground covers
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