Our Top 5 Favorite Flowering Perennials

Have you been wanting to add more perennials to your garden, but don't know where to start?  The unlimited choices can get overwhelming, so we wanted to share our very favorites to help make your decision a little easier!

This week on the Gals Who Grow Podcast, we're chatting all about our top 5 favorite flowering perennials—the ones we come back to year after year and can’t imagine our gardens without. We’re sharing why we love them, what makes them so reliable, and how they add beauty and color to our spaces with less work over time. If you’re looking for plants that keep showing up for you season after season, this episode is full of ideas and inspiration to get you growing 🌸🌿

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Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:00

Hi, I'm Monica with Lululu the A Fields. And I'm Cassie with Coppertop Gardens. And I'm Bailey with How Home and Garden. We have been cultivating our gardens and farms for years now, but something really special was sewed when we met and began working together.

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Our shared passion for growing the best local flowers and food has made us realize the impact it's had in not only our own homes, but also in our local community.

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We are the gals who grow, and we can't wait to inspire you to grow too.

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Hey girl, hey!

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Hey, hello. What's going on? Well, we're just here to talk about our uh favorite flowering perennials next. This is a great episode.

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Top fives. Nope, really, these are top 15. I don't know why we're calling them top fives.

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Each of us, and there's three of us. So some ground rules, because Bailey asked earlier. This is any perennial that flowers that you love. So it doesn't have to be it.

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It can be shrub perennial, it could be herbaceous, meaning it dies to the ground and comes back. It could be a tree.

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If it flowers and it's a perennial, can it be a tree? Can it be a tree? Just yeah, whatever. We'll mention it. Okay. We're being loose today.

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Okay.

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I'm like, all right. Wait, should we say trees though? Because that could like be a whole other topic.

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All right, let's let's stay away from trees.

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Okay, we'll we'll have another episode on trees in the future. My favorite. Flowering. Flowering. It's gotta be a flowering one.

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All right, all right. So um who wants to start? Cassie, you go first.

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Okay, okay. Yeah, yeah.

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I don't know what my first one, but I can't choose just five. This is hard. I know, I know. It's it's a big ask. Okay, so I wrote some down. Hydrangeas, because of course um, these are just great. Panicle is my very favorite. Yeah. Because they tend to grow pretty well here. Um, pretty foolproof. But I do love an oak leaf. A paniculata. Yes. I do love an oak leaf. Oak leaves are what, native here? Yeah, I think. In Indiana, I believe. Yep. So I love those. The leaf structure alone. I know, they're so pretty. And they change beautiful colors in the fall. Like I love them. Love, love. And they get big-ish. Yeah. They're my favorite. So love those. You can use them as a cut flower too if you want. Um, but I use them as my yard decor. So um, my next one we kind of already talked about in the last episode, but I do love echinacea. Just to be a flowering perennial because I have just the um purpuria. Um the native. That one's just my favorite, yeah. I love the native. I love how tall it gets. And it just gets huge. It gets huge so fast. And I kid you not, like I didn't smell it until last year, where like one of my kids.

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Yeah, you I remember you saying that and I being like, what? Oh my gosh.

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Did you know that it's like that?

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And I was shocked again that it smelled good. But yeah, I don't think I smelled it.

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It smelled like the most beautiful florally perfume, and I don't usually like floral perfume, but like I don't know, and it smelled fruity. I wonder if the other varieties would smell good too. I don't know, but this was the native one, and I was shocked. Like I literally carried it around for like 10 minutes just like smelling it because it was amazing.

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Does it smell as good as a snapdragon? Because that's what I compare everything to.

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I would say it's much stronger than a snapdragon. Really? Yes. Okay. So when they bloom this year, it's a good one. That's why the bees love them. Give to smell. Yeah, literally like 12, 15 bees on it at a time. Yeah last year.

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I have to move the one by my front door because it's like kind of a little bit hazardous now.

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Yeah.

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Um, I didn't mention this one. I'm gonna do this one. Flocks. Oh yes. Perennial flocks. Yes, perennial flocks. Again, something I had not smelled before.

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Yeah.

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I'm relatively new to like the perennial game. I'll just be honest with you. But perennial flox, so good. It smells kind of like marshmallows. Oh what kind do you have? I have the David, the white. I got some of that last year. I don't have like the really tall ones. Oh, yeah, yeah. Um, they're like a medium height. That's mine too. But it was it's a they're proven winners. I'm not really sure on the varieties, but I have like a hot, hot pink one and then a white one with like little pinks around the middle of the phone.

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Do they get pretty big? Like, are they expanding quickly or not really? Oh, they don't this'll be like their third season, so we'll see.

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I think the wild or like tall one, I think can get sort of big. I have some of that from my mom gave it to me. It was she was like, it was the wild flocks.

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I don't know that it I I have some flocks that I do not like that I need to dig up. Yeah, it's not like a well these are the proven winners variety.

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No, I think the proven winner was they seem to stay more compact and like controllable. That's just what they I got them like discounted or something, but they're cute. I like them. They're pretty. Um and yeah, that smell again, just marshmallows. Okay, yeah. I'll I'll let you know when they're bigger. And they bloom at different times.

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Like my my mom's that she gave me that are like over four feet bloom later than the ones that bloom in May for me, which are the shorter.

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Yeah, I think these start blooming around May time as well. Um Rudecia, like specifically Rudbeckia Herta? I don't s this I I don't know. I got it off Facebook Marketplace. Is it come back every year? It comes back every year and it spreads like really littler flowers. They are, but they don't look it I almost wonder if it's a brown-eyed Susan that I have.

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Yeah, is it black with tiny black center with tiny little it has very tiny leaves, but they don't downturn like a cone flower.

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Yeah. Like some of those. It stays like very daisy like. I bet it's triloba. It might be.

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I think it's probably triloba. Trilobas are like extremely perennial.

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It gets better three, four feet tall, and yes, it spreads. I can move it and put it somewhere else.

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I dug that up out of my front yard, my front car like corner garden. Yeah. And I dug it up forever ago. Haven't seen it in years. And it's the seed decided to there's one that just showed up.

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I think it definitely spreads by seed a little bit, but yeah, you can just like chop off a chunk of it and just move it.

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It is very pretty. It'd be pretty along like a fence line or something.

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It's so pretty along a fence line, and I've used it just to fill in like my cottage garden up front, and it's like the first year I moved it, it was just a classic.

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Yeah, so there's a couple of types of Rudecia. The Rebecca Herta are not as uh, they're more tender. Yeah. So those are the larger ones. Yes, yes.

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Is that like Sahara?

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Sahara is a Herta, um, the like Indian summer. Yeah.

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The cut flowery ones. Although the Triloba is a good cut flowery one.

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Trilobo you can cut too.

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I had those for two years and I think they're done now. Yeah. I don't know. I think that's pretty standard for that kind of thing. They're about two years done.

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Yeah.

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I do love it though. I love a yellow and the cherry. The cherry brandy brandy for this year. And I'm excited about that. I haven't had mine, haven't turned out great from seed for them, but I don't know if that was just like the seed uh producer that I bought it from or I saved seed from my Sahara and I like whatever soda and no not direct soda, I just put it in pots, and only like I don't know, nine have come up out of like 40.

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Boo.

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But we'll see what they look like. Yeah, yeah. That'll be fun.

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That's what so there's there's types of Hertel which are they're like a perennial, but not they're a tender perennial. So you you may or may not get them back there.

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Triloba, though, if you want something year after year after year, that's the one you want. Yeah, for sure. It does spread, but it spreads controllably, like very easy to do. They're not hard to dig up either. It's not like they're for being so tough, yeah, they're very easy to dig up and I've done it a lot of times in my yard already. Um, and then my last one is sedum. Yeah. Just because she's beautiful in all her seasons. She really is. Um, it's kind of uh what's the word?

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Succulent.

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Yes, succulent y. Um, they're very cute outside right now because their little leaves are just starting to poke out, and it's like this cute little mound of green rosettes just starting to pop out of the ground. But you can use them as a cut as well in any season. They're stems, they're greenery, then they have the flower bloom, and it doesn't actually bloom until like August.

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They're also like a really good base for like if you're trying if you want to do like a all organic mic, like not design in foam. Like because their their head is so like that netty that if you put it at the bottom of an arrangement, you can also you can almost use it as like chicken wire or a foam. Like they're functionally and that's another good one.

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So if you wanted to have multiple uses for it like that, you just chop off a chunk and replant it, and it it is like they also call it stone crop because it is hardy. Yeah, and it is very hardy. Love it, love that one. So that's my list.

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Yeah, I love those are some good ones. Trying to get some more of that.

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Which, yeah, we've got some new little starts.

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Bailey's giving us starts today of Cedam from my childhood home. Do you know what color what kind that is?

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Um, no. No.

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Okay, so fun story, real quick. Last year. Last year, my sister came home with um some flowers from a restaurant in town. And I was like, oh my gosh. From our favorite restaurant in town. Ninth Street Bistro, shout out. Um, and so she came home with this bouquet, big bouquet of flowers, and there was this beautiful sedum in it, and I was like, oh my gosh. And I knew Bailey supplied the flowers, and I was like, oh my gosh, I'm taking all the sedum out of this arrangement, and I'm gonna try and root it, which I did it wrong, or it didn't want to be rooted. I don't know. But I took it all out of the bouquet and little trays. But now they have little starts, so they don't need to have to try and root it. It didn't, it didn't work for me. But what did it look like when it like what so it's got like a purple stem stem and like really light pink flowers, which like I feel like most sedums are green with pink flowers. Yeah. Um, but this is like and yeah, sometimes the flowers get like a little bit spiky, but I like the more like round flowers. Yeah. And this one had the perfect round flower.

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Well, it's a special variety that's special Stoltz family variety, I guess.

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I don't know.

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I've been in my mom's garden for as long as I can remember.

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We will just rename it. Yeah. Um you see them. Yeah. There you go.

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So yeah, well, I'll be having that in the future. Um, that one's a good one. And then I guess, okay, should I start with mine? Yeah. Okay, well, I have to say them because we all know how much I love them. Roses. Roses are my absolute favorites. I have way too many to take care of properly. Um, but I love them so much. And I don't even know why I love them so much, because they can be sort of annoying at times, but when they bloom, I think I just like it's sort of like a week of Christmas for me. Like I like walk around and I take new bouquets every day and having like oranges and pinks, and I think the colors of them are what I really, really, really love. So those I just yeah, I I fall in love with the new one every year.

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I think it brings like Monty Dawn to your garden. Yes. Yeah. And you're just like, he would be so proud.

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All you need is a golden retriever. Okay, what's your number one rose? I can't do that. Yeah, just I literally can't do one. There is one that came to mind.

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Really?

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First. Yeah. No, you. For me? Yeah, I had to have.

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Oh. So you have one? Right? I have multiple that came to mind. I can literally so okay, I'll list. Can I t list top three? Sure. Okay, Lady of Shalot.

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That's the first one that came to mind for me.

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Okay, yeah. Lady of Shalot is like this beautiful orange one. It's got some like yellow hints. Um, it's a shrub rose.

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I got mine from David Austin. I saw at Q Gardens when I walked in there with Lady Shalot, and I was like, oh my god, Lady of Shalot.

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It's so good. Um, so there's that one. I love Princess Charlene de Monaco, which um I got mine from uh Menagerie. Uh it's like a very ruffly pink uh flower, and it's it I think it's beautiful. Mine get to be like eight feet tall, which is crazy in one season. Like I'll cut it down to the ground and it gets that tall. We'll see. I had to transplant it this year because it's in a very wet spot, so I had to transplant them. We'll see if they live, and I'm very nervous about it. Um, and then I mean if you're buying for I'm not even gonna say those. I'm gonna say the generous gardener as my last one because those I have on each side of a trellis out back, and for the first time last year I had it going up like five feet and it bloomed, it was covered in blooms, and it's pretty good for cut flowers, it's not very thorny, um, and it just does really well in the climate, and it it's in like almost full sun, but like probably part shade, and it does super well. And I yeah, I love it so much. I but there's so many more. I could say Crown Princess Margarita, I could say like Boscabel, I could say Dustin Drums, I could say, you know, like there's so many that I think are so pretty. Desdemona. I mean, literally, I could go I could go on and on and on and on, and I could list a new one every minute of this podcast. I'm so impressed that you have them all memorized.

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I know, because they're long names.

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Yeah, they're not that long. I the thing is like when you you literally like spend days looking at books of them and just dreaming of getting them. And then when you do get them, sort of like Pokemon, you know? Yeah. You're like, I probably do have, I think I was trying to think about how many I have. I don't know. Varieties I probably have like maybe 30, 40.

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Is it illegal to take cuttings off of these things?

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Certain ones, yes. But we start taking cuttings. We would never do that. We would never do that.

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We would never do that.

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We would never do that.

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Let's be honest, I can't even take a cutting off and see them.

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So I will say roses are very hard to get from cuttings for some reason. For me, I like I mean, some people I think it depends on the variety, and it depends on if it was a grafted versus a not grafted.

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Don't do grafted. Oh my gosh, I'm planning grafted. I definitely have to come out now.

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I definitely have some grafted. They are tougher than than the not grafted. My Princess Charlena Monaco's our our own roots. Yeah. Well, it's not even that, I mean, is just a matter of the rows that you get. Yeah. Um, but the grafted, yeah. We could do a whole we've done a whole episode on roses. You can go back to the phone. So yeah, that was one. It probably should count for like three of them because we've taken so much time for them. But they're very good. You should get some. Um, I was gonna mention one that I've already talked about in a previous episode, which was Columbine. Because I it's one that comes back every year and it's so interesting, and it's it I use it as a cut, and it's just yeah, super, super pretty. Um another one I was gonna mention, um, just because I think they're so like c cool, are a stilby.

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Oh yeah.

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So a stilby, they can sort of be like a pinky sort of like flower looking, like a flower, flower. They're a flower-looking flower.

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They're flowering.

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It's sort of like a cloud looking. Yeah, they're kind of cloudy. Yeah. And they are just like um depends on what variety you get.

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Some are like poofier than others.

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Yes. Yep. And I I just think they look really pretty and they're sort of nostalgic for me because my mom had them all in our front garden in a like a mass, and I always remember them, and they bloom like in July ish time.

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I think the leaves are just so pretty.

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Yep. Yeah, they're really cool. I I think those ones are just like uh I I just think they're pretty. I wouldn't they're not they can be used as a cut flower, but I don't usually typically unless I'm making something really short and small.

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Um yours are short? Yeah. I use I cut every stem and sell every stem.

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Really? Are yours not short? They're not short? I don't know.

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They're like at least a foot and a half. There's probably different varieties.

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Yeah, I was gonna say, I have a lot of short ones. We'll see. I mean, and they're also probably not in the greatest of soil, so it might be like a couple of years for them to get taller.

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They do they do get bigger as they grow. I don't know when I put mine in. I'm putting more in this year though. I I'm obsessed with the leaf structure. Yeah. I will. Do you sell the leaves? I've never sold the leaves because I don't know how people because they're they are short. The leaves are short. Um I I don't know if people would like them or not. And I just don't know how to like they're so short and they're hard to transport that they're kind of something that I use for myself as an earlier range. I think I think florists would like them, but they are so delicate too. Yeah.

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So well, okay, so that's one that was one of my favorites. Um, and then uh I'll just say one more just because it's been on my mind a lot recently, is hella bores. I love it. That's a good one. I love having color when there's nothing else to look at. So the color that I get to see outside in my little shade garden, I have four hella bores. There's one yellow one, and then three like pinky purple, like one's like a pink, and then two are purple. And I love having them out there because it's something that like it's just at a time when you don't get much else, and they're a very pretty flower. We can post some photos of them.

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Like, I just love it.

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I like their leaf structure. I think their leaves are very cool and like sort of veiny and like dinosaur-esque in a way.

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They are giving dinosaur dinosaur vibes, dinosaur footprint.

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We can like we can take a photo and post it.

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They were totally around in the in the era of the dinosaurs.

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And they like their flowers, just like very cool. A lot of people like float their flowers in um like water. Um, so that's yeah, that's one that I would say. And then okay, can I have one more? Yeah, go for it. Okay, I'm gonna say lilac. Oh I heard actually, I think you're supposed to pronounce it lilac.

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Oh, really?

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Yeah, weird.

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Oh, they smell so good. My sister made lilac syrup one time. Lilac.

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That's what we we have made lilac syrup last year, I think.

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I love the way they're I just love the way the blooms look. Yeah, yeah. Like the texture of them. I don't know. There's just a lot of things. Well, they're like flowers inside of flowers too. Oh, they're so pretty. And the smell will smell your entire house.

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Yeah, they smell really good. You have to cut them at the right stage so that they don't like just lose all of their petals all at once. And like they're just also pretty in the yard, and you can walk by them and smell them if you put them in a place where you you walk by it a lot. But that's one that I and it's really good in colder climates, so that's one that I would highly recommend.

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Literally, so our Meyer has a bunch of lilac bushes like planted in their parking lot. Yes. And my god, literally, ever since we've moved here and lived here, Eric and I are like, oh my god, we're going to Meyer because the lilacs are blooming. Yeah, you better roll those windows down.

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We need to ever was uh like landscape architect on that lot. I'm like, I love you. That honestly, that whole parking lot has a beautiful, like blooming. It is a seasonal affair for us, okay.

SPEAKER_01 20:25

I don't remember the they're in the their surrounding they have magnolias there, too. Magnolias are one that I would say too, but that's a tree, and we're not saying trees, remember? We have magnolia bunches.

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Okay, wink, wink, ek magnolias. Okay, anyways. Monica, what are your favorite perennials?

SPEAKER_00 20:40

Now that's kind of hard because um y'all took mine.

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That's okay.

SPEAKER_01 20:44

We can build a lot there's so many more permeals.

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So many more. So the first one I that came to mind was spirea. Oh there's like a lot of different types of spirea, and I like them for different reasons. I just bought um Autumn Girl, and her flowers or her foliage is so pretty, especially in the fall. She's like a limey green, chartreuse green with like like oranges and reds, and I was I just bought it this week or this last fall, but we'll see how she how she does. And um pretty. I actually use I've had a spirea bush. It was there when I bought the house, and I've always wanted to rip it out because I'm like it it's the standard one that's like it has the pink flowers on it. Oh yes. But this last year, this last summer, I was like looking for some sort of foliage, and we cut the whole bush down and used it for an insulation for an event. And it was so perfect. Really? Like literally so perfect, and it held up great, like it was in foam outside, did amazing. Um so now I have like this new love for Spirea. Um and then I also Have been growing like the bridal veil, ah yes, the flowy, like um white flower spirea. I love, I love that. I do have um the other perennial that I love and I'm getting plugs this year is um Geome. Yeah, I want to grow some. I don't have any. It comes in like, I don't know, I wish it came in more colors, but I have a red that's really pretty. Orange. There's orange. I think there's like a little, like there's a yellow, and I think there might be a pink. I can't remember. I wish it just came in more variety, which it will eventually, but I think it's just kind of gaining traction. It's such a cute, it's a really cute plant and flower, and it's like for someone who can't grow ranunculus well. It's a replacement. It gives like butterfly ranunculus vibes to me. Didn't you pick that up on the clearance rack? That was like mostly dead. Yeah. Yeah. So don't sleep on the clearance rack, guys. Four of them. Yeah. Um, but now I have like a whole tray of them coming, so I'll have to find somewhere to put them. And then um my other one, and that one blooms in early spring too, which is like anything that blooms in early spring is good. Great for us. Um the other one is Japanese anemone.

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Oh yeah.

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I'm obsessed. I don't I have been for so long.

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I planted like six roots for honoring Jober. Oh white, tall white. Um how they do. Well, I planted them last year in the spring. So we'll see this year in the fall. And you planted them by bare root? Yeah.

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Okay. Yeah, I I'm getting I'm bringing in plugs this year, and I'm hoping that I'm hoping they do well. It's just not cheap. Yeah. I would imagine they would do okay. But um in the fall, if you ever go to Full Forest Park, so Japanese enemies are like kind of like late August, early September, right? They have oak leaf hydrangeas and Japanese anemones in the path like along the path. Oh, yeah. You remember we took pictures in front of uh Oakley Oakleaf Hydrangea for your wedding.

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Oh gosh, and that was beautiful in Forest Park. Yeah. It was so pretty.

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So pretty. So the two of those together, the oak leaf hydrangea and the Japanese anemone are just yeah. So good. Um the other one that I love, and it's just uh it was in my childhood garden was um bleeding hearts. That is a fun one.

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Mine are popping up. Are they? Yep. My white ones.

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I don't actually I bought some this year. I don't actually have a lot of shade like in my yard, but I've been doing a sun study. I was texting them this week about it. I was trying to figure out like if my shade spot behind my house, which is south facing, is more, like the north side of my house, is more than I actually think. So I think I'm gonna expand it. So I bought more um shade plants. So I'm hoping to put hellabores and Estelby and bleeding hearts in there because and then anemones. Are they shade plants?

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Partial.

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I feel like that's such a good way to diversify your offerings because a lot of them.

SPEAKER_00 25:33

I was not planning on putting them in shade.

SPEAKER_01 25:36

Oh no. I'm fairly certain that they're partial shade.

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But makes sense. Oh crap. That's fine. We'll figure it out. You were figuring it out. You were gonna add. Yeah. So, um, yeah, no, it's a good way to diversify because you're like yeah.

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It's stuff that a lot of people don't have.

SPEAKER_00 25:54

I have pine trees along part of my property, but I'm just afraid to put things in the pine because of the acidity.

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Best in partial shade, just so you know. Four to six hours of sun.

SPEAKER_00 26:05

I should have known that. Uh okay.

SPEAKER_01 26:07

I I mean you're gonna have some. You're gonna have shade.

SPEAKER_00 26:10

I feel like at Forest Park they're not, but they are. I bet they would do Apple.

SPEAKER_02 26:14

I bet they do well on the east side of your house, too.

SPEAKER_00 26:19

Like close to your neighbors. Yep. I bet they would have to be able to do that. I have a whole other open garden that I'm not growing my sweet peas in. Well, then there you go.

SPEAKER_01 26:27

There is where they go.

SPEAKER_00 26:29

Yeah. Um, and then I have one more. I'm gonna piggyback on what you said. Columbine. Oh, yeah. Columbine's just so perfect.

SPEAKER_01 26:38

It is so perfect.

SPEAKER_00 26:39

It's so pretty. And that leaf structure is really pretty, too.

SPEAKER_01 26:42

It is really cool.

SPEAKER_00 26:42

Yep. It's like a little bubbly booper. Like when it unfurls, it's like super ruffly. Yeah. I love Columbine. I do too.

SPEAKER_01 26:52

It's just I think I also love the varieties of colors you can get, which there are a lot. Yes. There it's more common to get certain ones, but like I forgot.

SPEAKER_00 27:01

I did have one other one. Oh. Holly. Oh. Oh, that's interesting. Because it is pretty. Oh shoot, I thought of another one. Okay, another one. Uh Holly is pretty when everything else is dead. Like the red is there, it's still very bright green. It just provides beauty in when everything else is dead. Yeah. Um, but the other thing that I just planted was beauty berry. Ooh, that's a fun one. Is that one? It's like the one that grows like spikes of clumps of berries. Yeah. Interesting. It's actually a native.

SPEAKER_01 27:41

I was gonna say not to be confused with the porcelain berry, which is invasive. Okay. I wanted to check and make sure we weren't spreading them. I was like, uh, so yeah, that one, let me see. Um I've tried to take cuttings of this before and it didn't. Yes, it is a native. Um, but I almost bought a porcelain berry at a uh um local nursery up north. And it's it is, yeah, because we do that. You have to be careful when you buy at nurseries. But hey, that's our next episode.

SPEAKER_02 28:17

We're gonna talk about that.

SPEAKER_01 28:18

Yeah, we are next episode. Yeah, what okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yes. Okay, stay tuned. Yep.

SPEAKER_02 28:26

Yeah. Do we have any other favorites?

SPEAKER_00 28:29

We have tons of favorites. I think I could list more if I sat here, but it was a top five episode.

SPEAKER_01 28:36

I mean, we could go on forever and ever and ever.

SPEAKER_00 28:38

Oh, yeah, corabells.

SPEAKER_01 28:39

Oh uh Baptesia. We didn't see Baptesia! Put it on my list. Beard's tongue. Beard's tongue is on my list because I have a ton of that and I love it for the flowers. I think the flowers are super pretty.

SPEAKER_00 28:53

Yeah. There's tons. But this is the top five episodes. Yeah, you're right. We have to say goodbye now.

SPEAKER_01 28:58

And then we'll do the top 42 in a future one.

SPEAKER_02 29:02

All right, well, stay tuned. Have a great week. Talk to you next time. Bye. Bye.

SPEAKER_00 29:09

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