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Wilson’s Garden Center Perennials Section

First Light Heliopsis - Perennial   Sedum Autumn Fire - Perennial   Sapphire Aster - Perennial

Garden Center - Plant Nursery - Columbus Ohio First Light Heliopsis

 

Garden Center - Plant Nursery - Columbus Ohio Sedum Autumn Fire

 

Garden Center - Plant Nursery - Columbus Ohio Sapphire Aster

         

Perennials come up and perform year after year in your garden.

Combine Perennials with annual flowers, shrubs, and trees to create a beautiful landscape that will be the envy of the neighborhood.

We make it easy for you to succeed! Our staff is always available to mentor you to choose the right plants for the right spot. Take advantage of our expert tips so that your flowers will flourish.

Perennial Area Tour:

             
Grass Display - Perennial   Perennial Displays 2 - Perennial   Perennial Displays - Perennial   Perennial Displays 4 - Perennial

Garden Center - Plant Nursery - Columbus Ohio Grass Display

 

Garden Center - Plant Nursery - Columbus Ohio Perennial Displays 2

 

Garden Center - Plant Nursery - Columbus Ohio Perennial Displays

 

Garden Center - Plant Nursery - Columbus Ohio Perennial Displays 4

             
             
Shade Perennials - Perennial   Perennial Shade Area - Perennial   To the Gardens - Perennial   Perennial end cap - Perennial

Garden Center - Plant Nursery - Columbus Ohio Shade Perennials

 

Garden Center - Plant Nursery - Columbus Ohio Perennial Shade Area

 

Garden Center - Plant Nursery - Columbus Ohio To the Gardens

 

Garden Center - Plant Nursery - Columbus Ohio Perennial end cap

             

Gorgeous home-grown full-bodied perennials are our specialty. No wimpy plants allowed on our property. Our perennials are guaranteed Garden Center - Plant Nursery - Columbus Ohio to grow.

Click Here for Current List  of Perennials at Wilson's Garden Center Garden Center - Plant Nursery - Columbus Ohio. Call before you come to make sure the plants you desire are currently in stock.

Six Steps to Beautiful Perennial Beds:  Garden Center - Plant Nursery - Columbus Ohio Printable Format

   
Perennials in Wilson’s Garden Center

Prepare your beds for great root growth.


Most perennials love soft well-drained soils. To turn even the worst dirt into “Super Soil”, add organic matter. We have had great success in our own display gardens with tilling in BUMPER CROP. This is a superior organic compost fortified with the right organic nutrients that enriches and loosens any soil. To really have your soil teeming with life-enhancing microbes, we like to add a special compost tea called SOIL SOUP.
   
Perennials in Wilson’s Garden Center

Select Well


Sun-loving plants generally do poorly in shade, and shade-loving plants scorch in the sun. It is easy to select the right plants at Wilson’s since our shade-lovers are located under our shade canopy and the sun-lovers are basking in the sun. Our staff is always there to help you out if you want. Most perennials have a set bloom time each year that does not encompass all the seasons. Be sure to include Spring bloomers, Summer color, and Fall flowers in pleasing combinations. It also is perfectly legal to mix some annual flowers (which tend to bloom over a longer period of time) with your perennials to extend color. We have signage and labels that help you with your decisions.
   
Perennials in Wilson’s Garden Center

Repeat after me-Sit down in the front.


You usually need several heights of perennials to give your bed a three dimensional look. Also do not put aggressive growing flowers next to dainty ones that need pampering. We will help you out in choosing plants that are good neighbors. What really gives a perennial bed a beautiful look, is to repeat the plant groupings you use several times in a bed.
   
Perennials in Wilson’s Garden Center

Plant with Love


Plant odd numbers of plants of the same kind together (3, 5, 7, etc.). Planting “onesies” together often looks jumbled. When you plant, dip the plant roots into a bucket of ROOTMASTER. This rooting hormone will stimulate new roots and get the plant off to a fast start. Feed the roots with MASTER START. This is a high phosphate granular fertilizer that is mixed into the soil that causes the plant to establish quickly. Water thoroughly when you first plant.
   
Perennials in Wilson’s Garden Center

Clean your house


Keep the weeds from getting a good start. It is much easier to remove them when they are small. Mulching your beds with 2 or 3 inches of bark mulch such as hardwood or pine will keep out 90% of the weeds. Scattering PREEN on the soil after the perennials are planted will keep many other annual weeds from germinating. Remove dead blossoms when you are in your beds looking for weeds. This will extend the flowering time for many perennials as well as keep a tidy look. Water only as needed. Lots of sprinkler watering on the leaves promotes disease and rotting in the plants. For more plentiful flowers water your plants with BUD AND BLOOM every couple of weeks.
   
Perennials in Wilson’s Garden Center

Multiply by Dividing


In the crazy math of perennials, you can split up the mature root masses and gain more starts to plant somewhere else or give to your friends. Perennials are not all the same, so ask us at the garden center when the time to divide is right and the best way to go about it.
   

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That if you buy 1-2-3 (Bumper Crop, Master Start, and Rootmaster combination) from us at the time you purchase your perennials, we will extend your guarantee. We are very confident that 1-2-3 will help you be successful with your perennials!

Hibiscus Luna White with Eye:

     
We travel all over the country to find the best perennials to grow for you.
  Hibiscus Luna White with Eye - Perennial
   

Garden Center - Plant Nursery - Columbus Ohio Hibiscus Luna White with Eye

     

15 Exciting New PERENNIALS:

             
Cyclamen Someth - Perennial   Dicentra Burning Hearts - Perennial   Buddleia Lo and Behold Blue Chip - Perennial   Rudbeckia Early Bird Gold - Perennial

Garden Center - Plant Nursery - Columbus Ohio Cyclamen Someth

 

Garden Center - Plant Nursery - Columbus Ohio Dicentra Burning Hearts

 

Garden Center - Plant Nursery - Columbus Ohio Buddleia Lo and Behold Blue Chip

 

Garden Center - Plant Nursery - Columbus Ohio Rudbeckia Early Bird Gold

             
Garden Center - Plant Nursery - Columbus Ohio Buddleia Lo and Behold Blue Chip - a butterfly bush growing only 2 ft. high
Garden Center - Plant Nursery - Columbus Ohio Echinacea Tomato Soup - Orange red flowers
Garden Center - Plant Nursery - Columbus Ohio Echinacea Mac and Cheese - a wonderful yellow companion to Tomato Soup
Garden Center - Plant Nursery - Columbus Ohio Asiatic Lilies Lily Looks - Extra dwarf hardy lilies that grow well in containers
Garden Center - Plant Nursery - Columbus Ohio Achillea Sunny Seduction - Yellow blooms for a heat loving perennial
Garden Center - Plant Nursery - Columbus Ohio Centaurea Amethyst Dream - lovely lacy flowers
Garden Center - Plant Nursery - Columbus Ohio Coreopsis Red Shift - Flowers change from yellow to red through the season
Garden Center - Plant Nursery - Columbus Ohio Cyclamen Something Magic - Miniature pink rosettes of flowers in semi shade
Garden Center - Plant Nursery - Columbus Ohio Campanula Bellefleur Blue - gorgeous blue flowers
Garden Center - Plant Nursery - Columbus Ohio Buddleia Butterfly Heaven - a butterfly magnet
Garden Center - Plant Nursery - Columbus Ohio Lamium Ghost - great for shade
Garden Center - Plant Nursery - Columbus Ohio Delphinium New Zealand Hybrids  
Garden Center - Plant Nursery - Columbus Ohio Dianthus Double Starlett - double petalled fragrant flowers
Garden Center - Plant Nursery - Columbus Ohio Dicentra Burning Hearts - heart shaped red blooms on this shade lover
Garden Center - Plant Nursery - Columbus Ohio Rudbeckia Early Bird Gold - like Goldstrum except earlier
 

Sandy’s Top 10 Perennials:

             
Brunnera Jack Frost - Perennial   Shasta Daisy Broadway Lights - Perennial   Heuchera Caramel - Perennial   Sedum Angelina - Perennial

Garden Center - Plant Nursery - Columbus Ohio Brunnera Jack Frost

 

Garden Center - Plant Nursery - Columbus Ohio Shasta Daisy Broadway Lights

 

Garden Center - Plant Nursery - Columbus Ohio Heuchera Caramel

 

Garden Center - Plant Nursery - Columbus Ohio Sedum Angelina

Garden Center - Plant Nursery - Columbus Ohio Delphinium Volkerfrieden Garden Center - Plant Nursery - Columbus Ohio Heuchera Caramel Garden Center - Plant Nursery - Columbus Ohio Lamium Pink Chablis
Garden Center - Plant Nursery - Columbus Ohio Dianthus Raspberry Swirl Garden Center - Plant Nursery - Columbus Ohio Dicentra King of Hearts Garden Center - Plant Nursery - Columbus Ohio Hosta Patriot
Garden Center - Plant Nursery - Columbus Ohio Sedum Angelina Garden Center - Plant Nursery - Columbus Ohio Geranium Rozanne Garden Center - Plant Nursery - Columbus Ohio Leucanthemum Broadway Lights
Garden Center - Plant Nursery - Columbus Ohio Brunnera Jack Frost        
 

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Perennials are great for containers, too. They add structure and form with interesting foliage colors and shapes along with beautiful flowers. Let your imagination go wild. We will guide you to the best ones for pots.
Perennial Combo pot

Check out Sandy’s Perennial Care Tips Garden Center - Plant Nursery - Columbus Ohio  by clicking here.

Grasses are Great:


Grasses give you great texture, form, color, and motion in the wind. They make a wonderful background for flowers and are outstanding for dramatic groupings in difficult, sunny areas. Birds love grasses for nesting and eating the seeds. Practically the only care they need is cutting them down once a year in late winter.

Here are 5 examples:

         
Calamagrostis Karl Foerster - Perennial   Carex Grasshopper - Perennial   Miscanthus GoldBar - Perennial

Garden Center - Plant Nursery - Columbus Ohio Calamagrostis Karl Foerster

 

Garden Center - Plant Nursery - Columbus Ohio Carex Grasshopper

 

Garden Center - Plant Nursery - Columbus Ohio Miscanthus GoldBar

         
Garden Center - Plant Nursery - Columbus Ohio Arundo donax Variegata Garden Center - Plant Nursery - Columbus Ohio Juncus Blue Arrows    
Garden Center - Plant Nursery - Columbus Ohio Miscanthus Goldbar Garden Center - Plant Nursery - Columbus Ohio Calamagrostis Karl Foerster    
Garden Center - Plant Nursery - Columbus Ohio Carex Grasshopper        

Click here Garden Center - Plant Nursery - Columbus Ohio for Ornamental Grass information.

Ground Covers:

     
Checkerboard Ground Cover - Perennial   Stepable - Perennial

Garden Center - Plant Nursery - Columbus Ohio Checkerboard Ground Cover

 

Garden Center - Plant Nursery - Columbus Ohio Stepable

     

Ground covers are wonderful landscape problem solvers and beautifiers. There are Ground covers to suit just about any type of soil: sandy, clay, alkaline, acidic, moist or dry. From full sun lovers to full shade, and anything in between, there is a ground cover that will fit the bill. Once established, ground covers are great for reducing erosion and suppressing weed growth. Also, if you’ve got a hard to mow area, ground covers might be the right plant for you!

Ground covers give your landscape harmony. They provide a feeling of tranquility, serving as a transition between lawn areas and flowerbeds. Ground covers also create variety in depth and texture and often highlight other landscape elements. They can be attractive accents on their own, as well.

With a little imagination, ground covers can do more than just cover the ground. Choose varieties of Stepables for areas that receive foot traffic. Stepables are labeled to the amount of foot traffic they can tolerate, from light to heavy. Nooks & Crannies ground covers add style and flair to the garden with their tiny foliage filling small spaces and special places.

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