Gardening Unplugged - 50 Best ornamental perennials for Zone 7 garden with Aaron Selby

Hello gardeners! In this video we discuss 50 best perennials for the zone 7b East Coast garden. Our Production Supervisor Aaron Selby has been working with PDN plants for over two decades, and has picked up a list of favorites. If you are new to the Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia area this will be a great starter list, and if you lived here for years you might find a couple surprises! This is a comprehensive list with everything from groundcovers to giant showstoppers.

Want to learn more? Aaron hosts three propagation workshops a year at Plant Delights Nursery. These information packed classes always sell out, because not only will you leave with heaps of knowledge, but also dozens of freshly propagated plants! Sing up on our website: https://www.plantdelights.com/collect...

Sun Perennials:

Tall Dry
Aloysia virgata
Salvia madrensis ‘Red Neck Girl’
Sambucus canadensis ‘Blonde Envy’
Sambucus ‘Chocolate Marzipan’
Lespedeza liukiuensis ‘Little Volcano’
Dahlia imperialis cultivars

Tall Wet/Moist
Hibiscus grandiflorus
Eupatorium fistulosum
Tamarix ramosissima ‘Pink Cascade’
Edgeworthia chrysantha ‘Snow Cream’
Canna x generalis ‘Australia’

Medium Dry
Vernonia angustifolia ‘Plum Peachy’
Salvia farinacea cultivars
Amsonia hubrichtii
Sarcococca x confusa ‘Western Hills’
Salvia greggii cultivars
Liatris pycnostachya

Medium Wet/Moist
Eupatorium greggii
Cuphea micropetala

Small Dry
Kalimeris mongolica 'Hortensis'
Artemisia frigida ‘Silver Eagle’
Sisyrinchium nashii 'Suwannee'
Verbena catharinae 'Lavender Frappe'
Gaillardia aestivalis cultivars
Geranium ‘Rozanne’

Small Wet/Moist
Dichromena colorata
Iris ensata ‘Silverband’
Laurentia fluviatilis
Carex oshimensis ‘Everillo’

Shade Perennials:

Tall
Bambusa multiplex cultivars
Illicium parviflorum ‘Florida Sunshine’
Aralia cordata ‘Sun King’
Polygonatum kingianum var. kingianum 'Bellagio'

Medium
Aspidistra elatior cultivars
Dryopteris x australis
Disporopsis species
Collinsonia punctata
Abutilon megapotamicum

Small
Cyclamen species
Begonia ‘Cote De Castillon’
Gloxinia species
Trillium foetidissimum
Trillium lancifolium
Trillium underwoodii
Carex species
Saxifraga stolonifera cultivars
Chrysogonum australe 'Eco Lacquered Spider'
Chrysogonum virginianum 'Pierre'
Heuchera cultivars

Plant Delights Nursery is an award winning nursery in Raleigh, NC near Garner. We specialize in rare, and unusual perennials and we strive to carry a wide selection of exotic plants, cold hardy tropical plants, and native plants. Many of our best perennials are available nowhere else in the US as they represent rare plants collected by Plant Delights founder Tony Avent during his more than 60 plant hunting expeditions to places like China, Crete, Taiwan, South Africa and Argentina or distributed by some of the many specialty plant organizations of which Plant Delights is a member.
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