Easy-Care Perennials
These perennials grow larger and sturdier year after year, but are not invasive. They rarely need dividing or staking, so they're almost care-free if given proper growing conditions.
SPRING
Amsonia tabernaemontana
(willow amsonia)
Chrysogonum virginianum (goldenstar, green and gold)
Corydalis lutea (yellow corydalis)
Dicentra eximia (fringed bleeding heart)
Dicentra spectabilis (common bleeding heart)
Dictamnus albus (gas plant)
Helleborus spp. (Christmas rose and Lenten rose)
SUMMER
Achillea filipendulina
(fern-leaf yarrow)
Aruncus dioicus (goat's beard)
Asclepias tuberosa (butterfly weed)
Astilbe spp. (astilbes)
Baptisia australis (blue wild indigo)
Campanula spp. (bellflowers)
Corydalis lutea (yellow corydalis)
Filipendula rubra (queen-of-the-prairie)
Hemerocallis cultivars (daylilies)
Hosta spp. (hostas)
Iris siberica (Siberian iris)
Paeonia lactiflora (garden peony, Chinese peony)
Papaver orientale (Oriental poppy)
Platycodon grandiflorus (ballon flower)
Thermopsis caroliniana (southern lupine, Carolina lupine)
LATE SUMMER AND FALL
Aconitum spp. (monkshoods)
Anemone x hybrida (Japanese anemone)
Cimicifuga spp. (bugbanes)
Corydalis lutea (yellow corydalis)
Rudbeckia fulgida 'Goldsturm' (orange coneflower)
Sedum spp. (stonecrops)
