{"id":8283,"date":"2015-11-10T12:00:14","date_gmt":"2015-11-10T17:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/?p=8283"},"modified":"2015-11-05T17:52:02","modified_gmt":"2015-11-05T22:52:02","slug":"five-summer-perennials-you-will-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/2015\/11\/10\/five-summer-perennials-you-will-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Summer Perennials You Will Love"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Phlox paniculata ‘Shortwood’<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Echinacea<\/a>

Echinacea x ‘Cheyenne Spirit’<\/p><\/div>\n

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In the past few years several great performing perennials have caught my eye. Some are exceptional landscape performers exhibiting long bloom period and exceptional disease resistance. All are hardy in Zones 4-9. Here are five of the best:<\/p>\n

Echinacea Cheyenne Spirit coneflower mix<\/strong> (Echinacea purpurea \u2018<\/em>Cheyenne Spirit\u2019) offers a spectacular floral\u00a0show of\u00a0many colored ray flowers from mid-summer to early fall. This hybrid purple coneflower comprises a delightful mix of bright red, orange, golden yellow, purple and white ray flowers with a large brown button center. Stems are strong and well-branched. Coneflowers attract butterflies and blooms are excellent for cutting. Deadhead (remove) faded blooms to encourage re-blooming.<\/p>\n

‘PowWow Wild Berry\u2019<\/strong> coneflower (Echinacea purpurea<\/em>) is an outstanding multi-year performer. From late spring to early fall, it produces large 3-4 inch wide deep rose-purple ray flowers with orange-brown button centers. Stems are sturdy and well-branched, 18-24 inches tall and 12-18 inches wide. Plants re-bloom without deadheading.<\/p>\n

‘Pardon My Pink’ beebalm<\/strong> (M. didyma<\/em>) is a self-branching, compact, 10 to 12 inches tall (and wide) beebalm or bergamont. Clear pink flowers measure 2\u00bd to 3 inches\u00a0across\u00a0and attract bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds. It blooms from midsummer to late September along with dark green foliage that is highly mildew resistant.<\/p>\n

\u2018Shortwood\u2019 Garden Phlox<\/strong> is a garden phlox (P. paniculata<\/em>) that is highly touted by Stephanie Cohen, the perennial diva herself. ‘Shortwood’ boasts full-size bright pink blooms with deeper pink eyes and are wildly fragrant. Flowers are superb for cutting, and attract lots of butterflies and hummingbirds. Plant is also highly mildew resistant.<\/p>\n

Dazzleberry\u00ae sedum<\/strong> is groundcover type from sedum\u00a0breeder Chris Hansen that grows only 8 inches tall and 18 inches wide. It is a strong grower with attractive dusty blue foliage. In late summer Dazzleberry is covered with clusters of vibrant raspberry colored\u00a0flowers.<\/p>\n

\"Echinacea<\/a>

Echinacea purpurea ‘PowWow Wild Berry’<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

            In the past few years several great performing perennials have caught my eye. Some are exceptional landscape performers exhibiting long bloom period and exceptional disease resistance. All are hardy in Zones 4-9. Here are five of the best: Echinacea Cheyenne Spirit coneflower mix (Echinacea purpurea \u2018Cheyenne Spirit\u2019) offers a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[444,1218,707,747,749,768,710,521,674,806,628,745,890,551,627,625,1093,843,1060,1059,1274,630,706,455],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8283"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8283"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8290,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8283\/revisions\/8290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}