The Best Perennials For Your Garden

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Perennials are plants that come back every year. Hicks Nurseries carries an outstanding selection of the best performing perennials for the Long Island landscape. They are a great investment for your landscape because you plant them once and can enjoy them year after year, as they grow bigger and better with age. 

Our buying team lives on Long Island and understands the local climate and soil conditions. This knowledge allows us to offer the best possible perennials that will thrive in your garden. 

Bleeding Heart, Perennial Plant

Bleeding Heart

Hosta, Perennial Plant

Hosta

Black-Eyed Susan, Perennial Plant

Black-Eyed Susan

Perennial flowers have many uses in nature. They provide food and shelter for butterflies, birds, bees and a host of other insects and animals. Create a beautiful habitat in your garden that supports wildlife at all stages of life, from spring to fall, with perennial plants.

The key in choosing which perennials are best for your garden depends on the sun exposure your garden and landscape gets.

For an all day sunny location, six hours of sun or more, you want to choose perennials that thrive in the sun. There are a plethora of sun-friendly perennials to choose from that will give your garden a pop of color, year after year.

For shadier spots in the garden, typically under three to four hours of sun, it’s best to choose shade or part shade perennials.  These varieties perform beautifully with little sun and some tolerate full shade.

Perennials for Sun

  • Bee Balm
  • Black-Eyed Susans
  • Butterfly Weed/Milkweed
  • Clematis
  • Coneflower
  • Coreopsis
  • Daylily
  • Dianthus
  • Goldenrod
  • Garden Phlox
  • Joe-Pye weed
  • Lavender
  • Liatris
  • Salvia
  • Sedum
  • Veronica
  • Verbena
  • Yarrow

Perennials for Shade

  • Astilbe/False Spirea
  • Fern
  • Ground covers
  • Hosta
  • Japanese Forest Grass
  • Ligularia

Perennials for Shade to Part Shade

  • Bleeding Hearts
  • Creeping Phlox
  • Coral Bells
  • Columbine
  • Hardy Geraniums

Our Top Perennial Flowers for Sun Gardens

May Night Salvia

May Night Salvia

Daylily, Perennial Plant

Daylily

Coneflower, Perennial Plant

Coneflower

Sedum, Perennial Plant

Sedum

Milkweed Perennial Plant for Sun

Butterfly Weed

Clematis, Perennial Plant

Clematis

Our Top Perennial Plants for Shade/Part Shade Gardens

Astilbe, Perennial Plant for shade

Astilbe

Hosta, Perennial Plant for shade

Hosta

Coral Bells - Caramel

Coral Bells

Tassle Fern

Tassle Fern

Hellebore Perennial Plant

Hellebore

Woodland Phlox Perennial Plant

Creeping Phlox

There are so many more lovely perennial plants to choose from. Our expert sales staff can answer all your questions and help you to select the plants that work the best in your garden. Visit us today or call 516-334-0066 to inquiry about a specific plant. You can also shop online for our curated selection of the top varieties.

HEALTHY PLANTS GUARANTEED

Be confident in our quality and value. Roses and perennials are guaranteed until November 1st of the same year purchased.

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