Spring Flowering Perennials

• Tough and adaptable
• Thrives in clay and wet soil
• Great, long lasting cut flower

zones 5-8

How to grow Blue Star

• Grows in shade
• Evergreen leaves
• Hummingbirds!

zones 5-9

How to grow Eastern Columbine

• Excellent nectar source
• Rare in North Carolina
• Monarch host plant

zones 6-8

How to grow Purple Milkweed

• Tough and adaptable
• Deer resistant
• Beautiful with Blue Star

zones 5-9

How to grow White Wild Indigo

• Thrives in sandy soil
• Deer resistant
• Drought tolerant

zones 6-9

How to grow Carolina Wild Indigo

• Finely textured leaves
• Deer resistant
• Adaptable

zones 6-9

How to grow Yellow Wild Indigo

• Dark purple flowered selection
• Can grow in shallow water
• Thrives in heavy clay soils

zones 7-9

How to grow Southern Blue Flag

• Red berries in winter
• Evergreen
• Grows in shade

zones 6-9

How to grow Partridge Berry

• Local selection with purple flowers
• Low clumps of evergreen foliage
• 3 ft. tall in flower

zones 6-8

• Fragrant flowers
• Hummingbirds!
• 1 ft. tall and wide

zones 6-8

How to grow Carolina Phlox

• Well drained to wet soil
• Pollinators!
• Rare in the wild

zones 7-8