Rippling Waters Organic Farm

Promoting Community Food Security through Education, Action, & Service

Farm, Farm Store, Greenhouse & Community Gardens
55 River Road, Steep Falls (Standish), Maine 04085
just off Rte. 25 near Limington Rapids picnic area
(207) 642-5161             greengrower@ripplingwaters.org
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Easy to grow perennials can tolerate quite extreme differences in temperature, sunlight, and watering.  Often they have native origins, so your Maine conditions match and will help you to grow them.  But beware, easy perennials can take be invasive and take over more of your garden space than you planned.  To help you get started you can buy the perennial and garden books we have at our Farm Store. 

Botanical Name

Year Common
Name
Height Color Bloom
Time

Deer

Notes
Achillea 2010 Yarrow tall yellows, reds summer  2 native
Ajuga   Bugleweed Sun to shade Purples early summer  2 invasive
Anthemis    Marguerite  tall  yellows  summer  2  cut
 
Aster* 2010  Aster   short, medium, tall  pink,  purple  fall  4  cut
 native
Artemisia   Wormwood Sun grayish summer  1 foliage plant
invasive
Astilbe* 2010 False spirea medium reds, pinks
purples
late spring  2 cut
Chrysanthemum 2010  Daisy  tall  white  summer  3  cut
 native 
Coreopsis    Tickseed  medium
 tall
 yellows, pink  summer  2  cut
Dianthus* 2010  Pinks or
 Carnation
 medium  pinks  early
 summer
 2  cut
Dicentra* 2010 Bleeding Heart tall white, pink spring  2 native
Echinecea 2010  Coneflower  tall  pinks
 white
 summer  3  medicinal
Hemerocallis 2010  Day Lily  tall  white
 purple
 summer  4  invasive
Heuchera* 2010 Coral Bells medium pinks summer  2  
Hosta 2010   medium purple flowers
yellow tip leaves
summer  5  
Iris* 2010    tall  pink, blue, purple  late
 spring
 3  cut
 invasive
Lamium 2010 Dead nettle Shade pink, purple late spring  1  invasive
Malva 2010  
 
 tall  pink summer     invasive
Monarda* 2010  Bee Balm  tall  mixed colors  summer  3 cut, invasive medicinal
Papaver 2010  Poppies  tall  reds
 oranges
late spring  2  
Paeonia* 2010  Peony  tall  white, pink  late
 spring
 2  cut
Phlox 2010  creeping phlox Sun many summer  1  
Rudebeckia* 2010  Black-eyed
 Susans
 medium  yellows  summer  4 well-drained
cut, native
Salvia* 2010  Sage    medium pink, white, blue  summer  2  cut, well-drained
Sedum* 2010  Stonecrop  tall  bronze, dark pink  fall  3  cut
 to dry
Sedum 2010  groundcover Part Sun/Shade yellow, red summer  3  invasive
Stachys    Lambs Ears Part Sun/Shade some pink summer  1 foliage plant
invasive
Tradescantia* 2010  Spiderwort  medium  red, grape, white  early
 summer
 2 moist, well-drained 
invasive
Veronica* 2010  Speedwell  short, medium,
 & tall
 blue, pinks, white  summer  3  cut
 moist, w-d
Deer Codes:  1=Note Eaten;  2=Seldom Eaten;  3=Occasionally Eaten;  4=Usually Eaten;  5=Always Eaten
 


Last updated:  May 2010