Easy Perennials

Rippling Waters Organic Farm

Promoting Community Food Security
through Education, Service & Action
Farm, Greenhouse & Community Gardens
55 River Road, Steep Falls, Maine 04085
(207) 642-5161 greengrower@ripplingwaters.org

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	Common Name	Height	Color	Bloom Time	Deer	Notes
Achillea	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*	Aster	short, medium, tall	pink, purple	fall	4	cut native
Artemisia	Wormwood	Sun	grayish	summer	1	foliage plant invasive
Astilbe*	False spirea	medium	reds, pinks purples	late spring	2	cut
Chrysanthemum	Daisy	tall	white	summer	3	cut native
Coreopsis	Tickseed	medium tall	yellows, pink	summer	2	cut
Dianthus*	Pinks or Carnation	medium	pinks	early summer	2	cut
Dicentra*	Bleeding Heart	tall	white, pink	spring	2	native
Echinecea	Coneflower	tall	pinks white	summer	3	medicinal
Hemerocallis	Day Lily	tall	white purple	summer	4	invasive
Heuchera*	Coral Bells	medium	pinks	summer	2
Hosta		medium	purple flowers yellow tip leaves	summer	5
Iris*		tall	pink, blue, purple	late spring	3	cut invasive
Lamium	Dead nettle	Shade	pink, purple	late spring	1	invasive
Malva		tall	pink	summer		invasive
Monarda*	Bee Balm	tall	mixed colors	summer	3	cut, invasive medicinal
Papaver	Poppies	tall	reds oranges	late spring	2
Paeonia*	Peony	tall	white, pink	late spring	2	cut
Phlox	creeping phlox	Sun	many	summer	1
Rudebeckia*	Black-eyed Susans	medium	yellows	summer	4	well-drained cut, native
Salvia*	Sate	medium	pink, white, blue	summer	2	cut, well-drained
Sedum*	Stonecrop	tall	bronze, dark pink	fall	3	cut to dry
Sedum	groundcover	Part Sun/Shade	yellow, red	summer	3	invasive
Stachys	Lambs Ears	Part Sun/Shade	some pink	summer	1	foliage plant invasive
Tradescantia*	Spiderwort	medium	red, grape, white	early summer	2	moist, well-drained invasive
Veronica*	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

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Last updated: February, 2008