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The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

5 Perennial Flowers to Grow in 2019

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2019

⏱️ 5 minutes

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I've neglected flowers in my garden for far too long, so here are 5 I'm adding to my borders this year!   Order Field Guide to Urban Gardening My book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, will be out May 7, 2019. If you pre-order the book and forward your receipt to kevin@epicgardening.com, I'll send you a free pack of heirloom, organic seeds from one of my favorite seed suppliers! Pre-Order Field Guide to Urban Gardening Support Epic Gardening Support Epic Gardening on Patreon Follow Epic Gardening YouTube Instagram Pinterest Facebook Facebook Group   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello everyone welcome back to the podcast today we're talking about five

0:04.5

perennial flowers that are just kind of so easy to care for so beautiful and so

0:11.0

helpful in the garden that it just doesn't it almost doesn't make sense not to grow them so here are five of them these are quick tips for you and if you'd like more in-depth guides I have guides to at least a couple of these on the website already

0:25.1

and there's going to be many more at epic gardening.com coming out this year so

0:28.8

stay tuned for that. Okay let's go ahead and get into it. The first one we have is Blackide Susan. It's

0:34.4

Rudecia. It's really easy to grow. It develops wave after wave of daisy-like blooms from summer to fall.

0:41.1

And they are really fantastic.

0:43.0

I mean, two varieties I think are pretty cool.

0:45.8

You've got Denver Daisy and you've got Indian summer.

0:49.1

Those are ones that come back year after year.

0:52.4

They're really nice and these are native to central and eastern parts of the United States.

0:58.2

So you can grow a native variety too if you're in that area, which is really, really fun.

1:02.2

Now a tip for Rebecca is really, really fun.

1:02.6

Now a tip for Rubecia is it does not last more than like,

1:05.6

let's say two years in one spot, but it will self-soe in other locations.

1:09.6

So you can kind of watch for their seedlings

1:12.2

and then just pop them out and transplant them into areas of the

1:14.4

garden that you think need a little bit of that color.

1:18.0

Next we've got Salvia, which is also known as perennial sage. So it's a huge family of plants

1:24.8

that has all these crazy bloomers

1:27.2

with awesome colors and they can take

1:30.3

a decent amount of cold.

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