Blooming Beauties: Discover Our Top Favorite Perennial Cut Flowers | PepperHarrowFarm.com

[@CarolineClaireJensen]

You two are the sweetest couple. ❤️

[@lisadaughteroftheking5852]

I’ve just recently come across your channel, the video that you showed where your Beautiful farm was destroyed by the tornado. I’m so sorry for the loss of your beautiful farm but so happy for you that your home was spared and more importantly that you all are OK❤️

[@michelebrown28]

Thank you, I always value your suggestions. When I saw you added lupin to your last it made me smile. I fell in love with the Lupin fields in New Hampshire.

[@ElderandOakFarm]

Yarrow spreads underground. I just planted some for the 1st time this spring, & I noticed they had tripled in size by fall. (& they hadn't even bloomed yet, so I know it wasn't from seeds)

[@jocelynlol5476]

And self seeds!

[@karenschwartz5209]

Thanks for you comments!!

[@wildbirdfarm]

You guys are always so fun! Seeing pictures of some of those early spring blooms has me wishing away the winter months.

[@nicolewagner6549]

Yarrow spreads both by dropping seeds and by spreading underground. I have had a lot of luck with it. Neither bugs nor furry things eat them. They attract good bugs like butterflies and lady bugs. They repel the leaf eaters, making them a protective neighbor for more vulnerable plants. Best of all, they thrive in bad soil where most plants languish. Lupines and coneflowers have not worked for me. Either they don't come up for me or they get eaten before they are old enough to be recognizable.

[@maggiew7293]

Love lady's mantle too. It is a beautiful compliment to many flowers.

[@bellarosa009]

I have the yellow baptisia planted with purple alliums and just love it. I also have the false baptisia planted with yellow irises. Just love that combo of purple and yellow in the garden.

[@purpleluna8413]

Oh that would be spectacular Love the colour combo I did blue.and yellow pansies once so pretty

[@mrslacksclassroom2446]

I like Achillea 'Coronation Gold' because it nice and upright and spreads (underground) gently, some varieties are more lax and spread much more vigorously

[@LifeatSycamoreRidge]

As always, thank you so much for the information. You two crack me up!

[@iamvip350]

Hi, what's the name of the yellow with purple center dahlia in your intro? I've tried to find it last year but no luck. It's so beautiful!

[@PlantRelated]

Thank you!

[@aldas3831]

Lady’ mantle is actually good for tea! 😀

[@christiensgarden3325]

Great information.. look forward to growing those varieties

[@michaelamalmstrom3684]

Thank you for this video! Here in Sweden Lupins are horrible, just because they take over in nature and makes it unbalanced. All People living here can pick as much as we want to in the wild, but after the bloom we should all put in i the garbage and make sure it will be burned because of the seeds. It's spreading extremly much and all over Sweden you can find this flower next to the highway in June. But I agree, it is absolutely beautiful ❤

[@nicolewagner6549]

I'm slightly jealous of your problem. I love lupines, but I've never been able to get one to come up and survive long enough to make a leaf.

[@mariannehellandvik6180]

Thank you for a good list, I have almost all of them in my garden. But now geum is also on my list.

[@kathrynmettelka7216]

Thank you. I'm an avid, some would say addicted, home gardener who wants a cutting garden. Your list was extremely helpful. I grow in 8b Austin, Texas. The lupin we grow is the bluebonnet - in our gardens and fields - thanks to Lady Bird Johnson.

[@tracycrider7778]

I love bluebonnets ❤

[@ElderandOakFarm]

I agree with Adam- I don't care for the things the have really large spaces between the florets like the Baptisia.

[@Flanuora]

Go Hawks 👋 from a native in IC. Also, 💐 Congratulations on the great market.

[@theproperty541]

I have been having such a hard time watching these videos knowing everything is gone. Thinking of you all!

[@MyPlantWorld]

Beautiful plants collection 👌

[@jlp4111]

Lady’s mantle can be used as a medicinal tea. It’s mainly a woman’s herb, the whole plant is used during flowering then later only the leaves. A great book is “Health through God’s Pharmacy, Advice and Proven Cures with Medicinal Herbs” by Maria Treben. Like your lists of perennials!

[@sardiniangirl1866]

I really enjoy watching you both and all the information you share.. you are both so knowledgeable.. Do you spray your flwers for bugs and insects.?

[@kadripress1]

yarrow spreads via rhizomes but also self seeds 👍

[@PepperHarrow]

Thanks! We knew someone would know!

[@wildcamasherbco5020]

Do you have a good source for less common geum? Having a hard time finding diversity there. Thx

[@luzvigerminal558]

I don’t like lady’s mantle. I love lupine but slugs loves them too. Rudbeckia is one of my favourite., I have rudbeckia triloba and Rudbeckia laciniata

[@sharonjennings1282]

I usually don’t spray at my place but my rudbeckia got devastated by bugs. I didn’t get to use many of my beautiful blooms. Should I use my Captain Jack’s on it?? And yeah, Go Hawks!!

[@PepperHarrow]

If you're having bug pressure then go ahead and spray it with your Captain Jacks

[@merrybuchanan328]

Thank you so much for this excellent and informative video!!! Question: Where do you buy your baptisia? Plugs?

[@PepperHarrow]

Check with your local greenhouse. They usually have baptisia n

[@merrybuchanan328]

@@PepperHarrow Thank you!

[@onetwocue]

I feel like everyone talks about lilies but what about astilbe?

[@jaimemorgan5323]

Great suggestions! I have started many of these to add to my potager and landscape gardens. I wonder if you have any suggestions for starting Rudbeckia and Echinacea... I have tried both every year for three years, and always get abysmal germination, followed by speedy demise in the tray as very small seedlings. I have more seed, but I'm hesitant to try again until I have some idea why they haven't done well in the past.

[@rebeccapem5550]

Try winter sowing them straight in the ground or in a jug outside.

[@nicomyth]

They need cool growing temps to get established. Try starting them early fall and allow them to grow over winter outdoors. You may need to refrigerate the seeds a week before planting.

[@jaimemorgan5323]

@@rebeccapem5550 Thanks! It may well be my timing has been off.

[@jaimemorgan5323]

@@nicomyth Thanks for the suggestions! I'll definitely give it a try, and record my attempt in a journal, so I can reflect on my results with more accuracy. Too much heat may well be the problem.

[@tracycrider7778]

I just gathered a bit of garden soil in a pot and sowed seeds outside in the pot. The next spring I had several small echinacea ❤

[@zoeingram]

Is there one main seed source you all use?

[@PepperHarrow]

Johnnys is a good source

[@opossumdreams]

Subscribing with gusto! Thank you. 😁

[@karenlopez5441]

Does anyone have lady’s mantle advice? I am trying it from seed this year but had horrible germination and VERY slow growing starts of the few that came up Did you start by seed or with mature plants?

[@PepperHarrow]

We start with mature plants. For a lot of our perennials, we find it best to invest in someone else starting them because we get multiple years from the plants.

[@karenlopez5441]

@@PepperHarrow I might have to try that in this case! Thank you!

[@cindysmith-putnam8036]

@@PepperHarrow I came here to ask about just this topic: what are perennials that make sense to start from seed because they germinate easily and establish rapidly vs. those where plug-buying is really the way to go? I've had good luck from seeds with perennial scabiosa, yarrow, coneflowers, columbine, campanula and sweet william.... wondering about geum, coreopsis, baptisia, phlox paniculata, buddleia, alchemillia, daisy, Joe Pye weed, asclepias.

[@rosemarielee7775]

Once you've got one alchemilla (ladies mantle) it will seed around. Scrounge some fresh seed heads from anyone who has one.

[@fardinrahmanshamil9267]

Where do you live guys??

[@PepperHarrow]

Iowa

[@ECole-le7we]

Not peonies?!