Our specialty involves providing you a huge selection of new, rare, hardy, and attractive perennials deemed to flourish in your landscape year after year.

K & K Gardens now offers over 500 varieties of perennials. While some are rare, many are tried and true and will prosper for decades. 

For your convenience, the Perennial database is divided into four categories.  Hosta are located under the Hosta tab.

The Perennial Database includes a full description, image, growing criteria, and helpful planting information. 

The Perennial List, is a complete list of all perennials offered at K & K Gardens.

Amsonia hubrichtii

Amsonia hubrichtii grows 36 inches tall and 36 inches wide in a mounded form. This hardy perennial grows in hardiness zones 4 through 9 and is a versatile North American native.

Amsonia offers a variety of features throughout the seasons. From late spring to early summer, two to three inch wide clusters of small, light blue, star-shaped flowers are borne above the ferny foliage. The alternate-arranged leaves are bright green in spring and summer, but turn a bright yellow-golden color in fall.

• Light - Plants thrive in full sun to partial shade
• Soil - This plant performs best in average, moist well-drained soil but tolerates less moisture. Once established, it can tolerate drier conditions.
• Uses - This perennial for the seasons is an asset in borders, native gardens, cottage gardens, or open woodland areas. It is best when massed. Arkansas blue star is attractive when mixed with ornamental grasses and plants that have attractive seed heads.
• Unique Qualities - Light blue flowers in spring are followed by marvelous foliage in summer. Golden-yellow fall color is second to none among herbaceous perennials.
• Hardiness - USDA Zones 4 to 9
  

A superb introduction, forming a clump of heart-shaped silver leaves, delicately veined with mint green. Sprays of bright blue Forget-me-not flowers appear in mid to late spring. This is a choice collector's plant, but an easy-to-grow perennial that performs well in all but the driest of shady conditions.

Excellent for the woodland garden. 'Jack Frost' handles more direct sun than most other variegated types of Brunnera, though in hot-summer regions some afternoon shade is recommended to prevent leaf scorch.

Baptisia australis, False Indigo

Blue false indigo grows three to four feet tall and three to four feet wide in an upright habit. This exceptional perennial grows across a wide range of zones and is one of the most adaptable native species.

Newly emerging shoots produce violet-blue, lupine-like flowers in erect 10 to 12 inch racemes atop flower stems extending well above the foliage mound of clover-like, bluish-green leaves. The spring flowers are present for three to four weeks.

The flowers give way to inflated seed pods which turn charcoal black when ripe and which flower arrangers consider to be ornamental. The common name, blue false indigo, refers to the use of this perennial by early Americans as a dye.

Baptisia australis is an excellent plant to anchor the back of the border. It is also valuable for cottage gardens, native plant gardens, and native area of prairies and meadows.

It is best as a specimen or planted in small groups. Blue false indigo can be used with bulbs and other spring flowering perennials to make interesting combinations.

* Light - Plants thrive in full sun. Plants grown in partial shade may require staking.

* Soil - This North American native is easily grown in well-drained soil and is drought tolerant after establishment.

* Uses - This spring flowering shrub-like perennial may be used to fill the back of the border or in the wild garden.

* Unique Qualities - The combination of flower and leaf color is dramatic in the early blooming season. Flowers are followed by inflated seed pods that are useful for dried flower arrangements.

* Hardiness - USDA zones 3-9

The following links are provided by Perennial Plant Association. 

2010 Baptisia Australis
2009 Hakonechloa macra 'Aureola'
2008 Geranium 'Rozanne'
2007 Nepeta 'Walker's Low'
2006 Dianthus gratianopolitanus 'Feuerhexe'
2005 Helleborus xhybridus
2004 Athyrium niponicum 'Pictum'
2003 Leucanthemum 'Becky'
2002 Phlox 'David'
2001 Calamagrostis x acutiflora 'Karl Foerster'
2000 Scabiosa columbaria 'Butterfly Blue'
1999 Rudbeckia fulgida var. sullivantii 'Goldsturm'
1998 Echinacea purpurea 'Magnus'
1997 Salvia 'Mainacht' (May Night)
1996 Penstemon digitalis 'Husker Red'
1995 Perovskia atriplicifolia
1994 Astilbe 'Sprite'
1993 Veronica 'Sunny Border Blue'
1992 Coreopsis verticillata 'Moonbeam'
1991 Heuchera micrantha 'Palace Purple'
1990 Phlox stolonifera