Looking for a garden standout that is a new and unique perennial? will add beauty and interest to your garden beds with striking colors, outstanding foliage, and interesting blooms that come in a variety of sizes, bold or unexpected colors, and curious growing habits!
Our new and unique perennials are quite exceptional with excellent performance in heat, humidity, cold, and drought. These perennials can be used as accent plants or in mixed borders, open woodlands, and mass plantings!
All of these unique perennials have that special ‘je ne sais quoi’! Build your garden around these spectacular plants and you will be rewarded with brilliant flowers year after year!
Here are some amazing plants that are sure to turn heads whenever they are in bloom or even just growing in your garden!
Using Unique Perennials In Your Landscape!
Whether you want a big and bold display that turns heads, or a display of unique flowers no one else on the block has seen before, planting unique perennials will boost your garden's curb appeal!
From shocking color and unexpected texture, massive height or wide spreading form, and unusual foliage form or color, unique perennials will instantly become specimens, accents, and focal points in your yard and container garden!
Full Sun Unique Perennials
Show off in the sun with these fantastically unique flowering perennials for your full sun garden! Turn some heads and get all the attention on your home and yard!
- Arkansas Blue Star - dark stems set off the sky-blue star-shaped blooms
- Blue Glow Globe Thistle - spikey silvery blue round flowers
- Joe Pye Weed - dramatically tall native that pollinators love
- Fortnight Lily - wide-open creamy yellow stars with shocking black/yellow spots
- Red Hot Poker Plants - unique hummingbird plants with eye-catching flower spires
- Rozanne Hardy Geranium - long blooming groundcover that’s insanely easy to grow
- Sea Thrift - cute little plants with cheerful raspberry-colored round flowers
- Verbascum (Mullein) - showy flowering spires resemble Delphinium and Hollyhock
- Blue Glitter Sea Holly - silvery lavender-blue spikey stars!
- Silver Mound Artemisia - soft and silvery-green mounded fragrant perennial
Unique form and showy blooms, these perennials need at least 6 hours of sun a day to keep them flowering their best and keep them stress-free.
Unique Part Sun/Partial Shade Perennials
Doing best in 4-6 hours of sun, in afternoon shade with morning sun, or all-day dappled shade, these part sun/part shade perennials straddle this unique garden niche location!
- Barrenwort - jester hat-like flowers and colorful heart-shaped leaves!
- Blue Plumbago Plant - neon lavender-blue flowers
- Brunnera - try Variegata or Jack Frost - glowing blue flowers
- Empress Wu Hosta - Grows 5 - 6 feet wide!
- Goatsbeard (Goat’s Beard) - airy white plumes
- Japanese Painted Ferns - so much color on one plant!
- Little Rocket Leopard Plant (Ligularia) - striking yellow rocket-like flowers
- Little Redhead Indian Pink - shocking two-tone flowers
- Sweet Kate Spiderwort - vibrant chartreuse foliage
- Stairway to Heaven Jacobs Ladder - variegated leaves and dainty blue blooms
Unique foliage colors and whimsical flowers, these plants light up the in-between sun/shade gardens, containers, and as showy specimens!
Unique Perennials For Full Shade
Requiring about 2-4 hours of sun a day, full-shade perennials love those dark and glooming areas to inhabit and they are suitable for areas with higher moisture, which is common for these understory locations.
- All Gold Japanese Forest Grass - radiant golden flowing grass
- Bleeding Hearts - lacy foliage and delicate spring flowers kids love
- Bugbane (aka: Black Cohosh, Black Snakeroot, or Baneberry) - dramatic black leaves
- Chinese Wild Ginger - fast-growing heart-shaped black foliage groundcover
- EverColor® Sedges - all EverColor® Sedge have showy foliage and variegated options
- Hayscented Fern - a bright foliage plant with fragrant leaves
- Othello Leopard Plant - showy yellow daisy-like flowers and unique leaves
- Lenten Rose - beloved late winter/early spring flowers!
- Raspberry Splash Lungwort - raspberry-colored flowers and silver spotted foliage
- Solomon’s Seal - a stunning and unusual growth habit
Light up the full shade with these bright and colorful foliage plants and flowering perennials fill your garden with drifts of sheer color!
Caring For Your Unique Perennials
Once you have chosen the unique perennial for your particular Hardiness Zone and sun needs, most of these plants need well-drained soil conditions and moderate moisture needs throughout the growing season. Check each plant’s information page for their particular moisture and care needs, and pruning needs for your perennial.
These are among the easiest plants to grow and reliably return to your garden year after year, getting bigger and better to continue filling your landscape with their unique beauty!
Check out these and the many other types of unique plants at Nature Hills Nursery that will become your landscape's next show-stopping addition!
Happy Planting!
