#perennial

[jillraggett]

Plant of the Day

Saturday 16 May 2026

A distinctive cultivar of a U.K. native woodland species Anemone nemorosa 'Vestal' (wood anemone) has solitary white flowers with a ring of normal petals surrounding a button-like centre of narrow staminodes. The plant thrives in a moist but well-drained, humus-rich soil in partial shade. It will tolerate drier conditions when dormant in summer.

Jill Raggett

[summerswages]

sweet williams gone wild . . .

[gardenvarietygay]

My biggest gardening tip is that if you have $100 to spend on perennial plants you should aim closer to getting twenty little perennials than three or four big perennials. Planting four $25 plants will have a very small impact visually and you’ll be way too precious about them. Five small plants of the same species will make a bigger visual impact than one large plant of the same species. Plants are living things that you’re planting outside in the weather. You should be buying plants with the understanding that they are closer to folding chairs than Ming vases. If you spend $25 on a plant and accidentally step on it, you haven’t killed the plant but you’ve probably broken off about $12 worth of stems. If you step on a $5 plant you’ve caused like $2 worth of damage and it was probably young anyway so it might push out enough new growth to fill back in by the end of the season. You’d have to outright kill 5 of your $5 plants to equal losing one $25 plant. You will always kill some of your plants, or at least they won’t all thrive. Better to lose a $5 plant than a $25 plant.

Also plants grow, usually quickly. Very few perennial plants look good their first year in the ground, buying a bigger plant doesn’t really change that. Most of the time the difference between buying a gallon perennial and a pint perennial is that you dig a bigger hole for the gallon, you pour more water on the gallon, and you watch it look bad more closely.

All I’m saying is that it recently came to my attention that people when people complain about gardening being expensive it’s because they are spending $600 on landscaping that, frankly, looks like nothing bc they’re buying $50 to $100 plants.

[margocooper]

Молодило кровельное (лат. Sempervivum tectorum) или "Каменная роза". Май 25. Sempervivum tectorum (Common Houseleek) or "Stone Rose". May 25.

[zegalba]

Monotropa Uniflora, also known as Ghost Plant, is an herbaceous perennial flowering plant native to temperate regions of Asia, North America, and northern South America

[sweet-harmony]

…I love wild plants, especially those that grow well on old walls; they bloom all year round...

@sweet-harmony

[horsesarecreatures]

I absolutely adore these ‘Kingston Cardinal’ hellebores. My dad got me 3 as a birthday present 15+ years ago. When he died and the house sold, I dug them up and stashed them in my mom’s yard for safekeeping. I brought them to the farm a couple weeks ago and divided the 3 mega clumps into 11. They are no worse for wear and are blooming well. I planted a bunch of other hellebore plugs this year too, but they are so small they probably won’t bloom this spring.

[dustedmagazine]

Touch Girl Apple Blossom — Graceful (Perennial/K)

Touch Girl Apple Blossom luxuriates in radiant jangle, the band’s two guitarists — Olivia Garner (who also sings) and John Morales — joining in sunshine soaked spirals of pop-rock sound. “Sunshine Reminds Me Of,” an early single, beckons from the first warm day of the season. The sound is well in line with the jangle-pop of Sharp Pins, the happy-into-sad glow of the Cords, and the lo-fi tunefulness of Good Flying Birds, a band that they’ll be touring with this summer.

The band is a foursome out of Austin, Texas with one previous, buzzy EP. Garner, the main songwriter, previously played guitar in noisy, shoegaze-y Hotline TNT. Bassist Dustin Pilkington, who also contributed a couple of tunes, has been in roughly a dozen Austin bands, notably hardcore punk’s Discreet and Total Abuse. John Morales and drummer Daniel Powell also play in much loved Austin post-punk band Guiding Light, but none of that will really prepare you for the sweet C86 tunefulness of this first full-length.

Consider, “Vacation” for instance with its ebullient guitar vamp, which might remind you, if you’re old enough, of the Friends of Distinction’s “Grazing in the Grass.” But instead of the soul swagger of that tune, this song is layered over with Garner’s dreaming, drifting, cool girl vocals. The song scrambles and glides at the same time, its furiously mobile bass and drums pushing ahead, while the chorus unspools indolently.

“Heartgo” shows a little more of the band members’ punk roots, erupting into action on a rupturing drum fill and slashing and burning through noisy openings. But then it settles into a swinging pop groove, as light and airy as a soap bubble. “Where does the heart go?” croons Garner, as the guitars clang, the drums pound, the bass thunders; it’s a pop song with spine and friction. They have a lot in common with current day Slumberland/K/Perennial guitar pop bands, but if you want to reach back a little further, the spike-y vulnerability of the Pastels comes to mind.  

Spring comes earlier to Austin than some other places, so I’d imagine that the single “Spring Reminds Me Of” has already gotten a pretty good airing on the nice days, streaming out of open car windows and drifting through the windows of local bars. If you’re looking for a song of the summer, you could do worse.

Jennifer Kelly