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These Perennials Will Survive Any Summer. And they're beautiful!

Beautiful but tough perennials that will thrive in both hot, dry summers and cool, wet ones. Plant recommendations from Antique Perennials, a top Australian perennial plant retailer whose summers are usually hot and dry, but have recently been cool and very, very wet! (Meanwhile we got the hot dry summer in the UK!). Most plants suitable for USDA zones 5-9 (and cooler), all the UK, plus parts of Northern Europe, Canada, South Africa and, of course, Southern Australia!

00:00 Welcome
00:20 Antique Perennials: https://antiqueperennials.com/
01:40 Tips on starting to plant up a perennial garden
02:46 Stipa gigantea (Golden Oats) Hardy to minus 28C/minus 20F
03:16 Persicaria affinis (Fleece flower) Hardy to minus 40C/minus 40F
03:40 Sedum (now Hylotelephium) ‘Autumn Joy’ Hardy to minus 40C/minus 40F
04:14 Panicum ‘Blue Steel’ (try ‘Heavy Metal’ if you can’t find Blue Steel) Hardy to minus 34C/minus 30F
04:39 Stachys ‘Big Ears’
05:02 Achillea (Yarrow) ‘Moonshine’. Hardy to minus 40C/minus 40F
05:28 Lepechinia salviae (Chilean Pitcher Sage) Hardy down to minus 10C/15F
05:53 Aster ‘Twilight’ (Erybia x herveyi) Hardy to minus 40C/minus 40F
06:57 Crocosmia ‘Miss Scarlett’. Hardy to minus 20C/5F
07:48 Phlomis russeliana Hardy to minus 28C/minus 20F
08:21 Do the larger persicarias survive a hot dry summer as well as Persicaria affinis?
09:07 Allium ‘Millenium’ Hardy to minus 28C/minus 20F
09:37 Grasses make a perennial garden
10:34 Calamagrostis ‘Karl Foerster’ (Feather reed grass) used as a hedge. Hardy to minus 34C/minus 30F
11:56 Beautiful borders playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrZRLHPUbGmCjrR_RaI01_mGKMaTlx_gf

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16 Replies to “These Perennials Will Survive Any Summer. And they're beautiful!”

  2. Grasses are ubiquitous in these gardening videos. In my opinion mostly they just look like you haven't mowed your lawn for weeks. I wouldn't pay for overgrown grass – ever

  3. I have decided to save up and start collecting some perennials – as a new gardener I would always buy the little pack of annuals.I just bought my first perennial salvia, veronica and two echinacea which I love – so exciting – but man have we had some rain here where I live …pretty much rained all summer long …I hope my heat loving perennials survive all the rain – we are still getting rain now in beg Autumn, but some sunny days.

  5. Would you do a list of perennials that will stand on their own without staking, and then those that will stand without flopping if given a Chelsea chop ❤❤

  8. I adore my stonecrop (autumn joy) plants. I am not a great gardener (I try) but I can vouch for how amazing it is. The bees love it. It is not phased by any soil, light or weather (mine is in various soils including clay). They are suuuuuper easy to propagate and I've made four new vigorous plants already just from last year. They don't care about extreme cold or extreme hot. The flowers last for weeks. The colour of the foliage is incredible. I think it's one of the hardest working plants in the garden.

  9. Thanks for this Alexandra I needed this great information. We’ve had the exact weather you covered. Our garden was flooded for a month and now it’s dry as ????????????

  10. This is fantastic Alexandra! This is exactly the kind of plants we all need and can grow – many even in northern climes – given our increasingly unpredictable weather

  13. Lovely video. Good to know some tough plants. Thank you for filming this.

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