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NEW, OR NEW TO YOU…
Perennial Suggestions for
your Summer Production
and Fall Sales
By Beth Engle, Green Goods Business Manager 1. ARALIA SUN KING
While you are busy ramping up for spring Need to bring some sun into the shade? The Perennial
sales, take some time to plan your summer Plant Association’s 2020 Perennial Plant of the Year,
production. Here are some new and some not grown for the golden yellow to chartreuse foliage,
so new perennials to consider that can add also flowers with cream-colored umbels attractive to
depth to your fall sales. Your Griffin rep can pollinators. Flowers later develop into tiny dark berries
enjoyed by birds. Typically seen at about four feet tall
find the right product form and vendor to fit and wide, it can get larger with age. Hardy in USDA
your needs. zones 3 to 9. Photo from Walters Gardens.
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