Secrist Gardens – Nursery Inventory
It's planting time again, so we're revealing all of the beautiful perennials we've been growing for you at Secrist Gardens!
Solidago or Goldenrod: Brilliant Color in the Fall Garden
Perennial solidago features non-stop brilliant golden color in fall. It's an easy-care care perennial perfect for high mountain gardens.
Penstemon: “Husker Red” and “Mystica”
Penstemon is a perennial with rich dark red foliage that blooms in sun or shade in average watered gardens and adds a dramatic contrast to a garden’s sea of green with its elegant red foliage.
Tall Sedum – ‘Autumn Joy’
Tall sedum, ‘Autumn Joy’ is a custom plant for growing in the Rocky Mountains. It grows about twenty-four inches tall with an almost square shape and thrives in alkaline, poor, dry soils including clay.
Helenium – Helen’s Flower: A Royal Beauty Fit For a Queen
Helenium (hel-EE-nee-um) or Helen’s Flower is the namesake of a royal queen, and when you see how beautiful this flower is, you’ll understand why. The intricate golden banding that surrounds the dark edges of Helenium’s center disk resembles the golden...
Karl Foerster Fountain Grass – Easy Care, All-Season Beauty
Landscaping with grasses such as Karl Foerster fountain grass has become very popular with today’s homeowners. The ease of care and dependability have a lot to do with the popularity of grasses, but most homeowners say, “I just...
Asters: Growing Tips for Autumn’s Favorite Perennial
Asters bring intense shades of purple, blue, pink and fuchsia mounds of dense daisy-shaped flowers that act as a farewell celebration and rousing “Grand Finale” to fall gardens. Asters are native perennials and were unruly over-grown plants when discovered...
Aconitum – Monkshood
Above: Featured Image, Aconitum, courtsey wikimedia commons Aconitum is a tall, erect perennial that blooms in the fall garden and adds valuable blue colors to contrast with the hot colors of autumn. Everything about Aconitum is incredible. The...
Chrysanthemum – Clara Curtis
Chrysanthemum, ‘Clara Curtis’ Finding a hardy, carefree Chrysanthemum that grows in western Rocky Mountain gardens seems an impossible dream, but Chrysanthemum, ‘Clara Curtis’ makes it possible. Fortunately ‘Clara Curtis’ descends from an older more vigorous stalk, Korean Chrysanthemum,...