March 21, 2010

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Perennial of the Year Each year the members of the Perennial Plant Association select a new Perennial Plant of the Year. We are pleased to announce and present the winner for 2010: Blue False Indigo (Baptisia australis) This easy and almost carefree, sun-loving perennial forms large upright and bushy mounds of blue-green leaves and is perfect for the middle to back of a border. In early summer it produces long spikes of indigo-blue pea-like flowers that resemble Lupines. Seedpods develop after that and by autumn these dry and change into rattling seedheads. Stems are strong and usually remain in place all winter, needing to be cut back to the ground in spring before the new growth resumes. For more information about this year's winner, click the link above. If you'd like to view previous winners we've linked to them below. Hope you enjoy! Perennial Plant of the Year Index (Note: A new browser window will open to the PPA Website) 2009 Hakonechloa macra ‘Aureola’ Note: this is a PDF document 2008 Geranium ‘Rozanne’ Note: this is a PDF document 2007 Nepeta ‘Walker’s Low’ Note: this is a PDF document 2006 Dianthus 'Feuerhexe' Note: This is a PDF document 2005 LENTEN ROSE (Helleborus × hybridus) Note: This is a PDF document 2004 Athyrium niponicum 'Pictum' 2003 Leucanthemum 'Becky' 2002 Phlox paniculata 'David' 2001 Calamagrostis x acutiflora 'Karl Foerster' 2000 Scabiosa columbaria 'Butterfly Blue' 1999 Rudbeckia fulgida var. sullivantii 'Goldsturm' 1998 Echinacea purpurea 'Magnus' 1997 Salvia 'May Night' 1996 Penstemon digitalis 'Husker Red' 1995 Perovskia atriplicifolia 1994 Astilbe 'Sprite' 1993 Veronica 'Sunny Border Blue' 1992 Coreopsis verticillata 'Moonbeam' 1991 Heuchera micrantha 'Palace Purple'

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