Plant These 7 LONG-LASTING Perennials ONCE - Blooms For 20 Years (Some Live 100!)
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Plant these 7 long-lasting perennials now - in April - while the soil is still cool and you will have blooms every single year for the next two decades. Some of these plants will outlive your mortgage. One of them, if you plant it right, will outlive you.
This is the list your local nursery isn't going to push because once you plant these seven, you never come back.
These seven perennials are picked for USDA hardiness zones 4 through 8 - which covers most of the United States. Check your zone before planting. Most garden centers now use the 2023 USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map, which shifted many regions half a zone warmer.
Sources referenced in this video:
Longwood Gardens (Kennett Square, PA) - heritage peony collection with documented specimens from the 1920s
American Peony Society heritage register of century-old specimens
Chicago Botanic Garden Plant Evaluation Program - Hemerocallis (daylily) trial
1997 reclassification of Dicentra spectabilis to Lamprocapnos spectabilis
If this video helped you, drop a comment telling me the oldest perennial in your yard and when it was planted. I read every one.