wsu master Gardener Demonstration Garden - Perennial Border Garden

Fall in love with perennials - variety and beauty in every season! Perennials live longer than a year, in contrast with annual plants that survive only one year. With perennials, you can find something green year-round, and different plants bloom in every season. Deciduous herbaceous perennials lose their leaves and appear to die back in the fall, then return in the spring. Other perennials maintain their stems, some are evergreen. WSU Master Gardeners tend the perennial border garden and use it as a classroom to teach plant identification and demonstrate perennial plant care.

Peony Cora Louise

This peony is an Itoh variety that when mature will have approximately 50 blooms. It blooms in late spring and gets to be about 3 feet tall.

Bartzella Peony

This is an Itoh variety and blooms in early spring.

Gunnera manicata

The season for Gunnera manicata is April until frost. Gunnera manicata is also known as 'Dinosaur Food' due to its ancient appearance of tough spiked leaves that can grow to 4 feet across.

Sorbaria Sem

A multi-colored shrub with fern-like foliage in the spring and white plumes in the summer. The leaves turn red-orange in the fall.