Hardy Perennials for Landscape Use 
HOW TO FIND THE PLANTS FOR MAKING FORMAL BEDS, HARDY BORDERS, ROCK AND WILD GARDENS, ETC. 
Arranged by William H. Richie, Landscape Designer, 
[Editors’ Note. — This table helps you to answer the question “ What Plants Shall I Use??” In beginning to work with it, the garden maker consults , first, the 
analysis columns and from them ascertains the name of the plant that will fit his special requirements. Taking the first plant in the list, for instance, The Pearl 
achillea is found to be the plant that will give white flowers for cutting during June, July, and August, and that it is suited for dry or medium dry soils in an informal 
border and in a sunny place. By the use of this chart, the amateur can easily pick out plants that will give him a combination of definite colors at certain times of 
the year; or he can find plants that fit his soil and situation. The arrangement of the asterisks enables the reader at a glance, to see what plants fall under one 
individual group. This is particularly useful as regards the questions of exposure soil, height, and color. "Alba” varieties are recorded under Color of Bloom, where 
their other specifications are the same; "while” is given twice so as to show color combinations — such as bluish white, or pink atul white, or blue fading to while; and 
a star inidcr both red and orange denote a reddish orange or vermilion color. \ 
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Common Name 
The Pearl. 
Monkshood 
Monkshood. 
Blue bugle. 
Hollyhocks in variety. 
Gold tuft. 
Alkanet. 
Windflower. 
Japanese windflower. 
Japanese windflower. 
Japanese windflower. 
Chamomile. 
Columbine. 
Rock Mountain columbine 
Columbine. 
Mug wort. 
Rock cress. 
Sea thrift. 
Japanese goat’s beard. 
Butterfly weed. 
Perennial aster 
Perennial aster 
Perennial aster 
Perennial aster 
Spiraea japonica. 
Blue indigo. 
Wild indigo. 
English daisy. 
False chamomile. 
Marsh marigold. 
Carpathian bell. 
Peach bell 
Chimney bellflower. 
Perennial cornflower. 
Snow in summer. 
Turtle head. 
Shasta daisy (Alaska). 
Hardy chrysanthemum 
Hardy chrysanthemum. 
Hardy chrysanthemum. 
Hardy chrysanthemum. 
Hardy chrysanthemum. 
Hardy chrysanthemum. 
Bush clematis. 
Bush clematis. 
Tickseed. 
Lily-of-the-valley. 
Lady’s slipper. 
Lady’s slipper. 
Lady’s slipper. 
Chinese larkspur. 
Larkspur. 
Belladonna larkspur. 
Sweet William. 
Scotch pink. 
Garden pink. 
Garden pink. 
Garden pink. 
Bleeding heart. 
Gas plant. 
Foxglove. 
Shooting star. 
Leopard’s bane. 
Barrenwort. 
Fleabane. 
White snakeroot. 
Joe Pye weed. 
Flowering spurge. 
Day or plantain lily. 
Blanket flower. 
Closed gentian. 
Crane’s bill. 
Baby’s breath. 
Mist flower. 
Sneezeweed. 
Sneezeweed. 
Sun or rock rose. 
Sunflower. 
Sunflower. 
Sunflower. 
Ox eye sunflower. 
Christmas rose. 
Major day lily. 
Lemon lily. 
Dumortier’s day lily. 
Thunberg’s lily. 
Liver leaf. 
Coral bells. 
Mallow. 
Bluets: Quaker lady. 
St. John’s wort. 
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