Starting Friday, May 22 -- 15% off ALL perennials!

Sale runs through Monday, May 25.  Shop our unbeatable selection of hostas, coneflowers, dianthus, penstemon, salvia, phlox, ferns, daylilies, coral bells, blanket flower, black-eyed susans and much, much more.

We're celebrating the best of perennial gardening with the "Art of Gardening Festival."

During this four-day celebration, which runs Friday, May 22, through Monday, May 25, we'll have information from a variety of St. Louis gardening clubs, including:

• The Federated Garden Club of Missouri, which is composed of 42 garden clubs in the St. Louis area

• The Greater St. Louis Dahlia Society

• The Greater St. Louis Daffodil Society

• The Orchid Society of Greater St. Louis, and

• The St. Louis Water Garden Society

Stop in for free handouts and gardening demonstrations, door prizes, surprise sales, and a fantastic showcase of the best perennials, including a display of deer-resistant plants, past Perennial Plant of the Year winners, and our ongoing fairy gardening display.

Two blue beauties
If you're thinking about making an investment in your garden, you won't find two harder working perennials than these blue flowers -- salvia and catmint

We get a lot of questions this time of year about two perennials that are in their full glory right now: Nepeta, or catmint, and Salvia. Both have a similar look -- and love full hot sun -- but catmint has more silvery foliage with heavily scented leaves, which makes it a prime bunny-buster plant. Rabbits don't like heavily scented foliage!

Here's a look at the two blue beauties.  Both will re-bloom later if pruned hard after their initial flowering.  Catmint will re-bloom lightly, and salvia will continue to re-bloom, quite heavily, if deadheaded.