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12/17/2025

🎶 Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle all the way! 🎶
Add a festive ring of color to your landscape with Heuchera Summer Haze Series ✨

🌸 Available Colors (PBR/USPPAF):
• Dark Pink
• Light Pink
• White
• Tri-Color Series: Dark Pink, Light Pink & White

With tall flower stalks and large, delicate blooms, Summer Haze rises above bright green foliage to create a dreamy haze of color. A true standout in the garden—and a beautiful cut flower too!

🌿 Uses & Attributes:
✔ En masse landscape plantings
✔ Cut flower gardens
✔ Shade & cottage gardens

📏 Plant Details:
• Height: 7–9" (18–23 cm)
• Spread: 12–18" (30–46 cm)
• Habit: Upright
• Light: Part Sun to Shade
• Bloom Time: Late spring–early summer
• USDA Zones: 5–9

🛒 Order from Paul Nihot:
👉 http://www.rnstc.com/index.php/en/our-associates

Bring the bells—and the blooms—to your garden this season! 🌸✨

12/16/2025

⚙️ Heuchera ‘Steel City’ — Ready for 2026 Orders!
A striking and durable perennial with bold foliage and a perfectly uniform habit — built for standout landscape performance.

✔️ Steely bronze to blue-green foliage with darker veining
✔️ Dramatic dark red-purple undersides
✔️ Dainty pink flowers rising on slender wands in late spring–summer
✔️ Dense, uniform habit — excellent for mass plantings
✔️ Durable, vigorous, and landscape-tough

📏 Height: ~12" (30 cm)
📏 Spread: 24–30" (60–76 cm)
🌸 Bloom Time: May–June
🌡️ USDA Zones: 4–9
☀️ Light: Full sun to part shade
🌱 Available in Deep 72’s
📄 PPAF

Perfect for:
✔️ Borders
✔️ Mass plantings
✔️ Adding foliage contrast all season long

👉 Check availability & order now:
Pioneer Gardens 2026 Availability
🔗 https://www.pioneergardens.com/availabilities/

Learn more:
🔹 https://www.pioneergardens.com/heuchera-steel-city/

🔹 https://musthaveperennials.com/heuchera-steel-city/

12/16/2025

It’s the most wonderful time of the year!🌿 A winter reminder that great garden performance starts with smart planning—long before the heat returns. ✨

Order from Green Trade Horticulture:
https://www.greentradehort.com/our-plants/p/helichrysum-red-jewel
https://www.greentradehort.com/our-plants/p/helichrysum-ruby-cluster

Winter is the perfect time to plan ahead—and Helichrysum earns a spot on every warm-season wishlist. Known as red everlasting, these resilient performers are celebrated for their vibrant color, tidy habit, and outstanding durability once the garden heats up. Even now, their dried blooms add texture and interest to winter décor.

✨ Featured Varieties
Helichrysum Ruby Cluster (‘Blorub’) PBR
• Height: 8–10” / 20–25 cm
• Spread: 8–16” / 20–41 cm

Helichrysum ‘Red Jewel’ PBR / USPP #29067
• Height: 11” / 28 cm
• Spread: 8–16” / 20–41 cm

Helichrysum x amorginum
Bred by Chris Bowyer, these varieties shine in hot, dry conditions while maintaining a tidy, mounded habit and exceptional garden performance.

🌱 Uses & Attributes
• Front border, rock garden, containers
• Excellent for dried flowers
• Drought tolerant
• Vibrant, long-lasting color

📍 Growing Details
• USDA Zones: 8–10
• RHS Hardiness: –12°C / 10°F
• Bloom Time: Spring–Summer
• Light: Full Sun
• Habit: Mounded

🔗 Discover more: https://musthaveperennials.com/helichrysum/

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12/15/2025

Dashing through the snow, straight into garden royalty! ❄️👑
Meet Polemonium ‘Prince’ — a true standout that rules the shade with ferny foliage, rich purple tones, and clouds of beautiful blue spring blooms. From early-season sparkle to long-lasting color, this perennial proves it’s worthy of the crown. 💙💜

👉 Learn more about this stunning perennial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cG558cBrUuk

Let’s show the horticulture world what makes ‘Prince’ a royal favorite! 👑💚
👉 Cast your vote for Jacob's Ladder: Polemonium ‘Prince’ here: https://ngb.org/green-thumb-perennial/

🌱 Why gardeners love Polemonium ‘Prince’:
• Dense, compact habit
• Gorgeous texture and color all season
• Shade tolerant — perfect for mixed borders and lower-light areas
• Height & Spread: approx. 24” / 60 cm
• USDA Zones 5–9 | RHS Hardiness: –32°C / –25°F
• Bloom time: Spring into summer
• Light: Part shade to full shade

12/13/2025

🎄✨ ’Tis the season to be jolly! ✨🎄
Fa-la-la-la-la, la-la-la-la!

While we’re jolly with holiday cheer, we can’t help but think about the plants that make us Merry & Bright—and Heliopsis ‘Oriole Variegata’ is topping our wish list! 🎁🌼

This standout beauty brings instant joy with its creamy white, green-veined variegated foliage, then turns up the sparkle with large, golden-yellow daisy flowers that last and last. A true showstopper with blooms or without, it’s no wonder we’re calling it a must-have for 2026! ⭐

Perfect for beds and borders, cottage gardens, or as a thriller in containers, ‘Oriole Variegata’ doesn’t just look good—it also attracts pollinators, spreading the cheer even further. 🐝💛

🌟 Trialed & True
• PSU 2024 Flower Trials
• UGA 2024 Flower Trials
• CSU 2024 Flower Trials

🌞 Quick Facts
• Height: ~18" / 46 cm
• Spread: ~36" / 91 cm
• Bloom Time: Summer
• Habit: Dense, compact & well branched
• Light: Full Sun
• Hardiness: USDA Zones 4–9
• RHS Rating: -28°C / -18°F

Heliopsis ‘Oriole Variegata’ USPPAF is ready to sleigh the garden scene—now and for seasons to come! 🎶🌼 Order now for 2026 from Pioneer Gardens: 🔗 https://www.pioneergardens.com/availabilities/

Learn more: https://musthaveperennials.com/heliopsis/

12/12/2025

💙 Geranium Azure Rush® — Now Open for 2026 Orders! 💙
A stunning, mounded sport of the beloved Geranium Rozanne®, Azure Rush® (USPP #22684) delivers season-long color and effortless garden performance.

What makes it a must-grow:
💜 Azure-purple petals with deep burgundy veining
🌸 Blooms from spring until frost—exceptionally long-flowering
🌿 Fragrant foliage + deer-resistant
🌱 Perfect for front borders, groundcovers, containers, and hanging baskets

📏 Height: 18–20" (46–51 cm)
📏 Spread: 24–28" (61–71 cm)
☀️ Light: Sun to part shade
🌡️ Zones: 5–8 • RHS Hardiness: –28°C/–20°F
🌼 Bloom Time: Summer–Autumn
🌾 Habit: Mounded

👉 Check availability & order now:
Pioneer Gardens 2026 Availability
🔗 https://www.pioneergardens.com/availabilities/

Learn more:
🔹 https://www.pioneergardens.com/geranium-azure-rush/
Check it out!
🔹 https://musthaveperennials.com/geranium-azure-rush/

12/12/2025

✨Available to Order for 2026: Pulmonaria ‘Opal’ ✨
From Pioneer Gardens — the perfect early-spring standout for shade gardens!

👉 Check availability & order now:
Pioneer Gardens 2026 Availability
🔗 https://www.pioneergardens.com/availabilities/

This exceptional selection features:
🌿 Light white, opalescent blooms that open pale blue and fade to luminous pastel tones
🍃 Deep green leaves with large, sparkling silver freckles
🌸 Blooms mid-April through May
📏 Height: ~24" (PP #12,931)
🌱 Available in Deep 72’s

Bred by renowned UK plantsman Bob Brown, Pulmonaria officinalis ‘Opal’ (‘Ocupol’) forms neat, symmetrical mounds that shine in:
✨ Front borders
✨ Groundcover plantings
✨ Rock gardens
✨ Containers

Attributes: Long-blooming, deer-resistant, mounded habit
Zones: 5–8 • Light: Part shade to shade
Spread: ~28" (71 cm)

Learn more:
🔹 https://www.pioneergardens.com/pulmonaria-opal/

🔹 https://musthaveperennials.com/pulmonaria-officinalis-opal/

12/12/2025

🌼 🌞 Available in 2026!!! Heliopsis ‘Oriole Variegata’ – Order Now from Pioneer Gardens! 🌿
This show-stopping Heliopsis is turning heads everywhere — and availability for 2026 is live!

✨ Why growers and gardeners love it:
✔ USDA Zones 4–9
✔ Summer-blooming and pollinator-friendly
✔ PPAF
✔ Proven performance in PSU, UGA & CSU 2024 Flower Trials
✔ Available in Deep 72’s

👉 Check availability & order now:
Pioneer Gardens 2026 Availability
🔗 https://www.pioneergardens.com/availabilities/

With 3-inch golden-yellow daisy-like blooms and striking creamy-white variegated foliage with green veining, ‘Oriole Variegata’ shines in the garden with flowers or without. Its dense, compact habit (18" tall, 36" spread) makes it perfect for beds, borders, cottage gardens, and even as a thriller in containers.

🌼 Learn more about Heliopsis ‘Oriole Variegata’:
🔗 https://www.pioneergardens.com/heliopsis-oriole-variegata/

📘 Additional info:
🔗 https://musthaveperennials.com/heliopsis/

12/11/2025

TIME TO VOTE!

The National Garden Bureau is excited to continue showcasing the contenders for the 2026 Green Thumb Award! Help us decide which innovative perennial deserves to be crowned the People's Choice.

Don't miss the beautiful Polemonium 'Prince' from NGB member Must Have Perennials:

- Spring Spectacle: Beautiful blue flowers cover the delicate, ferny foliage in early spring.
- Season-Long Color: After the bloom, attractive purple calyxes and deep red stems provide unique, extended interest.
- Foliage Finish: The leaves boast a lovely purple tinge in both spring and fall.
- Reliable: Hardy and robust in Zones 5-9.

Explore all the incredible new perennials and cast your vote for the one that captures your heart!

🌟 Voting is OPEN until December 17th! 🌟

Cast your vote at https://ngb.org/green-thumb-perennial/

12/11/2025

🌿✨ A huge thank you to Garden Gate for highlighting Heuchera ‘Summer Haze’ in their 2026 Best New Plants article! We’re thrilled to see this new coral bells series recognized alongside such exciting introductions.

With its 22–25 inch flower stems, larger-than-usual blooms, and compact, shade-loving habit, Summer Haze brings big impact to shady borders—and even makes a gorgeous cut flower. Available in White, Light Pink, and Dark Pink, this hardy Heuchera hybrid (USDA zones 5–9) is perfect for gardeners dreaming up next year’s plant list. 🌸💭

It may be too early to start planting, but it’s the perfect time to start planning—and we’re honored to be part of the inspiration for 2026 gardens everywhere. 💚

Thank you again, Garden Gate, for the feature! 🌿 — Must Have Perennials

12/11/2025

✨ Pantone’s 2026 Color of the Year: Cloud Dancer (PANTONE 11-4201) ✨
This dreamy, airy white is on our minds this week—and we’re celebrating by highlighting a plant that feels just as cloud-like, effortless, and elevating in the garden.

Meet Lychnis flos-cuculi Petit Henri (‘IFLYPH’) — USPP # 31373
A must-have perennial that brings soft, floating beauty to any landscape.

🌿 Why we love it:
• A candelabra of white, double blooms with an exceptionally long flowering period
• Maroon calyx adds a subtle touch of contrast and elegance
• Perfect for borders, cottage/informal gardens, meadows, and containers
• A magnet for butterflies, bees, and hummingbirds

🌱 Garden Stats:
• Height: 18–24 in (46–61 cm)
• Spread: 18–24 in (46–61 cm)
• USDA Zones 3–8
• RHS Hardiness: to -28°C / -20°F
• Bloom time: Late spring into autumn
• Habit: Mounding
• Light: Sun to part shade

Bring a touch of “Cloud Dancer” to your garden with this light, airy, endlessly charming perennial.
Learn more ➜ musthaveperennials.com/lychnis-flos-cuculi-petit-henri/

12/10/2025

🌿✨ We need your vote today!! ✨🌿
The National Garden Bureau has opened voting for the Green Thumb People’s Choice – Perennials, and Jacob's Ladder: Polemonium ‘Prince’ is in the spotlight!

👉 Cast your vote for Jacob's Ladder: Polemonium ‘Prince’ here: https://ngb.org/green-thumb-perennial/

If you love discovering (and supporting!) exceptional new plants, now’s your chance to help bring attention to a true garden gem.

👉 Learn more about this stunning perennial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cG558cBrUuk

Let’s show the horticulture world what makes ‘Prince’ worthy of the crown! 👑💚

Meet ‘Prince’ — a true standout in the garden world. 👑
In spring, mounds of ferny foliage are topped with beautiful blue flowers, while purple calyxes keep the show going long after the blooms fade. As the seasons shift, the foliage takes on rich purple tones in both spring and fall, giving this plant incredible multi-season interest.

🌱 Why gardeners love Polemonium ‘Prince’:
• Dense, compact habit
• Gorgeous texture and color all season
• Shade tolerant — perfect for mixed borders and lower-light areas
• Height & Spread: approx. 24” / 60 cm
• USDA Zones 5–9 | RHS Hardiness: –32°C / –25°F
• Bloom time: Spring into summer
• Light: Part shade to full shade

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C/o Ball Horticultural Company, 622 Town Road
Barberton, OH
60185

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(330) 780-2302

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http://musthaveperennials.com/

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