Bomb-Proof Plants! Easy To Grow Perennials For Beginners

Published 2023-08-28
Plant list & USDA zones:
Heuchera Chocolate Ruffles - 9-4
Geranium macrorrhizum 'Ingwersens Variety' - 8-4
Alchemilla mollis - 8-3
Hylotelephium Herbstfreude/Autumn Joy - 9-3
Aquilegia vulgaris (Granny's Bonnet) - 8-3

Rosy walks you through some of her variety plants she would recommend for beginners in gardening. Rosy is an expert on garden perennials with over 35 years in horticulture, she is the owner and proprietor of Hardy's Cottage Garden Plants - a nursery specialising in herbaceous perennials. This channel is her garden media project that allow her to provide garden answers for everyone no matter their experience level.

All Comments (20)
  • @scallywags12
    Love all the perennials you suggested. I have all of these and great plants. Thanks!
  • @mollie3244
    Been gardening all my life and I never met a heuchera I didn't like. Some people see them as fillers but they are the star of the show in the shade. And great cut flowers too.
  • @martineelaut8921
    Thank you. For the verry fine explenation and the close up pictures from the plants. Greetings from Belgium
  • @MrsBullfinch
    Another great video. I have them all except maybe the geranium. I do have one but it has a blue flower. Thanks again. You are great at giving tips and advice.
  • @vicstee482
    Looking forward to seeing your stand at wisley!
  • Great selection, i think anykind of daylilies would be a great pick as well.
  • @Hayley-sl9lm
    I am in the PNW of the USA and I use native straight species varieties of both Heuchera and Geranium, and they've been some of the easier plants to keep alive! I use both in kind of dryish part-shade.
  • Great video again. I’ve just taken on an allotment and it’s filled with alchemilla mollis and I was wondering how to cut it back thank you. Have you any tips for brunnera Jack Frost as that’s also getting out of hand? Thanks
  • @nattierags
    I can't grow Heuchera to save my life and I've been gardening for over 30 years.
  • @peter.g6618
    Hi Rosie. Love hour channel and huge knowledge. May I ask your opinion please?? Would carex everillo grass go well with alcomellia mollies? Want to plant them along edge of raised bed in shade. Thank you. 👍❤
  • @vicstee482
    I have loads of heucheras. Unfortunately most have got rust this year. Heartbreaking. Cut them all right back but some are still coming back with it. So taking most of them up 😩
  • Hi. Many thanks for another fantastic video. When would you split an Autumn Joy?
  • @bewoodford2807
    Thank you for an informative video. I cabn not grow Heuchera in my garden. They eventually die. I think Heucheras are quite fussy about where they grow and soil conditions\. I think maybe my soil is wrong for them! Is Chocolate Ruffles a particularly forgiving variety of heuchera? thank you :-) Alchemilla spreads everywhere in my garden. I wish the flowers were a different colour- I really don't like the sitrus green /yellow of the flowers- I find it hard to place with other flowers. If I have a spot where I really can't get much to grow then Sedum Autumn joy is brilliant and thrives there. I have mine planted with Echinacea Purpureal. I even have some self seeders in half shady positions and it still does well and flowers. I love it. Not so successful with the purple/red varieties, sadly. Aquilegias grow well in my garden and seed freely too. I love them. Thnk you again :-)
  • Sorry ,but my plants are far superior ,Alchemilla mollis is worse than dandelions and not as pretty. Erodium manescavii is evergreen , self seeds mildly and flowers from end of April to beginning of November , Hardy osteospermums evergreen and flowers nearly all year and they hybridise . Much better than these plants .