My Top 10 perennial plants.

Well, hello there. This is Kelly. I garden in Northern California in Zone 9b. In this video, I wanted to show you my top 10 favorite perennials in my garden. Perennials that come back every year and make my garden so beautiful. These perennials are not in any particular order, but you guessed it what we're gonna start with. Number one is roses. This is pearly gates climbing rose. This is a two-year-old plant and it is a long-lasting bloom and the rose is absolutely beautiful on it and the smell is really nice too. And against the fence in the corner is another climbing rose. It has a beautiful color and eventually I want it to grow along the fence at the top. It's called lavender crush and look at this beautiful color on it. So many blooms. It's a re-bloomer also. And in this picture, I wanted to show you what an older lavender crush looks like. Next is the climbing Eden rose. This one I'm training on a chain link fence just for a little bit of privacy. I have been enjoying this rose so so much. This is the standard iceberg rose. This rose is so beautiful. I have it in my formal garden. The color of it is pure white. Just gorgeous. And this is a shot of it in the springtime. And so it's blooming. It's first bloom and after this, it will all die back. The blooms will all die back and I'll cut it back and it will be blooming for me. And this one is my newest addition to my garden. It's a pink tree rose and like the iceberg, it bloomed and then all the blooms spent and I cut it back but it looks really nice and healthy and I'm excited for it to bloom again. And number two is a wisteria. This is a vine actually that I've made into a tree in my front garden. It's approximately six to seven years old but it's always got blooms in the springtime. So beautiful. And this wisteria is planted in a container and I have lost count of how many years it's been planted here. But for the first, I don't know how many years it never bloomed but I didn't mind because it goes across my shed here and it looks really pretty when it fills in. So about three years ago, this thing started blooming and I just got so excited and now we get to enjoy all the blooms on it every springtime. Well I have a story about why I think I love wisteria so much. When I was growing up, I would walk by this home that had this beautiful wisteria growing in the very front of the house all the way across the front and I would walk by and I would just admire it. I didn't know what it was called, I just knew it was beautiful. And now I have my own wisteria to admire and just to be able to enjoy in my own yard. I would dream that I would have my own one day and here it is. Number three, barberry. Look at the red and the green, how it just pops together. And in here, I started trimming on it and you can see that it turns green but then a couple of weeks it'll be back to red again. This one out here by my front gate is the very first barberry that I planted. Love the color, never failing, beautiful every year. This one has to be my very favorite. It is an orange rocket barberry. Look at when the sun hits it, it just glows. It's beautiful. This is another orange rocket barberry. It's in the shade so it stays smaller and green. Number four is zono geraniums. These I didn't plant, they were here when I bought the house and they were already planted in here. These guys are tough as nails. I don't really do a whole lot to them. They come back every year just like this, beautiful. And this is not even in full bloom. Here is some that I propagated from the other mother plant, easy to start. These I have planted in the pots. They do really well in pots also. So I enjoy the salmon color out in the front of my house. They look really pretty behind the deer. Number five, hydrangeas. I have them behind my fence because of the deer. The deer love these. I have a trio of them. There's two of one and then the little one in front has only one bloom this year. I think it's because I repotted it but they're so beautiful. And on the other side of the yard is a white hydrangea, also in a pot. It's a beautiful white, not completely bloomed out yet but getting ready to. Here's another shot here of it behind the fence. This is lace cap hydrangea and I do have this planted in the ground. My aunt gave this to me on a special occasion and then I propagated another one and it was really easy to propagate. So I have this planted in a pot. This is an endless summer. Isn't it beautiful? It started out blue last year when I bought it but because of my water, the alkaline water, it turned pink but I think it's still beautiful. And here's another white hydrangea that I have tucked underneath my persimmon tree. So pretty. And here's my latest hydrangea. It's the oak leaf hydrangea. I planted it last year and it's only one year old and look how big the bloom on it is. It is absolutely gorgeous. There's three plants here all together and just look at the size of those leaves. They're gorgeous and in the fall they'll turn a beautiful red. This one is called Snow Queen. Number six, Tostas, also planted in my shade garden. This one is called Diana and this one is called Stained Glass. Love the color of this one. And in the middle it's called Grotia Regal. Such a pretty color too. I have them behind this deer fence so they'll stay safe. Number seven, Ostromeria. I absolutely love these flowers. They come back every year. Barely have to do anything to them. Just keep them watered and they're in pots. And I started out with a pink one down below and last year I added the white one. I want to keep adding different colors and different types of Ostromeria. And I didn't know this until last year. I was watching Diane Gardens Inspiration and she showed somebody picking an Ostromeria. You just pull it out and it's got that long stem and you can just drop it in your vase. And this flower lasts a long time in a bouquet. Probably one of the longest lasting flowers you can get. And this one you just kind of just tug on it and it pops right out. This is an older bloom so the white one's kind of dropping the petals there but they still last. You just bring them in your house and you enjoy them. Aren't they beautiful? And number eight, Ferns. Here I have in the middle some Boston Ferns. They're probably one of the easiest ferns you can grow. They will die back but they'll come back every year. And then I have some Christmas Ferns on the edge there. These ferns are planted under my cottonwood tree. I'm so sorry I don't know the names of these ferns. My dad brought them home and we just put them under here. I think they look really pretty, kind of woodsy under here. A beautiful shot with the sun hitting it. And here's a Foxtail Fern. It surrounds one of my little containers there full of succulents. And on my front porch, I have some more Boston Ferns. These are actually what I started with and I have them in some beautiful urns. And I do have to come and do some maintenance on these. These will kind of get some little dry areas and I just have to come through here every once in a while and just kind of clean it up. But I think they look beautiful on my front porch by my door. And I also have one at the very end of the porch in a pot. Number nine, Butterfly Bush. Boy, you talk about a tough plant and beautiful. So I have to cut this back every year and I cut it back way, way back down to the ground. But it comes back and it's absolutely beautiful every single year. The butterflies love it. Last but not least, number 10, Boxwoods. These were the very first plant that I planted in my yard. I lined my driveway because I knew one day they would grow and I could shape them real pretty and keep them all in a row here. In the front of my house, I have English Boxwoods. This is on the side of my home. I have four little Boxwoods that I shaped into lollipops. The one in the front, I'm thinking I'm going to have to do something different but I'm not sure what I'm going to do yet. As you can see, I need to get in here and do some trimming on it but it's like a little lollipop there. I have Boxwoods in pots just kind of dotted all through my yard. There's five little spears in my cut flower garden and in the wintertime when there's no flowers, there's always my beautiful Boxwoods to look at. These are Green Beauty Boxwoods that's lined up in the formal garden here. They haven't been in the ground for very long so one day, hopefully soon, they'll form a hedge. Thank you so much for watching. I so enjoyed sharing this video with you and we'll be seeing you soon.