Hardscrabble Farms - Perennials

At Hardscrabble Farms in North Salem, NY you'll find all the plants you'll need for your next landscaping project. In addition to our great selection of evergreens, specimen plants, trees and shrubs you'll find top-sized perennials for sun and shade. We are also able to supply all of your native, wetland and plug needs. When you have to have just the right plant for your plan, you can count on Hardscrabble Farms to have it all.

Spring Ephemerals

We offer a nice variety of both Native and non-Native spring ephemerals. Plants like trillium, jack in the pulpit, mayapple and bloodroot to name a few. They delight us for a short time each spring, so don’t miss out!

Roses

We offer roses which are the most useful to landscapers for their disease and pest resistance. We carry the Knockout Series, Carpet roses, Drift roses, climbers, carefree, and rugosa roses. They are available in two and three gallon containers. We do have availability to floribundas, David Austin and tea roses so please ask, and we’ll do our best to find them!

Shade Perennials

We feature a great selection of shade perennials at Hardscrabble Farms. We carry a variety of plants including, but not limited to:

Aconitum   arendsii
Ajuga chocolate chip, burgundy glow, black scallop
Alchemilla   mollis
Anemone robustissima ,honorine jobert, September charm, sylvestris
Aquilegia   Canadensis,many hybrid forms
Aruncus   diocus, misty lace, aethusifolius
Astilbe   many many many
Bergenia   cordifolius selections
Brunnera   macrophylla, jack frost, variegate, looking glass
Ceratostigma   plumbaginoides
Chrysoganum virginianum
Cimicifuga   racemosa, white pearl, brunette, hillside black beauty
Convallaria   majallis
Epimedium   rubrum, sulphureum, niveum
Hellebore   orientale forms, foetidus. niger forms
Heuchera plum pudding, palace purple, caramel, silver scrolls,many more
Hosta     many many varieties
Kirengeshoma koreana, palmata
Lamium    beacon silver, white nancy, purple dragon,aurea
Ligularia   britt marie Crawford, the rocket, little rocket, Desdemona,othello
Liriope   big blue, variegata
Lysmachia   num. aurea, cletheroides
Polygonatum   biflorum, variegatum, commutatum
Pulmonaria   many
Rodgersia   aesculifolia, pinnata
Sagina   subulata, aurea
Thalictrum   lavender mist, black stockings
Tiarella cordifolia varieties, clumpers
Tricyrtis blackberry mousse, miyazaki

Sun Perennials

We feature a great selection of sun perennials at Hardscrabble Farms. We carry a variety of plants including, but not limited to:

Achillea      moonshine, paprika, appleblossom
Agastache   blue fortune ,black adder, purple haze
Artemesia    silver mound, silver brocade
Asclepias   incarnata, tuberosa
Asters   nove- angliae, novi-belgii, dumosus
Baptisia    australis, purple smoke, Carolina moonlight
Campanula   carpatica, persicifolia, glomerata
Chelone   glabra, hot lips, obliqua
Coreopsis   moonbeam, Zagreb, crème brulee, grandifloras
Delphinium   giant pacific, dwarfs
Dianthus   firewitch, baths pink
Digitalis    grandiflora ambigua, purpureas
Echinacea   magnus, white swan, sundown, sunrise, kims knee high , many others
Eupatorium   gateway, chocolate, little joe, purpurea
Geranium   rozanne, sanguiniums, maculatum
Heliopsis   summersun, summernights
Hemerocallis   stella di oro, happy returns, pardon me, strawberry candy, fulva
Hibiscus    moscheutos, kopper king
Iris   Siberians, ensata, versicolor, psuedacorus, cristata, germanica
Lavender     munstead, hidecote, grosso, provence, dilly dilly
Leucanthemum     becky, snow cap
Liatris     kobald, white spires, spicata
Lilium     stargazer, casa blanca, asiatics
Lobelia   cardinalis
lupine
Monarda   Jacob cline, fireball, pink delight, pink supreme
Nepeta   walkers low, blue wonder, dropmore, six hills giant
Nipponanthemum nipponicum
Oenothera     fruiticosa,speciosa
Peony      herbaceous, tree form
Papaver     oriental
Penstemon    huskers red
Perovskia      atriplicifolia, little spires
Phlox       subulata, divaricata, stoenifera, paniculata, maculata
Platycodon    fuji blue, pink, early sentimental blue
Rudbeckia   goldsturm, herbstonne, hirta
Salvia   may night, carradonna, snowhill, purple rain, marcus
Sedum    tall and creeping forms
sempervivums
Stachys    silver carpet, Helen von stein , humello
Veronica   eveline, red fox, royal candles

Ferns

Adiantum pedatum
Athyrium felix femina, nipponicum pictum, ghost, lady in red
Dennstaedtia punctilobata
Dryopteris marginalis, erythrosora
Matteuccia struthiopteris
Onoclea sensibilis
Osmunda cinnamomea, regalis, claytoniana,
Polystichum acrostichoides, polyblepharum

Grasses

Acorus calamus
Andropogon scoparius
Briza media
Calamagrostis    karl forester, brachytricha
Carex   glauca, ice dance, evergold, aurea, silver scepter, pennsylvanica
Chasmantheum   latifolium, silver mist
Deschampsia   cespitosa, schottland,goldstaub
Festuca   Elijah blue, boulder blue
Hakonechloa macra, all gold, aureola
Helictotrichon   sapphire
Imperata   red baron
Leymus   glaucus
Luzula    ruby stiletto
Miscanthus   gracillimus, morning light, adagio, strictus, little kitten, variegata, purpuracsens
Molina   skyracer, staefa
Panicum   heavy metal, dallas blue, Shenandoah, ruby ribbons
Pennisetum   Hameln, aloupecuroides, little bunny, moudry
Phalaris   arund. Picta
Pleioblastus    pygmaeus
Schizachrium   the blues. Scoparium
Scirpus   albescens, sylvaticus
Sesleria autumnalis
Stipa   extremiorientalis
Typha latifolia

Vines

Clematis many
Lonicera   gold flame, dropmore scarlet
Campsis   flava, radicans, madame galen
Polygonum aubertii
Pathenosisis   tricuspidata, quinquifolia

Groundcover

Vinca bowles
Pachysandra terminalis
Euonymous coloratus
Hedera helix, baltica

Astilbe - Northern Grown Perennials