We have perennials, here is a listing of them at Becky's Greenhouse.

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It is darn cold out, but it isn’t raining, and the wind isn’t blowing very much.  High today is only 52F(11C)   But starting tomorrow it looks like in the 60’s and then Wed in the 70’s. But it will be a colder and cloudy Memorial Day weekend.  These kinds of temperatures I do remember for most Memorial Day.  I can’t believe that it is Memorial Day weekend coming up.  We will still have a whole week in May.  All I can say is stay warm and stay safe.
 
Australia family and friends for their Thursday May 22, 2025 Their high is 61F(16C) with a 46% chance of rain.  Stay dry, stay safe.  Evelyn wrote that their Botanic gardens in Sale is having lots of events to commemorate Australia and New Zealand Botanic week.  The tours and talks from local experts as well as horticulturists, landscape designers and ecologists who are part of the Melbourne and Cranbourne Botanic Garden.  She spent one day looking at rare and endangered natives in their area.  She with other members will join a team of experts for the day, working through setting some future goals for Sale’s Botanic Gardens.  Sounds Exciting.  Gardening from down under.
 
We had over 2” of rain and it soaked in as there isn’t any ponding. Worth a lot to our farmers and their crops.  Now it just has to warm up. I am wondering what the soil temperature is.  I looked at the ISU soil temperature map and looks like 51 to 55 degrees. That isn’t warm up for your vine plants such as cucumbers, squash, pumpkins.  I have been known to say wait till after June 1st to plant them.  They don’t like cold nights, and that we have.  The first round of bugs are gone after June 1st.  I promise you plant from June 1st till the 15th of June, you will get cucumbers, squash, pumpkins.  
How did your garden plants take the wind?  If you need more tomatoes or peppers or garden vegetables ours look great.  Dark green with a heavy stock. 

I still have seed potatoes, onion sets, cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, Kohlrabi, celery, Collards.  We have bulk garden seeds.  One stop shopping for your vegetable gardening.
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Three deliveries from Swift Greenhouse with perennials:
Here are the kinds we have:
Alchemilla ( Lady’s Mantle)
Alcea( Hollyhock) different colors
Aquilegia( columbine) Different colors
Aruncus( Goat’s Beard)
Asclepias( Butterfly plant)
Asters now you need to plant them now for that fall color
Baptisia ( my favorite)
Buddleia) Butterfly Bush)
Campanula( Bell flower)
Chelone( Turtlehead)
Chrysanthemums ( fall mums)  You plant them now, they will grow big and you will have blooming mums in the fall.  They are wintered hardy for us, so they will come back.
Clematis couple of kinds
Coreopsis
Delphinum
Dianthus which are perennials many different kinds
Dicentra( bleeding heart) in pink and in red
Digitalis( Foxglove)
Echinacea( coneflower)
Gaillardia couple of kinds
Lemon grass
Herbs:
            Basil-Prospera red DMR
            Basil-lemon
            Basil mammoth
            Basil purple Ball     
            Chives
            Chives garlic
Fennel Smokey Bronze  great host plant for the monarch butterfly, she will lay her eggs on this plant, and then you will see the little caterpillars
            Lemon Balm
            Lemon Verbena
            Greek Oregano
            Mother of thyme( creeping)
Parsley curled
Peppermint
Spearmint
Nepata, catmint
Orange Balm
Rosemary
Thyme ( English)
Thyme( French)
Heuchera( coral Bells) nice large pots of these in several colors
Hibiscus couple of colors
Lavandula, Lavender
Leucanthemum( Shasta Daisy)
Liatris ( Blazing Star)
Lily, dwarf hardy
Lobelia( Cardinal Flower)
Monarda( Bee Balm)
Phlox subulate ( creeping phlox)
Platycodon ( balloon flower)
Prganathemum Blunt Mountain Mint, perennial plant of the year
Roses, Miniature many colors
Rhubarb
Rudbeckia several kinds
Salvia
Sedum ( hen and chicks)
Thymus Lemon
Trollus Golden Queen
Vines Passiflora(Passion vine)
I think I will make up a quiz with the common names of perennials with their Latin Names but just don’t ask me to pronounce them. Next postings I will do the tomatoes and peppers, and the trees.  Hope this helps you can research before you come. 
Becky’s Greenhouse, Dougherty Iowa 641-794-3337 cell 641-903-9365 [email protected]  Facebook Becky Kerndt Litterer, Becky’s Greenhouse