Family grown perennials and annuals at Roberta's Unique Gardens

Kobold Liatris or also known as blazing star is regarded as the most spectacular spicata cultivar for the garden. It is well known for its unique spikes of flowers in deep purple. It's a little shorter than other types making it extremely versatile in flowerbeds and for container use. It's extremely garden reliable and very heat and drought tolerant. It will attract hummingbirds and butterflies galore throughout summertime when in full bloom. Liatris is also a popular cut flower for bouquets and arrangements!

The papery texture and deep dark eyes of the poppy flower make it one of the favorite flowers to arrive each summer! There is nothing so nice as seeing their flowers gently sway with the warm, early summer breeze. Oriental poppies are some of the most popular flowering perennials for early season color and garden reliability. Lovely bowl-shaped flowers with a crinkled tissue paper texture in some of the most dazzling, bold colors you have ever set your eyes on! The rich color range in this collection includes bright harvest moon orange, raspberry queen, and a mouthwatering watermelon. Satiny flowers open to 6 inches across and a large, velvety black seed capsule lies in the center.

This set of stunning Shasta Daisies Becky will illuminate your gardens with shimmering creamy white flowers standing atop lush, green foliage all summer long! Your sunny garden or border wouldn't seem complete without some shasta daisies.  White in the garden goes with everything, helps brighten up dull areas, and it drastically helps compliment your other flowering perennials! This long blooming reliable perennial will significantly help brighten up your gardens with its cheerful white flowers throughout the hot summer season!  This Becky variety was chosen as the Perennial Plant of the year in 2003.

Black Eyed Susan is a superb flowering perennial that glows in the sun with it bright, cheery yellow flowers and brown cones. Rudbeckia is a sun loving perennial that is also very winter hardy and has been renowned for consistent garden reliability year after year! It’s a flowering machine!  Rudbeckia, or Black-Eyed Susan, is one of the quintessential, classic American flowers that no garden should be without. Little Suzy is a fantastic variety that is now more manageable than ever, being that it only grows 10-15 inches tall. It forms a compact mound with upright free-blooming daisy-like flowers that will glisten in the sun from mid-summer to Autumn. More versatile than ever before, so now you can site these at the frontside of your garden beds or even in patio pots around your home.  They’re drought tolerant, heat loving, low maintenance and perform year in and year out for many years on end.

A knee-high Black-Eyed Susan that shimmers with golden yellow flowers over dark green foliage from summer into Autumn each season! Little Goldstar is a Proven Winners selection meaning its tried and true, displaying outstanding garden performance amongst all Rudbeckia. Black-eyed Susan is the quintessential perennial for your border or garden and now with this more compact variety, you have limitless versatility in the landscape! It is one of the most popular and best performing perennials of all time.

This Giant McKana’s Columbine Mix is truly spectacular producing large, bright flowers over delicate leaves in late spring to early summer. These garden columbines are in a class all to their own. Included in the McKanas Mix is the famous all-red Crimson Star, whose rich, vibrant blooms attract hummingbirds and butterflies like no other. Also, the McKanas contain some other unique fully double hybrids that you just must simply see to appreciate. Columbine do best in partial sun or a shady area. This superior strain of columbine is known for its very large, 3 inch flowers with long graceful spurs. This exciting hybrid aquilegia comes in a wide color range, including a mix of white, pink, blue, yellow, pale-blue, purple and scarlet, with crisp colored outer petals, and cream/white colored inner petals.

This Caladium mixture contains various fancy-leafed variety Caladiums which all contain tropical foliage and multi-colored decorative leaves. These cultivars feature large heart-shaped, colorful leaves that can be variegated in a variety of colors including green, red, rose, pink, white, silver and bronze. This collection ships as 5 tubers of various colors mixed together in one bag. Simply lift the bulbs and store away for the winter or bring the pots indoors out of the winter elements.

Non Zone-Ships mid April

The absolute most fun Hydrangea you’ve ever grown! This brand new Tilt-A-Swirl Hydrangea will bring a smile to your face all summer as the large mophead flowers continue to swirl and change colors. Flowers start off as a red and green bicolor tone and as summer goes on, the red deepens as the green swirls about. Plants max at 3-4’ tall and wide making them perfect for the foundation, under trees, along walkways, or massed together. Easy to grow and winter hardy. 

Of all the flowering perennials in the garden, peonies are always a favorite! And this incredibly unique ‘Sorbet’ peony brings an entirely new look to this classic. Imagine three distinct layers of petals on every flower – frilly crème fraiche white petals sit in between upper and lower levels of sorbet pink petals. These large 5-7” flowers are also deliciously fragrant like all peonies should be. Heirloom plant will live for decades. Very winter hardy and often deer resistant.

This brand new Crapemyrtle will take the Center Stage in your garden with its jaw dropping intense reddish-black foliage, and deeply saturated fluffy blooms that start early and last all summer. Tested for many years, this medium size shrub is a vigorous grower and highly resistant to diseases that hurt other Crapemyrtle. Growing 6-12’, plant in the shrub borders, sides of the garden, along the fence. 

Groundcovering plants may play the most important role in the gardenscape. Acting like a living mulch, they help conserve water, reduce weeds, and blanket the soil, all the while creating a very finished look in the garden. This collection of Golden Angelina, Tricolor, (variegated foliage) and Red Dragon Stonecrop brings the top performers not only do all that, but they do so in style bring large swathes of color all year long. Plant along walkways, at the front of borders, in rock gardens, at the base of other sun loving perennials or in containers. Evergreen, winter hardy, drought tolerant, deer resistant.  

Roberta's Gardens now has a 14" wide and 9.5" tall whiskey barrel container featuring the timeless look of a wooden whiskey barrel, but these are made from a lightweight resin. Being made from this super light resin, makes these pots extremely more versatile and easier to move around and store away. These planters look just like the old fashioned wooden whiskey barrels, but they're much lighter. Now with these super durable resin containers, there is no worries about the wooden becoming weathered and cracking or falling apart. This resin material will not soak in the moisture like wooden whiskey barrels can do and they have a drainage hole in the bottom. These are long-lasting, lightweigt planters perfect for easily moving around in different locations around your porch. Choose between six colors in red, blue, grey, brown (natural), hunter green, or white (white-washed). 

Roselilies or Lotus lilies are some of the most beautiful and fullest oriental lilies you’ll set your eyes on! The unique collective term “Roselily” has recently been coined in reference to these exceptional Oriental lilies for a few reasons. As these extraordinarily beautiful flowers open with their multiple layers of petals, they resemble both an Oriental Lily and a Rose.  They’ll perfume the air with a wonderful, mild fragrance while being the fullest flowering lilies you’ve even seen. Double oriental lilies bloom slightly later and longer than single flowering varieties. The best part about the flowers is they do not contain that obnoxious pollen that has ruined so many of our clothes.  This collection includes 2 each of Ciara, Wonder and Queen. Ciara has hot pink petals and a delicate white edge with a green throat. Wonder produces pink flowers with white edging and deep pink speckles. Queen displays some of the  softest orchid-pink flowers with a creamy-white throat and pink freckles. They’re also excellent for cutting where you will be able to enjoy these lilies for about 14 days in a vase.  The bulb size is 14/16 cm per bulb and they're mixed together and unlabeled in one bag. 

One of the hottest houseplants in the country right now! These Pilea Coin Plants are beloved for their robust succulent foliage and ease of growth. When placed in a sunny window, they grow beautifully for many years yielding lovely coin shaped leaves. Perfect coffee table plant, bed side companion, centerpiece to your kitchen table. Also known as the friendship plant because they self-propagate with ease, these are plants that just continue to give and give.

Oriental lilies are some of the most popular lilies in the world. This oriental lily mix is comprised of a wide array of colors that is sure to brighten up any garden while filling the air with a lovely, ever-so-pleasing fragrance. The colors which were hand-picked for this collection are some of the finest oriental lilies in the market.  Oriental lilies are fantastic for cutting as they last a long time in a vase or bouquet. Lilies are extremely winter hardy and they’ll multiply rapidly in a few quick seasons, so you’ll have more color and fragrance than you once started with. Oriental lilies make a bold statement in the perennial garden or border with their colorful, flamboyant flowers in mid summer. They’ll multiple exponentially underneath the soil for added color in subsequent seasons. You can easily subdivide the bulbs after 3-4 seasons for increased vigor.