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!

Daylilies from the EveryDaylily collection are well regarded for having continuous blooms all summer long on compact, tidy foliage that only reaches approximately 14-18 inches tall. Pink Cream produces some of the prettiest, pink flowers with cream mid-ribs and pale yellow sepals! you have ever seen on a daylily! These are dwarf in size, but not lacking in bloom power. They have been known to produce up to 400 flowers in one season with no mid summer break like other reblooming varieties can have. The EveryDaylily Series are improved offspring of the ever-so-popular Stella dOro. If you are looking for high color impact throughout the summer season, then these are the perennials for you. Their overall shorter height, makes them highly versatile in the landscape and patio containers.

The EveryDaylily Series is widely considered to be the best repeat blooming daylilies in the world! You get numerous rose pink blossoms throughout summer to early Autumn every season. Exceptional bloom power, often producing up to 400 flowers in one season. It has a compact nature while also containing a highly floriferous trait making this a must have variety for daylily enthusiasts. Bigger, better and longer are just a few characteristics to describe the bloom power of these mighty daylilies!

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.

If there ever was a perfect houseplant, it would be the Desert Rose. These succulent plants are natural bonsais, easy to care for, create intriguing twisted trunks and richly colored flowers throughout the year. This brand new variety ‘Mumbai Madness’ features double petaled yellow & red flowers! Heirloom plant will live for generations.

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.

The brand new DuraBloom™ Petunias were bred for incredible vigorous growth, as well as maintaining performance through adverse weather like heat, drought, summer storms, and rain. They never miss a beat and will bloom like machines from early summer to fall. Very well branched with large, brightly colored flowers. Excellent in large containers or big hanging baskets, as well as garden bedding. Electric Lilac & Royal Pink. 

Roselilies 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. Roselilies were originally designed for the cut flower industry thus producing some of the most memorable flowers you will ever grow in your garden, with flowers upwards of 8-10” in diameter.  These lilies produce a delightful, but not overpowering fragrance and neither do they contain the obnoxious pollen that has ruined so many of our clothes.  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 bulbs and this collection includes 2 each of Breeze, Pure White, Wonder, and Queen which are mixed together and unlabeled in one bag.