Common Perennial Plants for Winter Sowing

Source WinterSown.org by Trudy Davidoff

Here's a list of common garden perennials, the varieties are listed by common names with their zone

ranges included. The zone ranges are "suggested", many of these plants will be hardier beyond the zone

listing. "(B)" designates a plant as a biennial.

As always, you can research the seeds you want to try germinate with Winter Sowing.  Learn more

about the plants; see if they'll be happy in your garden.  If you're unsure about any seed's

ability to germinate via Winter Sowing where you live, reserve some seeds to sow close

to the end of winter.

• Aster 4-9

• Artemesia 3-8

• Astilbe 4-8

• Baby's Breath 4-9

• Balloon Flower 4-9

• Bee Balm 4-9

• Bellflower 3-8

• Blanket Flower 3-10

• Blue-Eyed Grass 5-8

• Blue Fescue 4-9

• Blackberry Lily 5-9

• Blazing Star 4-9

• Blue Beard 7-10

• Butterfly Weed 3-9

• Broom 6-9

• Cactus (varies by species, zones 3-10 included)

• Canterbury Bells (B) 3-8

• Carnation 4-8

• Catmint 5-9

• Candytuft 3-8

• Cinquefoil 5-8

• Chinese Lanterns 5-8

• Chrysanthemum 5-10

• Clematis 5-9

• Coral Bells 3-9

• Coreopsis 4-10

• Coneflower 3-8

• Cranesbill 5-8

• Creeping Thyme 4-9

• Cupid's Dart 5-10

• Daylily 4-10

• Delphinium 3-7

• English Daisy 4-8

• Evening Primrose 5-8

• Everlasting Sweet Pea 5-9

• False Indigo 3-9

• Flax 5-9

• Foxglove (B 4-8) (p 3-8)

• Fleabane 6-9

• Fountain Grass 6-9

• Gaura 5-8

• German Statice 3-9

• Geum 5-7

• Globe Thistle 3-8

• Goat's Beard 3-7

• Heather 5-8

• Helenium 4-8

• Iceplant 6-10

• Hardy Hibiscus 5-10

• Helleborus 3-8

• Hollyhock 3-9

• Hosta 3-9

• Iris 4-9

• Jack-in-the-Pulpit 5-9

• Jupiter's Beard 5-8

• Joe-Pye Weed 5-8

• Lamb's Ears 4-8

• Leadwort 7-10

• Lily-of-the-Nile 6-10

• Lily-of-the-Valley 3-8

• Lily (Oriental varieties) 4-8

• Lupine 4-8

• Malva 4-8

• Meadowsweet 3-8

• Money Plant (B) 5-9

• Mountain Bluet 3-8

• Obediant Plant 4-8

• Ox-Eye Daisy 3-8

• Pampas Grass 7-10

• Pasque Flower 5-7

• Penstemon 3-8

• Persian Buttercup 7-10

• Peruvian Lily 7-10

• Phlox 4-8

• Pigsqueak 3-8

• Pincushion Flower 3-8

• Pinks 3-9

• Plumbago 5-9

• Poppy 4-9

• Prairie Coneflower 3-10

• Prairie Sunflower 4-10

• Primrose 5-8

• Pyrethrum 3-7

• Red Hot Poker 6-10

• Rudbeckia 3-9

• Rose Campion 4-8

• Russian Sage 3-9

• Salvia (varies by species 4-9)

• Sea Holly 5-9

• Sedum (varies by species 3-9)

• Shasta Daisy 5-9

• Sea Pink 6-8

• Snow-in-the-Summer 3-7

• Spurge 4-9

• Sundrops 4-8

• Toad Lily 4-9

• Verbena 6-10

• Veronica 3-10

• Viola 4-7

• Yarrow 3-10