Helenium (bareroot plant) hardy perennial Sneezeweed Blue Flowers also wonderful cut and dried

also wonderful cut and dried flowers

Or start your tubers indoors in a pot for earlier blooms

which are very aromatic

or possibly your refrigerator

Blooms Mid to Late Spring

Helenium (bareroot plant) hardy perennial Sneezeweed Blue Flowers also wonderful cut and driedSneezeweed hardy perennial Sneezeweed This low maintenance flower is deer resistant and does well in most soils. Great choice for container plantings. This hardy perennial grows easily and blooms rapidly when cultivated from live, garden ready young plants. Young helenium requires a moist but well drained soil to grow. Therefore, a low lying but not boggy part of the garden is the ideal site for planting it. The flowering plant also prefers a soil