Hi LaQuanda,

It looks like you have a lot of new perennials (plants that live for more than two years), except for the pansies, which usually live for no more than two years. All should be planted in the ground in a sunny spot, except for the pansies, which are good container plants.

Let's start with the pot containing the green and white striped grass (common name: variegated canary reed grass, botanical name: Phalaris arundinacea var. picta) and pink-flowered plant (common name: pinks, botanical name: Dianthus). Canary reed grass is very cold hardy, grows well in full to partial sun and will tolerate moist soil. It reaches a couple of feet high and will die to the ground in winter but will return the following spring. One warning is that it tends to spread, so plant it where it won't over take other plants. To plant it, remove it from the pot, tease its roots apart from the pinks and offer it a sunny spot with fertile moist soil.

Pinks grow best in full sun and spots with very well-drained soil with decent fertility. A sunny spot that's raised and has light soil will do. These are short, so they are better for bed edges, and though they only bloom in late spring to early summer, they offer nice, silvery foliage the rest of the year.

The ferny-leaved, white-flowered plant in the little pot is yarrow (Achillea x lewisii?? hard to tell). Like the pinks, it needs full sun and very well-drained soil with decent fertility, so grow it under the same cultural conditions. It should bloom in early summer and I can see from the tag that its flowers are white.

The fleshy-leaved plant with last year's woody stems sticking up is a showy sedum (Sedum). It thrives in full sun and also needs very well-drained soil with decent fertility. Its develops a bushy habit, reaches a height of one and a half to two feet and sends up big clusters of rosy pink flowers in late summer to fall.  

The phlox is summer blooming and taller (what is the name on the tag?). It grows best in full to partial sun and is happiest in fertile soil with average to good drainage. It produces big clusters of flowers that attract butterflies and are great for cutting.

The last on the list are your little baby-faced pansies. Pansies don’t like hot summer weather, so they are usually grown as bedding plants for spring and fall (where summers are hot). If you want to keep them alive over the summer, put them in a cool, partially shaded spot and make sure their soil does not get too wet or dry.

Once you’ve planted your perennials in the ground, be sure to make sure they get a little rain or irrigation every three days or so until they’ve developed healthy new roots that have established themselves in your garden. If you have problems with drought later in the summer, be sure to give the plants supplemental water if they look dry.

I hope this helps!

Jessie