Spread color throughout the growing season with the right perennials. So many of the shrubs and trees that we use as foundation plants and the rest of our landscaping are limiting in providing the spectacular colors we crave during the growing season. But…you can spice it up with summer blooming perennials. With a little planning, your landscape can provide continual punches of color all the way up to frost.

The plants that provide the ‘best bang for the buck’ are those that begin blooming in late spring or early summer and continue on to fall or frost. You will find this in plants such as:

• Red Drift Roses
• Coreopsis Moonbeam 
• Potentilla Gold Drop
• Buddleias
• Lavenders
• Achillea (yarrow)
• Heucheras
• Russian Sage Little Spire
• Karley Rose Ornamental grass
• Pink Muhly Ornamental Grass

Colorful long period summer bloomers are:

• Shasta Crazy Daisy
• Veronica Red Fox
• Walker’s Low Catmint
• Echinacea Tangerine Dream
• Monarda Fireball & Blue Stocking
• Echinacea Hot Lava
• Echinacea Daydream
• Pineapple Sage

Perennials that put on their color show only during late summer to frost are found in such plants as:

• Black Eyed Susan
• Rudbeckia Autumn Colors
• Aster Purple Dome

   

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