Perennials By Season
This list will allow you to choose perennials for each season so that your garden can look colorful from early spring to freezeup. *long blooming ** very long blooming
Early Spring
| Euphorbia (Cushion Spurge) ** Pulmonaria (William & Mary) * Pulsatilla (Pasque Flower) Sanguinaria (Blood Root) |
Spring
| Ajuga (Bugleweed) * Alchemilla (Lady Mantle) * Aquilegia (Columbine) Anemone (Windflower) * Arabis (Rockcress) * Bergenia * Convallaria (Lily of the Valley) * Dicentra (Bleeding heart) * Iberis (Candytuft) * Iris pumila (Dwarf Iris) Lamium (Dead Nettle) ** Phlox subulata (Creeping Phlox) * Polemonium (Jacob Ladder) ** Polyganatum (Solomon Seal) Rheum (Chinese rhubarb) |
Late Spring
| Brunnera (Alkanet) * Iris germanica (Tall Bearded Iris) Iris sibirica (Siberian Iris) Iris pallida (Variegated Iris) Lysimmachia (Creeping Jenny) * Paeonia (Peony) Salvia ** |
Early Summer
| Achillea (Yarrow) * Aruncus (Goatsbeard) * Astilbe Campanula * Cerastium (Snow in Summer) Geranium * Iris ensata (Japanese Iris) Monarda (Beebalm) * Penstemon (Beardtongue) * Physostegia (Obedient plant) Tradescantia (Spiderwort) |
Summer
| Delphinium Filipendula (Meadow Sweet) Hemerocallis (Daylily) * Ligularia (Leopard Plant) Lilium (Lily) * Rodgersia * Thymus (Thyme) |
Late Summer
| Aconitum (Monkshood) * Asclepias (Butterfly Weed) * Coreopsis (Tickseed) Crambe (Giant Baby Breath) Dictamnus (Gas Plant) Echinacea (Coneflower) ** Eryngium (Sea Holly) * Eupatorium (Joe Pye Weed) * Hosta Perovskia (Russian Sage) * Phlox paniculata (Tall Phlox) * Rudbeckia (Black Eyed Susan) ** Tricyrtis (Toad Lily) Veronica |
Fall
| Actea (Bugbane) Aster Chrysanthemum (Mum) Epimedium (Barrenwort) Kirengeshoma (Wax Bells) Sedum * |