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 freeze-up in the late fall.

• Early Spring

  Euphorbia (Cushion Spurge)
  Pulmonaria (Lungwort)
  Pulsatilla (Pasque Flower)
  Sanguineum (Bloodroot)

• Spring

  Ajuga (Bugleweed
  Alchemilla (Lady’s Mantle
  Aquilegia (Columbine)
  Anemone (Windflower)
  Arabis (Rockcress)
  Bergenia (Pigsqueak)
  Convallaria (Lily of the Valley)
  Dicentra (Bleeding Heart)
  Iberis (Candytuft)
  Dwarf Iris
  Lamium (Dead Nettle)
  Creeping Phlox
  Polemonium (Jacob’s Ladder)
  Polygonatum (Solomon’s Seal)
  Rheum palmatum (Chinese Rhubarb)

• Late Spring

  Brunnera (Alkanet)
  Siberian Iris
  Tall Bearded Iris
  Variegated Iris
  Lysimachia (Creeping Jenny)
  Peony
  Salvia (Sage)

• Early Summer

  Achillea (Yarrow)
  Aruncus (Goatsbeard)
  Campanula (Blue Clips)
  Cerastium (Snow in Summer)
  Geranium
  Japanese Iris
  Monarda (Beebalm)
  Penstemon (Beardtongue)
  Physostegia (Obedient Plant)
  Tradescantia (Spiderwort)

• Summer

  Delphinium (Larkspurs)
  Filipendula (Meadowsweet)
  Hemerocallis (Daylilies)
  Ligularia (Leopard Plant)
  Rodgersia
  Thymus (Thyme)

• Late Summer

  Aconitum (Monkshood)
  Asclepias (Butterfly Weed)
  Coreopsis (Tickseed)
  Dictamnus (Gas Plant)
  Echinacea (Coneflower)
  Eryngium (Sea Holly)
  Eupatorium (Joe Pye Weed)
  Gypsophila (Baby’s Breath)
  Hostas
  Salvia (Russian Sage)
  Phlox
  Rudbeckia (Black Eyed Susan)
  Veronica (Speedwell)

• Fall

  Actaea (Bugbane)
  Aster
  Chrysanthemum
  Epimedium (Barrenwort)
  Kirengeshoma (Wax Bells)
  Nipponanthemum (Nantucket Daisy)
  Sedum