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Perennial Garden Flowers


Perennial Garden Flowers are indeed wonderful plants and once you graduate to these beauties, you never go back. There are perennials for almost any purpose and place and here are a few lists that will make it easier to for you to create wonderful perennial flower gardens.

Perennial Garden Flower Organization



The links below are mainly lists. If you click on any of them, they will give you a simple list of the appropriate plants that you can print out and take to the garden center with you.

If you want to know how to grow specific plants, please use the search box while I sort out all the links.   Thanks for understanding.

Soil Specific Perennials



Perennial plants for clay soils

Perennial plants for wet spots.

Jack Frost
Brunnera 'Jack Frost'


Full Sun Plants


Full hot sunshine plants.  

Xeriscape or drought tolerant perennials for dry soils

Groundcovers for full hot sun.


brown eyed susan
Rudbeckia 'Goldsturm'

Shade Loving Plants


Shade loving perennial plants.

Best perennials for surviving in dry shade.

Woodland plants

Groundcover plants for shade

lamium white nancy
Lamium 'White Nancy'


Designing Perennial Flower Gardens



Perennials for cut flowers: here's a list of plants that will do well in the cutting garden.

Long blooming perennial flowers

Butterfly Attracting Plants

Perennial flowers over 36 inches tall.

Types of Blue Flowers   Shade of blue flowers for the perennial garden.



Jack Frost
Campanula


Time of Bloom


Here are the names of spring flowers - plants that are sure to be in bloom when you go to a garden center. Just understand they won't bloom all summer.

Summer Flowers are backbone plants in the perennial garden. Here's a list.

Perennial fall flowers in bloom

christmas rose
Hellebore



Tough Plants



Tough ornamental grass plants to get you started.


Deer resistant perennials, Note that a really hungry deer will eat anything and that deer eat different plants in different parts of the country. Go figure!

List of perennial flowers you can't kill unless you really try.


daylily
Hemerocallis or daylily







If you want to ask a question about the perennial garden flowers, click here








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purple coneflower
Echinacea 'Magnus'








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