Dare play with varieties showing your personality in your own garden, even if you have to shuffle them around for the next year to give them their full value.
Perennials that bloom for 4 weeks or more
Adam's needle Balloon flower Bellflower Bigroot cranesbille Black-eyed Susan Blanket flower 'Baby Cole' and 'Goblin' Bleeding heart 'Luxuriant' Blood-red cranesbill Chinese delphinium Common pink mallow Common spiderwort Common yarrow 'Cerise Queen' and 'Fire king' Coreopsis 'Early Sunrise' and 'Sunburst' Coreopsis verticillata 'Moonbeam' and 'Zagreb' Daylily 'Happy Return' and 'Stella de Oro' English daisy English lavender Fleabane Forget-me-not Gooseneck loostrife |
Himalayan fleeceflower Hybrid red chrysanthemum 'clara curtis' Hybrid yarrow 'Summer Pastel' Iceland poppy Jacob's ladder Lady's-mantle Mountain bluet Perennial lavatera Persian catmint Pink campion Plume poppy Potentilla Purple coneflower Russian sage Sedum 'autumn joy' Spike speedwell Stokes' aster Violet sage 'May Night' and 'East Friesland' Yellow chamomile |
Perennials for dry, well-drained soil
Adam's needle Basket-of-gold Black-eyed Susan Blanket flower Butterfly weed Common spurge Cypress spurge English lavender Griffithii euphorbia Fleabane Golden-carpet Hens-and-chickens Hybrid sneezeweed Lavender |
Lamb's ears Myrtle euphorbia Orange stonecrop Sedum Spike gayfeather Sunflower heliopsis Thin-leafed sunflower Threadleaf coreopsis Thyme Tickweed Two-row stonecrop Violet sage Yarrow
Yellow chamomile |
Perennials for shade or partial shade
Alpine columbine Asian hybrid lily Astilbe Bethlehem sage Big-leafed ligularia Bigroot cranesbill Black snakeroot Bleeding heart Bleeding heart 'Luxuriant' Blue star Bugleweed Bunchberry Canterbury bells Cardinal flower Clustered bellflower Coral bells Creeping Jacob's ladder Drumstick primrose Fall anemone Forget-me-not Foxglove Fringed bleeding heart Goat's beard Gooseneck loosestrife Gout weed Greater periwinkle |
Himalayan fleeceflower Hosta Jacob's ladder Japanese primrose Japanese spurge Lactiflora bellflower Lady's-mantle Lily-of-the-valley Lobelia Masterwort Monkshood Narrow-spiked ligularia Obedience Peachleaf bellflower Periwinkle Polyanthus primrose Queen-of-the-prairie Red barrenwort Red turtlehead Solomon's seal Spiderwort Sweet woodruff Windflower Woodland forget-me-not |