One of our favorite summer blooming perennials for shade is Astilbe. Astilbe have foliage that is glossy and attractive, and bloom from late spring into summer. If you cut them back after blooming, they can bloom again. In pinks, purples and whites, they are a fluffy spire that can brighten any shady spot.
They grow 18 inches wide and inches tall, and are hardy to zone 4. Common name for this shade loving perennial is "Meadowsweet". The "Younique" collection of Astilbe from 'Burpee' are compact growing varieties with beautiful colors. Rudbeckia 'Goldsturm' is one of the most popular perennials of all time. Maiden grasses add striking form and texture to the perennial border all summer long. By late summer, many cultivars produce soft, feathery plumes that emerge above the narrow foliage.
Purple Flame Grass is a medium-sized maiden grass, growing three to four-feet tall with foliage that turns from bright green to fiery reddish-orange in early autumn. The attractive plumes are silvery-white and persist on the plants throughout winter. Pruning is only necessary in early spring when the dried foliage and flower stems from the previous season are cut back before the fresh growth emerges. A popular mid-summer bloomer, Moonbeam Coreopsis bears hundreds of small, soft yellow flowers.Astilbe . Astilbe stands out among the longest flowering perennials. Besides being super easy to grow, they thrive in both sunny and shaded gardens, and have feathery flowers that offers months of graceful color.
And speaking of color, the blooms can be white, lavender, purple, bubblegum, deep pink, apricot, or red, often with bronze or purple foliage as well. The plants form tidy clumps with the flower plumes emerging in early to mid summer and persisting into winter. The plants do appreciate ample moisture and regular watering in dry summers can prolong the blooming period. Outstanding cultivars include 'Bridal Veil', 'Pumila', and 'Fanal'. Growing flowers that bloom all summer long can fill your garden with glorious colors from late spring until early fall. Whether you plant summer-blooming perennials or annuals that bloom all summer, your backyard will be a sea of color.
When planning your garden landscape, you can choose from a variety of flowers that bloom all summer. There are tall flowering plants, small flowering shrubs, or gorgeous blooming ground cover plants. Yarrow plants are flowering perennials that have feathery foliage, fragrant, showy flowers, and a long blooming time.
The long stems grow in clumps and can grow up to 3 ft. tall with a spread of 2 ft. (0.6 m). These herbaceous plants blossom with white, pink, red, cream, and yellow-colored flower clusters. Growing in full sun and partial shade, the summer-blooming flowers start in late spring and last until the end of summer.
Hydrangeas are showy shrubs that add pastel colored flowers to your garden all summer—right from late spring until fall. These low-maintenance perennial flowering shrubs produce huge flower heads made up of colorful flower clusters. You can grow hydrangeas in full sun or partial shade to enjoy their pink, white, red, and blue flowers from May until September. To keep hydrangeas blooming even longer, prune spent flowers to encourage vigorous blooming.
Planting perennial flowers that bloom all summer means enjoying gorgeous long-lasting blooms not only this year, but in years to come. Keeping up with deadheading, weeding, pruning, feeding and watering is necessary even with perennials. But with a little knowledge and the right care, perennials that bloom all summer will pay off when they put on a show for many summers to come!
Ornamental Onion 'Millenium' (Allium 'Millenium', zones 5 to 9). The flowers bloom for around six weeks each summer, attracting every bee, butterfly, and beneficial insect for miles around. The one-foot tall and wide clumps are perfect for the front of a perennial border or a rock garden where the ball-shaped blooms can be appreciated. Technically a bulb, this plant is usually sold as a potted perennial and can be planted in spring or fall. Unlike many perennials, pruning doesn't produce more flowers. Coneflowers are some of the hardiest perennial flowers that bloom all summer long.
Showy, cone-like pink flowers grace the top of long straight stems. These summer-flowering plants will grow almost anywhere and are also drought-tolerant perennial plants. Growing in full sun, you can expect beautiful flowers from late spring until the first frost. Garden phlox is a flowering perennial that blooms profusely all through summer until early fall. The large fragrant flowerheads are pink, rose, red, white, and lavender colors. The plant, with its lush green foliage, grows up to 4 ft. (1.2 m) tall with a spread up to 2 ft. (0.6 m).
This attractive summer-bloomer thrives in full sun and partial shade. Attract beneficial bees and beautiful butterflies to your landscape with the bright colours and daisylike features of coreopsis. They make sensational cut flowers that round out summery arrangements nicely.
For flowers galore, consider often overlooked hardy geraniums. Available in a range of hues, including blue, purple, pink, and white with purple splashes. Few plants are named more accurately, as the flowers of red hot poker match the name precisely. Spent flower heads should be removed immediately, but no division of clumps is necessary. Most perennial flowers bloom for a short period, from two to four weeks.
If you want color longer than that, you need to plant perennial flowers that bloom from spring to fall. When planting your low maintenance perennial garden with long blooming perennials, you need to follow some basic design rules. Daylilies are one of the most sought-after perennial flowers that bloom in summer. The color and shape of a flower from one species varies significantly from other species of the same genus. Besides variety, another plus point for growing the daylily plant is its adaptability in a wide range of growing conditions.
Tolerant to heat and sunlight, it can be planted in zones 1 – 11. You can opt for white, yellow, pink, red, lavender, or greenish daylilies. If you love bleeding heart in your spring garden, try "Yellow Fumitory".
This ferny shade loving flower has little yellow blooms from April through frost! The beautiful flowers on butterfly bushes start blooming in mid-summer and continue until the first frost. As its common name suggests, these delightful flowering summer plants attract a multitude of butterflies. The clusters of purple, white, or yellow flowers form a cone shape.
These shrubby plants grow as perennials and are evergreen or deciduous, depending on your climate. The beauty of growing butterfly bush cultivars in your garden is that they still flower when many other plants have stopped. Their stiff stems and flower clusters create attractive cut flowers for fall and winter displays.
Growing woodland sage in your garden will create a carpet of rich indigo-blue or purple colors in your summer garden. The best flowering sage cultivars to look for are Salvia sylvestris and Salvia nemorosa. These small types of shrubs bloom all summer from late spring until fall. The stunning deep purple flowers look like colorful spikes that contrast with green foliage. This native prairie plant looks stunning when in full bloom.
Also called false indigo, baptisia plants are hefty; they measure 3 to 4 feet tall and wide. In spring, the plants send up sturdy spires of blue, white, yellow, or bicolor pealike blooms. They make elegant additions to cut flower arrangements. Baptisia is drought tolerant and takes very little care in order to bloom for years. The feathery flowers of astilbe are a perfect pick for semi-shaded spaces.Yarrow . A butterfly favorite, yarrow is a robust summer bloomer with pretty, flat-topped flowers that bloom for 6 to 8 weeks.
The ferny foliage emerges in early spring and is followed by the two to four-foot tall flower stems in early summer. Flower colours can range from soft pastels to rich jewel shades. Deadhead spent flowers by clipping the flower stem back to the main foliage.
Top varieties include 'Moonshine', which has pale, yellow flowers and 'Cerise Queen', a bright cherry-red bee magnet. Select perennials with a long blooming season to provide continuous color from late spring or early summer through late summer or early fall. The large flowers on Missouri primrose plants bloom in shades of yellow ranging from soft lemon to deep golden-yellow. Plant in well-draining soil that is slightly alkaline to slightly acidic. Red hot poker is one of the most unusual-looking perennial plants you can grow – and it provides color all season long.
There are multiple cultivars and hybrids available, with the most popular being those in the "Popsicle" series. These flowers produce blooms up to two feet tall, each of which lasts all throughout the spring and summer. A well-designed garden provides interest from early spring through late autumn, and beyond if you also select plants for winter structure. But, for the main growing season, much of that interest comes from flowering and foliage plants. Gardeners who want a lower maintenance landscape would be wise to look for perennial plants that are both easy-to-grow and offer a long blooming period. Older varieties are susceptible to foliage mildew diseases, which cause the leaves and stems to decline.
Campanula has many different varieties, and are blue or white belled flowers in sizes from dwarf to several feet tall. They love partial shade and moderately moist soil, and will bloom June through frost. It has a wonderful deep blue color with a white eye, and is very floriferous. These flowers produce spikes of red, purple, yellow, and pink (with some bicolor blooms mixed in!), with each spike lasting at least three weeks. You only have to plant them once and they will survive for years, assuming you're taking good care of them. You don't have to have specific soil to make them happy, and you can put them in different locations all around your yard.
They're a great way to get season-long color into your yard with minimal effort. They also come in all sorts of shapes and sizes from the little ground cover types to those that grow several feet tall. You will have a lot of choices, in fact, I've put together a list of 55 perennial flowers that will take your summer garden to new heights. Speedwell is a type of summer flowering plant that produces graceful flowers throughout the growing season.
The spiky flowers come in pastel shades of blue, pink, violet, or purple. One reason why speedwell is a popular plant is that it has flowers that bloom all summer and return every year. These tall flowering plants grow up to 4 ft. (1.2 m) and their slender, wand-like flowerheads brighten up a summer landscape. The starlike flowers of asters are the fall finale of the garden, almost completely covering the plants late in the summer and often lasting until the first frost.
Asters typically flower in deep purple and lush lavender, but there are also white and pink varieties. Plants can reach up to 6 feet tall, but there are also compact versions, some of which can grow in containers or window boxes. Bees and butterflies love asters, sipping up nectar as one of the garden's last big meals. If you want butterflies and bees to call your landscape home, consider adding Cinquefoil to the scene! These drought-resistant plants are perennial flowers that bloom all summer long with dense mounds of foliage accentuated by the abundant, saucer shaped flowers.
Perfect for full sun sites, such as borders or cutting gardens, the hardy cinquefoil delivers reliably year after year. Here's a list of summer blooming shade loving perennials. `This flower is another great perennial that can add colours to your summer garden. Its yellow and gold flowers grow in uptight clumps and it features bright daisy-like flowers that bloom all summer.
Lady's mantle is not a head-turning plant by any means, but it's delicate, modest beauty will add a touch of elegance to your perennial garden. This plant produces chartreuse blooms and velvety green leaves, with flowers lasting from late spring until early summer. Most daylilies only bloom for a couple of weeks each summer, but reblooming cultivars bloom multiple times in a season. There are two types; early/late bloomers and successive bloomers. Early/late bloomers usually flower in the spring and then again in the late summer or fall. Successive blooming daylilies produce batches of blooms, one shortly after another for several months.
Reblooming varieties are available in a wide range of colors. This beautiful plant, with a paper-like petal, lasts for a longer period of time and can be easily grown in your gardens. You can choose from red, lilac, white, purple, or pink colored flowers in order to show extensive color in your garden. As this plant needs complete or partial shade and a moderate amount of water, it is known to be best grown in the summer and watered often. These perennials can reach a height between 6 and 12 inches and, depending on the variety, can spread over 6 inches in width.
Violets are known for their bright jewel colors that can be seen in shades of white, pink, red, purple, blue, orange, and yellow. Some look so unique and intricate that you'd think they were hand-painted. Add russet hues to your fall garden with the lovely flowers of 'Autumn Joy'. The gray-green succulent leaves look stunning all summer.
In late summer, they bear large green budded heads that open pink and turn russet red in autumn. Because it's a succulent, 'Autumn Joy' doesn't mind drought or heat. The delicate crepe-paper petals and intricate bloom of the iris make it a must-have in mixed flower borders. This easy-to-grow perennial produces spearlike foliage and long stems topped with fabulous flowers. Classic bearded iris blooms in early summer (some varieties such as 'Peach Jam' can rebloom later in the season, too).
