Perennial Bloom Times

Clients often stop in and request a list of perennial bloom times. It’s common for gardeners to plan for the upcoming year. Knowing the times when your perennials bloom helps create a design with color during each season.

Remember, beauty in the garden isn’t all about flowers. We encourage gardeners to consider how plants look when not in bloom since they’ll look that way for some of the growing season. Achieving a diverse garden of year-round interest means giving equal consideration to attractive foliage, texture, growth habit, and wildlife value.

• Sea Thrift (Armeria)
• Bulbs (Early season ”minor” bulbs, Daffodils, Camassia, Leucojum, Tulips)
• Cushion Spurge (Euphorbia)
• Pinks (Dianthus)
• Prairie Smoke (Geum)
• Creeping Phlox (Phlox subulata)

• Yarrow (Achillea)
• Ornamental Onion (Allium)
• Bluestar (Amsonia)
• Hyssop (Agastache)
• Butterfly Weed/Milkweed(Asclepias)
• False Indigo (Baptisia)
• Calamintha(Calamintha ‘Montrose White’)
• Bell Flower (Campanula)
• Wild Senna(Cassia)
• Tickseed (Coreopsis)
• Dianthus (Pinks)
• Purple Coneflower (Echinacea)
• Blanketflower (Gaillardia)
• Geranium/Cranesbill (Geranium)
• Daylily (Hemerocallis)
• Siberian Iris (Iris sibirica)

• Gayfeather/Blazing Star (Liatris)
• Daisy (Leucanthemum)
• Lily (Lilium)
• Cardinal Flower (Lobelia cardinalis)
• Beebalm (Monarda)
• Catmint (Nepeta)
• Peony (Paeonia)
• Beard Tongue (Penstemon)
• Summer Phlox (Phlox paniculata & maculata)
• Balloon Flower (Platycodon)
• Wild Petunia (Ruellia)
• Perennial Salvia (Salvia)
• Blue Eyed Grass (Sisyrinchium)
• Betony (Stachys)
• Veronica (Veronica)
• Culver’s Root (Veronicastrum)

• Aster (Aster)
• Calamintha(Calamintha ‘Montrose White’)
• Hardy Mum (Dendranthemum)
• Joe-Pye-Weed (Eupatorium)
• Perennial Sunflower (Heliopsis)
• Perennial/Dinner Plate Hibiscus (Hibiscus)
• Russian Sage (Perovskia)
• Obedient Plant (Physostegia)
• Ornamental Grasses
• Black-Eyed-Susan (Rudbeckia)
• Sedum (Sedum)
• Goldenrod (Solidago)
• Ironweed(Vernonia)

• Spring Anemone (Anemone sylvestris)
• Columbine (Aquilegia canadensis)
• Goatsbeard (Aruncus dioicus)
• Perennial Forget-me-Not (Brunnera)
• Bulbs (Early season ”minor” bulbs, Daffodils, Camassia, Leucojum, Tulips)
• Bleeding Heart (Dicentra)
• Lenten Rose (Helleborus)
• Foamy Bells (x Heucherella)
• Variegated Solomon’s Seal (Polygonatum odoratum ‘Variegata’)
• Lungwort (Pulmonaria)
• Woodland Poppy (Stylophorum)
• Foamflower (Tiarella)
• Periwinkle (Vinca)

• Lady’s Mantle (Alchemilla)
•  Dwarf Goatsbeard (Aruncus aethusifolius)
• Astilbe (Astilbe)
• Northern Sea Oats (Chasmanthium latifolium)
• Big Root Geranium (Geranium ‘macrorrhizum)
• Hosta (Hosta)
• Spotted Dead Nettle (Lamium ‘Chequers’)
• Ligularia (Ligularia)
• Great Blue Lobelia (Lobelia siphilitica)
• Bowman’s Root (Porteranthus/Gillenia trifoliata)
• Meadowrue (Thalictrum)
• Globe Flower (Trollius)

• Fall Blooming Anemone (Anemone)
• Monkshood (Aconitum)
• Spikenard (Aralia)
• Plumbago (Ceratostigma)
• Turtlehead (Chelone)
• Snakeroot/Bugbane/Fairy Candles (Actaea)
• Autumn Bride Coralbells (Heuchera ‘Autumn Bride’)
• Yellow Wax Bells (Kirengeshoma)
• Toad Lily (Tricyrtis)