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Beautiful Perennials That Come Back Every Year
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items Low-maintenance, high-impact plants that return with little effort—ideal for lazy or busy gardeners. This is a great place to start if you want to create a new garden or refresh an old one.
🌼Why it’s a favorite: With its daisy-like blooms and bold purple, pink, or white petals, coneflower is a butterfly magnet. 🌼Hardiness Zones: 3–9 🌼Sun needs: Full sun 🌼Best features: Drought-tolerant, deer-resistant, and self-seeds gently for more...
Sow Right Seeds Purple Coneflower Echinacea
🌼Why it’s a favorite: The go-to perennial for shady areas, hostas come in a variety of sizes and foliage patterns. 🌼Hardiness Zones: 3–9 🌼Sun needs: Partial to full shade 🌼Best features: Low maintenance, long-lived, and stunning foliage in greens...
Hosta
🌼Why it’s a favorite: These cheerful yellow flowers with dark centers bloom mid- to late summer and last for weeks. 🌼Hardiness Zones: 3–9 🌼Sun needs: Full sun 🌼Best features: Heat- and drought-tolerant, pollinator-friendly, and often blooms into ...
Black-Eyed Susan (Rudbeckia)
🌼Why it’s a favorite: A succulent-like perennial that loves neglect and poor soil. 🌼Hardiness Zones: 3–9 🌼Sun needs: Full sun 🌼Best features: Drought-resistant, attractive to pollinators, and lovely even in winter when left standing.
Sedum (Stonecrop)
🌼Why it’s a favorite: With thousands of cultivars, these flowers come in almost every color and thrive on minimal care. 🌼Hardiness Zones: 3–10 🌼Sun needs: Full sun to partial shade 🌼Best features: Prolific bloomers, adaptable to most soils, and e...
Daylily (Hemerocallis)
🌼Why it’s a favorite: These big, lush blooms in spring and early summer are simply unforgettable. 🌼Hardiness Zones: 3–8 🌼Sun needs: Full sun 🌼Best features: Can live 50+ years with little maintenance; fragrant blooms and attractive foliage.
Peony
🌼Why it’s a favorite: With silvery foliage and lavender-blue spires, it adds texture and movement. 🌼Hardiness Zones: 4–9 🌼Sun needs: Full sun 🌼Best features: Deer- and drought-resistant, long bloom period, airy structure perfect for layering.
Russian Sage (Perovskia atriplicifolia)
🌼Why it’s a favorite: Unique heart-shaped blooms dangle from arched stems in spring. 🌼Hardiness Zones: 3–9 🌼Sun needs: Partial to full shade 🌼Best features: Old-fashioned charm, perfect for woodland or shady gardens.
Bleeding Heart (Dicentra spectabilis)
🌼Why it’s a favorite: Spiky, mop-top flowers in bold shades of red, purple, and pink attract bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds. 🌼Hardiness Zones: 3–9 🌼Sun needs: Full sun to partial shade 🌼Best features: Native plant, fragrant foliage, and grea...
Bee Balm (Monarda)
🌼Why it’s a favorite: Colorful foliage in purples, ambers, silvers, and limes—often more prized than the dainty flowers. 🌼Hardiness Zones: 4–9 🌼Sun needs: Partial sun to shade 🌼Best features: Works in containers or beds, deer-resistant, and everg...
Coral Bells (Heuchera)
🌼Why it’s a favorite: Classic white blooms with golden centers evoke summer nostalgia and cottage gardens. 🌼Hardiness Zones: 5–9 🌼Sun needs: Full sun 🌼Best features: Long blooming, tidy appearance, and pairs well with colorful perennials.
Shasta Daisy (Leucanthemum x superbum)
🌼Why it’s a favorite: Flat-topped flower clusters in a rainbow of colors and finely divided, aromatic foliage. 🌼Hardiness Zones: 3–9 🌼Sun needs: Full sun 🌼Best features: Drought-tolerant, excellent for cut or dried flowers, and thrives on neglect...
Yarrow (Achillea millefolium)
🌼Why it’s a favorite: Clouds of soft lavender-blue flowers and fragrant gray-green leaves. 🌼Hardiness Zones: 3–8 🌼Sun needs: Full sun 🌼Best features: Long blooming season, deer-resistant, and a bee favorite.
Catmint (Nepeta)
🌼Why it’s a favorite: Early spring blooms and speckled foliage add interest to shady areas. 🌼Hardiness Zones: 3–8 🌼Sun needs: Partial to full shade 🌼Best features: Very low-maintenance, loved for its texture and early color.
Lungwort (Pulmonaria)
🌼Why it’s a favorite: Choose from upright phlox for height and creeping phlox for ground cover—both offer vibrant blooms. 🌼Hardiness Zones: 3–9 🌼Sun needs: Full sun (garden phlox); partial shade (creeping phlox tolerates) 🌼Best features: Fragrant...
Phlox (Garden Phlox or Creeping Phlox)