Are you tired of planting new flowers every growing season? That is perfectly understandable. This is where perennial flowers come in.
Flowering perennials typically regrow their roots each year. That’s not all: some of these perennial flowers have the longest blooming season, typically from spring to fall, providing continuous color and interest in your garden or yard throughout the growing season.
Having said that, which flowers return yearly? Continue reading this post to discover 30 different flowering plants that come back every year.
Flowers That Come Back Every Year And Bloom The Longest
1. Daylilies
Daylilies is hardy and will color your garden with big, fabulous yellow, orange, red, pink, purple, or bi-colored blooms. Although each flower only lasts a day, each stem produces multiple flowers over several weeks, coloring your garden continuously for many weeks.
Hardiness zones: 3-9
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2. Gaillardia
Commonly called blanket flower, this is another flowering plant that returns year after year. Gaillardia handles the heat well, can grow in poor soils, and is relatively easy to grow flower. Consider this plant if you desire warm tones in your wildflower meadow, borders, or garden.
Hardiness zones: 3-10
3. Penta
This blooming marvel produces pink, red, white, or purple star-shaped flower clusters. The showy, vibrant blooms, together with its upright, bushy demeanor, make this shrub a perfect addition to your garden, containers, and borders.
Hardiness zones: 9-11
4. Black-Eyed Susan
This perennial is a staple in most gardens because of its timeless beauty. It has dark-centered orange or yellow petals. Include it in your mass plantings for some drama, or mix it with annuals and other perennials to give your flower bed or containers a pop of color.
Hardiness zones: 3-9
5. Peonies
Cherished for their blousy, bold, romantic, heavily scented blooms, peonies are popular cut flowers and would look stunning in your garden. These gorgeous flowers represent prosperity, romance, and good fortune in various cultures and can live for decades.
Hardiness zones: 3-8
6. Coneflowers
This tough, rugged flowering plant is ideal for statement planting owing to its long blooming season and bright daisy-like flowers with colorful petals. Its big central head will give your garden some structure after its bold flowers have fallen.
Hardiness zones: 3-9
7. Veronica
Veronica’s blue, tiny, star-shaped blooms clustered on long, slender spikes will brighten your outdoor spaces all summer long. If you live in cool weather, plant Veronica’s in a sunny location. In contrast, give them a bit of shade in warm weather.
Hardiness zones: 3-9
8. Columbine
These enchanting perennial flowers are appreciated for their unique, spurred petals and delicate appearance. Columbines thrive in various garden settings, including sunny rock gardens and shaded woodlands. Columbines self-sow, producing seedlings that can exhibit slight variations in color and form.
Hardiness zones: 3-8
9. Lavender
Lavenders are superb choices for coloring and adding fragrance to outdoor spaces. This beloved perennial herb has aromatic foliage and fragrant flowers that attract pollinators. Grow lavenders in your garden bed, rock gardens, borders, or containers in a place with full sun and well-drained soil.
Hardiness zones: 5-9
10. Coreopsis
This undemanding, delightful perennial is suitable for planting en masse or among other perennials. Once established, coreopsis is drought-resistant, which makes it ideal for low-water gardens and xeriscaping. It will color your home continuously during the growing period.
Hardiness zones: 4-9
11. Yarrow
Choose yarrow if you are going for the wildflower vibe in your outdoor spaces. The delicate, fern-like foliage and flat-topped clusters of tiny flowers give this plant a unique look. Besides adding beauty, yarrow will help you fill bare spaces since it forms dense colonies.
Hardiness zones: 3-8
12. Astilbe
Brighten those shaded spots with this graceful perennial with feathery plumes and lush, fern-like foliage. Its flowers rise above the dense, glossy, compound leaves and are held aloft on slender, upright stems. Its flowers emerge in last spring and persist throughout summer.
Hardiness zones: 3-9
13. Salvia
Growing salvia is a worthwhile endeavor because they flower for months on end, particularly if you persist with deadheading. Terminal clusters above the foliage hold salvia’s vibrant flowers, creating a striking display. This plant’s foliage is attractive and aromatic.
Hardiness zones: 3-9
14. Sedum
Hundreds of sedum varieties exist, such as low-growing ground covers, upright clumps, and trailing varieties, so you are spoilt for choice. Sedums are valued for their ornamental foliage, colorful blooms, and ability to thrive in different conditions, including drought.
Hardiness zones: 3-11
15. Hellebores
Hellebores are a welcome addition to gardens as winter ends or at the beginning of spring when only a few plants are blooming. Its exquisite flowers feature five petal-like. This deer and bunny-resistant plant has evergreen or semi-evergreen foliage.
Hardiness zones: 3-9
16. Bleeding Heart
This classic, beautiful perennial lives many years, and as an early bloomer, this plant will bring color to your garden before other plants bloom. Its flowers dangle gracefully from slender stems, creating a captivating display. Bleeding hearts look magnificent among other spring bloomers like tulips.
Hardiness zones: 3-9
17. Aster
As most flowers’ blooming season comes to an end, asters start blooming, exhibiting their purple, blue, pink, or white daisy-like fringed flowers. Aside from brightening your garden, the flowers will also provide food to pollinators preparing for the approaching cooler months.
Hardiness zones: 3-8
18. Shasta Daisies
The crisp white petals, golden centers, and cheerful disposition are no wonder Shasta daisies have become beloved fixtures in gardens, borders, and cottage-style landscapes. The plant blooms for a prolonged time and attracts pollinators with the nectar-rich blossoms.
Hardiness zones: 4-9
19. Siberian Iris
Siberian irises are hardy, adaptable, beautiful, and come back yearly. They have blue, purple, pink, white, or bi-colored intricate-looking flowers and slender, arching, sword-shaped foliage that forms dense clumps of grass-like leaves.
Hardiness zones: 3-8
20. Catmint
Effortlessly thriving on neglect, this herbaceous perennial will do great in your home if you want a highly resilient plant. Catmint grows in a mounded or spreading form, reaching heights of around 12 to 24 inches high (and spreading up to 24 to 36 inches wide.
Hardiness zones: 3-8
21. Phlox
If you choose the tall garden phlox, place it towards the middle or back of flower beds or borders for a beautiful backdrop for shorter plants, or use it as the focal point in your garden. On the other hand, plant creeping phlox as ground cover or let it cascade over rock walls, along garden edges, or in rock gardens.
Hardiness zones: 3-9
22. Bee Balm
Living up to its name, this plant attracts bees and other pollinators. Bee Balm’s fringey flowers bloom for many weeks and come in different colors, including red, pink, purple, and white. Ensure your bee balm plants get excellent air circulation to keep them from becoming powdery mildew.
Hardiness zones: 3-9
23. Baptisia
Baptisia can tolerate below-zero winters and summer heat due to its prairie heritage and can live for decades once established. Aesthetically, this plant features dense clumps of blue-green, pea-like foliage that provide a beautiful backdrop for its tall spikes of beautiful flowers.
Hardiness zones: 3-9
24. Chrysanthemums
For a much-needed color as the growing season nears its end, grow chrysanthemums, also called mums. These sturdy flowers are available in many shades, from pumpkin orange to creamy white. To ensure your mums survive winter, grow them early to ensure they have ample to get established.
Hardiness zones: 5-9
25. Hostas
These popular plants are virtually carefree and return reliably year after year. Grow them in your home’s shady spots where other plants would struggle, and they will brighten these areas with large, bell or trumpet-shaped flowers.
Hardiness zones: 3-9
26. Peruvian Lily
This showy lily is an exuberant bloomer, displaying a cheerful, long-lasting display of pretty funnel-shaped flowers. Its green, lanced-shaped, somewhat twisted leaves add to its charm. The Peruvian lily is primarily grown in cut flower gardens, borders, and containers.
Hardiness zones: 7-10
27. Blazing Star
This fabulous perennial is easy to grow, and keeping it alive year after year doesn’t require much. Grow it in at least groups of five and among other sunny flowers to fully enjoy its beauty.
Hardiness zones: 3-9
28. Delphiniums
This flowering plant makes a glorious cut flower and adds vertical interest to flower beds and borders. It embodies a commanding presence owing to its rich colors and tall, single or double-packed flower spikes.
Hardiness zones: 3-10
29. Hummingbird Mint
Add this plant to your borders, flower beds, xeric gardens, or rock gardens for its impressive large reddish pink flowers. Hummingbirds will also flock to your home. Moreover, this plant’s minty flavor isn’t appealing to rabbits and deer.
Hardiness zones: 5-10
30. Lamium
The best way to use this flowering plant in your home is as a groundcover or border plant because of its low-growing foliage that spreads and fills spaces. Lamium is especially great for shady spots. Also, rabbits and deer avoid it.
Hardiness zones: 3-9
Conclusions
Essentially, planting flowers that return yearly is beneficial. With minimal effort, your yard or garden will have texture, character, and color year after year. Also, as we’ve discovered, many types of flowers have the unique ability to return every year, so finding the ones that suit you shouldn’t be a struggle.
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