Long-Blooming Perennials
Long-Blooming Perennials
These perennials make noteworthy additions to any flower border, but especially to small ones, because they bloom for an exceptionally long time. Although most look and perform better if deadheaded, those with an * must be cut back or deadheaded after each flowering flush to promote reblooming.
Perennials that Bloom for 6-8 Weeks
Achillea x 'Coronation Gold' (fern-leaf yarrow)
Achillea x 'Moonshine' (moonshine yarrow)
Aquilegia x hybrida 'McKana Hybrid' (hybrid columbine)
Aster novi-belgii x novae-angliae 'Tresurer' (Michaelmas daisy, fall
aster)
Aster x 'Alma potschke' (Michaelmas daisy, fall aster)
Campanula carpatica (Carpathian bellflower)
Centaurea montana (mountain bluet)*
Centranthus ruber (red valerian, Jupiter's beard)
Ceratostigma plumbaginoides (leadwort, plumbago)
Cimicifuga spp. (bugbanes)
Coreopsis verticillata (threadleaf coreopsis)
Echinacea purpurea 'Bright Star' (purple coneflower)
Echinops ritro 'Taplow Blue' (globe-thistle)
Geranium endressii 'Wargrave Pink' (cranesbill)
Geranium sanguineum (bloody cranesbill)
Heliopsis helianthoides scabra (false sunflower)
Helleborus spp. (Christmas and Lenten roses)
Hemerocallis hybrids (daylilies)
Lavandula angustifolia 'Munstead' (lavender)
Linum perenne (blue flax)
Monarda didyma 'Cambridge Scarlet' (bee-balm, oswego tea)
Oenothera speciosa (showy evening primrose)
Oenothera 'Fireworks' (common sundrops)
Phlox maculata 'Miss Lingard' and 'Omega' (wild sweet William, spotted
phlox*
Phlox paniculata 'Mt. Fuji' (garden phlox, summer phlox)*
Physostegia virginiana 'Vivid' (obedient plant, false dragonhead)
Rudbeckia fulgida 'Goldsturm' (orange coneflower)
Sidalcea malviflora (checkerbloom, prairie mallow)
Tradescantia x andersoniana (spiderwort)
Veronica longifolia 'Lavender Charm' (speedwell)
Veronica spicata 'Blue Peter' and 'Icicle'
Perennials that Bloom for 10 Weeks
Armeria maritima (sea pink, thrift)
Aster x frikartii 'Monch' and 'Wonder of Staffa' (Frikart's aster)
Chrysanthemum parthenium (feverfew, matricaria)
Chrysogonum virginianum (goldenstar)
Dicentra eximia (fringed bleeding heart)*
Gaillardia x grandiflora 'Baby Cole' (blanket-flower)
Hemerocallis hybrids 'Happy Returns,' 'Lemon Lollipop,' 'Penny's Worth,'
'Stella de Oro' (daylilies)
Nepeta x faassenii 'Dropmore' (catmint)*
Perovskia atriplicifolia (Russian sage)
Phlox paniculata 'Sandra' (garden phlox, summer phlox)*
Platycodon grandiflorus (balloon flower)*
Rudbeckia laciniata ''Autumn Glory' (shining coneflower)
Salvia x superba 'May Night' (hybrid blue salvia, hybrid sage)
Scabiosa caucasica 'Blue Butterfly' (pincusion flower, scabious)*
Sedum x telephium 'Autumn Joy' (autumn joy stonecrop)
Stokesia laevis 'Bluestone' (Stokes' aster)
Perennials that Bloom for 12 Weeks or More
Achillea millefolium 'Fire King' and 'Appleblossom'
(common yarrow)*
Anthemis tinctoria 'E. C. Buxton' (golden marguerite)
Aster x 'September Ruby'
Campanula poscharskyana (Serbian bellflower)
Campanula portenschlagiana (Dalmatian bellflower)
Chrysanthemum x rubellum (hybrid chrysanthemum)*
Coreopsis grandiflora 'Sunray' and 'Early Sunrise (coreopsis, tickseed)*
Coreopsis verticillata 'Moonbeam' and 'Zagreb' (threadleaf coreopsis)
Corydalis lutea (yellow corydalis)
Dicentra eximia 'Luxuriant', 'Zestful, 'Bountiful' (fringed bleeding
heart)
Gaura lindheimeri (white gaura)
Phlox paniculata 'Eva Cullum' and 'Franz Schubert' (garden phlox, summer
phlox)*
Verbena bonariensis (Brazilian verbena)
Veronica longifolia 'Sunny Border Blue' (speedwell)*
