These gorgeous bloomers fill your garden with vibrant color from spring through fall.
Weve rounded up some of the best flowers to plant this spring forseason-long blooms.
Ever SapphireTM Agapanthus begins blooming in late springmuch earlier than traditional varietiesand continues flowering throughout summer.
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The dazzling bell-shaped blossoms are a favorite of hummingbirds, bumblebees, and butterflies.
Straplike evergreen foliage provides year-round color and texture in gardens and containers.
The large, arrowhead-shaped leaves rise upward before arching gracefully, giving plants a lovely vase-like form.
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Garden JewelsTM Gerberas also exhibit a more compact growth habit and incredible flowering potential.
For continuous blooming, deadhead spent flowers.
Plants produce spikes of densely packed blooms all summer long without the need for deadheading.
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This tender perennial is hardy in zones 9 and up, and treated as an annual elsewhere.
Luxuriant foliage and bold blooms make a dramatic accent or mass planting in sunny beds.
Little LuckyTM Lantana
Say goodbye to sprawling, oversized lantanas with the Little LuckyTM series.
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Brightly colored blooms cover the plants spring through frost, attracting hummingbirds and butterflies to the garden.
Lantana thrives in heat and humidity, and plants tolerate periods of drought.
Garden Peony
Peonies are beloved for their large blossoms and lush, lobed foliage.
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The petal-packed flowers of these late-spring bloomers reach up to five inches in diameter.
They make stunning cut flowers with a delightful fragrance.
Peonies are easy to grow and long-lived once established.
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Provide afternoon shade or filtered sunlight in hot climates.
Dianthus PickablesTM ‘ColorPop’
Dianthus is an underutilized landscape plant that deserves some attention.
Butterflies and bees adore the raspberry pink blooms, that also make delightful cut flowers.
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Whichever dazzling specimen you choose, wait for the soil to warm in spring before planting .
These compact plants are prolific bloomers, producing hundreds (or millions!)
of one-inch petunia-like blooms from spring through frost without deadheading.
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Plant them in a location where you’re free to enjoy hummingbirds darting among the blooms.
Gladiolus
Gladiolus is a cherished cut flower that brings long lasting color to the vase or garden.
Long and upright leaf blades give gladiolus the common name sword lily.
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Gaillardias are best planted in spring as these plants thrive on summer heat.
Perennial species tend to be short-lived but often reseed.
Plant this native beauty in pollinator gardens to treat bees and butterflies.
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Though all are tender perennials, many begonias are treated as annuals.
The more compact varieties are also well suited to containers.
Butterflies and hummingbirds frequent plants, which are resistant to deer browsing.
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Compact varieties make great container plants.
Mass taller varieties in mixed borders.
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