These easy-care, colorful perennials return every spring to fill your garden with beautiful flowers and foliage.
Once you plant them, they keep coming back each spring.
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For reliable summer color, you cant beatAsiatic lilies.
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These lilies grow quickly from bulbs planted in the spring or fall.
Their bloom colors include rich pinks, blues, purples, and ruby reds.
Depending on the species, asters can soar to 5 feet.
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They are excellent for beds and borders and forcutting to bring indoors.
Plant a swath of these perennial flowers for a memorable display year after year.
Heat, humidity, or drought dont slow it down.
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Plus, pollinators and birds love the flowers and seeds.
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In the language of flowers, black-eyed Susans symbolize encouragement and motivation.
They represent resiliance and a positive outlook.
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Although often short-lived, this plant is easy to grow and flowers the first year from seed.
These autumn bloomerswork just as well in containersas they do in a border.
Chrysanthemums come back every year, but they tend to die out after a few seasons.
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Coral Bells
This front-of-the-bed favorite has plenty of attractive qualities.
Chief among them is the crinkly,multicolored foliage.
Airy wands of small, bell-shaped flowers appear above the tidy mounds of foliage in late spring.
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Both produce small daisy-likeflowers all summer longif deadheaded, drawing plenty of pollinators.
Daylilies are also tolerant of a wide range of soil conditions and wont slow down evenduring times of drought.
They dont need to be coddled to survive, as long as youkeep weeds at bay.
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This old-fashioned favorite has few rivals for its color display and light, sweet fragrance.
Its well-suited as a border plant for the back of your yard andcottage gardens.
Colorful and reliable, these shade-loving perennials vary from4-inch-tall dwarfs to 4-foot-tall giants.
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Wait for a hard freeze and then cut the foliage back to about 2 inches above the soil line.
The foliage of this native plant is semi-evergreen in the North and evergreen in the South.
Plus, peonies arelong-lived perennials that dont need much care.
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Hybridperennial sage(Salviaxsylvestris),a relative of culinary sage, is an especially pretty and easy-care plant.
It produces 18-inch spikes of blue, purple, or white flowers in late spring.
If deadheaded, it often reblooms in summer.
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The variety shown here, May Night, is both cold-hardy and showy.
Each bloom sits atop a long, wiry stem, which seems to dance in a breeze.
Plant these tall perennial flowers in the middle or back of the bed.
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Plant these perennial flowers at the back of the bed and give them room to grow.
These plants add color to flowerbeds in early summer and vertical accents all summer long.
The blooms appear atop leafless stems rising from the grasslike foliage.
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Colors include white, blue, yellow, and violet, with many bicolors.
In addition to brightening the garden, Siberian iris provides a steadysupply of cut flowers.
Its practically foolproof as long as the soil doesnt stay overly moist.
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Itblooms toward the end of summer into fallwhen most other flowers are fading.
Plus, the dried flower stems add winter interest if you leave them in place.
Switchgrass
A gorgeous North American native prairie grass,switchgrassoffers the garden multiseason texture and easy maintenance.
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Most varieties grow 2-6 feet tall and produce showy seed plumes from midsummer into fall.
Some also haverich red or purple foliage in autumn.
In the North, veronica prefers sun, but it likes a bit of shade in the South.
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Grow these perennial plants at the front of your flower bed.
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