Here are 25 purple perennial flowers you should grow in your garden this year.
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The blooms are fragrant, showy summer flowers, and a magnet for bees.
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Lavender can be grown in a rock garden, pollinator garden, or in containers.
Plant it in full sun in dry, well-draining soil.
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Ornamental onions are great for sunny border gardens, rock gardens, or as a mass planting.
Clematis
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Clematisis a woody, perennial vine with many cultivars and hybrids.
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They prefer full sun and moist, well-drained soil.
Flowers can be 4 to 7 inches wide and attract bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds.
When selecting clematis look for ‘Cezanne’, ‘Blue Explosion’, or ‘Blue Angel’ for purple blooms.
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Clematis are deer and rabbit-resistant.
Delphiniums produce beautiful blooms but require staking, pruning, and deadheading to perform well in the garden.
After spring blooms, promptly cut back spent flowers for additional late summer and fall flowers.
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Its spreading form makes it a good choice for containers, walkway borders, or rock gardens.
When spring flowers fade, prune the plant to encourage another wave of flowering.
‘Sherwood Purple’ is the perfect purple cultivar.
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A rapid spreader, it is drought-tolerant once established.
Perfect as a groundcover, mass planting on slopes helps control erosion.
It is deer and rabbit-tolerant.
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‘David’s Lavender’ or ‘Jeana’ are the best choices for purple blooms.
The plant prefers sun to partial shade and moist, well-draining soils.
Sedum
Sedum, often called stonecrop, is a genus of succulent perennials.
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With hundreds of species, if you are looking for purple blooms choose ‘Mr.
Goodbud’ or ‘Purple Emperor’.
Sedum tolerates rocky and poor soils well, establishes quickly, and is drought-tolerant.
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The large, purple flowers with a yellow center mature from August to October and attract bees and butterflies.
They make excellent cut flowers for arrangements.
The daisy-like flowers have yellow centers and many petals.
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If purple is your fancy, look for ‘MammothTMLavender Daisy’.
The flowers that appear in spring attract hummingbirds and pollinators.
There are many hybrids in various colors.
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Purple varieties include ‘Early Bird Purple and Blue’, ‘European Purple’, and ‘Purple Alpina’.
After the spring bloom, cut back the plant to produce a second bloom in the fall.
It is one of the best trailing lobelias making it perfect for containers and walkway borders.
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Purple Ice Plant
Purple Ice Plantis a low-growing perennial with a spread of one to two feet.
The foliage is sedum-like with large showy flowers blooming June through October.
The buds resemble hot air balloons and open to a wide-spread bellflower.
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The perennial grows best in full sun to partial shade with well-drained, slightly acidic soil.
Deadheading will prolong the spring and summer bloom season.
The plant can grow 3 to 4 feet tall and produce pinkish-purple flowers from early summer through mid-fall.
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Many cultivars have been bred to produce white, pink, orange, and red blooms.
Monkshood
Resembling a vine,monkshoodwill send out arching stems that wrap around surrounding plants for support.
Native to the eastern United States, the plant is highly toxic if ingested.
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A member of the buttercup family, monkshood is native to the eastern US.
Look for these cultivars: ‘Snapshot Purple’, ‘Speedy Sonnet Purple’, or ‘Chantilly Purple’.
Purple cultivars include ‘Barbarini Purple Picotee’, ‘SweetTMNeon Purple’, and ‘RockinTMPurple’.
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In warmer growing areas, it will self-seed for many years.
Hardy Geranium
While mostgeraniumsare considered annuals, hardy geraniums area hybrid cultivar ofG.
With deep magenta-purple flowers, it has a sprawling habit works and well as a groundcover or edging plant.
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To keep the plant blooming, deadhead often or trim back before the summer heat arrives.
Planted as a tuber, there are a variety of colors from red to yellow to purple.
The cup-shaped flowers are very showy and different varieties bloom from spring to fall.
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Fokker" is a stunning purple cultivar.
In cooler areas, it works well as an annual.
Most of the plants are a hybrid cultivar that produce very few seeds.
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The plant has a height of just three inches but a spread of up to 20 inches.
Masses of small (half-inch) flowers bloom from the start of summer until frost in various colors.
Purple varieties include ‘Cabaret Purple Glow’, ‘MiniFamous Uno Double PlumTastic’, and ‘Superbells Lavender’.
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Often confused with the annualAgeratum houstonianum,this plant is much taller.
It is not recommended for smaller planting areas as it spreads aggressively by rhizomes and self-seeding.
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