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Summer Perennial Color
Summer Perennial Color that Works

Prevent Summer doldrums with blazing hot perennial color! Annuals aren’t the only plants that bring color to warm-weather plantings. Summer lovin’ perennials like these provide showstopping appeal and long-lasting color throughout the season. Choose perennials with different bloom times so there’s always something to see. As a bonus, many of these perennials take on hot, dry conditions with little maintenance.

Summer Perennial Color that Works

Prevent Summer doldrums with blazing hot perennial color! Annuals aren’t the only plants that bring color to warm-weather plantings. Summer lovin’ perennials like these provide showstopping appeal and long-lasting color throughout the season. Choose perennials with different bloom times so there’s always something to see. As a bonus, many of these perennials take on hot, dry conditions with little maintenance.

Summer Perennial Color that Works

Prevent Summer doldrums with blazing hot perennial color! Annuals aren’t the only plants that bring color to warm-weather plantings. Summer lovin’ perennials like these provide showstopping appeal and long-lasting color throughout the season. Choose perennials with different bloom times so there’s always something to see. As a bonus, many of these perennials take on hot, dry conditions with little maintenance.

Summer Perennial Color that Works

Prevent Summer doldrums with blazing hot perennial color! Annuals aren’t the only plants that bring color to warm-weather plantings. Summer lovin’ perennials like these provide showstopping appeal and long-lasting color throughout the season. Choose perennials with different bloom times so there’s always something to see. As a bonus, many of these perennials take on hot, dry conditions with little maintenance.

New Vintage™ Rose Achillea
New Vintage™ White Achillea
New Vintage™ Rose Achillea

New Vintage™ Achillea

This unique Achillea’s flowers mature to attractive, faded shades and won’t turn brown like other varieties. Not having to deadhead saves on maintenance, too. It’s perfect for season-long color.

Height: 12 to 14 in. (30 to 36 cm)
Spread: 10 to 12 in. (25 to 30 cm)
Exposure: Sun
USDA Hardiness Zones: 4a-9b

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UpTick™ Coreopsis

This Coreopsis series provides golds, yellows and reds for later Summer color. Large flowers and longer bloom time, along with low maintenance and excellent mildew resistance, set UpTick apart from other coreopsis!

Height: 12 to 14 in. (30 to 36 cm)
Spread: 12 to 14 in. (30 to 36 cm)
Exposure: Sun
USDA Hardiness Zones: 5a-9b

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UpTick™ Gold & Bronze Coreopsis
UpTick™ Yellow & Red Coreopsis
UpTick™ Gold & Bronze Coreopsis
UpTick™ Yellow & Red Coreopsis
UpTick™ Gold & Bronze Coreopsis with Lyrical™ Blues Salvia
Sombrero® Sangrita Echinacea
Sombrero® Granada Gold Echinacea
Sombrero® Lemon Yellow Improved Echinacea

Sombrero® Echinacea

Sangrita Scarlet Red with burgundy-red stems stands out in the Summer garden! All Sombero varieties are vibrant, highly floriferous, naturally well-branched and compact. Trialed and tested to survive in Zone 5, its exceptional Winter hardiness provides color for years to come!

Height: 18 to 20 in. (46 to 51 cm)
Spread: 22 to 24 in. (56 to 61 cm)
Exposure: Sun
USDA Hardiness Zones: 4b-9b

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‘Cheyenne Spirit’ Echinacea

Use seed Echinacea ‘Cheyenne Spirit’ for massed “wildflower” plantings that present a broad palette of red, orange, purple, scarlet, cream, yellow and white. These vibrant colors deliver maximum flower power and superior performance that shines in landscapes. This variety also offers excellent heat and drought tolerance, along with Winter hardiness.

Height: 18 to 24 in. (46 to 61 cm) first year; 22 to 30 in. (56 to 76 cm) second year
Spread: 10 to 16 in. (25 to 41 cm) first year; 14 to 20 in. (36 to 51 cm) second year
Exposure: Sun
USDA Hardiness Zones: 4b-10b

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'Cheyenne Spirit' Echinacea
'Cheyenne Spirit' Echinacea
'Cheyenne Spirit' Echinacea
'Cheyenne Spirit' production
PowWow® Wild Berry Echinacea
PowWow® White Echinacea
PowWow® Wild Berry Echinacea
PowWow® Wild Berry Echinacea

PowWow® Echinacea

PowWow Wild Berry is a garden warrior! This compact variety from seed puts more flowers on every plant than other echinaceas. Wild Berry and White last and last in the landscape, for a terrific, non-fading color show! This color-packed pair is well-matched for habit and timing, and is extremely drought-tolerant.

Height: 16 to 20 in. (41 to 51 cm) 
Spread: 12 to 16 in. (30 to 41 cm)
Exposure: Sun
USDA Hardiness Zones: 4a-10b

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Carnival Heuchera

There is no better plant for dry shade than Heuchera! Hybrid varieties have H. villosa parentage for excellent heat and high night humidity tolerance, which means incredible garden performance. This series offers a wide color assortment with distinct leaf venation. Mounding habits are also brilliant in shady landscapes.

Height: 10 to 12 in. (25 to 30 cm)
Spread: 12 to 14 in. (30 to 36 cm)
Exposure: Partial Sun to Shade
USDA Hardiness Zones: 4a-9b

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'Carnival Peach Parfait', 'Carnival Silver Streak' and 'Carnival Cocomint' Heuchera
'Carnival Rose Granita' Heuchera
'Carnival Limeade' Heuchera
'Carnival Silver Streak' Heuchera
'Carnival Peach Parfait' Heuchera
'Carnival' Heuchera Series
'CrazyBlue' Perovskia
'CrazyBlue' Perovskia
'CrazyBlue' Perovskia

'CrazyBlue' Perovskia

This variety “weaves” its branches together starting in Spring to form a solid mass of blue flowers that are a deeper color than any other Perovskia. 'CrazyBlue' stands up to the heat and dryness of late Summer plantings. This superb pollinator-attracting plant looks good in beds or containers.

Height: 16 to 18 in. (41 to 46 cm)
Spread: 14 to 16 in. (36 to 41 cm)
Exposure: Sun
USDA Hardiness Zones: 4a-9b

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Moody Blues® Veronica

Veronica is your “go to” upright for blue Summer color, with Moody Blues continuing to cycle and bloom all season until the first frost. It pairs well with Salvia Lyrical™, picking up when Lyrical starts to fade. This compact series of first-year-flowering Veronica offers great uniformity and habit, and is ideal for use in sunny beds or mixed containers.

Height: 10 to 12 in. (25 to 30 cm)
Spread: 12 to 14 in. (30 to 36 cm)
Exposure: Partial Sun to Shade
USDA Hardiness Zones: 4a-9b

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Moody Blues® Dark Blue Veronica
Moody Blues® Pink Veronica
Moody Blues® Mauve Veronica
Moody Blues® Dark Blue Veronica
Moody Blues® White Veronica
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