I am in zone 6-- MA I am looking for perennial plants that flower from Spring till Fall?

Need plants for full to part sun. Looking for non-stop blooming perennial plants.

I am in zone 6-- MA I am looking for perennial plants that flower from Spring till Fall?
perennial plants usually flower in cycles and not all summer, most gardeners supplement their gardens with annuals to have continuos color in the summer. Some plants that will give you long blooming time are: coneflower, hollyhock,daylilies,bee balms,garden phlox,delphiniums,poppies,sweet woodruff,lupins,campanulas,lavatera,salv...


for late fall, rudbeckias,japanese anemones,asters,perennial sunflowers,sedums,snakeroot.


These are just a few that would keep your garden going through the seasons.
Reply:Roses (floribunda type) have a fairly long bloom period, as well as Coreopsis. Your best bet, if you really want to get into it, is to plant flowering plants that are staggerd. Such as, start off with (bulbs) Tulips and Daffodils. Then as early June approaches you are ready for Peonies and Poppies. Next Echinacea, Roses, Columbine take over. (This July period alot of stuff blooms.) Later insummer you can trust Lillies, Hollyhocks and Daisies. Go to www.parkseed.com. Beautiful selection, good prices and grows or replaced for free! Good luck!
Reply:There are NO perennial plants that bloom Spring till Fall.... The longest blooming plant that I know is Rubeckia...
Reply:Unfortunately, no such critter. Most perennials bloom for about one month. Some are longer. The longest blooming one I can think of is Echinacea, the purple cone flower. The bloom season is around two months. Same with Thunbergia, the black eyed susan and some other sunflower types. They all bloom from July to September. Day Lillies, the Stella D'Oro type bloom from June - September, but pretty sparsely. They are not as pretty as the other daylillies that bloom in July.
Reply:There are no plants that stay in bloom continuously for more than a few weeks at a time. You'll need to design a sequential bloom plan.





Sequential bloom is where you plant a variety of different plants, each of which bloom at different times. Look for plants that stay in bloom longer than two weeks - that will cut down on the number of plants you need.





Find plants that bloom in each month, Spring to Fall, and stagger the plantings so that you don't end up with bunches of color in one corner of your garden at any given time.





Good luck! This is one of the hardest things to learn in gardening - the big design for continuous, sequential bloom.