Perennials in full flower right now please

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I need instant colour to fill some gaps in my beds. We are having a few garden parties (weather permitting) over the next week or so and I would like lots of colour for that. I like a lot of bang for my buck, so as long flowering as possible.

I have plenty of bedding plants in pots so looking for perennials. White, pink or purple.

I have a peony, lupins, delphiniums, penstemon, scabious, campanula, lots of salvia and dianthus all looking good. I also have a decent number of hardy geraniums, but they are all I can think of buying for right now. I had thought about astrantia, echinacea and rudbeckia but they are a little bit late for when I would like them.

I should have said that I also have a lot of eriseyum Mauve Bowles.

Not perennials. But petunias and non stop begonias are in full bloom now, will last the summer, and are cheap to buy.

Lavender is coming out now, nepeta {cat mint), roses. You could just add repeat planting of those plants that are doing well - sometimes having more of the same looks better. And dont forget green is a colour - alchemilla molis!

Lots of salvia looking lovely in the garden centre today.

All kinds of poppies.

Scabious, rock roses, geraniums all going in my garden. Osteospermum are lovely too, but not hardy.

I'd buy annuals for immediate colour and perennials to fill spaces over the next couple of years.
Atm I've got the following perennials flowering;
Delphiniums
Geraniums
Hardy pinks
Day lillies
Gardinias
Scabious

Snapdragons looking good too, supposedly annuals, but I have loads of over wintered monsters.

Geums! Although I kill them.

hot lips salvia flowers all summer

Scabious
Salvia
Heuchera
Lavender has just burst forth
One of my fuschia is just about to flower
Not quite perennials but foxgloves
Catmint has already had one hack back ready for second flowering

Oh yes snapdragons, I've got some in as annuals this year but a couple of older plants that come back year after year which are covered in flowers atm.

Thank you. I am really keen to buy perennials as I have so many bedding plants in pots, so I think I will buy hardy pinks and other dianthus. My local Waitrose has some 2 litre pots for £5 each. I will also buy some hardy geraniums as you can never have too many, can you. I have lots of lavender, roses and alchemilla. Poppies and snapdragons are a good call though. I also have a Sarah Raven order of twelve salvias so maybe that will full more space that I’d realised. Thanks all.

Hardy fuchsias, hydrangeas just about to come out, salvias, veronica, heucheras have attractive leaves if you need something for shade.

I picked up a couple of good sized dahlias from Morrisons which are full of buds (2 for £3 in the perennial selection - square, pale blue pots). They had various colours.

This has made me remember that my hardy fuschia hawkshead is due to flower. I must make sure that there is space for it.

I wasn't familiar with Hawkshead fuchsia - it's very pretty!

It is lovely Gareth but mine hasn’t grown a lot in two years. It is nothing like a bush, as you’d normally imagine a fuchsia. I also had a delta’s Sara but I can’t remember where I planted it and it hasn’t made an appearance yet!

Penstemon??

Penstemon? Gaura? Lots of lovely shades to choose from and various heights and they will fill out nicely. Love the blue salvias too - try the salvia patens, it's stunning.

Aha, I just came back to suggest some gaura! Lovely fluttery thing.

My Armeria Ballerina flowers from March right through to Dec! It's evergreen too. Each plant is fairly small but they're really easy to divide. I bought two 9cm pots on offer from a garden centre the summer before last and now have 20 plants! (I happen to know that Gardening Express currently have an offer on Armeria - but please note I've never bought from them before.)

Also, my Vinca minor Atropurpurea flowers 12 months a year. I know some people say periwinkles are thugs (although apparently minor is not as bad as major) but I've not had a problem with mine.

Could fill the gaps with Cosmos? White you can definitely get, probably purple too

Foxgloves

Gaura -beautiful and flower from now until end of September. cut back hard and mulch well over winter

Rose's!

Definitely fox gloves. These are from a load of seed I threw down!

My geums have gone over now.

My Marguerites are out now, they never let me down. But I just keep buying geraniums and dianthus - they make me happy!