Best summer flowering perennials

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Hi all, just wondering what are your favourite perennials that provide a riot of colour all summer long? I am looking for ideas for a bed which has mostly summer and spring interest plants. Thanks

Geums!!

I love geums too- they flower for so long and are so pretty. Erysimum Bowles Mauve also flowers from spring to autumn. I really like salvias for long lasting flower spikes and hardy geraniums.

Ok these are shrubs rather than perennials but I’ll suggest rock rose, convulvulus cneorum, (both flower all summer), hydrangea (later summer).

Also erigeron, not exciting but it flowers forever and the bees love it. Armeria flowers for a long time. Phlox.

I also love salvias and hardy geraniums as mentioned.

Yes geranium rozanne is lovely although mine aren’t out yet. My geums have been going ages, as had my erysimum Bowles mauve. I’ve put loads of Erigeron in but I think I lost some last winter (not sure, pulled them out without giving them a chance to come back) but my geums don’t give a minute of trouble and flower all season long.

Thank you all! I’m frantically googling and looking forward to a trip to the garden centre 😊I actually saw Erigeron on gardeners world last night but didn’t quite catch the name so thank you for that! I like the look of it to spill down over some rock in the bed.

Roses. Start in May and go on nail November. . Penstemon. June until late Autumn.

Gaillardia are really bright and very easy, keep coming back happily for me and I’m in the Highlands.

For me geraniums , roses; later on my persicaria is alive with bees. Very fond of catmint. Can’t get a geum to overwinter though.

I’d agree about Persicaria. Bistorta Superba will have flowers from April to November if I deadhead it. My other Persicarias are good but flower for less time.

My other plants that are in flower for months at a time at different times of the year are Hellebore Penny’s Pink, Coronilla valentina subsp. glauca 'Citrina' (which is a shrub), Erysimum Bowles Mauve, Geraniums Rozanne and Brookside, Echinacea, Physostegia (I’ve got three varieties that flower consecutively so maybe they don’t individually flower for that long), Verbena Bonariensis, and I have a purple leaved Hebe which goes on for months but I don’t know which variety it is.

You may also want to consider using brightly coloured leaves for additional colour in the border.

I like dahlia, salvia, scabiosa and heleniums.

Salvia nemerosa carradonna. Gorgeous deep purple spikes from June to Oct in my garden, covered in bees!