I have a June only garden..

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What perennials can I plant for good flowers for the rest of the summer. Garden is whites, pinks, purples. It looked lovely in June but now it’s looking very dull.

I just came on to ask the same question! The bed I need help with, in particular, is in a more shady area though does get some sun.

Try typing your requirements into the RHS plant finder. There are lots of old favourites like Michaelmas daisy, phlox, acanthus, coneflower, etc.

Japanese anemones are now coming into their own.

Vernena Bonariensis is also looking big, bold and bright.

Roses of course will be blooming for months yet.

Another useful trick is to grow lilies in pots and then put them into the flowerbeds in places where there’s not much happening.

Rozanne geraniums flower for ages

Hydrangeas will bloom right up until autumn.

I also have geraniums, echinacea, anemones, roses and phlox in bloom at the moment

Nigella and cornflowers. I'm really loving my grotty spot, which this year is disappearing in a haze of green and vivid blue.

Currently flowering fully in mine I have veronicastrum, verbena, geraniums, lavender, echinacea. Plus some annuals - mostly sweet peas, lobelia and nigella, and some wildflowers. And buddleia, which I love even though they are scruffy, because I love butterflies.

Dahlias

Shrubby salvias, in fact all salvias, and I’ve been admiring the neighbours’ helenium this evening.

My climbing roses seem to be struggling a bit this year. Verbena bonariensis isn’t out yet here. I have verbascum flowering but it’s going over. Lavender and nepeta are out but everything else just looks very green. I’ve obviously not got the balance of planting right yet to ensure a full looking garden all through the summer.

six weeks ago it looked amazing!

Snap! Been pulling up a load of dead things today, which were all looking gorgeous a few weeks ago. I'll be looking up these suggestions and making a plan for next year.

Salvia 'Nachtvlinder' ...so fragrant, just touching them and the smells stays on you all day long! Last from June to al.ost November.

Salvia 'Caradonna' ...still going strong, deadheading then should get another crop in August

Heuchera 'Spellbound' stay colourful all yr round with cute white flowers, deadhead as they finish and you get more

Hydrangea petiolaris just flowered will last for another month ish

At the moment my anemones, hydrangea Annabelle, sydalcea and salvia are looking great.

I do have roses out but this year hasn't been great, first flush was in the heatwave and second flush in all this rain.

Not strictly perennial but my dahlias are doing great.

Best tip I've been given is to visit the garden centre once a month and buy a plant which is at it's best each time.

Which is dangerous because who goes to a garden centre and comes out with only what they've gone for??

Go to garden centres at different times of year and look at what is in flower. They usually get new stock in every few weeks, so they'll always have something that is looking at its best. If you go now, it will be late-summer flowering plants & shrubs, so that will give you ideas. Check what it says on the label too.

Whatever you do, do NOT order from gardening express

Physostegia
Agapanthus
Cirsium
Persicaria Bistorta Superba - first flush of flowers is late spring but I’m onto some sporadic flowers from now till November
Shasta daisies

At the moment, the things in my garden that are looking good are hydrangeas, buddleia, fuschia, dahlias and I have some phlox still doing well, plus geranium rozanne.

Hollyhocks are go around us right now.

Also as a pp said, Japanese anemone, and my white hydrangeas (three types but inherited so I’m not sure which!) The honeysuckle berries look good too

It's a bit late for this year but Cosmos are great. Buy some seeds for next year and either nurture in pots or sow directly in the soil. They are so cheerful and will keep flowering until the end of October. Dahlias are great as well, they sound fiddly and you'll be told to lift and store them but mine just stay out all year and are fine. They'll vanish without trace then suddenly in June/July they burst back into life and flower until October. Phlox get better every year and Japanese anemones will bloom and spread. Ground cover geraniums are great as well. Have a look around at neighbours gardens and see what's in flower now, it'll give you a good idea what's easy to grow locally to you so more likely to be a success.

I’ve got a fuchsia delta Sara which is white and purple. It was a supermarket buy earlier in the year and it’s grown quickly and is smothered in flowers.
I also have a dwarf buddleja called sugar plum which is flowering now with pretty pinky purple flowers.
Calla lilies could also work and they come in lots of colours.

Don't think anyone has mentioned calendula which is really brightening things up here the the moment.

I came on to say this. I heard it on gardeners question time years ago

Have a look on the "Show us your Pictures" thread as well, you might get some ideas from there as to what's flowering now.