The Best Perennial Flowers for a Colourful Garden
Discover perennial flowers that bring vibrancy to your garden and are sure to garner admiration from your neighbours!
Calling on all Aussie green thumbs and garden lovers; why not add some blooming perennial brilliance to your garden? Enhancing your yard with colourful perennial flowers ensures a vibrant and enduring landscape, which you can add to year after year. Now is the perfect time to embrace the opportunity and sow some of the best perennial flowers you can find for your garden. We have so many tips to share with gardeners, so keep reading to find what to get planting!
What are Perennial Flowers?
Perennials are colourful flowers and plants that live for two or more years, and are low maintenance once grown, so you can enjoy them without worrying too much about upkeep. Perennial flowers can be used to add a pop of colour or fill a space in your garden with rich, vivid tones. They are a perfect piece to incorporate when arranging your flower bed.
Perennial’s resilience and longevity make caring for them a breeze, and will no doubt elevate your garden beautifully. They undergo a resting period during the winter months, only to rejuvenate in spring, growing from their pre-established roots without the need for replanting.
Best Perennial Flowers
Asiatic Lily
Asiatic Lilies are a vibrant bloom that come in a gradient of sunset shades, including tones of orange, yellow, white, pink, and red. They grow up to four feet in height, and are adored by garden lovers thanks to their colourful nature and easy maintenance. These flowers thrive in direct sunlight and well-drained soil.
Asters
If you are a fan of daisies, then this daisy-like flower may just become the superstar of your garden. Asters are a delicate flower that can bring a budding new life to any garden. They come in a variety of colours, including pink, purple, white, and blue. Much like Asiatic Lilies, Asters enjoy basking in the full light of the sun, placed in well-drained soil where they can grow up to five feet tall.
Astilbe
Astilbes are a plume-like flower that bloom above the rest of your garden greenery at around three feet tall. The flowers come in colours including white, pink, purple, and burgundy. The Astilbe flower thrives in shaded areas, and is very low maintenance, unaffected by pests and diseases.
Black-Eyed Susan
These bright yellow showstoppers can easily take the spotlight in flower-filled yards. Black-Eyed Susans are extremely resilient and cope well in various weather conditions. Perfect for those who don’t want to be restricted to re-planting new flowers each year, these three foot flowers reseed themselves, making for a convenient garden addition.
Peony
Peonies are another example of a dainty perennial, with light layers bringing a soft touch to any garden they grace. Peonies are a beautifully scented, darling flower with a romantic beauty that’s hard to miss. These beauties bloom from late spring to early summer, and come in a plethora of shades. If you keep your low-maintenance peonies happy, you can expect them to grow up to four feet tall.
Echinacea
Echinaceas, otherwise known as Coneflowers, are flowering perennials that grow in a range of rich colours. Another plant that resembles a daisy, these beauties have narrow petals and a cone-shaped centre. The durable perennial can withstand diverse weather conditions, growing up to 76 centimetres.
Chrysanthemum
Chrysanthemums can bring a bright burst of colour to any flower bed. This perennial can come in white, yellow, orange, purple, or red, and can vary in size. Owing to this, the flower is ideal for bringing variety to your garden. Chrysanthemums are a late summer and autumn flower, and can be planted almost anywhere in your garden, but are best positioned in an open, sunny spot.
Hardy Hibiscus
Hardy Hibiscus is a tropical flower that can bring the coastal feel to your yard. This beachy flower comes in white, pink, red, and yellow, with a centre that typically has a contrasting colour. The six foot flower needs moist soil to reach its full potential.
Blanket Flower
This brightly-coloured bloom brings a burst of bright red, gold, yellow, and brown to flower patches. The Blanket Flower is native to hot and dry climates, so it adapts well to dry soil, only requiring minimal watering to maintain its aesthetic appeal.
Our Tops Tips on Perennials
Remember, these flowers don’t always bloom in the first year of being planted, so make sure to plan ahead, and don’t worry if they don’t spring to life straight away.
Perennials need minimal upkeep and require very little watering or fertilisation, making them an ideal addition to your low maintenance garden.
To expand the number of perennials in your garden, grow them using cuttings from existing plants in your garden. Make sure to remove any dead flowers from the plants to improve growing.
Reach Out
If you need help with getting your garden started, you can contact Jim’s Mowing for assistance, or check out our gardening blog for more gardening tips and tricks.
