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These valuable garden plants are widely grown for the masses of flowers they bear throughout most of the summer. They flower from June to August, often with good repeat bloom until hard frost if flowers are removed. Yarrows make excellent cut flowers for both fresh and dried arrangements.

A genus of Daisy-like plants that are excellent for the border. They are not the least fussy about soil type. Shear after the first wave of flowering to ensure continuing bloom.

Big, bright flowers that first appear in late June and keep coming into September. Plants thrive in average soils and hot, dry conditions. Blooms last well as cut or dried flowers, and the large cone at the heart of the flower turns black as the seeds mature, adding further interest and providing winter nourishment for goldfinches.

This is the true Geranium, not to be confused with the annual Pelargonium one sees everywhere in Summer. Perennial Geraniums are lovely plants with delicate foliage and wonderful flowers.

Daylilies are the plants every gardener dreams of. They offer glorious flowers in every shade except blue, a long season of bloom (though individual flowers last but a day), and a robust disposition that makes them easy to transplant, easy to maintain, quick to multiply, and free from pests. Planted together in large numbers, they quickly crowd out weeds and make a carefree and colorful ground cover.

Liatris is excellent for cutting, superb for drying, and beautiful in the border, where it looks best planted in groups. It is also a strong favorite of butterflies.

Most are thrifty plants that offer deliciously fragrant, gray green foliage and numerous spikes of small flowers, generally in the blue to purple range, that appear over many weeks beginning in early Summer. They are durable, hardy, pest-free, and heavy flowering.

One of the great garden plants of all time. This semiwoody perennial carries a cloud of small blue flowers on stems that grow 3-4’ tall and wide. The effect is an airy haze of soft blue against silvery gray foliage. Bloom begins in July and continues nonstop through September. Plants are vigorous and hardy, ignoring heat, drought, and pests, while always looking fresh.

One of the best loved and most valuable garden plants, the Black-eyed Susan. Deep golden yellow daisies and upright habit. Blooms prodigiously from late July to early October and positively lights up any real estate where it makes its home. No insects seem to touch it.

Most offer spikes and densely packed flowers in shades of pink and purple and bloom for long periods of time. They are especially valuable for they ignore heat and go steadily about the business of making flowers.

A large genus of fleshy-leaved plants whose exotic forms and arresting colors make them extraordinarily useful in a wide range of garden situations.

Veronicas offer some of the richest and truest blues to be found in the plant world. Long blooming and beautiful.

This rugged perennial has tiny, brilliant sky blue flowers that twinkle against its large, dark green, heart shaped foliage. This tough, low-maintenance plant makes a fine ground cover.

The common name derives from the unusual heart shape of the flowers arriving in large arching sprays. Foliage is silvery blue and delicate.

Leopard’s Bane is the perennial equivalent of the springtime favorite, forsythia. It bursts forth in all its golden glory in early spring to announce that winter is over, and is one of the first daisies to bloom. Leopard’s Bane makes an excellent, long-lasting cut flower.

This charming perennial represents an under-used genus of rugged but delicate-looking plants with lovely flowers, very showy spring foliage, and a tough, no-nonsense ground cover habit. The spurred blossoms sit like jewels atop 10-15” foliage that is pale bronze in spring and turns greener in summer.

Blooms in late winter, making it the first plant to flower in the spring. Foliage is evergreen and leathery, often divided into serrated fingers arranged in the shape of a fan.

An easy-to-grow, rosy-flowered species. The foliage provides a pleasant background for the showy flower spikes and remains attractive all season.  Good for borders.

Hostas have many handsome leaf colorations and lavender or white Lily-like flowers, which show in late summer on graceful stalks. Plants like a moist location but also tolerate dry shade.

Graceful, arching, unbranched stems; pairs of 1” white flowers hang down from the axils of the leaves. The flowers are fragrant making them particularly delightful on a warm spring day.  This plant is useful for adding elegance to shady locales.

Extremely useful as a ground cover, it spreads to form dense plantings that remain attractive all year. In the spring it provides a galaxy of flowers that are usually a brilliant sky blue. In summer, the glossy, rich green foliage provides a fresh coolness; in winter, the foliage turns an appealing dark green in contrast to the predominant surrounding shades of gray and brown.