How to make your garden bloom
20 favorite perennial flowers
These unfussy, long-lived plants pump out beautiful foliage and flowers year after year. Plant in fall or spring when cooler temperatures help them get a healthy start
Aster x frikartii
Delicate-looking flowers on ultra-tough plants tolerate just about any soil type. ‘Mönch’ grows to 2 feet-tall and pumps out
2 1/2-inch lavender-blue flowers almost all year if spent ones are removed.
‘Wonder of Staffa’ is another favorite with lavender blue blossoms.
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