12 LONGEST Blooming Perennials That Bloom Until Frost (Trial Garden Picks)

🔗 Get a beautiful perennial garden with less watering, fewer costly mistake from Henry’s Garden Blueprint: https://henrysgardensecrets.com/ By the middle of August your border has gone quiet. Whatever carried it in June has finished, and you are looking at eight weeks of nothing much until frost. Here is the part that will annoy you. Most of what gets sold as long-blooming flowers for about five weeks. Not five months. Five weeks. And the biggest name on every list like this is among the shortest. So this is twelve perennials ranked by how long they actually flower, counted in a trial garden rather than promised on a tag. Mount Cuba Center, Chicago Botanic Garden, and the extension services - not catalogue copy. The first two are the ones you were expecting, and they do not survive the ranking. Halfway down is a piece of advice I gave out across a counter for years, which somebody finally tested, and I was wrong. And number one has a reason none of the others have. It cannot make seed. So it never learns to stop. WHAT IS STILL IN FLOWER AT YOUR PLACE? Tell me in the comments, and put your state next to it. What holds on in Georgia and what holds on in Michigan are two different lists, and yours is worth more than mine on that. I read every one. Sources referenced: Mount Cuba Center, Chicago Botanic Garden, Missouri Botanical Garden, North Carolina State Extension, University of Wisconsin-Madison Extension, Iowa State University Extension. #perennials #longbloomingperennials #perennialgarden #geraniumrozanne #catmint #nepeta #scabiosa #agastache #gaura #russiansage #coneflower #salvia #gardeningforseniors #americangardening #flowergarden