Power Perennials for Your Summer Garden

Power perennials are hard-working classic plants for any sustainably beautiful garden. Learn about six classic high summer favorites that your garden shouldn’t be without in this video by Better Homes and Gardens:

1. Tall garden phlox, also called Phlox paniculata, has been grown in American gardens since colonial times. Newer varieties like Jenna are both disease-resistant and ever-blooming, flowering long into the summer.

2. Ornamental grasses are all the rage in modern gardens. Varieties like Deschampsia goldtau or golden dew tufted hair grass act as a foil to other perennials late in the growing season.

3. Alliums or ornamental onions are hard-working perennials throughout the growing season because of their resistance to deer and other pests. Some cultivars begin blooming in spring and others continue flowering through summer and transition into fall.

4. Searing through the longer days of the growing season, cardinal flower is a red-hot perennial for moist to well-drained soils.

5. The moorgrasses are tall airy statements that give vertical presence to nearby companions. Varieties like Cordoba fade into autumn with gold and orange colors.

6. Flowering from late summer into early autumn, Helenium, commonly known as Helen’s flower, bloom in an array of sunset colors on plants ranging from 24 to 48 inches tall.

Perennials like these perform through all the growing season throws at them. Try these varieties in your garden for a summer show that powers into fall.