Five Summer Garden Favorites Worth Making Room For

What Makes a Great Summer Garden Plant?
The best summer perennial plants do much more than simply bloom. They continue performing right through high heat, attract local pollinators, provide lasting color, and require relatively little maintenance once they are established in your soil.

The following five plants check every single one of those boxes.

Our Top Five Summer Performers
1. Blue Fortune Agastache: A Pollinator Magnet with Months of Blooms
If you enjoy seeing butterflies, bees, and hummingbirds active in your yard, Blue Fortune Agastache deserves a closer look. Its aromatic, fragrant foliage and tall lavender-blue flower spikes provide a reliable nectar source throughout much of the summer while adding beautiful vertical interest to your garden beds.

Why gardeners love it: Long bloom season, fragrant foliage, massive pollinator appeal, excellent heat and drought tolerance once established, and incredibly easy to grow.

2. Grape Crush Aster: Color When Summer Begins to Fade
Many gardens begin losing their momentum and looking tired toward the end of summer. Grape Crush Aster does the exact opposite. Its vibrant, rich purple blooms appear just when many other flowers are slowing down, helping you extend deep garden color well into the late season.

Why gardeners love it: Late-season blooms, striking rich purple flowers, pollinator-friendly, extends seasonal interest, and serves as an easy-care perennial.

3. Red Lightning Heuchera: Season-Long Foliage Color
Not every great garden plant has to be grown exclusively for its flowers. Red Lightning Heuchera earns its attention through dramatic, high-impact foliage. Its colorful, gold-and-red veined leaves provide intense visual interest from early spring all the way through frost, making it perfect for containers, borders, and partially shaded gardens.

Why gardeners love it: Striking and unique foliage color, season-long interest, excellent container accent plant, performs well in part shade, and requires very low maintenance.

4. Homestead Purple Verbena: One of the Longest Bloomers Around
Few plants provide as much continuous, non-stop color as Homestead Purple Verbena. Its vibrant purple blooms seem absolutely determined to keep flowering through the hottest, driest parts of summer while attracting butterflies along the way.


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