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Post a picture or share the name of the flower that bloomed for the longest period last summer or spring>>> This will give us all ideas! Just like something in the yard to always be in bloom! Don't you? Oh mention garden zone/state

I'd have to say Brown Eye Susan pay the most rewards for me in Ohio. What a great splash of easy color!

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This little beauty shows up in March and goes for months: Hellebore Forgot to add: Zone 5B NH

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My radigans Gardenia bloomed from spring to fall. It's got buds on it now and will be popping out again. Smells divine!

I rarely pay attention to when things start to bloom or for how long but I know these bloom longer than many others.

Perennial blue flax



Munstead Lavender - no pic

Walker's Low catmint



Autumn Joy sedum




The following have been weeded out as they self-seed and I don't have the inclination to deadhead so many. Might have a few coming back but won't know for months:

Pink and red yarrow



Prairie mallow



Marguerite



Feverfew and Shasta Daisy - no pics

No pictures to share, but it was rather odd two weeks ago to look out the window to see the daffodils, camillas and some ornamental tree in bloom and huge snowflakes falling from the sky (only lasted 30 minutes). It's mid-March already and we're still dipping down into the 30's at night. Winter is not letting go so easy this year.

Crazy Southern Weather.

Here it's zinnias, although didn't have many last year, so no picture. In a normal year, they bloom non-stop until frost and provide bouquets all summer long. I just stocked up on fresh seeds, so crossing fingers for a better year.

Joy, does your Walkers Low get tall and floppy? I find it amazing that it just keeps mounding up on top of it'self, despite mid summer shearing...and it spreads! Still love it because it's a bumble bee favorite.

I enjoyed seeing everyones pictures. Muddy, your brown eyed Susans are gogeous.

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everyone's pics are so pretty.
Muddy: I had to pull all my Black Eyed Susans out because they got that white stuff on them. It was awful. And they spread like crazy. And we don't even live in a humid zone. ????

These were my long bloomin guys. Geranium (Cranesbills) Rozanne

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Many of the salvia's, which I love, are long bloomers.

Take this Lady in Red Salvia (Salvia coccinea,) an annual salvia that easily reseeds, even in the same year. My folks started with one very small plant put out a little later (in May.) The original plant got about 3' x 3' and bloomed until frost. Then little plants started popping up and a few of them that found a spot where they were sheltered from frost by the foliage of the nearby knockout roses were blooming in early Dec!

Such beautiful, healthy blooms ladies!!!!

Nance~~ Perhaps a wet season did that like with Monarda? Sometimes the mildew doesn't kill the plant but just looks unsightly & then grows anew the following season.

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Or if you would prefer a perennial version that also blooms May to frost, I've had good luck with Cherry Queen (Salvia greggii) which grows into a somewhat woody 3' x 2' subshrub. The Blue Anise Sage (Salvia guaranitica) blooms nearly as long too and can get close to 4' x 4'. Both are adored by hummingbirds, as is the annual one from my previous post. I consider that a big bonus!

Can you see why salvias are some of my favorite plants. Especially since they are so much more diverse than the "bedding" salvias that they've bred most of the nectar out of so they don't attract hummers and/or butterflies.

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Hey Luv~~Is the blue sage an annual?
Something likes to eat sage in my beds.

My faithful honeysuckles will have blooms all year as long as I don't prune them all the way down. I did that to my biggest ones in the front, the red and the gold...but the others are still blooming out by the road.
Also, like Luv said, my black blue salvia will bloom from spring until a heavy frost....and they spread!!! I had to pull out a BUNCH of spreading ones the other day...headed out into the yard, thru the bricks! So I potted up a few of those I pulled out, I'll add them to other flower beds later.
And I'm zone 8b, SW Ga...about 30-40 mi. to the Fl. line as a crow flies.

Ok, I'm convinced. I'm gonna try some annual salvia this year. I have spots I need to fill in on my slope and elsewhere. I'm excited.
How fast do they grow once I plant them in spring?
I tried perennial salvia and I think my soil is too dry or something. It doesn't fill out very well and never looks pretty and lush.
It still peeks up in the spring tho.

I agree with the Rozanne geranium...and want to add Yellow Corydalis. Both bloomed early and went on until after several frosts...
I stole this pic from Dave's since I didn't have one on hand

I will also add Dusty Miller. Those things NEVER d.i.e. They even back up after our MN winters.

After seeing all of these wonderful pictures I am ready to head to the greenhouse! Nice to know which plants have a longer bloom time.

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Originally posted by nance425:
Ok, I'm convinced. I'm gonna try some annual salvia this year. I have spots I need to fill in on my slope and elsewhere. I'm excited.
How fast do they grow once I plant them in spring?
I tried perennial salvia and I think my soil is too dry or something. It doesn't fill out very well and never looks pretty and lush.
It still peeks up in the spring tho.

You have to keep them trimmed back for them to fill out. I do that every couple of weeks...cut off poking out brances and dead-head and if I want them to stay shorter, I cut them down a bit. Mine grow in our nasty heavy clay with lack of rain quite often. Mine will get 3-4' tall & spread that much or more also...they will likely be somewhat smaller up north.
Mine didn't take long to grow & bloom...maybe a month??? But our conditions are different here, HOT!

For me it's a tie between the the Angel Trumpet and the Kalanchoe. Both keep blooming for at least 4 months.

and the Kalanchoe...

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Originally posted by vera ellen:
Joy, does your Walkers Low get tall and floppy?

Not so far but they are still young. I bought a small plant in 2010, it grew and bloomed like crazy it's first year so the next year I moved it to a better location and took many cuttings to root. So the main plant got pruned early and quite severely that year. Then last year the new plants were 1 year old and blooming well but not huge (as in the pic). So far none of them have really had a chance to get huge. I think this is a plant that will do well without a lot of fertilizer to keep it from growing lanky. Also I plan to take many more cuttings this year as would like to use this plant throughout my garden.

jvelo, Definitely agree about the corydalis-mine goes on forever, too. And reseeds beautifully.