If you’re looking for a cost-effective way to create a beautiful landscape with lots of color throughout the growing season, long-blooming perennials are the way to go. These plants are beautiful, hardy, and long-lasting. They come back year after year and continue to produce flowers for weeks to months. In a Fort Worth landscape, long-blooming perennials are a smart choice because they are durable, long-lasting, and continue to provide color throughout the growing season.
A great place to start is by choosing the best long-blooming perennial for your yard and for your landscape. Premier Nursery offers a variety of tried-and-true plants that perform well in Fort Worth, TX, landscapes. And when you visit the nursery, our staff can recommend specific plants for your specific sunlight, soil type, and watering needs. This will allow your garden to flourish throughout the growing season and ensure that you get the most blooms from your flowers.
Why Choose Long-Blooming Perennials?
As a value, perennials are hard to beat. For the initial cost of planting, perennials will continue to come back year after year and provide a wonderful display of flowers during the growing season. Many perennial flowers also attract butterflies, bees and hummingbirds which are wonderful to watch and also are helpful pollinators.
Continuously blooming from spring to fall or even through the winter months, perennials offer a fantastic and cost-effective solution for creating a vibrant landscape. By choosing plants that thrive in the North Texas weather and selecting varieties that have long blooming seasons, you can extend the time in which your plants flower, while saving money by not having to replant every season. With the occasional pruning, fertilizing and watering, perennials can go for months producing an abundance of flowers to continuously beautify any landscape.
Top Long-Blooming Perennials for Fort Worth
Salvia Greggii (Autumn Sage)
One of the best-performing perennials for long-blooming in North Texas is Salvia Greggii. Known as Autumn Sage, this Texas Native produces bright red, pink, purple or white flowers from Spring until Fall. It thrives in full sun and is drought-tolerant once established. This plant is known to attract hummingbirds and butterflies. Salvia Greggii is a great choice for borders, pollinator gardens, and foundation plantings. (See more about Autumn Sage)
Gaillardia (Blanket Flower)
Gaillardia, often referred to as Blanket Flower, continues to produce long lasting red, orange or yellow daisy like flowers throughout late spring into fall. While many flowers fall into seasons of prime time blooming, the Gaillardia perseveres to bring loads of color for months. This particularly tough perennial thrives in full sun and performs very well in less than ideal soil. Blanket Flower is a low maintenance landscape flower making it perfect for busy homeowners who have limited time to maintain their yards. (See more about Gaillardia)
Coneflower (Echinacea)
With coneflowers, you can have months of colorful blooms and bring in the butterflies and pollinators such as bees and butterflies. These gorgeous flowers come in a variety of colors including purple, pink, white, orange and yellow. And, the best part is that they are able to withstand the hot North Texas weather and can even tolerate drought once established. The strong stems hold up the beautiful blooms for an extended period of time, and make coneflowers a very popular choice for many gardens. (See more about Coneflower.)
Coreopsis
Coreopsis, often referred to as Tickseed, is a popular perennial that is known for the bright yellow or golden flowers that are in bloom all summer long. It is a low-maintenance plant that is able to thrive in North Texas’ hot summers and can be used in a variety of landscape applications including flower beds, borders, and naturalized landscapes. Removing the spent flowers will encourage the Coreopsis to produce even more flowers. (See more about Coreopsis.)
Lantana
This flowering perennial is included in our list because it performs more like an annual in the gardens of North Texas. However, with its endless supply of colorful blooms in clusters, Lantana is a perfect addition to any garden that is seeking a plant that can bloom from spring to fall. It is very drought tolerant and will provide the perfect amount of color to plant beds and even containers. Also, Lantana attracts many different species of butterflies. (See more about Lantana.)
Mexican Petunia
Another beautiful flower for the garden is the Mexican Petunia. This perennial produces beautiful purple, pink and white blooms throughout the late spring until the first frost of the year. It thrives in full sun to partial shade and is a heat tolerant and drought tolerant flower. It is perfect for the flower beds in your yard as well as the containers on you patio. (See more about Mexican Petunia.)
Tips for Even More Blooms
To get the longest flowering season from your perennials . . .
• Plant varieties that match your available sunlight.
• Provide plants with adequate water during establishment of roots.
• Apply a slow-release fertilizer in spring.
• Remove spent flowers to encourage reblooming.
• Provide adequate spacing for healthy air circulation.
Every perennial will perform better in the garden when it is planted in the proper location.
Choosing the right perennial for your landscape is key to having the plants thrive in your yard. With a wide variety of perennials to choose from, Premier Nursery can help select the right ones for your Fort Worth landscape. Our staff has extensive knowledge of all types of perennials and the specific growing conditions found in the Fort Worth area. They can assist you in choosing long-blooming perennials to plant in your flower beds or in creating a pollinator garden that will attract beneficial insects. Whether you are starting from scratch or giving your existing landscape a facelift, our staff can advise you on how to plant, water, fertilize, and prune your perennials to ensure they continue to thrive for years to come.
A staff of knowledgeable and experienced landscape plant experts is on hand at Premier Nursery to answer your questions and help pick out just the right plants to create a landscape of months of beautiful color and get the most bang for your buck! We can work with you to design a beautiful, attractive landscape of perennial flowers and help answer all your gardening questions, including how to plant, water, fertilize, prune, and maintain the perennials in your landscape.
For a complete selection of perennial flowers that thrive in the Fort Worth, TX, climate and to learn more about which perennials will perform best in your specific yard, visit Premier Nursery today. Premier Nursery provides Fort Worth landscapes with an array of the very best, longest-blooming perennials for less, and has the landscape experts on hand to guide you in choosing just the right flowers to complement your specific yard.
