Our Top 10 Summer Blooming Perennials! It’s hard to choose just 10 when our whole perennial porch is bursting with blooms! Red Hot Poker (Full Sun) Daylily (Full Sun) Lavender (Full Sun) Crocosmia (Part Sun) Hummingbird Mint (Full Sun) Echinacea (Part Sun) Shasta Daisy (Part Sun) Yarrow (Full Sun) Hot Lips Salvia (Full Sun) Hardy Hibiscus (Part Sun) Anything you would add to the list? #watsons #watsonsgreenhouse #perennials #perennialgarden #pollinatorgarden #summerblooms #summerflowers #pnwgard

Summer flowering perennials are beautiful, but they're not the natural choice for summer gardens in the subtopics. That's when gingers, heliconias and the like enjoy their time in the sun (and torrential rain!) But as many gardeners like to do, I'm having a go at growing the things that aren't supposed to work! I've been inspired by all the beautiful perennial borders we see on my garden tours to Victoria each year... gardens like Heronswood, St Erth, Cloudehill and Lambley. It's a new work in p