Year-Round Flowering
Having plants flowering all year round is great for wildlife and wonderful for us. To find plants for each month, click on the links below:
There are lots of plants that flower from April through to September so below are our top tips for flowers from October through to March. If you can grow a couple of plants from each of these three lists, alongside your spring and summer plants then you will have year-round flowering!
Lots of plants flower at the beginning of October while the number has dwindled by the end of November.
Our top plants for flowering until the first frost or hard frost include nasturtiums, Salvias, coneflowers, fuchsias, twinspurs, toadflaxes, Chrysanthemum 'Dulwich Pink', marigolds and asters.
December and January are the quiet months for flowers and insects but pollinators can still appear on a sunny winter's day.
Mahonia shrubs are our winter superstars and pollinators love them! Also flowering before the winter ends are primroses, snowdrops, dwarf irises and Clematis 'Winter Beauty'.
From February to March, early flowers ramp up before the spring explosion starts.
We recommend crocuses, elephant ear, wallflower 'Bowles's Mauve', rosemary, Primula 'Crescendo Orange', daffodils, tulips and a wide range of spring bulbs.
We can't talk about year-round flowering without a special mention for the plants with really long flowering seasons and top of our list are wallflower 'Bowles's Mauve', annual and perennial toadflaxes, and horned pansies.
Finally, our evergreen plants provide year-round interest helping your garden to look gorgeous outside the main flowering seasons.