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10 Purple Flowers to dress up your garden - National Garden Bureau

10 Purple Flowers to Dress Up your Garden!

Flower GardeningMarch 2, 2018gail

From an entire bed or just a touch of color in your containers, it has never been easier to include purple in your garden. Perfect additions if you want to add the 2018 Pantone Color of the year, Ultra Violet, to your garden design.

Here are 10 new varieties to get you seeing purple…

Click here to view all new varieties.

Hakuba Clematis
Hakuba Clematis
Hakuba with its lavender blue flowers grows just 6 feet tall, yet covers itself with blossoms from top to bottom. A great choice for containers and perennial borders where you don’t want a large plant. Blooms in late spring and again in late summer. First year vines produce single flowers; mature plants produce a mix of singles and doubles.
Purple Prince Alternanthera
Purple Prince Alternanthera
Purple Prince has beautiful burgundy-purple leaves with ruby-rose undersides. It stands tough in heat and humidity with low water needs. This attractive spreading plant makes a great companion plant "filler" in mixed containers. The dark foliage pairs well with many colors, and offers an ideal low-border groundcover in flower beds to set off their blooms.
Torch Blue Lavender
Torch Blue Lavender
Beautiful new Blue Torch is a fast-growing tender perennial. It has finely cut silvery-grey fern-like, oregano scented foliage and stems growing up to 16-23 in., topped by attractive 2.5 in. purple flower spikes.
First Editions® Virtual Violet™ Lilac
First Editions® Virtual Violet™ Lilac
Virtual Violet™ has shiny violet new leaves, deep purple stems, raspberry-purple buds and fragrant violet flowers. Leaf petioles remain violet well into the summer. The dense, upright habit makes it a great choice for a hedge or use in foundation plantings.
Evening Scentsation Petunia
Evening Scentsation Petunia
2017 AAS winner, flowers have a hyacinth-like scent with notes of rose and honey. Strong stems with high flower count cover plants with shades of indigo and purple. This upright multiflora petunias is more compact than the grandiflora types. Plants are densely packed with blooms creating a colorful impact in your garden.
Potunia Starfish Petunia
Potunia Starfish Petunia
Bold, Bright and uniquely “bubbly”, Potunia® brings a pop of carefree color to patios, porches, beds, & more. Potunias® will flower all season long withstanding most growing conditions beautifully.
Compact Purple SunPatiens
Compact Purple SunPatiens
These remarkable plants represent a breeding breakthrough: robust, sun-loving, heat-loving impatiens that thrive in full sun or part shade and deliver continuous color from spring through hard frost. They are your three season flowering plant!
Kirigami Ornamental Oregano
Kirigami Ornamental Oregano
A highly attractive ornamental oregano featuring light-green leaves with purple-green highlights. Its small rose flowers are a magnet for butterflies and bees. It is a drought-and-heat tolerant, low-maintenance "filler" in mixed containers, or enjoy it on its own in hanging baskets or smaller centerpiece containers. While not intended for culinary use, on warm evenings with a gentle breeze, you can smell its wonderful fragrance.
Twizzle Purple Penstemon
Twizzle Purple Penstemon
Summer Jewel Lavender Salvia
Summer Jewel Lavender Salvia
2016 AAS Winner's unique flower color of dusty lavender purple is a delight in the garden and flower containers as well as a major attractor of pollinators including bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds

To find out more about these new plants and all the newest varieties in flowers and vegetables, take a look at our New Plants page.

Learn more about AAS Winners and the non-profit All-America Selections where AAS Winners have been “Tested Nationally & Proven Locally™” for garden superiority by horticulture professionals across North America.

Are you adding purple to your garden this year?  

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