Flower color
Purple flowers
366 garden plants with purple blooms, with bloom times, hardiness zones, and sun needs. Build a purple color scheme that lasts across the season.
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How this list is made
Derived from each plant's flower color tags and bloom colors, as stored in the BloomsEye library, which was written with AI assistance. Of these 366 plants, 153 have been checked against outside sources (37 fully verified); the rest have not been checked yet, and each plant's own page says which. The cards are AI-generated illustrations.
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Purple flowers by season
A plant is counted in every season it flowers in, so a long-flowering one appears in more than one. The named picks are the plants whose whole flowering sits in that season, not the ones that only pass through it.
Spring
March, April and May
185 plants
Fall
September, October and November
165 plants
Winter
December, January and February
9 plants
Purple flowers for shade
81 of these 366 plants will flower in less than a full day of sun.
The longest-blooming purple flowers
73 of these plants hold their flowers for 5 months or more. These are the longest of them.
Purple flowers by height
Mature height, in the three bands a border is planted in. Anything over 10 ft is structure rather than a border plant, and a climber is sized by whatever it is growing up, so both sit this out.
Front of the border
under 12 in
55 plants
Middle of the border
12 in to 3 ft
190 plants
Back of the border
3 ft and up
91 plants
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Design your garden
Drop plants onto a 3D plan, see how they fill in, and watch the whole garden bloom across the year.