Want a garden that blooms continuously from April to August? In this video, we share our landscaping ideas with 66 perennials for non-stop flowering, organized by month, to help you plan season-long color. (We garden in Fredericia, Denmark — similar to Zone 8a.)
We’ve grouped the plants by month, making it easy to design a garden with season-long blooms. For each perennial on our plant list, we share the name, bloom time, growing conditions, and height — perfect if you’re planning a cottage garden, perennial border, or mixed flower bed.
Here’s a breakdown of how we use succession planting in our cottage garden:
0:33 – APRIL BLOOMS | Early Color & Shade-Lovers
16:16 – MAY BLOOMS | Colorful Spring Transition
39:31 – JUNE BLOOMS | Early Summer Stars
1:09:00 – JULY & AUGUST BLOOMS | Late Summer Color
APRIL BLOOMS
• Pulmonaria officinalis (Lungwort)
• Pulsatilla vulgaris (Pasque Flower)
• Brunnera macrophylla (incl. ‘Jack Frost’ & Variegata)
• Lamprocapnos spectabilis (Bleeding Heart)
• Lamium maculatum (Dead Nettle)
• Lathyrus vernus (Spring Vetchling)
• Epimedium (Barrenwort)
• Euphorbia amygdaloides ‘Purpurea’ & ‘Miner’s Merlot’
• Silene dioica (Red Campion)
MAY BLOOMS
• Iberis sempervirens (Candytuft)
• Erysimum cheiri (Wallflower)
• Centaurea montana ‘Amethyst in Snow’
• Tiarella cordifolia (Foamflower)
• Ajuga reptans (Bugleweed)
• Primula sect. Dodecatheon (Shooting Star)
• Veronica gentianoides (Gentian Speedwell)
• Viscaria vulgaris (Clammy Cockle)
• Thalictrum aquilegifolium (‘Black Stockings’)
• Aquilegia (Columbine)
• Geum (Avens)
• Armeria maritima ‘Düsseldorfer Stolz’ (Sea Thrift)
• Cerastium tomentosum ‘Silverstone’ (Snow-in-Summer)
• Polemonium repens ‘Stairway to Heaven’ (Jacob’s Ladder)
JUNE BLOOMS
• Trollius chinensis (Chinese Globeflower)
• Centranthus ruber (Red Valerian)
• Lychnis chalcedonica (Maltese Cross)
• Delphinium
• Veronica spicata
• Salvia nemorosa (‘Ostfriesland’, ‘Caradonna’, ‘Schneehügel’)
• Knautia arvensis
• Phlomis russeliana & tuberosa
• Digitalis purpurea (Foxglove)
• Dianthus barbatus (Sweet William)
• Alchemilla mollis (Lady’s Mantle)
• Linaria purpurea
• Astrantia
• Geranium pratense
• Penstemon digitalis
• Thymus serpyllum (Creeping Thyme)
• Silene vulgaris
JULY & AUGUST BLOOMS
• Anaphalis triplinervis (Pearly Everlasting)
• Rudbeckia hirta (Black-eyed Susan)
• Kniphofia ‘Flamenco’ (Red Hot Poker)
• Liatris (Blazing Star)
• Echinacea (Coneflower)
• Monarda (Bee Balm)
• Agastache ‘Blue Fortune’
• Aster
• Verbena bonariensis
• Heliopsis helianthoides var. scabra ‘Bleeding Hearts’
• Helenium (Sneezeweed)
• Eupatorium maculatum & ‘Baby Joe’
Whether you’re building a garden from scratch or fine-tuning your perennial planting scheme, this video is packed with inspiration and useful info to help you plant for continuous blooms.
Let us know which season is your favorite in the comments! 🌿
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15 Comments
So pretty guys! Y'all are making me want to try to grow flowers that we haven't had luck with here in Arkansas. I want to try to grow from seed lupins, and columbine again. We have made some videos of us hardening off our flower seedlings. So exciting! Happy gardening!!😊
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I can't put into words how much I love your channel, THANK YOU for creating such wonderful content. I have learned so much from your videos that I apply to my small border garden. I get the most unbelievable enjoyment from watching you and Lars and your beautiful garden throughout the year. 🌷🌹🌻🪻
Love your video's learning something every time. The list of plants is so good to write the plants on my list to buy at the garden centre!
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Åh en compilation video!! Perfekt timing, bedst som man sidder her og savner foråret og alle blomsterne 🥰💐 Elsker at se alle jeres kombinationer, så jeg får ideer til min egen have 😍🙏❤️
Ah my very favourite garden on YouTube, it might be because I have a lot of the same plants as yourselves, but this was such a joy to see all the plants through the Spring and Summer and whats to come, I'd spent the morning cutting back a lot of plants in my garden, so to sit and watch you boys in your glorious garden was just wonderful, thankyou from the bottom of my heart, you're the best.
Boa tarde. Falo aqui do Brasil. Adoro seu jardim. É incrível como tem flores diferentes na Europa e America do Sul. Fico admirada com a variedade de sua coleção.
The exuberance from you both is a joy, and your garden is a dream! 😍I really want to add some brunnera this year. Iberis doesn’t work in my zone as a perennial, but I love it so much that I seed as an annual in pots. Thanks for an incredible tour! Beautiful variety of plants!
It’s been a long winter! It’s so lovely to see things come back to life this (almost) spring.
Our back and side garden are looking better than ever this year (spring 3 at our house)!
Every year our lawn is slowly shrinking and borders expanding 😏 This year my wife is more and more on board with the concept of minimal lawn when she sees all the flowers.
I can’t wait to see updates and changes to your garden.
You guys your garden is just glorious. So many colors! Perfect placements and staggered heights!! I too have a channel, but I always learn something from you guys!
Thank you so much! Deanna @gardensglory
I’ve missed watching you in the garden🌱🌸 spring is in the air🩷🦋🌸
So lovely! The various combinations are beautiful too. Lots of good ideas and advice. Thank you. X
What zone are you in?
I missed you guys