Brighten your home, as well as your garden, with these cut-and-come-back perennial flowers. Yarrow is an amazing perennial that is hardy throughout most of the United States and that can withstand heat, drought, and cold. One of the most elegant flowers of late summer and fall, Japanese anemones are hybrids of several wild species. Clustered bellflower produces showy, five-petaled, bell-shaped flowers that come in shades of blue, purple, and pink. An American native, Coreopsis grandiflora is easy to grow, with sunny flowers held atop long slender stems.
A wonderful groundcover grown mainly for its foliage but with the bonus of pretty flowers, ajuga is an evergreen to semi-evergreen herbaceous perennial. It's useful as a groundcover in self-contained borders around patios and front entrances, and beneath shrubs, and trees.
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Old-fashioned favorites with dramatic impact, hollyhocks are renowned for their spectacularly tall flower spikes in white, yellow, pink, rose, red or purple. This would be a great perennial flower for your garden.
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The lovely member of the onion family produces a 5-inch ball -- or umbel -- of tiny, vivid purple flowers atop a bare 2-foot-tall stem. Protruding stamens give the umbel a soft outline. Rosenback's allium makes a striking accent in the garden or as a cut flower.
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