20 purple flowers to welcome winter

20 purple flowers to welcome winter


Check out this breathtaking selection of plants





20 purple flowers to welcome winter

Purple-flowered plants work well in most color palettes, blending effectively with whites and pastels as they do with warm reds and orange blossoms.

For pots or beds, try combining purple flowers with sour greens of Alchemilla mollisor euphorbia like Euphorbia amygdaloides var. Robbie., red poppies and orange torch lilies would also do well here.




Lavender: Lavender has grown into a sturdy plant due to its rich fragrance, beautiful purple color, and ease of cultivation.  It is also popular with pollinators.  Grow it in full sun, in well-drained soil.

For a more classic look, combine different shades of purple flowers with pink, blue and white flowering plants.

Another benefit of growing purple flowering plants is that they are very attractive to pollinators, with some showing an innate preference for color.

Discover some of ours favorite plants with purple flowers growing at home:

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Mountain Blueberry: Centaurea montana is native to the meadows and mountain forests of Europe.  It typically has lance-shaped, gray-green leaves and large, deep blue or purple flowers, born in early summer.  Bees love flowers.



Sages: the purple-flowered sages like Salvia



Purple Honeysuckle: Cerinthe major “Purpurascens”, is the perfect annual to fill in the gaps in an ornamental flower bed.  It has beautiful silvery blue-green leaves and beautiful purple bell-shaped flowers, which are a magnet for bees.  Makes a wonderful cut flower.



Verbena: Verbena bonariensis is a popular garden plant grown for its purple dish-like flowers, which are attractive to a wide variety of pollinators.  It is perfect for providing height and lasting color to the garden.



Globe Thistles: Globe thistles, Echinops spp., Have spiky leaves and bristly metallic blue flowers, making them a great architectural choice for the back of a sunny flower bed.



Geraniums are perennials with saucer-shaped flowers in shades of pink, purple and blue.  They are easy to grow, thrive in shade, and bloom for months.  Geraniums are popular in country home gardening schemes and provide a long season of pollen and nectar for various pollinators, especially bees.



Hespere: Hesperis matrionalis is a beautiful biennial of white or purple flowers, with a fantastic nocturnal fragrance.  It looks beautiful when left to grow naturally, through a sunny or partially shaded informal flower bed, especially in a cottage garden or wildlife garden project.



Lungweed: Pulmonaria, Pulmonaria spp., Gets its name from its mottled leaves, which are supposed to resemble lungs.  The funnel-shaped flowers are born in shades of blue, purple, pink, purple, red and white.  They are extremely attractive to bees, especially the hairy-footed flower bee, Anthophora plumipes.



Ornamental Onion: Most ornamental Alliums range from white, pink, and purple.  They are especially popular with pollinating insects and arouse interest in the garden with their flowers.



Old Beards: There are plenty of purple-flowered clematis to choose from, with blooms ranging from pale mauve to deep purple.  For spring flowers, try Clematis alpina, or for summer, grow a variety of Clematis viticella.



Goiveiro: Erysimum



Wisteria: Wisteria bear masses of purple flowers and are traditionally planted in front of houses or on garden walls.  Japanese wisteria are less vigorous than Chinese wisteria and have longer flowers.



Artichoke: Cynara cardunculus



Wild Coriander: Eryngium makes a stunning addition to dry, sunny flower beds and gravel gardens.  They have thistle-like flowers, composed of small flowers clustered together in a tight cluster, surrounded by a collar of thorny bracts.



Lavender: Lavender has grown into a sturdy plant due to its rich fragrance, beautiful purple color, and ease of cultivation.  It is also popular with pollinators.  Grow it in full sun, in well-drained soil.



Catnip: Nephews are attractive perennials with fragrant foliage, with masses of nectar-rich flowers in summer.  There are many types of catmint available, from small and thick types suitable for growing in pots, to taller varieties perfect for growing in the middle of a flower bed.  They grow in a full sun location with light, well-drained soil.



Thistle is a biennial native to the UK, with tall flower spikes in the shape of a bush with purple flowers, popular with bees and butterflies.  Goldfinches eat the seed in winter.  Grow in the back of a flower bed or in a wild part of the garden.



Russian Sage: Russian sage, Perovskia atriplicifolia, is a beautiful shrub that reaches its peak performance in late summer and early fall when it produces many lavender-colored flowers on branched, aromatic stems.



Campanula: resistant, vigorous and persistent, the Campanula portenschlagiana is an alpine bellflower, easily cultivable in rock gardens, on walls, in front of the edges or even in pots.  It forms a generous, dense mat of tiny ivy-like leaves that hide under the mass of tiny purple bells in summer.



Summer lilac: these are deciduous shrubs with masses of flowering panicles, which are popular with pollinators.  They grow particularly well in limestone-rich soils and are one of the best plants for attracting butterflies.

* Through the world of gardeners

Source: Terra

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