Purple Plants

This unique spring-blooming clematis combines delicate apple-green leaves and unusual spiky pinwheel shaped purple blooms for lots of movement and color in the garden. Sparky Purple Clematis provides weeks, even months, of color that is perfect for a pretty trellis in your perennial garden or along a railing, lattice or fence. Disease resistant with no pruning required, this reblooming vine is an easy choice for a sunny spot!

Only two plants are needed to full your urn with summer color that will last well into fall. The star of this container recipe we call Tropical Dusk is Supertunia Mini Vista Indigo, with blooms that never need deadheading! A little plant food all season, consistent water and you're set to impress all who walk by.

Velvety purple blooms of Supertunia 'Royal Velvet' add a luxurious texture to your window boxes, hanging baskets and combination planters where they function as both a filler and a spiller. This long blooming petunia is also excellent in the landscape where it is best suited to be planted near the front of garden beds. Medium to large blooms will attract pollinators including butterflies and hummingbirds and are heat and drought tolerant. Require little to no maintenance.

Enjoy bright purple blooms in that shady corner of the garden from planting through frost when you choose Infinity Light Purple Impatiens. Enjoy its large bright blooms without need to deadhead. Long blooming and heat tolerant, this flowering annual for shade is an easy choice for borders, mass plantings or container gardens.

Bi-color blooms create a whirlwind of color on heat and drought resistant plants. Whirlwind Starlight Fan Flower features trailing flowers with soft purple-blue and white petals. This trailing plant is a wonderful addition to combination planters of all kinds in which it will add cascading color that spills over the edge. In the landscape it will act as a groundcover plant. Deadheading is not required for continuous blooms. Attracts bees.

Purple is the new neutral in the gardening world. It goes with just about any other color you pair it with, from contrasting oranges to complementary pinks and greens. The descriptors “blue” and “purple” are used loosely when it comes to flowers and plants; they describe a whole range of these cool tones. Check out this list of ten varieties we think you’ll love for your garden.

To complement the most vibrant reds, fuchsias, and golds in your combination containers, try Laguna Ultraviolet lobelia. Its richly saturated royal purple blooms are produced profusely from spring through summer on cascading, well-branched plants. This flowering annual will attract hummingbirds and butterflies to your garden.

This flowering shrub has purple power! Pearl Glam callicarpa's deep violet foliage from spring through frost will burst into bloom in late summer with white flowers that yield violet-purple by the hundreds. Its upright habit makes this a space saver compared to other beauty-berry varieties and it will produce berries without a pollinating plant. It's a great bet for those wanting berries in tight spaces. Its beautiful foliage is deer-resistant, too.

The luck of the Irish will be with you when you grow this dark, plum-colored shamrock plant. This is perfect plant for shaded patio planters. At the end of the growing season, bring Charmed Wine indoors to enjoy as part of your home decor. When new shoots begin to sprout in March or April, it will be a sure sign that spring is near.

Three easy to care for annuals come together in this recipe we call, Glory Days. Appropriately named since you'll be celebrating the fact that at little plant food and water is all you'll need to have on hand in order to enjoy this colorful container all summer long!

Check out the size of these blooms on Pugster Amethyst, one of our new petite butterfly bushes! Enjoy a wonderful fragance when this plant is in your landscape, and with a height and width of only two feet its easy to fit one in just about anywhere. Hardy in zones 5-9 this plant is also deer resistant, rabbit resistant and will increase the visits you have from butterflies and bees!

Superbells Evening Star features a range of lilac and purple blooms, each of which has a yellow center in a star pattern. Sweet and petite and ready for your outdoor containers, baskets and window boxes!

The fragrant foliage of 'Color Spires' Violet Riot will bring the birds, bees and hummingbirds into your yard, and you'll enjoy the beautiful violet stalks of color which will stand up to 24" in height. Violet Riot's dense habit and concentrated burst of color is what makes it better than other perennial salvia on the market. Zone 3.

Throw a purple party with Lilac Festival as the star on your patio! This mix of different hues of your favorite color includes Meteor Shower verbena for height, giving it just the right finishing touch for tall, statuesque containers. Best in full sun.

Superbells Plum Calibrachoa performs well all summer and into the the fall months. Best in full to part sun, with deep yellow centers that highlight the strong purple color of this plant. Great in containers, window baskets and mixed garden containers.

Rainy Day Blues is a container recipe that is exploding with your favorite color! Easy to care for plants that love full sun...with great texture that will last well into autumn...