If you only want to sow or plant flowers in the flower bed every few years, you can equip your cottage garden with perennial flowers. Below is a selection of the loveliest perennial cottage garden flowers.

With perennial flowers, the blooming splendor comes anew every year

Grow perennial flowers in the cottage garden

Flowers are only perennial if they get through the winter well. Perennials are naturally hardy, but there are a few things to keep in mind when overwintering your perennial flowers in the cottage garden:

  • Don't cut them down to the ground in autumn, it's better to leave everything as it is: the twigs and leaves gradually fall off and form a natural winter shelter.
  • Especially in very cold winters, it is advisable to cover the beds with brushwood to protect the roots from frost.
  • In the fall, you can bring humus to the beds for additional protection. This then also supplies the young plants with nutrients in spring.

Perennial flowers that bloom in spring

Spring bloomers add color to the awakening garden.

German name botanical name heyday flower color
primroses Primula December to April Many different colors
snowdrop Galanthus January to May White
columbine aquilegia April to July White, blue, yellow, pink
peony Paeonia May to June white, pink
iris iris May to June Blue, purple, pink, yellow, white, etc.

Perennial summer bloomers

In the summer it blooms colorfully and diversely in the cottage garden.

German name botanical name heyday flower color
lady's mantle Alchemilla mollis June to September Yellow-green
hydrangea Hydrangea macrophylla May to July Blue, pink, white, violet
cornflower Centaurea cyanus May to September Blue, white, violet, pink
delphinium delphinium June to July, second flowering possible White, blue, violet
Burning Love Silene chalcedonica June to July Red
bluebell campanula June to September Violet, white, pink
phlox Phlox paniculata July to August Blue, white, pink etc.
hollyhock Alcea rosea July to August Yellow, orange, pink, red, etc.
bush mallow Lavatera thuringiaca July to September white, pink

Here you will find even more summer flowering cottage garden perennials.

Perennial autumn bloomers

It's not just the trees that are colorful in winter; the cottage garden can also continue to delight with its blooms well into November.

German name botanical name heyday flower color
autumn anemone Anemone hupehensis July to October white, pink
heather, common heather Calluna vulgaris August to November White, pink, violet
winter aster chrysanthemum September to November White, Yellow, Red, Purple, Pink etc.
Autumn Monkshood Aconitum carmichaelii September to October blue

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