Beautiful, large flowers alone are not enough to qualify a perennial for front yard design. Only with stable flower stalks, healthy leaves, reliable weather resistance and fail-safe location tolerance do perennials deserve a box seat in front of your house. Get to know premium species here for the sunny south side and shady north side.

Helenium brings color to the front yard

Perennials for the south side - sun worshipers for the front yard

In the sunny front garden, the following magnificent perennials repeat their blossom festival every year. They don't hang their heads under the blazing sun or in the summer heat. For the cold season, the plants retreat into the ground to sprout freshly in spring:

  • Oriental poppy (Papaver orientale) with bright red flowers in May and June or June and July
  • Coneflower (Helenium hybrids) flowers in bright yellow and red colors from June to September/October
  • Stonecrop (Sedum hybrids), beautiful autumn bloomers with large flowers and colored leaves

For a blooming front yard on the south side with sandy, dry soil, you can't get past steppe sage (Salvia nemorosa). From June, the hunger artist blooms non-stop until the first frost.

Perennials for the north side - blaze of color for shady locations

Front gardens on the north side are the stage for decorative leaf perennials and shade bloomers. The following specialists for low-light layers boast beautiful colors that add floral shine to shadowy layers:

  • Magnificent spars (astilbes) inspire with diverse varieties from 20 to 100 cm and bloom for at least 10 weeks from July
  • Funkias (Hosta) set decorative accents all year round with picturesque decorative leaves
  • Japanese anemones (Anemone japonica) accompany us into the cold season from August with pretty cup-shaped blossoms

The enchanting purple bells (Heuchera) like subdued light and fresh, moist soil. A wide range of robust varieties in warm colors transforms the front garden on the north side into a representative figurehead. 'Cappuccino' shines with purplish-maroon, elegantly curled leaves. The lobed ornamental leaves of 'Frosted Violet' are rose-purple and dotted with silvery speckles.

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Annual flowers are a good choice for bridging the blooming breaks of perennials in a colorful way. Cosmos bipinnatus, hussar's button (Sanvitalia procumbens) or scented stone rich (Lobularia maritima 'Tiny Tim') bloom tirelessly from spring to the first frost, are easy to care for and sow themselves.

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