You can enhance your garden's Summer appeal by planting shrubs and other plants that produce colorful flowers and/or foliage during the summer season.
Use the chart below to select summer-flowering plants for certain sun exposures, water needs, bloom season and USDA Zones
*Water Needs: Indicates needs once plants are established
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| Plant Name or Type | Flower Color | Summer Bloom Time | Summer Foliage | Berry Color | USDA Zones |
| Abelia | - | - | Multi-color | - | 6-9 |
| Anise 'Florida Sunshine' - Illicium | - | - | Yellow | - | 7-9 |
| Azaleas - Encore | 29 Colors | Mid | Green | - | 6-9 (varies) |
| Butterfly Bush - Buddleia | Assorted | Early-Late | Grey-Green | - | 5-9 |
| Crape Myrtle - Dwarfs | Assorted | Early-Late | Green | - | 6-10 (varies) |
| Crape Myrtle - Trees | Assorted | Early-Late | Green | - | 6-10 (varies) |
| Cypress 'Blue Ice' | - | - | Silver-Blue | Blue | 6-9 |
| Cypress "Gold Mop' | - | - | Golden-Yellow | - | 5-10 |
| Cypress 'Silver Smoke' | - | - | Silver-Grey | Blue | 7-9 |
| Gardenias | White | Early-Late (some) | Dark Green | - | 7-11 (varies) |
| Hydrangeas | Assorted | Early-Late | Green | - | 3-9 (varies) |
| Juniper 'Blue Star' | - | - | Blue | - | 4-8 |
| Lantana | Assorted | Early-Late | Green | - | 7-11 (varies) |
| Loropetalums (Chinese Witchazel) | Pink, Red | Early | Purple | - | 7-10 |
| Nandina 'Blush Pink' | - | - | Dk. Pink | - | 6-10 |
| Nandina 'Flirt' | White | Mid | Red | - | 6-11 |
| Nandina 'Obsession' | White | Mid | Red | - | 6-11 |
| Rose of Sharon - Althea (Hibiscus) | Various | Mid-Late | Green | - | 4b-9 (varies) |
| Roses | Assorted | Early-Late | Green | - | 4-11 (varies) |
| Spireas | Assorted | Early-Late | Assorted | - | 5-9 |
| Summersweet - Clethra | Pink, White | Early-Mid | Green | - | 3-9 |
| Viburnum 'Summer Snowflake' | White | Mid-Late | Green | - | 5-9 (varies) |
| Yucca 'Color Guard' | White | Early-Mid | Yellow | - | 4-9 |
| Perennial Summer Color Plants | Flower Color | Summer Bloom Time | Summer Foliage | Berry Color | USDA Zones |
| Acanthus (Bear's Breeches) | White-Pink | Early-Mid | Green | - | 7-10 |
| Achillea - Yarrow | Assorted | Early-Mid | Green | - | 4-9 |
| Agastache (Hummingbird Mint) | Assorted | Early-Late | Green | - | 7-9 |
| Artemisia (Wormwood) | - | - | Silver-Grey | - | 5-9 |
| Asclepias (Butterfly Milkweed) | Pink, Orange | Early-Late | Green | - | 3-9 |
| Autumn Fern | - | - | Bronze-Orange | - | 3-8 |
| Blue Star Creeper - Isotoma | Light Blue | Mid-Late | Green | - | 5-9 |
| Ceratostigma (Plumbago) | Blue | Early-Late | Green | - | 4-9 |
| Chelone (Turtlehead) | Pink | Late | Dark Green | - | 3-8 |
| Coreopsis (Tickseed) | Assorted | Early-Late | Green | - | 5-8 |
| Delosperma (Ice Plants) | Assorted | Early-Late | Green | - | 5-11 (varies0 |
| Digiplex (Foxglove) | Orange-Pink | Early-Late | Green | - | 8-11 |
| Dicliptera (Hummingbird Plant) | Orange | Early-Late | Grey-Green | - | 7-10 |
| Echinacea (Coneflowers) | Assorted | Early-Late | Green | - | 4-8 |
| Eupatorium (Joe Pye Weed) | White, Pink | Late | Green | - | 4-8 |
| Gaillardia (Blanket Flower) | Assorted | Early-Late | Green | - | 5-10 |
| Gaura (Wand Flower) | White, Pink | Early-Late | Green | - | 5-10 |
| Geranium (Cranesbill) | Assorted | Early-Late | Green | - | 5-9 |
| Helianthus (Sunflower) | Yellow | Mid-Late | Green | - | 4-8 |
| Hemerocallis (Daylily) | Assorted | Early-Late | Green | - | 3-10 (varies) |
| Heuchera (Coral Bells) | Assorted | Early to Mid | Assorted | - | 4-9 |
| Hibiscus (Perennial) | Assorted | Early-Late | Green | - | 4-9 |
| Hosta Lily | Assorted | Early-Mid | Assorted | - | 3-9 |
| Kniphofia (Torch Lily) | Assorted | Early-Late | Green | - | 5-8 |
| Lamium | Assorted | Early | Various | - | 3-11 |
| Lamb's Ear - Stachys | - | - | Silver-White | - | 4-9 |
| Lavender | Blue, Pink | Early-Late | Grey-Green | - | 8-11 (varies) |
| Leucanthemum (Shasta Daisy) | White | Early-Mid | Dark Green | - | 4-9 |
| Lysimachia (Creeping Jenny) | - | - | Yellow | - | 4-9 |
| Monarda (Bee Balm) | Assorted | Early-Mid | Green | - | 4-9 |
| Nepeta (Catmint) | Blue | Early-Late | Grey-Green | - | 4-9 |
| Penstemon (Beardstongue) | Assorted | Early-Mid | Green | - | 5-8 |
| Perovskia (Russian Sage) | Blue, White | Early-Mid | Green | - | 5-8 |
| Phlox (Garden Phlox) | Assorted | Mid | Green | - | 4-8 |
| Physostegia (Obedient Plant) | Pink, White | Mid-Late | Green | - | 3-9 |
| Platycodon (Balloon Flower) | Blue | Early-Mid | Green | - | 3-9 |
| Rudbeckia (Black-Eyed Susan) | Yellow | Mid-Late | Green | - | 3-9 |
| Salvia (Sages) | Assorted | Early-Late | Green | - | 6-11 (varies) |
| Scabiosa (Pincushion Flower) | Blue | Early-Late | Green | - | 4-9 |
| Sedums | Assorted | Early-Mid | Assorted | - | 3-11 (varies) |
| Stokesia (Stoke's Aster) | Assorted | Early-Mid | Various | - | 5-10 |
| Verbena | Assorted | Early-Late | Green | - | 6-10 (varies) |
| Veronica - Upright | Assorted | Early-Late | Green | - | 4-8 |
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