What Flowers Grow Best in Indiana?

Perennial plants should be a major component of your landscape plotting as they reliably return to your landscape bed each year. For growers, perennial flowers are a fantastic investment because of their easy-to-maintain nature and picturesque appearance. Choosing certain flowers that grow best in Indiana can ensure that your property looks great year after year.

Plant These Perennials on Your Indiana Property

The mature height, sun or shade preference and display colors will differ widely depending on the perennial. With some planning on your part, you can easily build a diverse landscape bed from popular choices such as:

• Peony: Peonies create mid-height clusters of vibrant, showy blooms. These springtime flowers need plenty of sunlight and can survive a cold span, so they’re hardy mainstays in many beds.
• Foxglove: Foxgloves enjoy full to partial sun and have a captivating bell-shape. They open toward the start of summer, and their petals range from deep to pale pinks.
• Daylily: These spread freely and anchor to places you might not expect, such as slopes, and make fine additions to wild landscape beds. Daylilies flower from summer to about September. They are available in a vast array of colors to give your property a distinct personality.
• Coneflower: Coneflower species are mainly purple, but are sometimes available in warmer colors. They are another wild-looking, late-summer bloomer like the daylily. Coneflowers grow on tall, thin stems suitable for cutting indoor bouquets.
• Violet: Violets are the ideal size for border planting and feature elegant patterns and yellow and white accents. Place them in the shade to let their hardy, enviable flowers thrive.
• Lavender: Newly bloomed lavenders have an appealing fragrance and rich color when they appear in mid-summer. Wandering pollinators will find them especially helpful.

When Is the Best Time to Plant Flowers in Indiana?

To introduce perennials successfully, you must plant them when temperature and soil conditions are just right. Most planting happens during the spring and fall. Skip the summer unless you can provide plenty of water to beat the heat.

Sowing perennial seeds is best during the fall since they require a moist, chilly period before germination. If you’re setting matured plants in your landscape bed, you can do so after the last average frost when the soil is workable again. During the fall, after three years or so of healthy perennial growth, you can divide clumps and replant them soon afterward to help them propagate.

If you prepare the soil correctly and avoid overcrowding your new plants, you should have a gorgeous community of flowers to appreciate.

Check out our video guide on “What to plant in the fall in Indiana“!

Professional Layout and Planting Services for Your Indiana Property

The landscaping specialists at Ricci’s Landscape Management can help you plan a magnificent landscape bed full of flowers that will flourish in the Midwest climate. We’re fully equipped so you can grow a happy, healthy landscape bed the way you imagine it.

Receive your project quote from an expert by using our online form or calling 219.996.2682 today.