Pink Flowering Perennials
Below you will find a list of Perennials from our plant database that are pink flowering. If you click on any of the photos, you will see a Virtual Plant Tag that may contain plant descriptions, usage suggestions and a link to where you can buy that plant for your landscaping.
Flowering perennials can be grown directly in the ground, in containers for patios and decks or in hanging baskets. Mixed containers are in vogue, often a blend of annuals, perennials, ornamental grasses and even tropicals to take the urn, window box or decorative planter through the spring, summer, fall until frost. Most of these perennials grow well with average soil moisture and partial or full sun, though some can take full shade giving the home gardener more options for use in the landscape.
Some of the perennial plants with pink flowers are native plants, which are more naturally insect resistant, salt tolerant and have natural disease resistance. Suggestions to enjoy in the home landscape include Allegheny Foam Flower (Tiarella cordifolia) to blend with many other woodland plants; Alumroot or Coral Bells (Heucera); Apricot Jacob's Ladder, also called Salmon Polemonium or Sky Pilot (P. carneum) is lovely if you can give it moist, but well-drained soil; Autumn or Texas Sage (Salvia greggii) and cultivars; Bearded Tongue (Penstemon); Blazing Star or Spike Gayfeather (Liatris spicata) is native throughout much of the eastern US; Butterfly Gaura, White Gaura or Whirling Butterflies (Gaura lindheimeri) has had new heavily flowering cultivars introduced recently; Common or Rose Mallow (Hibiscus moscheutos); Daisy Fleabane (Erigeron speciosus); Garden Phlox (P. paniculata); Hyssop (Agastache); Trilliums; Virginia Bluebells.
Europe and Asia have given American gardeners thousands of pink flowering Anemone or Windflowers, Astilbes, Bergenia or Pigsqueak, Bleeding Heart hybrids, many Cranesbill or Hardy Geranium species and hybrids, Canna, Cheddar Pinks, Chrysanthemums in their many forms and differering botanical names, Clematis, Delphiniums, English Daisy, Fleeceflower, Hollyhocks, Iris, Lavender, Lenten Rose (Hellebore), Masterworts, Oriental Poppy, Pansy, Pinks, Saxifrages, Sedum or Stonecrop, Stonecresses, Sun-rose (Helianthemum), Twinspur or Diascia, Tulips, Yarrow
Perennials that flower pink add a feeling of playfulness to the home garden. The romantic pink hues can be enjoyed throughout the season and blends well with cool colors of purple, blue and white but also with warm colors of red, magenta, fuchsia and yellow.
Flowering perennials are great at attracting butterflies and birds, particularly hummingbirds.