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Summer interest plants

This list is plants tagged for summer interest — flowers, foliage, fruit, or structure in the warm months. Looks-good-in-summer is not “flowers all summer” and not a watering method.

A heat-loving perennial and a shrub with summer fruit can share this tag. Open a profile for water and sun.

What this tag means on a plant

1. Summer interest is landscape presence in the catalog, not a bloom calendar.
2. Open a profile before you plant.
3. Early-, mid-, and late-summer lists are narrower bands; bloom-month lists are separate catalogs.

Plants for Summer interest plants (8670)

• Lavance Deep Purple Lavender Full Sun12 in (30 cm)
• French Lavender Full Sun2–3 ft (60–90 cm)
• Silver Maple Full Sun50–80 ft (1520–2440 cm)
• Hidcote Lavender Full Sun1–2 ft (30–60 cm)
• Love Apple Full Sun3–10 ft (90–310 cm)
• Kale Full Sun1–2 ft (30–60 cm)
• Tatarian Dogwood 'Argenteo-marginata' Full Sun4–10 ft (120–310 cm)
• Assam Tea Partial Sun10–15 ft (310–460 cm)
• Butterfly Bush 'Orchid Annie' Full Sun2–3 ft (60–90 cm)
• Butterfly Bush 'Blue Chip' Full Sun1–2 ft (30–60 cm)
• Glossy Abelia 'Little Richard' Full Sun2–3 ft (60–90 cm)
• Fashionably Early Crystal Phlox Full Sun2–3 ft (60–90 cm)
• Baby Doll Pink Phlox Full Sun1–2 ft (30–60 cm)
• Clematis Viticella 'Abundance' Full Sun9–12 ft (270–370 cm)
• Large-Flowered Clematis 'Abilene' Full Sun3–4 ft (90–120 cm)
• Cape Jasmine 'August Beauty' Full Sun4–6 ft (120–180 cm)
• Cape Jasmine 'Aimee' Full Sun4–6 ft (120–180 cm)
• Plantain Lily 'Alligator Alley' Partial Sun1–2 ft (30–60 cm)
• Plantain Lily 'Abiqua Drinking Gourd' Partial Sun1–2 ft (30–60 cm)
• Full Moon Maple 'Green Cascade' Full Sun7–8 ft (210–240 cm)
• Climbing Hydrangea Full Sun30–50 ft (910–1520 cm)
• Sage 'Azure Snow' Full Sun1–2 ft (30–60 cm)
• Ellagance Pink Lavender Full Sun1–2 ft (30–60 cm)
• Rose 'Albertine' Full Sun6–15 ft (180–460 cm)
• Full Moon Maple 'Aconitifolium' Full Sun8–10 ft (240–310 cm)
• Preziosa Hydrangea Full Sun3–5 ft (90–150 cm)
• Friendship Sage Full Sun3–5 ft (90–150 cm)
• English Lavender 'Betty's Blue' Full Sun2–3 ft (60–90 cm)
• Rose 'Adelaide d'Orleans' Full Sun14–15 ft (430–460 cm)
• Glossy Abelia 'Hopleys' Full Sun4–5 ft (120–150 cm)