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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)

• Sweet Briar Full Sun6–10 ft (180–310 cm)
• Sea Buckthorn Full Sun8–12 ft (240–370 cm)
• Frogfruit Full Sun1–3 in (3–8 cm)
• Straggler Daisy Full Sun12 in (30 cm)
• Roundleaf Ragwort Full Sun2 ft (60 cm)
• Southern Shield Fern Partial Sun2–4 ft (60–120 cm)
• Bulltongue Arrowhead Full Sun2–6 ft (60–180 cm)
• Cowitch Vine Partial Sun12–35 ft (370–1070 cm)
• Blue Lyme Grass Full Sun2–3 ft (60–90 cm)
• Crimson Bottlebrush 'Mauve Mist' Full Sun6–12 ft (180–370 cm)
• Crimson Bottlebrush 'Perth Pink' Full Sun5 ft (150 cm)
• Painted Bamboo Full Sun40–60 ft (1220–1830 cm)
• Desert Willow Full Sun15–30 ft (460–910 cm)
• New Zealand Fire Tree Full Sun30–35 ft (910–1070 cm)
• Damianita Full Sun1–2 ft (30–60 cm)
• Mountain Mint Full Sun2–3 ft (60–90 cm)
• Indigo Bush Full Sun4–12 ft (120–370 cm)
• California Buckthorn Full Sun6–15 ft (180–460 cm)
• Engelmann's Daisy Full Sun1–3 ft (30–90 cm)
• Colorado Four O'Clock Full Sun1–2 ft (30–60 cm)
• Silver Buffaloberry Full Sun8–12 ft (240–370 cm)
• Woods' Rose Full Sun3–6 ft (90–180 cm)
• Winterfat Full Sun1–3 ft (30–90 cm)
• Blue Paloverde Full Sun20–25 ft (610–760 cm)
• Sweet Fern Full Sun2–5 ft (60–150 cm)
• Virginia Sweetspire Full Sun3–10 ft (90–310 cm)
• Wax Myrtle Full Sun10–20 ft (310–610 cm)
• Kentucky Bluegrass Full Sun1–3 ft (30–90 cm)
• Prickly Rose Full Sun3–7 ft (90–210 cm)
• Nootka Rose Full Sun6–10 ft (180–310 cm)
• Northern Bush Honeysuckle Full Sun2–3 ft (60–90 cm)
• Coastal Sand Verbena Full Sun4–6 in (10–15 cm)
• Alkali Sacaton Full Sun3–4 ft (90–120 cm)
• Woolgrass Full Sun3–5 ft (90–150 cm)
• Purple Lovegrass Full Sun1–2 ft (30–60 cm)
• Black Huckleberry Full Sun1–3 ft (30–90 cm)
• Broomsedge Full Sun2–4 ft (60–120 cm)
• Splitbeard Bluestem Full Sun2–4 ft (60–120 cm)
• Saltmarsh Cordgrass Full Sun3–5 ft (90–150 cm)
• American Water-Willow Full Sun1–3 ft (30–90 cm)
• Needle Spikerush Full Sun3–4 in (8–10 cm)
• Black Mangrove Full Sun10–40 ft (310–1220 cm)
• Powderpuff Full Sun1–2 ft (30–60 cm)
• Red Mangrove Full Sun20–50 ft (610–1520 cm)
• Baybean Full Sun12 in (30 cm)
• Selfheal Full Sun1–2 ft (30–60 cm)
• Chaparral Pea Full Sun1–6 ft (30–180 cm)
• Blue Wild Rye Full Sun1–5 ft (30–150 cm)
• Meadow Barley Full Sun2–3 ft (60–90 cm)
• Baja Bush Snapdragon Full Sun2–3 ft (60–90 cm)
• Kodiak® Orange Diervilla x 'G2X88544' Full Sun3–4 ft (90–120 cm)
• Kodiak® Black Diervilla x 'G2X88544' Full Sun3–4 ft (90–120 cm)
• Kodiak® Fresh™ Diervilla x 'SMNDSS' Full Sun2–3 ft (60–90 cm)
• Jojoba Full Sun3–7 ft (90–210 cm)
• Air Plant Partial Sun
• Elf Mountain Laurel Partial Sun2–3 ft (60–90 cm)
• Small Cape Rush Full Sun2–3 ft (60–90 cm)
• Indian Grass 'Sioux Blue' Full Sun3–5 ft (90–150 cm)
• Indian Grass Full Sun3–5 ft (90–150 cm)
• Carolina Bushpea Full Sun3–5 ft (90–150 cm)