If you’re looking to boost your garden’s curb appeal and support pollinators, early spring is the perfect time to plant perennials that will bloom from summer into fall. At Nunan’s Florist & Garden Center, we grow about 90% of our perennials on-site in our Nunan Grown pots, ensuring you take home plants that are healthy, hardy, and ready to thrive in your garden.

Here are our top picks for long-lasting color and garden performance in Zone 6a:

🌿 Coreopsis (Tickseed)

Bloom Time: Early Summer – Fall
Coreopsis is a cheerful, low-maintenance bloomer that keeps going strong into autumn. Its daisy-like flowers come in bright yellows, oranges, and reds, adding warmth and brightness to beds and borders. A favorite of pollinators, it’s also drought-tolerant once established.

🌿 Echinacea (Coneflower)

Bloom Time: Mid-Summer – Fall
This garden staple is loved by butterflies, bees, and songbirds. Echinacea comes in a range of stunning colors—like pink, purple, white, and orange—and is perfect for mass planting or mixed perennial gardens. It’s tough, low-maintenance, and makes great cut flowers, too.

🌿 Salvia

Bloom Time: Early Summer – Late Summer (with repeat blooms into fall)
Salvia’s spiky blooms attract hummingbirds and bees all season long. Varieties like ‘May Night’ and Proven Winners® ‘Back to the Fuchsia’ bring bold color and repeat flowering with a quick trim after the first flush.

🌿 Rudbeckia (Black-eyed Susan)

Bloom Time: Midsummer – Fall
These golden beauties are true workhorses in the garden. Not only do they bloom for weeks, but their sturdy stems and bright color stand up well to summer heat. Rudbeckia pairs beautifully with ornamental grasses for a natural, native-inspired look.

🌿 Nepeta (Catmint)

Bloom Time: Late Spring – Early Fall
If you’re looking for a long-blooming, deer-resistant groundcover, nepeta is a great choice. Its soft purple flowers and gray-green foliage add a romantic touch to any space, and pollinators can’t resist it.

🌿 Sedum (Stonecrop)

Bloom Time: Late Summer – Fall
Sedum is a late-season powerhouse. Its thick succulent-like leaves look great all summer, but the real show starts in late August when its flower heads turn rosy pink and eventually bronze. Sedum is also a great nectar source for butterflies as the season winds down.

🌿 Hemerocallis (Daylilies)

Bloom Time: Early Summer – Mid-Summer (some rebloom into fall)
Easy to grow and incredibly reliable, daylilies offer bursts of color in nearly every hue. Newer reblooming varieties like ‘Stella de Oro’ and ‘Happy Returns’ give you color that keeps going.

Why Plant Perennials Now?

April is a great time to plant perennials—soil temperatures are warming up, but we’re still early enough in the season for roots to establish before summer heat arrives. You’ll enjoy colorful blooms this year, and even more next!

When you shop perennials at Nunan’s, you’re getting locally grown plants that are already acclimated to our North Shore climate. Look for our Nunan Grown pots for top performance and unbeatable value.

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Come explore our wide selection of perennials, Proven Winners® varieties, and pollinator-friendly picks. Whether you’re designing a curbside border or building out a backyard retreat, our experts are here to help you grow with confidence.