The Most Beautiful Summer Flowers to Plant in a Garden

By Calin Oancea

4/23/20245 min read

one purle flower in a grassfield
one purle flower in a grassfield

The summertime is the blooming time of millions of beautiful flower species in all sizes, shapes, and colors.

In this article, we will reveal the overall top 10 flowers that bloom in summer which we found to be the best after seeing, feeling, and inspecting them in reality.

a white flower blooming in summertime
a white flower blooming in summertime

The Butterfly Gaura is a simple shrub with small white and sometimes purple bush flowers. The summer flower likes warm climates and full sun, grows in North America and Europe, and blooms in June, July, and August.

Butterfly Gaura

one white Butterfly Gaura flower blooming in summer
one white Butterfly Gaura flower blooming in summer
a tropical white Crimsoneyed Rosemallow with a red middle
a tropical white Crimsoneyed Rosemallow with a red middle

Crimsoneyed Rosemallow

dark green design
dark green design

The Crimsoneyed Rosemallow is a beautiful Hibiscus plant that grows mainly in the USA and Europe. This exotic flower is definitely a must-have if you are a hibiscus lover, we found this flower in multiple colorways such as red. This plant is even edible, the edible parts of the plant include its young leaves, flowers.

True summer vibes come from the Canna Lily, the rarest color is the red and yellow mix but we also saw it in normal yellow and red. The flower is most successful with a lot of sunlight and high-temperature exposure which are typical conditions for summer flowers.

Canna Lily

one yellow-red Canna Lily in full sun
one yellow-red Canna Lily in full sun
one Viper's-Bugloss bloom that is purple
one Viper's-Bugloss bloom that is purple

Viper's-Bugloss

Viper's-Bugloss is a species that grows in a lot of regions all over the world. The August plant has also been introduced to Australia, South Africa, and the United States, where it is considered a flowering invasive weed. Due to a high concentration of pyrrolizidine alkaloids (a kind of poison), it can be poisonous to mammals, especially those with simple digestive systems, such as horses.

dark green design
dark green design
dark green design
dark green design
many Viper's-Bugloss flowers growing together
many Viper's-Bugloss flowers growing together
dark green design
dark green design
a red and long flower with green leaves
a red and long flower with green leaves

The Bottle Brush blooms in early summer and grows in regions like the Hawaiian Islands and South America, where the weather is usually warmer. This flower is one of the most interesting-looking flowers on earth, but it doesn't look like a normal summer flower. As the name suggests, this plant looks more like a brush than like a flower.

Bottle Brush

dark green design
dark green design
dark green design
dark green design
a bush green bush with Chilean-Jasmine flowers
a bush green bush with Chilean-Jasmine flowers

The Chilean-Jasmine is a simple-looking flowering shrub that grows in Europe and North- and South America it can also be found in other color variations like red multiple times as a flower for full sun hanging baskets. We saw that it is not fully hardy and does not survive being frozen.

Chilean-Jasmine

dark green design
dark green design
dark green design
dark green design

The African Cabbage, a light bush flower, with green leaves, white flowers and blooming in July, all this gives you a light and refreshing summer vibe. This flower is very rare and spread all around the world usually in warm and sunny regions, also commonly found in other colors like pink, but is not ideal for summer or winter planting.

African Cabbage

white African Cabbage flowers
white African Cabbage flowers
pink African Cabbage flowers
pink African Cabbage flowers
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dark green design
dark green design
dark green design
one small and pink Alpine Tistle around other plants
one small and pink Alpine Tistle around other plants

The Tistles are very commonly found in the summertime between June and July. These strong alpine flowers are similar to the Himalayan flowers, they have adapted to the Alpine areas of the Alps, which means that they can endure strong winds, rain and low temperatures down to ca. 2°C -3°C (35°F -37°F)

(Alpine) Tistle

dark green design
dark green design
dark green design
dark green design
four Alpine Tistles growing in a grass landscape
four Alpine Tistles growing in a grass landscape

This amazing flower is called Plumbago and is one of the most common flowers in the world. It usually grows in warmer regions like Vietnam and Thailand or Indonesia. It is also used traditionally to treat warts, broken bones and wounds.

(Cape) Plumbago

one light blue Cape Plumbago flower stem
one light blue Cape Plumbago flower stem

The Indian Blanket provides your garden with lots of hot summer vibes, colored in typical summer colors, this flower has its main blooming time in June, July and August and grows in the USA an Europe.

Indian Blanket

a red Indian Blanket flower wth a round middle
a red Indian Blanket flower wth a round middle

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  2. Information and facts on harvesting radishes: https://www.wikihow.com/Harvest-Radishes

  3. Growing radishes general information: https://extension.umn.edu/vegetables/growing-radishes, https://extension.usu.edu/yardandgarden/research/radishes-in-the-garden

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