Gayfeather: Our Favorite Flowers
Charm your garden with these beautiful specimens.

Want to add a vertical element to your midsummer garden? Consider gayfeather, whose purple, lavender or white spires are like 3-foot-tall exclamation points. Butterflies and hummingbirds are big fans of this sun-loving perennial.
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Heliotrope: Our Favorite Flowers
This perennial offers a double-whammy of pretty flowers and a heady, vanilla scent.
Delphinium: Our Favorite Flowers
In this HGTV Gardens Flower of the Day feature, learn where delphinium grows best and why you might want to add it to your garden.
African Lily: Our Favorite Flowers
Learn about this clumping evergreen that blooms in late summer or early fall.
Western Columbine: Our Favorite Flowers
Add visual interest to your garden with this unique flower.
Ligularia (Leopard Plant): Our Favorite Flowers
Take off with these rocket-shaped flowers.
Parrot’s Beak: Our Favorite Flowers
These lobster claw shaped blooms are sure to attract attention in your garden.
Masterwort: Our Favorite Flowers
Scent up your garden with these fragrant flowers.
Aster: Our Favorite Flowers
These bright daisy-like blooms are the stars of the late summer and fall garden.
Sea Holly: Our Favorite Flowers
Add an exotic look to your garden with these extraterrestrial looking flowers.
Bee Balm: Our Favorite Flowers
Bee balm's tubular flowers attract hummingbirds and butterflies.