Tall Purple Flowers In Florida
Watershield s flowers are small and dull purple extending from the water on a stalk.
Tall purple flowers in florida. Butterfly bush is a fragrant plant that features long spikes of colorful nectar rich pink blue purple yellow flowers on 1 6 feet tall stalks. It is drought tolerant plant and disease free growing well in a sunny spot with 4 5 hours of direct sunlight. Watershield found in florida s lakes ponds and slower streams in water up to six feet deep is a free flowing plant with long leaf stalks. In florida it performs best in partial shade to full shade and grown in well drained acidic soils.
During summer the hydrangea produces large cone shaped clusters of white flowers that stay on the shrub for months with the blooms eventually changing to pink or purple. It will grow in full sun to part shade keeping its best color in more sun. Gladiolus have large flowers that can get up to 6 feet tall and come in many colors one of the prettiest being purple. A relatively small shrub it s.
Phlox depending on type you can get ground covering purple flowers in spring or tall purple perennials in summer buddleia purple butterfly bush attracts tons of butterflies to your garden lavandula with pale blue purple flowers this plant s name is synonymous with the color purple. A relative to sunflowers gerbera daisies produce large 3 to 4 inch robustly colored flowers in hues of red pink white purple yellow and orange. Most of the country can only grow gerbera daisies as annuals florida gardeners are lucky enough to grow these showstoppers as year round blooming perennials. Catawba rhododendron mountain rosebay purple rhododendron rhododendron catawbiense native family.
Ericaceae heath family. Florida pinxter mountain azalea pink azalea hoary azalea rhododendron canescens native family. Plant in full sun. The shrub can grow 10 feet tall and have a wider spread.
It needs well drained soil that is sandy and full sun to produce the best blooms. Ericaceae heath family. Shooting star is an under utilized flowering shrub that s worth growing if you can find it. It s prized for its lustrous green leaves and steady supply of star shaped purple flowers from mid spring to early winter.
Purple queen grows to about 1 to 1 1 2 feet tall. The stalks extend downward and attach to a sprawling anchored root in the mud bottom.