Using Purple Plants In The Garden

Adding a touch of purple to your garden or planters adds wonderful depth of color. Purple plants complement many other shades, from green to yellow, blue to white. There are few colors that seem so at home in every season, perfectly offsetting pale shades of spring all the way through to the deep and moody hues of fall.

Want to add more purple to your space? From perfect plums, awesome aubergines, and magnificent magentas, we’ve compiled a list of plants with the prettiest shades of purple.

Using Purple Plants In The Garden

Adding a touch of purple to your garden or planters adds wonderful depth of color. Purple plants complement many other shades, from green to yellow, blue to white. There are few colors that seem so at home in every season, perfectly offsetting pale shades of spring all the way through to the deep and moody hues of fall.

Want to add more purple to your space? From perfect plums, awesome aubergines, and magnificent magentas, we’ve compiled a list of plants with the prettiest shades of purple.

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Using Purple Plants In The Garden

Sunbelt® Plum Perfect™ Rose

This rose has an intense plum color with complementary green foliage. It produces an abundance of blooms and performs well in heat and humidity.

Pollinators are drawn to it, and you will be too, thanks to its moderate, pleasing fragrance.

Sunbelt® Plum Perfect grows just under 3-feet high and performs well in zones 5–10.

Sunbelt Plum Perfect

Straight A® ‘Purple Delight’ Agapanthus

‘Purple Delight’ lives up to its name by showing off beautiful, dark purple flowers. It’s a summer bloomer with large, individual flowers making up each flower head.

This variety is drought tolerant and is a wonderful addition to low-water gardens in warmer climates. It thrives in zones 8–11.

Sturdy stems and eye-catching flower color make it great for both the garden and cut flowers.

Agapanthus Purple Delight

Ruby Ruffle® Patio Peach

This pretty ornamental tree blooms with clusters of dark pink, ruffled flowers in the spring followed by burgundy foliage with unique wavy edges.

Ruby Ruffle® is a unique tree because of its compact size, which makes it an eye-catching selection for patio containers or as a focal point in the landscape. It grows approximately 4-feet high and wide.

It takes full sun, attracts pollinators, and does best in zones 5–8.

Ruby Ruffle® Patio Peach

Dapper® Lavender Butterfly Bush

A rounded, compact habit makes this shrub a perfect fit for a variety of uses. Its mature size is around 3–4 feet, so it looks great in containers or planted throughout a garden.

Light purple flowers are formed in early summer and continue to re-bloom into the fall. Spent flowers are hidden by new blooms, reducing the need for deadheading.

Dapper® Lavender grows well in numerous regions throughout USDA zones 5–9.

Dapper Lavender Buddleia

Bellini® Grape Crape Myrtle

This Crape Myrtle is unlike any other variety on the market because of its breakthrough, compact size. At only 3–4 feet high and wide, it can be planted in areas where you might traditionally place a Hydrangea or Butterfly Bush.

Bellini® Grape is a bright purple addition to the garden and is resistant to deer and powdery mildew. Try planting near your foundation, in a mixed garden, or even as a low border. It is also hrady to zone 5, which is unique for the type.

Bellini Grape Lagerstroemia

Cerise Charm™ Fringe Flower

Cerise Charm™ is a true breakthrough shrub with dark plum, almost black, small-leaf foliage that doesn’t fade.

This Loropetalum bears stunning red flowers in the spring and has graceful, arching branches on a well behaved habit.

It takes full sun to part shade and is happiest when grown in zones 7–11.

Cerise Charm Loropetalum