Alyssum. Alyssum is a warm zone perennial plant, which means it can bloom all year in climates like California. It has small, fragrant white, pink or purple flowers and grows best in full sun.
Invest in Perennials
Perennials are more expensive than annuals, but they pay off in the long run because—with proper maintenance—they come back year after year. Perennials are perfect for creating the backbone of your garden, and then you can add more color and interest by filling in with annuals.
Flowers that come back up from their roots every year in the springtime are called “perennial” flowers. Some of the best perennial flowers to grow in a garden are peonies, daylilies, coneflowers, and hollyhocks.
'Autumn Joy' is a perennial flower that blooms all year and that can be grown in zones 3-9 across the variety of climates that can be found in these zones. This sturdy sedum provides the landscape with reddish-pink flowers in late summer.
Giant Himalayan Lily. (Phys.org) —A relatively rare plant that flowers only once in seven years and then dies has blossomed - delighting horticulturalists at the University of Aberdeen. The Giant Himalayan lily - or Cardiocrinum giganteum var.
Its name is Anthurium and is often called the world's longest blooming plant. Each heart-shaped flower spike can last up to eight weeks. The largest genus of the Arum family, Anthurium andraeanum is commonly known as Tail Flower (the Greek word for tail flower), Flamingo Flower, Painter's Palette or Laceleaf.
The titan arum is a flowering plant, native to Indonesia's island of Sumatra. The plant's full bloom only once every seven to ten years.
The agave americana plant is known as a century plant because it typically blooms once every 100 years at the end of its life cycle.
Corpse Flower
The flower, native to the rainforests of central Sumatra, blooms once every 8 to 20 years, but when it does it opens up to 5 feet wide, or more, with a single dark-purple petal under a tall central stalk.
The most important tip of all in creating a low maintenance flower bed is mulch. If someone asks me for my number one most important gardening tip, it's always mulch. Mulch is a gardener's best friend. After planting your flower garden and watering it well, always apply a 2 – 3 inch layer of a good, shredded mulch.
In the Arid Greenhouse at the Chicago Botanic Garden, Agave ocahui is known as the century plant because people used to think it flowered only once every 100 years. A more accurate estimate is that it blooms once after 25 to 30 years of growth.
Century Plant (Agave Americana)
The century plant was so named because it was originally thought to bloom once every 100 years; however, it actually matures and blossoms after 50 or 60 years at most.
According to a new study, the flowers, named 'Eophylica priscatellata' and 'Phylica piloburmensis' have been estimated to be 99 million years old. According to the study, the two flowers initially bloomed at the feet of dinosaurs that once inhabited present-day Myanmar.
The tiny aquatic plant Wolffia, also known as duckweed, is the fastest-growing plant known.
American agave plants are known for their fairly fatalistic life cycles: live, die, repeat.
The titan arum grows in the wild only in the equatorial rainforests of Sumatra, Indonesia. It was first scientifically described in 1878 by Italian botanist Odoardo Beccari.
Orchid. Ah, the orchid: notoriously one of the hardest plants to grow.
The Corpse Flower, Amorphophallus titanum, is a single inflorescence that reaches an astounding height of 6-9' tall. It only flowers once every 7-8 years and only 3-5 blooming events, from plants grown in cultivation, happen worldwide each year.
Perennials are a flower garden's backbone, providing beautiful color, texture and form. They are easy-care, dependable performers that come back every year. They also are: Uncommonly colorful thanks to foliage and/or flowers.
Daylily (Hemerocallis)
Affectionally called the "perfect perennial," Daylilies survive through almost anything — fluctuating temperatures, irregular watering and so on. They come in a variety of colors and sizes, so you can find the right option to suit your garden or landscaping.