Perennials that flower pink add a feeling of playfulness to the home garden. The romantic pink hues can be enjoyed throughout the season and blends well with cool colors of purple, blue and white but also with warm colors of red, magenta, fuchsia and yellow.

Some of the perennial plants with pink flowers are native plants, which are more naturally insect resistant, salt tolerant and have natural disease resistance. Suggestions to enjoy in the home landscape include Allegheny Foam Flower to blend with many other woodland plants, Coral Bells, Apricot Jacob's Ladder is lovely if you can give it moist, but well-drained soil; Blazing Star is native throughout much of the eastern US; Butterfly Gaura, has had new heavily flowering cultivars introduced recently; plus Rose Mallow, Trilliums, and Virginia Bluebells.

Flowering perennials can be grown directly in the ground, in containers for patios and decks or in hanging baskets. Mixed containers are in vogue, often a blend of annuals, perennials, ornamental grasses and even tropicals to take the urn, window box or decorative planter through the spring, summer, fall until frost. Most of these perennials grow well with average soil moisture and partial or full sun, though some can take full shade giving the home gardener more options for use in the landscape. Pink flowering perennials are great at attracting butterflies and birds, particularly hummingbirds.

Europe and Asia have given American gardeners thousands of pink flowering Windflowers, Bleeding Heart hybrids, Hardy Geranium species and hybrids, Chrysanthemums in their many forms, English Daisy, Lenten Rose, Sedum, Twinspur and Yarrow.

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