Tall perennial flowers are perfect for adding vertical interest and height to your garden. They provide layers, structure, and drama, making your garden more visually appealing year after year.
With huge, tropical-like blooms, the perennial hibiscus can grow up to 5 feet tall, creating a stunning focal point in sunny garden spots.
1. Perennial Hibiscu
These elegant lilies add height and fragrance to any garden bed, blooming beautifully in summer with tall, graceful stems.
2. Oriental Lily
A native wildflower that grows up to 6 feet tall, perfect for natural-style gardens, featuring pink flower clusters that attract butterflies.
3. Joe Pye Weed
Known for their tall spires of vibrant blue, purple, or white flowers, delphiniums are classic vertical accents in garden borders.
4. Delphinium
Valerian can reach heights of about 5 feet with delicate, lace-like pink and white blooms that add softness and texture.
5. Valerian (Valeriana officinalis)
This tall perennial features lilac to lavender bell-shaped flowers on spikes up to 5-7 feet tall, excellent for large borders.
6. Chimney Bellflower (Campanula pyramidalis)
A garden classic reaching 5 to 6 feet tall, hollyhocks have flowers in almost every color, blooming over long summer months.
7. Hollyhock (Alcea rosea)
A tall ornamental grass growing 5 to 6 feet, Big Bluestem adds texture and vertical presence even without flowers.
8. Big Bluestem (Andropogon gerardii)
With dramatic red, orange, or yellow torch-like flower spikes reaching 2 to 6 feet, these perennials bring strong vertical color.
9. Red Hot Poker (Kniphofia)
This drought-tolerant perennial reaches 2 to 4 feet with airy blue-purple flowers on tall spikes, giving a graceful height.
10. Russian Sage (Perovskia atriplicifolia)
Tall spikes of hood-shaped blue flowers up to 6 to 8 feet tall, excellent for adding height in shaded or partial shade areas.
11. Monkshood (Aconitum)
Known for upright spikes of tubular flowers in pinks and purples, these plants add vertical architecture reaching 3 to 5 feet.
12. Penstemon
Tall, colorful flower spikes in blues, purples, and pinks that grow up to 3 to 5 feet tall, ideal for cottage-style gardens.
13. Lupines
Produces daisy-like flowers on stalks reaching 3 to 5 feet, blooming profusely to brighten up late summer borders.
14. Sneezeweed (Helenium)
Tall, aromatic perennials reaching 3 to 5 feet, with unusual, spiky red or pink flowers that attract hummingbirds.
15. Bee Balm (Monarda)