9 purple flowers for a mysterious enchanted garden

Purple flowers often look great with white flowers to create a mysterious, elegant and modern garden.

Shrubs, climbing plants and perennials, here is our selection of violet-blooming plants for your outdoor garden. Discover:

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3 purple-flowered shrubs

Abutilon

• Variety: Abutilon suntense ‘Violetta’
• Blooming: large violet flowers forming elegant cups from end of May to June.
• Leafage: evergreen green-gray leaves with 2 to 5 tooth-edged lobes.
• Planting: from March to Mayor from September to October.
• Placing: only for mild climate regions. Suitable for flower beds, edges, or as a standalone.

Hardy down to 20-25°F (-5°C), this is best grown in pots to bring indoors for Winter wherever the climate is cold.

Callicarpa

• Variety: Callicarpa bodinieri ‘Imperial Pearl’
• Fruit: Fruits are what’s showy for this plant, not flowers! Bears beautiful clumps of tiny purple pearls from October to January.
• Leafage: deciduous deep green oval leaves with fuzz on the underside. In Fall, leaves turn yellow to purple in color, shifting through red and orange.
• Planting: from March to May or from September to November.
• Location: hardy down to 5°F (-5° Celsius), Callicarpa looks great as part of a mixed hedge, a standalone, in shrub beds and even containers.

Hibiscus syriacus

• Variety: ‘French Cabaret Purple’
• Blooming: violet double-flowered pompoms that seems crumple up from August to October.
• Leafage: deciduous deep green leaves with three lobes, typical of most Hibiscus species.
• Planting: from February to May or from September to November.
• Location: ideal for shrub beds, containers, and for shaping into eye-catching hedges. Find a place that drains very well with soft soil, either in full or part sun.

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Clematis

• Variety: Clematis x viticella ‘Supernight’
• Blooming: simple violet flowers with a deeper-colored streak along the center of each petal. Blooming from June to September.
• Leafage: deciduous trifoliate elliptical leaves, deep green in color.
• Planting: from March to May or in September-October.
• Location: along a wall, a pergola, a barrel or treillis.

Clematis loves having its head in full sun and its feet in cool shade in moist, rich and well-draining soil.

Wisteria

• Variety: Wisteria sinensis
• Blooming: large hanging fragrant panicles that range from violet to indigo in color, in April.
• Leafage: deciduous leaves with oval leaflets along a stem (the petiole).
• Planting: from February to April or from September to November.
• Location: atop a wall, pergola, barrel composition or treillis. Place it in the sun, with well-draining soil that is lightly acidic. Avoid chalky soil.

Solanum

• Variety: Solanum dulcamara
• Blooming: fronds with small star-like purple flowers that appear from June to September.
• Leafage: deciduous leaves with three green lobes.
• Planting: from March to May or, again, in October-November.
• Location: stems twist around any type of fence or lattice. Also good for shrub beds or to run along other hedge trees.

3 violet-flowered perennials

Lavender

• Variety: Lavandula angustifolia
• Blooming: perfume-like smelling fronds of flowers that bees love, presented atop a long gray-green stem.
• Leafage: small, narrow leaves that are also very fragrant. Evergreen, and gray-green in color.
• Planting: from April to June or in September-October.
• Location: flower beds, pots, to form edges or to populate a rock garden. Soil should be light, poor, well-drained and in full sun.

Garlic

• Variety: ‘Purple Sensation’
• Blooming: firework-like umbels where each streak ends with a tiny purple star-shaped flower.
• Leafage: clump of soft green straight leaves.
• Planting: plant the bulbs anytime from end of September to end of November.
• Location: full sun, in draining soil that is more on the dry side. Ornamental garlic is always a stunner in flower beds, rocky terrain and in pots.

Bellflower

• Variety: Campanula muralis
• Blooming: from May to July, thousands of tiny star-shaped bells create purple cushions you just want to lay your head down on!
• Leafage: small green evergreen leaves, a bit fuzzy and serrated along the edges.
• Planting: February to May or September to November.
• Location: edges, rocky terrain, forest undergrowth, ground cover, seaside, pot. Bellflower loves sun and properly draining soil, even if dry.