please give suggestions for colorful perennials to plant beside a walkway leading to my front door

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If your goal is constant color then I would plant annuals. Zinnia, tithonia, cleome, marigolds, salvias, bedding dahlias will give you a fabulous display all season long. The beds can be mulched and look tidy the rest of the time.

My tithonia has grown to nearly 8 feet. Not a plant I'd think of for a walkway. But the butterflies and hummingbirds love it.

[Anonymous]

On my list to try next year are Happy Face Potentillas. These are really more a shrub--they grow up to three feet high and three feet in spread. The write-up says they bloom nonstop from spring to frost. They come in yellow, pink, and white. They also are said to attract butterflies.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If your goal is constant color then I would plant annuals. Zinnia, tithonia, cleome, marigolds, salvias, bedding dahlias will give you a fabulous display all season long. The beds can be mulched and look tidy the rest of the time.

My tithonia has grown to nearly 8 feet. Not a plant I'd think of for a walkway. But the butterflies and hummingbirds love it.

There's a dwarf tithonia, Fiesta del Sol. I saw lots of it at Brookside Gardens near the butterfly house.