Perennials with red flowers
Browse our range of the best red flowering perennials for your flower beds and mixed borders. Red is a bold colour, well suited to grabbing attention and drawing the eye. Many red perennials are serious head-turners, particularly effective grown en masse to maximise the impact. The brightest red perennials include the daylily Hemerocallis 'Purple Waters' with fabulous trumpet shaped flowers accented by yellow centres; Oriental Poppy 'Beauty of Livermere’, an exuberant poppy, with large pillar-box red flowers in early summer; and Astilbe 'Fanal' with its spikes of feathery, bright red flower heads are produced in early summer. Several daylilies come in deeper, rich reds such as Hemerocallis 'American Revolution' and Hemerocallis 'Crimson Pirate'. And there are softer or more subtle reddy-purples too such as Astrantia major 'Claret', Hellebore 'Pretty Ellen Red' and Poppy orientale 'Patty's Plum'. Beginners may find our guide to growing perennials useful.