Plant Encyclopedia
Everything about care, pruning, watering and winter hardiness of thousands of plants
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Allium cyrilli: complete guide
Allium cyrilli subsp. cyrilli
Cyrillic garlic, delicate ornamental bulb from southern France to Turkey with pale purple florets. Perfect for dry slopes and Mediterranean gardens.
Allium drummondii: complete guide
Allium drummondii Regel
Learn about Allium drummondii, Drummond's onion. Growing tips, blooming season, soil requirements, watering and winter hardiness for this North American ornamental allium.
Lax-flowered Orchid: complete guide
Anacamptis laxiflora
Master the care of Anacamptis laxiflora, a delicate European marsh orchid with stunning purple flowers. Perfect for wetland gardens and water features.
Einsele's Columbine: complete guide
Aquilegia einseleana
Discover Aquilegia einseleana, a delicate Alpine columbine with unique purple flowers. Perfect for rock gardens and mountain gardeners.
AsteraceaeAster tataricus: complete guide
Aster tataricus L.f.
The Tartarian aster is an impressive perennial with purple flowers blooming through October. Discover everything about care, location and maintenance for this hardy plant.
Purple milk-vetch: complete guide
Astragalus danicus
Discover the Purple milk-vetch (Astragalus danicus), a green shrubby plant with purple flowers. Learn everything about care and placement.
Astragalus sesameus: complete guide
Astragalus sesameus
Discover the purple milk-vetch, a Mediterranean herb full of color. Learn how to grow this beautiful plant in your garden.
Calamagrostis purpurea: complete guide
Calamagrostis purpurea
Discover Scandinavian small-reed, an elegant ornamental grass with purple plumes. Perfect texture for modern gardens offering seasonal interest year-round.
Campanula kachethica: complete guide
Campanula kachethica
Kakhetian bellflower is a rare alpine plant with delicate purple flowers for rock gardens.
CampanulaceaeWanner's Harebell: complete guide
Campanula wanneri
Discover Campanula wanneri, a robust alpine plant with purple bell-shaped flowers. Learn how to grow this Balkan native in rock gardens and alpine settings.
Carduus personata: complete guide
Carduus personata
Discover the masked thistle with vigorous growth and purple flowers. This European mountain thistle thrives in full sun on well-drained, nutrient-rich soils.
Carduus pycnocephalus: complete guide
Carduus pycnocephalus
Discover slender thistle: a very sturdy biennial plant with small purple flowers, robust growth and great value for pollen-seeking insects globally popular.
Carex woodii: complete guide
Carex woodii
Carex woodii, Wood's sedge or pretty sedge, is an elegant woodland groundcover from eastern North America with distinctive purple-tinged foliage. Master shade cultivation and forest garden design.
Cirsium japonicum: complete guide
Cirsium japonicum
Japanese thistle offers gorgeous purple blooms and is easy to cultivate. A gardener's dream plant for attracting pollinators.
Cirsium spinosissimum: complete guide
Cirsium spinosissimum
Discover the Spiny Thistle, a striking alpine wildflower with purple blooms and thorny foliage. Perfect for natural gardens and pollinator-friendly landscapes.
Colchicum bulbocodium: complete guide
Colchicum bulbocodium
Spring meadow saffron is a dwarf spring bloomer with purple flowers. A jewel for rock and alpine gardens.
Crocus cartwrightianus: complete guide
Crocus cartwrightianus
Wild saffron crocus from Greece and Crete with delicate purple autumn flowers. Learn how to grow this Mediterranean gem.
Dactylorhiza purpurella: complete guide
Dactylorhiza purpurella
Northern marsh-orchid - a North European wetland orchid with purple flowers and spotted leaves. Guide for nature-friendly cultivation in gardens and natural spaces.
Dianthus graniticus: complete guide
Dianthus graniticus
Discover France's treasured granite pink. Perfect accent for alpine troughs, rock gardens and dry borders. Blooms June to September with dark purple flowers. Hardy USDA zone 5.
Fumaria schleicheri: complete guide
Fumaria schleicheri
Discover Schleicher's fumitory - a delicate purple-flowered wildflower from Central Europe. Care, cultivation and garden management.
Pencilled Crane's-Bill: complete guide
Geranium versicolor
Discover pencilled crane's-bill, elegant perennial herb with striped purple flowers. Perfect for borders and wildflower gardens.
Alpine Coltsfoot: complete guide
Homogyne alpina
Homogyne alpina (Alpine Coltsfoot) is an elegant alpine plant with purple flowers. Perfect choice for rock gardens and alpine troughs with nutrient-poor, acidic soil.
FabaceaeIndigofera heterantha: complete guide
Indigofera heterantha
Himalayan indigo with pink-purple flowers from summer to autumn. Robust shrub for sunny gardens, tips for pruning and winter hardiness.
Ipomoea nil: complete guide
Ipomoea nil
Grow Japanese morning-glory easily: seed sowing, growth timeline, watering needs, and companion planting for reliable purple-blue blooms.