gardening Gardening is the practice of growing and cultivating plants as part of horticulture. In gardens, ornamental plants are often grown for their flowers, foliage, or overall appearance; useful plants, such as root vegetables, leaf vegetables, fruits ...

, the term free-flowering is used to describe flowering plants that have a long bloom time and may often lack a defined blooming season, whereby producing flowers profusely over an extended period of time, at times all-year round. The terms long-flowering and long-blooming are also used for perennial plants that bloom for much of the year.

Examples

Examples of free-flowering or long flowering plants include salvias, thunbergias, loniceras, roses, lavenders, periwinkles, gaillardias, oleanders, begonias, bougainvilleas, morning glories,

geranium ''Geranium'' is a genus of 422 species of annual, biennial, and perennial plants that are commonly known as geraniums or cranesbills. They are found throughout the temperate regions of the world and the mountains of the tropics, but mostly in ...

pelargonium ''Pelargonium'' () is a genus of flowering plants that includes about 280 species of perennials, succulents, and shrubs, commonly called geraniums, pelargoniums, or storksbills. '' Geranium'' is also the botanical name and common name of a separ ...

s, hibiscuses, and lantanas.

List

This list includes plant species that are free-flowering, particularly in warmer climates:31 Beautiful Flowers That Will Bloom All Season Long
by Jason White from All About Gardening. November 19, 2022. Retrieved June 1, 2023. * Adenium obesum * Ajuga reptans *

Allamanda cathartica ''Allamanda cathartica'', commonly called golden trumpet, common trumpetvine, and yellow allamanda, is a species of flowering plant of the genus ''Allamanda'' in the family Apocynaceae. It is native to Brazil. This plant is cited in ''Flora Brasi ...

* Canna indica *

Cestrum parqui ''Cestrum parqui'', commonly known as palqui, green cestrum or willow-leaved jessamine, is a species of flowering plant native to Chile. In Australia the plant is regarded as a noxious invasive weed and a significant hazard to livestock (especial ...

* Crossandra infundibuliformis * Clitoria ternatea *

Coleus neochilus ''Coleus neochilus'', synonym ''Plectranthus neochilus'', which is colloquially known as lobster bush, fly bush or mosquito bush, is a perennial ground cover with highly fragrant, partially scalloped, ovate leaves and purple blue inflorescent s ...

* Dimorphotheca ecklonis * Euphorbia milii *

Euryops pectinatus ''Euryops pectinatus'', the grey-leaved euryops, is a species of flowering plant in the family (biology), family Asteraceae, endemism, endemic to rocky, sandstone slopes in the Western Cape of South Africa (from Gifberg to the Cape Peninsula). D ...

* Hibbertia scandens *

Impatiens hawkeri ''Impatiens hawkeri'', the New Guinea impatiens, is a species of flowering plant in the family Balsaminaceae. It is native to Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. It has been bred and hybridized in cultivation to produce a line of garden p ...

* Ipomoea cairica *

Ipomoea indica ''Ipomoea indica'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Convolvulaceae, known by several common names, including blue morning glory, oceanblue morning glory, ''koali awa'', and blue dawn flower. It bears heart-shaped or 3-lobed leaves ...

* Ixora coccinea * Jatropha curcas * Mandevilla sanderi *

Maurandya scandens ''Maurandya scandens'', also known as trailing snapdragon and snapdragon vine, is a climbing herbaceous perennial native to Mexico, with snapdragon-like flowers and untoothed leaves. It is grown as an ornamental plant in many parts of the wor ...

Murraya paniculata ''Murraya paniculata'', commonly known as orange jasmine, orange jessamine, china box or mock orange, is a species of shrub or small tree in the family Rutaceae and is native to South Asia, Southeast Asia and Australia. It has smooth bark, pinn ...

Mussaenda erythrophylla ''Mussaenda erythrophylla'', commonly known as Ashanti blood, red flag bush and tropical dogwood, is an evergreen West African shrub. The bracts of the shrub may have different shades, including red, rose, white, pale pink or some mixtures. '' ...

Pandorea jasminoides ''Pandorea jasminoides'', also known by the common names bower of beauty and bower vine, is a species of flowering plant in the family Bignoniaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a woody climber with pinnate leaves that have three t ...

* Plumbago auriculata *

Plumbago indica ''Plumbago indica'', the Indian leadwort, scarlet leadwort or whorled plantain, is a species of flowering plant in the family Plumbaginaceae, native to Southeast Asia, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Yunnan in southern China. Growing to ta ...

* Pseudogynoxys chenopodioides * Salvia splendens *

Streptocarpus sect. Saintpaulia ''Streptocarpus'' sect. ''Saintpaulia'' is a section within ''Streptocarpus'' subgenus ''Streptocarpella'' consisting of about ten species of herbaceous perennial flowering plants in the family Gesneriaceae, native to Tanzania and adjacent sout ...

* Thunbergia alata *

Thunbergia erecta ''Thunbergia erecta'' is a herbaceous perennial climbing plant species in the genus ''Thunbergia'' native to western Africa. Common names include bush clockvine, king's-mantle and potato bush. References External links erecta This list o ...

* Tibouchina urvilleana *

Westringia fruticosa ''Westringia fruticosa'', the coastal rosemary or coastal westringia, is a shrub that grows near the coast in eastern Australia. Description The flowers are white, hairy and have the upper petal divided into two lobes. They also have orange-to- ...

References

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