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While you might consider flowering perennials as fairly upright plants that work perfectly in garden beds, cottage gardens, or wildflower meadows, there's one unexpected flowering perennial that ...

They may be upright, vase shaped, mounded or tufted. Upright grasses like Northwind switch grass stand straight as soldiers. They are especially useful in space-challenged gardens.

Also known as hummingbird mint, this upright perennial has pretty spikes of flowers in shades of red, pink, coral, yellow, white, purple, or hot pink from summer to early fall.

The flowers are mostly unremarkable, save their attraction for pollinators, but the subtle color, drought-tolerance and upright form can give a nice structure to a sunny bed.

Other upright perennials that do well in medium shade include bleeding heart, edelweiss, astilbe, foxglove, ladies mantle, pasque flower, primroses, columbine, several types of campanulas, Rocky ...

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Autumn joy sedum – along with many similar upright perennial sedum cultivars — grows about 18 inches tall and wide. It is particularly popular for its fall flowers – hence the name.