Knowing your location helps us recommend plants that will thrive in your climate, based on your Growing Zone.
Posted By American Meadows Content Team on Apr 4, 2018 · Revised on Sep 19, 2025
Like sunshine and blue skies, our Lanceleaf Coreopsis & Blue Flax Combo is the perfect pair of easy-to-grow native wildflowers. Both are easy to grow, are known for pest and disease resistance, and will spread over time. Great for attracting butterflies and bees, especially in areas with dry or poor soil. Coreopsis is a key to colorful blooms in established meadows; its clumps are very tough and increase rapidly with more flowers year after year. Blue Flax also spreads and naturalizes easily in dry soils and most sunny meadows, making it an excellent option for hillsides that you’d like to see covered in wildflowers.
Our Texas Bluebonnet & Snapdragon Combo pairs two wildflower gems, creating a rainbow of summer blooms! Texas Bluebonnets and Snapdragons both bloom from spring to summer. In warmer areas, Texas Bluebonnets reseed and come back year after year, but in colder areas, they may bloom for just one season. Blooms spring to summer. Bright bell-shaped blooms attract hummingbirds and butterflies to the garden. Dwarf Baby Snapdragons are extremely easy to grow, while Texas Bluebonnets are notoriously picky and can be slow to grow and flower (but with a little patience, well worth it!) Bluebonnets will do best with 6+ hours of sun. Favorite for cut bouquets, this annual combo is sure to become your favorite, if it isn’t already.
Plant Zinnias and Cosmos for quick, long-lasting color in the first season and to attract a variety of bees, butterflies, and other beneficial bugs to your garden.
Zinnias and Cosmos are one of the best combinations for long-lasting blooms in the first season. Both of these annual flowers are blooming powerhouses that put out endless flowers from summer all the way through frost -- the more you cut them for bouquets, the more they’ll bloom. Both Zinnias and Cosmos attract a variety of bees, butterflies, and other beneficial bugs to the garden. This effortless combination can be seeded in a new garden bed for an easy, colorful solution, planted in large containers in a small space garden, or sown in a meadow for a huge burst of summer/fall color. If you’re looking for the biggest color in the first year, you can’t go wrong with Zinnias and Cosmos.
The soft pink and white blooms of Cosmos offset the cheerful yellow Sunflower blooms perfectly. Plant this tall combination in border beds, along fences, or anywhere else on your property you're trying to create easy privacy or screening.
Nothing says “summer garden” quite like a garden full of Sunflowers opening up. And one of the best companions for Sunflowers are Cosmos! The soft pink blooms offset the cheerful yellow Sunflowers perfectly and with both varieties growing quite tall, this combination is great for back border gardens, planting along fences, creating privacy, and more. Sunflowers and Cosmos will bloom from summer all the way through fall and attract a variety of bees, butterflies, and birds along the way.
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Daisies and Lupine provide classic color to the early summer garden and come back year after year, requiring little maintenance to grow and thrive.
This classic long-lasting combination creates an instant cottage garden look in garden beds, meadows, along paths, and other sunny spots in the landscape. Both Lupine and Daisies are extremely easy to grow, deer resistant, require little supplemental water, and spread year after year. This early-summer combination starts the summer garden off right with purple and white flowers that look fantastic both in the garden and cut for summer bouquets.
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Red Poppies are a garden icon and when paired with Yellow Coreopsis make for a vibrant, energetic look in the garden.
You can’t go wrong with the fiery combination of Red Poppies and Coreopsis in the early summer garden. This pair creates an instant warm feeling in the landscape and is an unstoppable combination: drought tolerant, deer resistant, and extremely easy to grow. We recommend planting this energetic combination around your patio or other entertaining areas!
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Black Eyed Susan and Echinacea grow effortlessly in almost any sunny spot and will attract a variety of pollinators to your garden year after year.
An easily-recognizable native favorite in gardens from coast to coast, Black Eyed Susan and Echinacea can be planted from seed with ease. Growing this colorful combination is not only easier than trying to plug in plants, but also more cost-effective as a ¼ lb of each variety can seed a very large garden bed. Black Eyed Susan and Purple Coneflower attract a parade of pollinators to the summer garden and blooms for weeks and weeks, coming back year after year.
Now that you have these easy Wildflower design combinations, it’s time to start thinking about your landscape and what matters most to you.
Are you looking for a “one and done” type of planting that will provide colorful flowers for years to come? If so, a combination of low-maintenance native perennial wildflowers, such as the Black Eyed Susan & Purple Coneflower Combo, may be your best choice.
Are you looking for a quick solution to add color in a new garden bed? A combination of quick-growing, long-blooming annuals, such as the Cosmos and Zinnia & Cosmos Combo or Sunflower & Cosmos Combo, would be great choices. Annual wildflowers bloom all season long. You may love them so much, you’ll keep planting them year after year!
No matter what your garden size, there’s always room to grow wildflowers! With these effortless seed combos, simply choose your favorite for an easy garden design.
