Bloom month
Plants that bloom in December
12 garden plants from the BloomsEye library that are typically in flower during December. Plan for reliable color in December and keep your borders from going quiet.
12 plants
How this list is made
Derived from each plant's bloom months, as stored in the BloomsEye library, which was written with AI assistance. Of these 12 plants, 7 have been checked against outside sources; the rest have not been checked yet, and each plant's own page says which. The cards are AI-generated illustrations. Months here are Northern Hemisphere months; in the Southern Hemisphere, shift them by six months.
The flowers of December
Every plant on this page is in flower in December. These are the ones with the shortest seasons around it, ranked by how much of each plant's flowering falls in November, December and January: a plant that opens and finishes here sits ahead of one that flowers from spring to frost, and ties go to the plants this site's guides name most often.
December bloom by height
Mature height, in the three bands a border is planted in. Anything over 10 ft is structure rather than a border plant, and a climber is sized by whatever it is growing up, so both sit this out.
Back of the border
3 ft and up
11 plants
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Drop plants onto a 3D plan, see how they fill in, and watch the whole garden bloom across the year.