What is 'bloom time'?

What is 'bloom time'?

Tracy DiSabato-Aust (Garden Designer and Author) gives expert video advice on: What is an 'annual' compared to a 'perennial'?; What is an 'evergreen'?; What is a 'deciduous' plant? and more...

Bloom time usually refers to the flowering period of a plant. Many perennials often have a bloom time of only two weeks, so we often look to the bloom time when we're trying to design a garden and have an extension of bloom. We might look and say, "this flower blooms for two weeks in June", and we bring something else in that flowers at the same time that might flower clear into July.