These low-profile, true blue blooms will blanket your beds and borders.Cup-shaped, 2" flowers feature two layers of cornflower-blue, daisy-like petals and eye-catching black centres. Especially impressive in large drifts, these low-growing naturalizers create a sea of blue that just gets better every year. A perfect companion for perennial shrubs and late-blooming tulips and daffodils.Anemone coronaria 'Lord Lieutenant.'[from brecks.com]

Emerging even before some crocus flowers, this early anemone blankets the once-barren ground with petite, daisy-like blooms. Growing only to 3-4" tall, they make an outstanding ground cover choice, providing much-needed color to rock gardens, hedge rows and between deciduous trees.[from brecks.com]

Numerous frilly, bubblegum-pink summer flowers bloom beautifully on very sturdy stems. These easy-going plants are compact, vigorous, long blooming and provide that pop of color later in the season, when many other perennials have faded away.[from forest farms]