Plants that bloom in April in Zone 9 with purple flowers

Ajuga

Bronze-purple foliage with blue spikes. Fills bare shade in one season.

Anna's Red Hellebore

Wine-red outward-facing blooms above silver-marbled foliage. Bred to face the viewer, not the ground, like older hellebores do.

Azalea

Explosive spring color in every warm hue. Acid-loving woodland classic.

Bloom-a-Thon Azalea

Repeat-blooming azalea with waves of color spring through fall. Evergreen in mild climates.

Bougainvillea

Explosive cascades of papery magenta, hot pink, or coral bracts that smother walls, fences, and pergolas with nonstop color from spring through fall in zones 9 to 11.

Creeping Phlox

An evergreen sun-loving groundcover that smothers walls, slopes, and rock gardens in dense pink, purple, blue, lavender, or white sheets every April and May.

Eastern Redbud

Magenta flowers erupt directly from bare branches. Spring showstopper tree.

Encore Autumn Azalea

Spring blooms plus a full fall encore. Multiple color options in the Encore series.

Hellebore

The Lenten Rose. Elegant nodding blooms that thrive in deep shade.

Honesty

Purple spring flowers turn into translucent silvery seed pods like full moons. Biennial cottage classic that self-sows everywhere.

Lenten Rose

Nodding flowers in late winter when nothing else is blooming. Evergreen foliage adds year-round structure to shade gardens.

Magnolia

Goblet-shaped blooms on bare branches. One of spring's most dramatic moments.

Onyx Odyssey Hellebore

Fully double black-purple blooms that look almost theatrical. The darkest hellebore available, and worth the hunt to find one.

Snapdragon

Vertical flower spikes with squeeze-open blooms. Kids love them.

Stock

Dense spikes of clove-scented blooms in soft pastels. Cool-season cut flower that fills a room with spicy perfume.

Sweet Alyssum

Honey-scented carpet of tiny flowers. The best living edging plant.

Sweet Pea

Ruffled, intensely fragrant climbing flowers in every pastel shade. Cool-season annual that hates heat.

Vinca

Evergreen mat with periwinkle-blue flowers. Tough shade ground cover.

Wallflower

Velvety blooms in burnished sunset tones with a sweet violet fragrance. The forgotten cottage staple worth bringing back.

Wisteria

Cascading, fragrant racemes that create a dreamy canopy. Needs structure.