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Late spring/early summer colour

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Hi all,
The beds in my back garden is lacking some colour. I think have too many late flowering perennial plants. I am looking for suggestions of some early flowering plants that follow on from daffodils/tulips to bring colour up to july.
I am going to plant alot more bulbs i think like allium purple sensation etc for next year. Would you all have any more suggestions for plants that would bring colour around this time and don't take up too much space? Maybe i should sow some wallflowers and forget me nots for next year?
Many thanks
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Oh i forgot to add that i do have aquilegia in one bed that at least is bringing some colour and i have aquilegia mckana mix from seed this year so i guess these will bring colour next year.
Lots of hardy geraniums flower in the May - July window. Far too many to mention and a wide variety of colours, heights and spreads.
They say there is a hardy geranium for every site and aspect except permanently waterlogged - I certainly have a wide variety used as both feature planting and as under / ground cover planting.
Geums and Sweet Williams, both in various colours.
My forget me nots and aquilegia have finished here. Enjoying a nice splash of colour from antirhinums (snapdragons) at the moment
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I have all colours of aquilegia in my borders after the tulips. After that my azaleas come out. My valerian has been in bloom for quite a few weeks now along with geums And lupins.
I have had plenty of colour recently from plants such as:
aquilegias, bearded iris, lupin, delphinium, poppy, perennial iris or iris bulbs, geum, bellflower, allium, eurphorbia and sweet william.
Thank you all. Some lovely suggestions. I will have to look into these and try find gaps or make my borders bigger
I spend so much time planning companions that I think I just need to plant what I like and see what works!