Late Blooming Perennials for Fall Gardens
Color in the Fall Garden
Fall gardens can be spectacular with bold
combinations of jewel toned colors. But they do take some
planning earlier in the gardening season. Two techniques need to
be considered when planning your fall garden.
The first is easy. Select plants that have a
late bloom period and that you are certain will bloom in your
area before frost. The following list will help with this.
Secondly, fall bloomers can get very tall and
leggy, growing foliage all summer. Once they bloom, they are
often top heavy and fall over. To ensure your fall display is as
glorious has it should be, you will either need to
stake your fall bloomers earlier in the season or do some
periodic pruning to make the plants stockier and more
self-supporting.
Keep in mind that if you prune your plants, you
will be delaying the bloom period by a week or more.
Fall Blooming Perennials
- Aconite
Aconitum - Zones 3 - 7
- Autumn Crocus
Colchicum speciosum - Zones 4 - 9
- Balloon Flower
Platycodon grandiflorus Zones 3-8
- Black-Eyed Susan
Rudbeckia (various) - Zones 3 - 9
- Boltonia
Boltonia - Zones 3 - 9
- Frickart's Aster
Aster x frikartii - Zones 5 - 8
- Goldenrod
Solidago - Zones 3 - 8
- Hardy Mum
Chrysanthemum x morifolium - Zones 4 - 9
- Heath Aster
Aster ericoides - Zones 3 - 9
- Japanese Anemone
Anemone x hybrida - Zones 5 - 8
- Joe Pye Weed
Eupatorium maculatum - Zones 2 - 8
- New England Aster
Aster novae-angliae - Zones 3 - 8
- Peach-leaved Bellflower
Campanula persicifolia - Zones 3-7
- Phlox
Phlox paniculata - Zones 3 - 8
- Plumbago
Ceratostigma - Zones 6 - 9
- Ragged Coneflower
Rudbeckia laciniata - Zones 3 - 9
- Rhone Aster
Aster sedifolious - Zones 4 - 7
- Russian Sage
Perovskia atriplicifolia - Zones 4-9
- Showy Stonecrop
Sedum spectabile - Zones 4 - 9
- Snakeroot
Cimicifuga - Zones 4 - 8
- Sneezweed
Helenium - Zones 3 - 9
- Sunflower
Helianthus - Zones 3-9
- Tall Verbena
Verbena bonariensis - Zones 7-9
- Tickseed
Coreopsis - Zones 4 - 9
- Tree Mallow
Laventera - Zones 7 - 10
- Turtlehead
Chelone - Zones 3 - 9
- White Snakeroot
Eupatorium rugosum - Zones 3 - 7
- White mugwort
Artemesia lactiflora - Zones 5 - 8
- Yellow Wax Bells
Kirengeshoma palmata - Zones 5 - 8
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