Late flowering perennials to add some early Autumn colour to your cottage garden 🍁
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- Опубликовано: 2 сен 2023
- This time of year, you might have gaps in your garden borders as the Summer flowers start to fade. Adding some late flowering plants is a great way to prolong the growing season well into October and even up to the first frost. Let me share some of my favourite plants to add colour and interest to your garden for September. The plants I have picked are all perennial, and once looked after, they will return next year.
Chrysanthemums:
Popular in Autumn pots, door decor and cut flower bouquets. Chrysanthemum flowers in Autumn, but most of them are not frost-hardy, and you will need to store them over Winter. Some people continue to grow them indoors as a house plant in Winter.
Regular deadheading will keep them flowering into Late October /Early November.
Echinacea ( purpurea mix and sombrero yellow) Commonly known as coneflowers, the flowers are long-lived, excellent for cutting, and extremely attractive to pollinators.
The plant is frost-hardy and will return each year. You can divide the plant in March/April to create more.
I love to leave the seed heads on them over Winter for the birds to enjoy.
Heliopsis is also known as false sunflower because it resembles a sunflower but is not part of the sunflower family. A hardy perennial plant that will tolerate poor soils, they like full sun but can take a semi-shaded spot.
Most sunflowers are annuals with only one growing season, so these are a nice alternative.
Heuchera (Plum Pudding ) are great at the edge of a pot or edge of a garden border and will fill out any gaps you have with their foliage. Most Heuchera are evergreen, and they will thrive in a shady spot. They flower in Spring to early Summer, but most people grow them for their impressive foliage.
They come in various colours, from plums to rust and greens.
Helenium ( strawberry sundae): Also known as sneezeweeds, these flowers like plenty of water and sun to thrive. You may need to stake them if they get too tall. Deadhead to prolong the flowering. These are also perfect for cut flower bouquets.
Rudbeckia (Little Gold Star, Goldstrum, American gold rush) )
Also known as a coneflower or Black Eyed Susan. These flowers like the sun; they won't flower as well in the shade and will wilt in a dry Summer. Their seedheads look nice over Winter and provide food for birds and shelter for insects.
Verbena ( bonariensis lollipop ) A great flower to add height to a border, you often find butterflies sitting on the flowers. They flower from July until the first frost and love full sun and well-drained soil.
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When are you going on gardener's world Catherine!!?? 😊
Girl!! You have to build yourself a front porch and let us tag along 😊
You got this! The fact you keep pushing yourself out of your comfort zone, says a lot about you. Beautiful fall combos 🍁
I just love you. So independent, down to earth and a joy to watch. Embrace your grays! They add sparkle!!
What a beautiful colourful garden you have. The sunflower is amazing with little bees dancing around the petals.
Catherine, I cannot believe how much your garden space has grown!!! gorgeous! I might add your haircut is also beautiful! Cheeky thumbs UP!
You are a huge credit to the gardening world & nature Catherine in 🇨🇮 stunning garden x
Hi Catherine 👋 I plant hardy mums ( chrysanthemums) in the fall. Most of the time I let them die off then trim short in the spring and I will get them to grow back most of the time. So the ones I have are 2 yrs old and just getting ready to bloom. I live in Southern Ontario Canada and we do get below freezing temperatures and snow.
Your garden is so colourful and gets better every week. Your photography is amazing too.
Just love your garden, its manageable and it looks so pretty, well done. And grate you re doing the TV show, you are a good natured person and humble and it is reflected in all you vlogs.
You are truly amazing, what you have turned your hands to and developed your knowledge. Your garden is a beautiful rainbow of colours.
You are a continual inspiration for what can be done with hard work and perserverence. The change in your garden from the beginning is amazing. The amount of flowers and wild life is fabulous.
Another great video, thanks Catherine! I'd like to recommend one of my favourite perennials, for fabulous colour at this time of year....Japanese Anemone. I have two varieties, a very tall (5-6 feet) white one, "Honerine Jobert", and a shorter (2feet) called "September Charm". Both are just starting to bloom in my garden ( mid-Vancouver Island) and will go for months yet. Whenever someone new sees my garden at this time of year, it's the J. Anemone that people go mental over , and of course, I always have a few cheeky plants potted up for sale, which helps pay for next year's garden. They make good cut flowers, and look like butterflies in the garden. Big love from Vancouver Island ❤❤
I just did a wee wall pallet strawberry planter and I got the last of the strawberry plants at my local garden centre, I was so happy 😂 love your channel ❤☺️
You are doing fantastic Catherine, I hope it went well on TV you deserve your success ❤️❤️❤️
That phone call from Monty gets closer every video you make 😀look how you thought it was going to be a one off on Irish TV now you’re a regular….. I hoping some time in the future you and Mr Carrington have a sort your house and garden style programme I’d be your number 1 fan 😀
Your cottage garden will be a true seasonal delight with these late bloomers.
If the mums are labelled as "hardy" they can usually winter outside as they are perennials. If not labelled as such, they are usually annuals. I live in zone 5b in canada and I have hardy mums in the ground which have been coming back up for quite a number of years now.
Best wishes on the tele show! You’re wonderful. And I understand that the big stars get nervous before a performance. You got this! Love your videos each week.
I moved my asilbe from shade to a spot that gets morning sun and afternoon shade. It now blooms nicely. 😊