Garden Topics: Perennials
Late Summer Bloomers Extend the Garden's Beauty
Perennials that peak in late summer ease the transition
between the exuberant display of annuals and perennials
in spring and summer and the cool, crisp blaze of trees
in fall. Choose grasses, long-blooming annuals, and
fall-blooming perennials with bold colors and structures
that won't turn to mush with the first frost. By mixing
in a liberal dose of these chill-busting performers,
you'll have a garden that won't quit until the snow
flies.
Here is a partial list of the available late blooming blooming perennials:
SHADE LOVING
- Aconitum 'Arendsii'
- Aconitum fischerii
- Anemone 'Honorine Jobert'
- Chelone 'Hot Lips'
- Cimicifuga 'Black Negligee'
- Eupatorium 'Chocolate'
- Geranium 'Rozanne'
- Ligularia 'Last Dance'
GRASSES, SUN LOVING
- Pennisetum 'Desert Plains'
- Panicum 'Ruby Ribbbons'
- Miscanthus 'Cosmopolitan'
- Sporobolus heterolepsis
SUN LOVING
- Achillea 'Peachy Seduction'
- Agastache 'Heat Wave'
- Aster , 'Raydon's Favorite',
- Ceratostigma plumbaginoides
- Clematis paniculata
- Eupatorium 'Phantom'
- Helenium 'Double Trouble'
- Heliopsis Prairie Sunset'
- Iris'Harvest of Memories',
- Oenothera 'Lemon Silver'
- Rudbeckia 'Little Gold Star'
- Sedum ', 'Abbeydore',
- Solidago 'Fireworks'
- Veronicastrumvirginicum
- Vernonia'Iron Butterfly'