Color in the late season garden

Color in the
Late-Season
Garden
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Plants that hit their stride around
mid-August and still look good when
frost hits:
Late Bloomers
Rebloomers
Color-changers
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Kirengeshoma palmata
Can withstand deep shade

Actaea racemosa (formerly
Cimicifuga) aka bugbane
‘Pink Spike’
‘Black Negligee’
‘Hillside Black Beauty’

Tricyrtis hirta

Heuchera villosa
‘Autumn Bride’

Salvia koyamae

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Ligularia ‘Bottle Rocket’

Anemone japonica
‘Pretty Lady Emily’

Anemone ‘Alice’

Aster ‘Tiny Tot’

Aster ‘Little Carlow’

Aster x lateriflorus
‘Coombe Fishacre’

Aster ‘Kickin’ Lilac Blue’Aster ‘Kickin’ Lavender’

Reblooming Kniphofia
‘Orange Vanilla’
Popsicle
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Spigelia

Veronica ‘Hocus Pocus’

PHLOX paniculata
‘Blushing Shortwood’ ‘David’s Lavender’
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Hydrangea
paniculata
‘Pinky Winky’

Hydrangea
paniculata
‘Little Lime’

Hydrangea ‘Endless Summer’

Plants that span the seasons:
Long-bloomers
Annuals and Tropicals
Foliage plants

Echinacea ‘Butterfly Kisses’

Echinacea ‘Cheyenne Spirit’
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Echinacea
‘Solar Flare’

Echinacea ‘Virgin’

Rudbeckia ‘Little Goldstar’

Coreopsis ‘Mercury Rising’

Agastache ‘Heat Wave’

Plants that span the seasons:
Annuals
Tropicals
Foliage plants

Raggedy Ann
Zinnias

Zinnia ‘Queen
Red Lime’
Zinnia ‘Aztec
Sunset’

Gomphrena ‘Fireworks’

Gomphrena ‘Forest Pink’

Salvia
‘Sierra San Antonio’

Lobularia ‘Bicolor Lilac Stream’

Murraya paniculata

Begonia ‘Beaucoup White’

Salvia ‘Wendy’s Wish’

Leonotis
’Savannah Sunset’

Pachystachys
lutea

Eschscholzia ‘Wrinkled Rose’
(California poppy)

Anything can be
improved with
colorful foliage
Coleus
‘Fishnet
Stockings’

Coleus ‘Redhead’

Colocasia ‘Mojito’

Ipomoea
‘Sweet Caroline Bewitched’
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Colocasia
‘Coffee Cups’

Acalypha ‘Bronze Pink’

Brunnera
‘King’s Ransom’
(perennial for shade)

Aralia cordata
‘Sun King’
(perennial for part shade)

Sedum ‘Lime Zinger’
(perennial for sun)

Euphorbia ‘Ascot Rainbow’
(perennial for sun)

Begonia grandis with
Iresine Brilliantissima

Hydrangea p.
‘Pinky Winky’
with Coleus
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Bougainvillea with sweet autumn clematis

Anemone ‘Honorine
Jobert’ with Coleus

Hydrangea with Rehmannia elata
(Chinese foxglove)

RESOURCES
Annie’s Annuals anniesannuals.com
UNUSUAL ANNUAL SEEDS/PLANTS
Dan’s Dahlias dansdahlias.com
Digging Dog Nursery diggingdog.com
ASTERS AND SALVIAS
Goodwin Creek Gardens goodwincreekgardens.com
FANCY-LEAVED GERANIUM AND SALVIAS
Renee’s Garden Seeds reneesgarden.com
UNUSUAL ANNUAL SEEDS
Select Seeds selectseeds.com
UNUSUAL ANNUAL SEEDS/PLANTS
Sunshine Gardens woldhuisfarms.com
HUGE SELECTION – GRANT PARK, IL

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