Color in the late season garden

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Color in the Late-Season

Garden

By Jean StarrJean Starr - petaltalk-jean.com

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 palmataCan 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’Jean Starr - petaltalk-jean.com

Aster ‘Tiny Tot’

Aster ‘Little Carlow’

Aster x lateriflorus ‘Coombe Fishacre’

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

Colchicum

Reblooming Kniphofia

‘Orange Vanilla’ Popsicle

‘Redhot’ PopsicleJean Starr - petaltalk-jean.com

Spigelia

Veronica ‘Hocus Pocus’

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PHLOX paniculata

‘Blushing Shortwood’ ‘David’s Lavender’

‘Sandringham’Jean Starr - petaltalk-jean.com

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’Available from seedJean Starr - petaltalk-jean.com

Echinacea ‘Solar Flare’

Echinacea ‘Virgin’

Rudbeckia ‘Little Goldstar’

Coreopsis ‘Redshift’

Coreopsis ‘Mercury Rising’www.PerennialResource.com

Agastache ‘Heat Wave’

Plants that span the seasons:

Annuals

Tropicals

Foliage plants

Raggedy Ann Zinnias

Zinnia ‘Queen Red

Lime’

Zinnia ‘Aztec

Sunset’Jean Starr - petaltalk-jean.com

Gomphrena ‘Fireworks’

Gomphrena ‘Forest Pink’Jean Starr - petaltalk-jean.com

Salvia ‘Sierra San

Antonio’

Lobularia ‘Bicolor Lilac Stream’ Jean Starr - petaltalk-jean.com

Murraya paniculataJean Starr - petaltalk-jean.com

Hedychium ‘Anne Bishop’

Begonia ‘Beaucoup White’

Salvia ‘Wendy’s Wish’Jean Starr - petaltalk-jean.com

Leonotis ’Savannah

Sunset’Jean Starr - petaltalk-jean.com

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’ (improved)Jean Starr - petaltalk-jean.com

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)

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Euphorbia ‘Ascot Rainbow’(perennial for sun)

Begonia grandis with Iresine Brilliantissima

Hydrangea p. ‘Pinky

Winky’ with Coleus

‘Redhead’Jean Starr - petaltalk-jean.com

Bougainvillea with sweet autumn clematisJean Starr - petaltalk-jean.com

Anemone ‘Honorine Jobert’ with Coleus

Hydrangea with Rehmannia elata (Chinese foxglove)

RESOURCES

Annie’s Annuals anniesannuals.comUNUSUAL ANNUAL SEEDS/PLANTS

Dan’s Dahlias dansdahlias.com

Digging Dog Nursery diggingdog.comASTERS AND SALVIAS

Goodwin Creek Gardens goodwincreekgardens.com

FANCY-LEAVED GERANIUM AND SALVIAS

Renee’s Garden Seeds reneesgarden.comUNUSUAL ANNUAL SEEDS

Select Seeds selectseeds.comUNUSUAL ANNUAL SEEDS/PLANTS

Sunshine Gardenswoldhuisfarms.com

HUGE SELECTION – GRANT PARK, ILJean Starr - petaltalk-jean.com

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