Sensational Seasons

Seasonal Hints and Tips for the Every-Day Gardener and Crafter

Great Autumn Color! October 13, 2006

Filed under: Gardening - Autumn — lifelemons @ 7:37 pm

Here are a few plants that will give your garden great Autumn color!

Feather Reed Grass (Calamagrostis ‘Karl Foerster’)  

The plumes of this ornamental grass appear in summer and keep going for months. Winter Hardy in Zone 5 and warmer.

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Aster ‘Alma Potschke’

Beautiful Red flowers on an extremely hardy plant! Zone 4.

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Sedum ‘Autumn Joy’

The sedum’s flowers bloom pink and then mature to brick red. Zone 3.

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Euphorbia Characias 

The wintergreen leaves stay crisp looking after the spring blooms are gone. Zone 7.

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Senecio Greyi

The silver leaves make this a beautiful evergreen that will blend with everything. Zone 8.

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All of these plants will be attractive as a single specimen or in a group planting with the tallest plants in the back and the lower plants in the front! It is always nice to have plants and flowers that continue to be beautiful in Autumn.

 

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