Autumn is all about colour and for many it’s the best season of the year. It’s easy to associate autumn with reds & oranges, but there are still plenty of flowers and foliage in an array of colour palettes to keep your borders wonderful and interesting…
Read on for our top picks to help inspire you. Most are already in stock; some are a week or so out…but all are ready and poised to help create your most colourful autumn yet!
Pansies, violas and cyclamen are the mainstay of all autumn colour in the garden. Whether planted in beds, hanging baskets or containers, they will create vibrant colour right through to the spring. Just ensure to keep deadheading!
Chrysanthemums will flower well into autumn and make lovely cut flowers for indoors too. Double whammy!
Ornamental grasses can be at their best in autumn, they combine beautifully with herbaceous, shrubs and bedding plants. Try Pennisetum’s for glorious colour and structure…
Sedums look great in autumn and their flat flowerheads with starry flowers are a magnet for bees. With many colours to choose from they add perfect late interest and succulent splendour!
Japanese anemones are a classic, and flower well into autumn. Coming in shades of pink and white…they team well with everything. You can never have too many!
Speaking of teaming well with everything, don’t forget Heuchera. These clump-forming evergreen perennials are so easy to grow and come in the most striking of colours – from citrussy lime green, to deep purply black (and many shades between!).
Cornus put on a spectacular show before their leaves fall to reveal colourful winter stems. Then go on to enjoy them all winter too!
Ceratostigma plumbago has striking vivid cobalt blue flowers set against red-tinged foliage, and the foliage colour intensifies as autumn progresses.
Helenium and Rudbeckia are fantastic for delivering showstopping colour after the main summer peak, so your borders can continue to pack a punch well in to autumn.
Callicarpa profusion produces large clusters of stunning purple berries. And if you’re a fan of berried foliage, don’t forget Skimmias, Viburnum tinus and Pyracantha. All stunning and all (arguably) at their best from now well into autumn.
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