While most fade as fall ends, we handpick hardy flowers that blossom and fill your winter garden with mesmerizing hues even as the mercury drops to freezing levels! With some autumn planting, your garden will enjoy beautiful blooms from fall through winter. So don’t wait; grab your tools and get digging!
18 long flowering plants that bloom from summer until the first frost
12.09.2024 - 17:34 / themiddlesizedgarden.co.uk / Alexandra Campbell
Long flowering plants mean that you can extend your summer colour right through to autumn. And even to the first frosts of winter.
Quentin Stark, head gardener at Hole Park Gardens in Kent, was asked to re-design the garden’s Centenary Gardens. He was given the brief ‘a bowl of colour’ for spring, summer and autumn. Some of the plants he chose even flower until the first frosts.
So I visited Hole Park Gardens to see his best late season long flowerers. The gardens are a stunning mix of more formal gardens and borders, such as the Sunk Garden and the Centenary Garden with wilder areas and sweeping park vistas.
Hole Park is open to the public from April to October, so the borders need to continuously look good. And long-flowering plants also support pollinators by providing nectar and pollen for a long period.
Late season long flowering plants for a ‘bowl of colour’
Quentin took me round the Centenary Garden, pointing out the longest-flowering plants for late summer, autumn and into winter. Some start flowering in mid-summer and go onto autumn. Others start in late summer and will take you to the first frosts. They are:
- Agastache
- Achillea (Yarrow)
- Diascia (Twinspur)
- Chrysanthemums (the latest flowering plant in the border)
- Gaura (now Oenethera)
- Helenium ‘September Fox’ (dead-head regularly for two months of flowers0
- Hummingbird Plant (Dicliptera suberecta)
- Japanese aster (Kalimeris incisa)
- Kniphofia ‘Thompsonii’ (an exceptionally long flowering kniphofia)
- Penstemons
- Persicaria (many species)
- Roses – (species vary – Rambling Rosie is a good long-flowering climber)
- Rudbeckia
- Salvias (species vary – ‘Greggii’ and ‘Microphylla’ salvias are the longest flowering)
- Sedum/stonecrop (now Hylotelephium)
- Society Garlic (Tulbaghia)
- Spider
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