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These flowers are the stars of the traditional cottage garden in autumn | House & Garden
05.09.2024 - 20:56 / houseandgarden.co.uk
Asters, rudbeckias and heleniums can be glimpsed behind the giant oat grass, Stipa gigantea
After the summer, its vibrancy, long days and warmth, autumn comes along and gives us warmer colours in the garden, shorter days and a definite cooling in the air. The cottage garden is probably overflowing and a bit tired, with seed heads everywhere and a riot of hotter colours. With careful planting, though, the glory of the summer cottage garden can be extended for a month or two more.
This autumnal garden, Cloud’s Rest in Chepstow, is filled with soft grasses and colourful late perennials. The effect is one of an overflowing maturity.
In general, the colours of spring and early summer, at the blue end of the spectrum, have been replaced with warmer yellows, oranges and reds. Late-flowering perennials are at their best now, with echinaceas, Michaelmas daisies, anemones and salvias to the fore. Dahlias, zinnias and chrysanthemums are dotted around too, and it is really a perfect time for ‘cutting flowers’. And, of course, autumn is a time of plenty, with harvesting of vegetables, berries and fruit at the top of the cottage gardener’s ‘to do’ list.
Aster × frikartii ‘Monch’
Michaelmas daisies, planted in groups, backlit by soft autumnal sunshine, are one of the great sights of autumn in the garden. There are many different species with a wide range of height, habit and colour. They have predominantly blue, pink and lavender shades and can form large clumps, which, on a warm autumn day attract bees and butterflies galore. Planted en masse they will give much joy through until very late in the year. In my own garden I also have Aster amellus ‘Forncett Flourish’ and Symphyotrichum ‘Coombe Fishacre’, bought from Old Court Nurseries in
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