Annuals and Perennials

Annuals

Replace faded summer annuals with fall blooming chrysanthemums, asters, pansies and ornamental peppers.

Ornamental kale and cabbage, celosia, pansies and creeping jenny are just a few favorites for fall containers. 

Bulbs

Pick up spring flowering bulbs now for the best selection and plant any time before Christmas.

Perennials

If you are looking for fall blooming perennials, try aster and butterfly weed for native choices or pennisetum, dendranthemum, monkshood and clematis paniculata.

Divide and transplant bearded iris, peonies, daylilies and other spring and summer flowering perennials.

September is a great time to plant shade perennials, many of which have evergreen foliage, so that they have plenty of time to establish their roots before winter. Ferns, coral bells and foam flower are a few of our favorites.

Perennials can add just as much fall color to your garden as trees and shrubs. Add colorful foliage with these perennials:

• Yellow: Blue star
• Red: Plumbago
• Burgundy: Barrenwort

Garden Bed Maintenance

Apply a weed preventer to your garden beds after planting your fall flowers to prevent bittercress, chickweed and other weeds from growing.