Fall Blooming Perennials

Some of the best fall blooming perennials are listed below.Flowers emerge just when you think all is fading...they stay around for enjoyment for a few more weeks.

Zauschneria arizonica
Item # 99137 		Zauschneria arizonica
Hardy Hummingbird Trumpet

each $5.29
3 to 6 $4.99
7 or more $4.79
Helianthus maximiliana 'Lemon Yellow'
Item # 55954 		Helianthus maximiliana 'Lemon Yellow'
Lemon Yellow Maximilian’s Sunflower

each $8.49
3 to 6 $8.29
7 or more $7.99
Salvia pitcheri 'Grandiflora'
Item # 84760 		Salvia pitcheri 'Grandiflora'
Pitcher’s Blue Sage

each $5.29
3 to 6 $4.99
7 or more $4.79
  • Topic: Fall Gardening
  • Author: Cindy Bellinger
  • Keywords: fall planting, perennials, fall blooming, Fall Gardening, gardens
  • Date: September 2004

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It’s an amazing fall this year. All the rain we got this summer not only turned the wild flowers into something spectacular, but did the same with gardens. No doubt while driving around, you’ve seen the incredible array of color that’s happening with the flowers right now.

Some of the best fall blooming perennials are listed below. The flowers emerge just when you think all is fading, and they stay around for enjoyment for a few more weeks.

Helianthus maximiliana ‘Lemon Yellow’ (Lemon Yellow Maximilian’s Sunflower)

This tall plant puts out soft yellow daisy-like flowers and isn’t particular about the soil and grows easily in hot, full fun locations, preferably against walls or fences. Once established it is a good xeric plant and the deer and rabbits don’t like it. But butterflies do. A Santa Fe Greenhouse Exclusive. Zones 4-9.

Helianthus maximiliana ‘Santa Fe’

This is one of the last perennials to bloom in the fall and it is certainly one of the showiest. The large golden-yellow flowers are tightly stacked on the top 3-4 feet of the stem and the large deep green symmetrically arranged leaves make an attractive hedge many months before the plant bomes into flower. It likes any soil, including heavy clay. Rabbits and deer don’t like it, butterflies do. A Santa Fe Greenhouse Exclusive. Zones 4-9.

Salvia pitcheri ‘Grandiflora’ (Pitcher’s Blue Sage)

A blue-flowered prairie native, this tall lankly-and very showy-flower waits to bloom until early fall. It likes a well-drained soil with not too much clay. Sometimes it gets a little iron deficient in alkaline soil, so some soil sulfur is good to work into the soil at planting time. Pinch the tops a few times during June and early July to improve the plants shape and increase the number of flowers. This plant calls for a little extra work, but well worth the effort. Zones 4-9.

Zauschneria arizonica (Hardy Humminbird Trumpet)

Oringinally an Arizona native, this selection can thrive in cold winters. The red-orange flowering plant likes to be in front of hot south and west facing walls and walks. Plant in well-drained soil, not too much clay. It likes a regular watering the first year or two, particularly during dry winters, to help get it established. In zones 5-6 it’s best planted in the spring through late summer, not in the fall, as it needs hot weather to grow strong roots. Zones 5-9.