Late flowering perennials to add some early Autumn colour to your cottage garden 🍁

This time of year, you might have gaps in your garden borders as the Summer flowers start to fade. Adding some late flowering plants is a great way to prolong the growing season well into October and even up to the first frost. Let me share some of my favourite plants to add colour and interest to your garden for September. The plants I have picked are all perennial, and once looked after, they will return next year.

Chrysanthemums:
Popular in Autumn pots, door decor and cut flower bouquets. Chrysanthemum flowers in Autumn, but most of them are not frost-hardy, and you will need to store them over Winter. Some people continue to grow them indoors as a house plant in Winter.
Regular deadheading will keep them flowering into Late October /Early November.


Echinacea ( purpurea mix and sombrero yellow) Commonly known as coneflowers, the flowers are long-lived, excellent for cutting, and extremely attractive to pollinators.
The plant is frost-hardy and will return each year. You can divide the plant in March/April to create more.
I love to leave the seed heads on them over Winter for the birds to enjoy.

Heliopsis is also known as false sunflower because it resembles a sunflower but is not part of the sunflower family. A hardy perennial plant that will tolerate poor soils, they like full sun but can take a semi-shaded spot.
Most sunflowers are annuals with only one growing season, so these are a nice alternative.

Heuchera (Plum Pudding ) are great at the edge of a pot or edge of a garden border and will fill out any gaps you have with their foliage. Most Heuchera are evergreen, and they will thrive in a shady spot. They flower in Spring to early Summer, but most people grow them for their impressive foliage.
They come in various colours, from plums to rust and greens.

Helenium ( strawberry sundae): Also known as sneezeweeds, these flowers like plenty of water and sun to thrive. You may need to stake them if they get too tall. Deadhead to prolong the flowering. These are also perfect for cut flower bouquets.

Rudbeckia (Little Gold Star, Goldstrum, American gold rush) )
Also known as a coneflower or Black Eyed Susan. These flowers like the sun; they won't flower as well in the shade and will wilt in a dry Summer. Their seedheads look nice over Winter and provide food for birds and shelter for insects.

Verbena ( bonariensis lollipop ) A great flower to add height to a border, you often find butterflies sitting on the flowers. They flower from July until the first frost and love full sun and well-drained soil.

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