Late summer perennials
There's a spell in late August when the garden can hit the doldrums. Late summer is a tricky time when the main razzmatazz is over and plants start to tire.
Get the show going again with some of the many perennials you'll find in our garden centre which is at their best in late summer. Here are our top ten:
- Helenium 'Moorheim Beauty' starts in July: its coppery-red daisy-like flowers go on for months
- Phlox paniculata 'Mount Fuji' froths with fragrant white flowers into autumn
- Aconitum 'Sparks Variety' flowers till late September with spires of midnight blue
- Plume poppy (Macleaya microcarpa) is a dramatic, towering perennial with handsome foliage
- Red hot poker (Kniphofia uvaria) has spires of tubular flowers from red to pale yellow
- Aster 'Little Carlow' is one of many Michaelmas daisies, with cheerful lilac flowers
- Anemone x hybrida 'Honorine Jobert' carries pure white flowers on dancing stems till autumn
- Penstemon 'Garnet' has deep wine-red foxglove-like spires till October
- Sedum 'Ruby Glow' tops succulent purple leaves with flat ruby-red flowerheads
- Crocosmia 'Lucifer' produces fiery red sprays of tubular flowers from August
Visit our webshop for a wide variety of Gardening Products. Please ask the staff in our garden centre in Athlone for more information and advice about growing perennials.
