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Late season color
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Posted by Barncats So. Maine (My Page) on Sun, Aug 28, 05 at 19:09
| My flower gardens and shrubs are all green now (mid-late August) Nothing is blooming.
Anybody have some suggestions for perennials or shrubs that are late summer bloomers here in Maine that I could plant?
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RE: Late season color
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I have alot of different varities of Phlox that is in peak bloom right now. All of my coneflowers are in full bloom. Chelone is just staring to show some color. Sedum Autumn Joy is starting to get the lovely pink colors now. rudbeckia (black eyed susan) I have many clumps that are gorgeous now. Toad lilys,Fall aneomes,ballon flowers still blooming. And The Zebrina Malva is going gang busters now and will continue untill a hard frost.
Fall asters and purple dome aster still haven't bloomed yet soon though. Getting a 2nd flush on alot of my roses also now! have a few shrubs of differnt types of Hydrangeas that are loveley also now.
Theres more but its dark now so can't go out and look. |
RE: Late season color
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| Yes, roses will continue to bloom into Oct. in a good year. Rose of Sharon bushes are just starting to bloom but are questionably hardy in a bad winter. I have rudbeckia, phlox, some late-blooming daylilies, helenium, and the last of my echinacea (purple and white coneflowers) in bloom now. The delphiniums I cut back earlier are reblooming now. Dahlias are just starting to really explode for a big burst of color (mine are all red this year). A lot of people do zinnias because they'll carry on til frost. My japanese anemones are in bud now, I can't wait. They'll bloom along with monkshood carmichaelii in another week or two in my part shade/fairly moist garden. No need for mums! |
RE: Late season color
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| Cimicifuga ramosa and C. acerina. Kirengeshoma palmata, Hibiscus mosheutos, Sedum "Autumn Joy", Caryopteris, ornamental grasses, Hosta plantaginea, Eupatorium, Aconitum carmichaelii. And my favorite... Chelone. |
RE: Late season color
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| Hemerocallis 'Autumn Minaret' is five feet tall and blooms in my garden from late July through early October. Gaillardia 'Goblin' and Coreopsis lanceolata will both bloom from June until heavy frost if deadheaded regularly through the season. The Joe Pye weed (Eupatorium maculatum 'Gateway') is also going gangbusters. |
RE: Late season color
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| My 'Chicago Apache' daylily is in full bloom along with a couple varieties of hosta. The one perinneal I love because it blooms all summer almost through Halloween is 'Scabiosa' (pincushion plant). The more you deadhead, the longer it wants to bloom. I also have 'Gay Feather' both purple and white around my bird bath that is blooming beautifully. |
RE: Late season color
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In the gardens I've been visiting recently, Joe Pye Weed, boneset and vernonia (ironweed) are putting on huge displays. Also rudbeckia. In my own garden I've got white physostegia, Japanese anemones, lobelia Ruby Slippers, daylily Autumn Minaret, the last of the rubrum lilies, roses....
Still to come asters Purple Dome, Alma Potschke, Hella Lacey, Raydon's Favorite and October Skies. And helianthemum salicifolia. |
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