Good old-fashioned southern plants - azaleas for spring, camellias for fall, gardenias for summer. Hydrangeas with blue flowers (not pink). Pink crape myrtles. Lady Banks rose.

Daffodils which do well in the South - plant in October: Ice Follies and King Alfred. Forsythia to bloom just before the daffodils.

Take it slow...you might want to wait until spring and see what blooms. You may already have some of what I listed above.

Thanks Twinkle -

I have a friend who will be giving me starts of hydrangea and crepe myrtle to plant later this Fall. I have some iris scattered hither and yon and I was wondering if I would have some daffodils come up as well. I would like to eventually naturalize with daffodils in some areas of the "farm."

i read a book called "pass along plants" and i think the author was based in the south. it is about plants that are passed from person to person, shared garden plants, and what our granmother's used to swap with each other (plants, that is....) it was a fun read

"Passalong Plants" by Felder Rushing and Steve Bender will be invaluable to you! I've included a link for bn.com.

It's HUGE fun to read....and most of the plants listed are appropriate to your home.

melanie

Here is a link that might be useful: Passalong Plants

This is the answer I gave to another post but it fits yours better. The house in question is in Ware Shoals, SC.

"My grandmother's house was about that vintage. (1880's) I can remember what was there when I was a child in the 50's that had probably been there for ages. She two very dwarf cherry trees, a couple of dwarf plums, coreopsis (the plain tall yellow king) canna lilies - Orange (Wyoming I think), red spider lilies, daylilies (of the ditch lily persuasion) a once blooming pale pink running polyantha rose my mother planted as a girl in 1930, iris - she called them "flags"-narcisus - (Avalanche), grape hyacinths (blue bottles)
blue morning glories, raspberry colored crepe myrtles, celosia she called prince's feather,and bachelor buttons she called ragged robins and lantana."

If you don't have a few pecan trees somewhere on the property, you'd better find a place for them!

I'm curious if anyone knows what period mimosas were common. My 30s era house in Texas had some and driving through the boonies the right time of year, you could always spot an abandoned homestead by the pink flowers. I don't know if those were ever common in Atlantic regions, though. I kind of like them.