Although the autumn is popularly known for fields of beautiful and colorful tulips and daffodil flowers, it doesn’t mean that autumn can’t be hold full of activity in the garden with planting and blooming fall flowers.
In fact, the autumn season is a great time for annuals, perennials and evergreen shrubs to grow and shine. There are some popular autumn flowers grow in the garden in autumn that include colorful mums, dahlias, purple pansies and of course, even bright yellow sunflowers!
While most of the autumn flowers peak in mid-summer and continue to share their glorious beauty into autumn, some bloom until the first hard frost.
If you are a beginner gardener planning to prepare a fall garden and are wondering which autumn flower to plant in your fall garden, leave it to us and let’s walk you through each autumn flower’s needs.
Plants to grow in autumn
There are a lot of plants to grow in autumn. However, some of the best plants are given below.
Colchium
The common and popular name for this plant is the autumn crocus as it grows in autumn. With beautiful, large, goblet-shaped flowers, this beautiful plant emerge in late August and keep on going often into October.
Probably the most beautiful attribute of this colchium bulb is that the flowers are not obscured in any way by foliage. The large leaves of the colchium do not show themselves until late spring, long after flowering season has finished, that allows the flowers to steal the show throughout the autumn.
This flower can easily grow in sun or shade and in rich or poor soil. Here, we can have these beautiful colchium pushing up through lawn in our car park. This flower is truly versatile and stunning indeed.
Redbud or judas tree
Cercis siliquastrum popularly named as red bud tree is a multi-stemmed tree with purple, heart-shaped leases that turn into dramatic yellow in autumn.
The deep crimson, pink or sometimes white pea-like flowers of the judas give a dramatic spring display before the appearance of new leaves.
Cercis siliquastrum or the judas tree shows magenta blossom during spring and apple green leaves that turn into butter yellow leaves in autumn.
Redbud trees are small and deciduous plants. These shrub varieties are larger in size which are usually well-branched, and do not develop trunks.
They are named as red buds for the bright red coloring of their unopened flower buds. The beautiful blooms themselves are very unusual in that they are carried in the tight clusters on the bare branches and on the trunk.
Aster
Aster flowers can enliven your garden during late summer and early fall, when most of the blooms are fading.
The aster is an upright flowering plant that attains the height of 1 to 6 feet tall and showcases star-shaped flower heads which comes in the shades from purple to white to blue. So this perennial is best planted during spring or autumn.
The aster plant is also very versatile. As they can attain the suitable height, it’s best suitable for borders, rock gardens, or wildflower gardens.
Apart from a valuable pollinator plant for bees and butterflies, the tasty seed heads of this plant are sought by cardinals, chickadees, finches, nuthatches, and many other seed eaters.
Crocus
Crocus is a beautiful autumn flower that can bring a burst of colour and beauty to the garden in spring and autumn.
The crocus blooms carpets of the small purple, yellow and white flowering in autumn season that make a joyful display from late winter onwards.
These blooms also provide a much-needed source of nectar and pollen for bees and pollinating insects that emerge from hibernation.
Being native to eastern Europe, crocuses are very easy to grow spring bulbs which are well-suited to growing in pots, and naturalising in grass.
Winter aconite
You can celebrate the end of cold weather, the charm of autumn flowers with winter aconite, which is one of the best and first blooming plants that you’ll see in your garden before the arrival of spring.
It sometimes arrives so early that the buttercup shaped flowers burst up and out of the snow. This beauty catches the eye in beds and borders, along your pathways, and when it’s mixed with crocus and other ephemerals in the lawn.
Like several other spring-blooming bulbs, winter aconite can be best planted during the early autumn season.While growing the winner aconite, look for evenly colored, firm tubers that don’t feel limp or dried out.
Most of the gardeners find success by soaking these tubers in water for several hours before planting them. So plant tubers an inch or two deep and water it well after planting.
Pansy
Pansies are colorful flowers along with “faces.” These autumn flowers are a cool-weather favorite plant and are great for both spring and fall gardens!
Pansies bear heart-shaped, overlapping petals in their flower and it is one of the widest ranges of bright, pretty colors and patterns.
These plants are good for containers, borders, and as ground cover, they are the go-to flowers which are a reliable color almost year-round in some places.
Pansies look pretty and beautiful on their own in a monochrome scheme or in mixed colors. these plants also look pretty when they are planted with other cool-season flowers such as violas, primroses, trailing lobelia, and sweet alyssum.
Dahlia
Dahlias are not early bloomers. They bloom late in the season. These beauties bloom from mid-summer through the first frost and are available in a different array of colors, patterns, sizes, and flower forms.
The size of plants ranges from compact border varieties to species that have plate-sized blossoms atop 6-foot plants.
Apart from this diversity, most dahlias grow long, erect stems that give the blooms room to show off. Being native to Mexico and Central America, these dahlias boast over 20,000 cultivars an
d 30 species and are the prized darlings for plant breeders and florists.
Beauty berry
American beauty berry is a beautiful autumn flower which is appreciated for its fall interest along with bright yellow leaves and, of course, for their lovely bb-sized purple berries.
This large, deciduous shrub of beauty berry, is native to the southeastern United States, which is truly beautiful.
With long, arching branches that bear large, light green leaves, and several clusters of little flowers that morph into green shades and then grow brilliant purple berries that contain three to four seeds each.
These berries can also be made into jam. If animals and people don’t eat them all, the berries can also persist well into winter, even after the leaves have all fallen.
Cotoneaster
Cotoneasters are the useful garden shrubs, ground cover plants and small trees that grow well in sun and partial shade.
These plants bear a long season of interest. So thanks to their prolific summer flowers which are grown followed by deep red berries, that remain on the plant from autumn throughout winter. Many species of cotoneaster also have beautiful autumn foliage.
Cotoneasters are generally wildlife friendly as their flowers act like a magnet for bees and the berries that can be eaten by birds.
These cotoneaster shrubs are hardworking and impressive ornamental plants that provide attractive displays for three to four seasons.
Autumn season brings deep green foliage and small, pink, red, or white blossoms in the plant that form masses of green berries in summer.
Nerine
Nerines are the beautiful autumn flowers that put on a wonderful display like lily flowers in late autumn, in beautiful shades of pink and red, against strappy foliage. These beauties work well in borders and containers and make great blooming flowers, too.
Most nerine varieties are tender. So they need to be grown in greenhouse conditions, but one species named Nerine bowdenii, is hardy in warmer regions of the UK.
These autumn flowers are just getting the show started with long-lasting, showy blossoms in the shades of pink, red, and white.
During the fall, late spring and summer months, these showstoppers produce clusters of strappy, glossy green foliage along with flower stalks that grow up to 2′ tall in the autumn.
Conclusion
Now as you know, which flowers are best bloom autumn flowers, grow them in your garden and enjoy their beauty.
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