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What perennials do you suggest to brighten up August +

TheGreenManTheGreenMan Posts: 1,957
edited August 2021 in Plants
I am looking out on a garden that is quickly running out of steam. 

I’ve only recently planted a gaura and a thalictrum but what are your later flowering/longer flowering favourites? 

I’m thinking things that will look glorious from July/August through to the first frosts. 

And are there any I can plant now to flower this year? 🤔
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  • RoddersUKRoddersUK Posts: 537
    edited August 2021
    Maybe heleniums & echinacea?
    Wonder if the garden centres have any dahlias, they go on flowering till the first frost, well down the south for me they do.

    Forgot to put, pop to a garden centre, generally they are selling what's flowering now.
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    Rudbeckia too.
    Devon.
  • RoddersUKRoddersUK Posts: 537
    Hostafan1 said:
    Rudbeckia too.
    Good shout, mines looking fab, if I do say so myself lol.
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    Cannas and dahlias
    Devon.
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    edited August 2021
    Perennial helianthus are good, maybe for future years. Autumn flowering sedum. Asters, if they are your thing.
  • Bee witchedBee witched Posts: 1,295
    Hello @TheGreenMan,

    Can't go wrong with Sedum Spectabile (now know as Hylotelephium) 
    Will be a magnet for bees and butterflies for several weeks.
    There's a dark foliage one too which I've got my eye on ...
    https://claireaustin-hardyplants.co.uk/products/sedum-matrona

    Bee x
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    Gardener and beekeeper in beautiful Scottish Borders  

    A single bee creates just one twelfth of a teaspoon of honey in her lifetime
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I've gone off them, but erysmum Bowles mauve flowers pretty much all year.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • TheGreenManTheGreenMan Posts: 1,957
    Thanks all. I may pop out tomorrow. 

    I saw one of those @Bee witched when I was buying some grasses last week. I may pop back and grab a couple. 
  • TheGreenManTheGreenMan Posts: 1,957
    B3 said:
    I've gone off them, but erysmum Bowles mauve flowers pretty much all year.
    One that I don’t like. I had one last year and the more I looked at it the more I disliked it. Haha 
  • Bright starBright star Posts: 1,153
    Rudbeckia, Heleniums, Penstemons, Asters, Anemone” frilly knickers” a well behaved clump forming variety, so much choice……
    Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.

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