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As autumn approaches, we
gardeners want
to maintain
exciting color in our
gardens.
Evans Farms has many plants
from which to choose delightful autumn colors. Here are a few suggestions
to brighten up the late summer garden.
Perennial flowers
that
begin to bloom
in late summer and last till
frost:
Agastache
(pinks to lavenders) ,
Anemone
(pink to white),
Aster
(pink, blue, & purple),
Garden Mums
( red, orange, bronze, yellow & more),
Lavatera
(shades of pink),
Penstemon
(blue, purple, reds),
Perovskia
(blue),
Rudbeckia Goldstrum
( bright gold), and
Sedum
(various shades of pink to red-pink).
Shrubs
with lots of color:
Beauty Berry
(Gold leaves &
violet berries),
Deutzia
(deep
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burgundy foliage),
Smoke Tree
(Scarlet
leaves),
Spiraea
(yellow-orange leaves),
Miss Kim Lilac
(burgundy
foliage)
Little Henry Sweetspire
(persisitant red foliage)
Barberry
(scarlet colored leaves)
Burning Bush
(rosy -red leaves)
Viburnum
varieties (reddish to plum foliage)
Witch Hazel
(orange-red to yellow-orange foliage), and
Fothergilla
(multi-colored
of orange to purplish red).
Grasses that can bring
nice
color and movement are:
Heavy Metal
Switch Grass(Bronze
plumes above erect foliage),
Flame Grass
(burnised
red
foliage),
Fountain Grass
(golden
bronze
foxtail flower-heads rising above green foliage that is
turning to a golden bronze),
Pampas Grass
(large white
flower plumes),
Variegated Silver Grass
(Reddish-pink
flower plumes),
Maiden
Grass (bronze-red plumes),
Schizachyrium scoparium “The Blues’
(burgundy
red foliage).
Trees
with beautiful fall color:
Black Tupelo
(Hot
coppery-red leaves) ,
Red Maples
(red-orange,
red to red-purple leaves),
Sweet Gum
(multi colored to solid burgundy),
Katsura
(Peach to orange foliage),
Birch (Yellow leaves),
Raywood Ash
(Plum colored leaves),
Ginkgo
(golden leaves), and
Flowering Pear
(blended
yellow to red leaf color).
Evans
Farms’ staff members will gladly assist in choosing the
right plant for the right location!
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