Late flowering perennials to add some early Autumn colour to your cottage garden 🍁
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- This time of year, you might have gaps in your garden borders as the Summer flowers start to fade. Adding some late flowering plants is a great way to prolong the growing season well into October and even up to the first frost. Let me share some of my favourite plants to add colour and interest to your garden for September. The plants I have picked are all perennial, and once looked after, they will return next year.
Chrysanthemums:
Popular in Autumn pots, door decor and cut flower bouquets. Chrysanthemum flowers in Autumn, but most of them are not frost-hardy, and you will need to store them over Winter. Some people continue to grow them indoors as a house plant in Winter.
Regular deadheading will keep them flowering into Late October /Early November.
Echinacea ( purpurea mix and sombrero yellow) Commonly known as coneflowers, the flowers are long-lived, excellent for cutting, and extremely attractive to pollinators.
The plant is frost-hardy and will return each year. You can divide the plant in March/April to create more.
I love to leave the seed heads on them over Winter for the birds to enjoy.
Heliopsis is also known as false sunflower because it resembles a sunflower but is not part of the sunflower family. A hardy perennial plant that will tolerate poor soils, they like full sun but can take a semi-shaded spot.
Most sunflowers are annuals with only one growing season, so these are a nice alternative.
Heuchera (Plum Pudding ) are great at the edge of a pot or edge of a garden border and will fill out any gaps you have with their foliage. Most Heuchera are evergreen, and they will thrive in a shady spot. They flower in Spring to early Summer, but most people grow them for their impressive foliage.
They come in various colours, from plums to rust and greens.
Helenium ( strawberry sundae): Also known as sneezeweeds, these flowers like plenty of water and sun to thrive. You may need to stake them if they get too tall. Deadhead to prolong the flowering. These are also perfect for cut flower bouquets.
Rudbeckia (Little Gold Star, Goldstrum, American gold rush) )
Also known as a coneflower or Black Eyed Susan. These flowers like the sun; they won't flower as well in the shade and will wilt in a dry Summer. Their seedheads look nice over Winter and provide food for birds and shelter for insects.
Verbena ( bonariensis lollipop ) A great flower to add height to a border, you often find butterflies sitting on the flowers. They flower from July until the first frost and love full sun and well-drained soil.
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When are you going on gardener's world Catherine!!?? 😊
Yes!!!!! I’ll be all over that episode!
I can just imagine it, Catherine & gardening god Monty Don on the same programme 💕
Would that be the beautiful Catherine and the gardener show? @@susanross1651
You got this! The fact you keep pushing yourself out of your comfort zone, says a lot about you. Beautiful fall combos 🍁
Oh thank you! I do try to push a little each time without getting too overwhelmed x
Girl!! You have to build yourself a front porch and let us tag along 😊
I just love you. So independent, down to earth and a joy to watch. Embrace your grays! They add sparkle!!
That is so so kind of you x
What a beautiful colourful garden you have. The sunflower is amazing with little bees dancing around the petals.
Thanks for watching and commenting Carol, I hope you have a greta week ahead x
Catherine, I cannot believe how much your garden space has grown!!! gorgeous! I might add your haircut is also beautiful! Cheeky thumbs UP!
Your garden is so colourful and gets better every week. Your photography is amazing too.
Thank you so much! I do love trying to get different shots and angles in the garden x
You are a huge credit to the gardening world & nature Catherine in 🇨🇮 stunning garden x
Aw thanks Lorraine ♥️♥️
Royal horticulture society has a website with more tips for your plants ❤
Yes, I find the gardeners world website helpful too
You are a continual inspiration for what can be done with hard work and perserverence. The change in your garden from the beginning is amazing. The amount of flowers and wild life is fabulous.
You are truly amazing, what you have turned your hands to and developed your knowledge. Your garden is a beautiful rainbow of colours.
So nice of you Lesley, I hope you have a greta week ahead, thanks for watching x
Just love your garden, its manageable and it looks so pretty, well done. And grate you re doing the TV show, you are a good natured person and humble and it is reflected in all you vlogs.
Your always so kind Cliff, it never goes unnoticed, thank you x
You are doing fantastic Catherine, I hope it went well on TV you deserve your success ❤️❤️❤️
That phone call from Monty gets closer every video you make 😀look how you thought it was going to be a one off on Irish TV now you’re a regular….. I hoping some time in the future you and Mr Carrington have a sort your house and garden style programme I’d be your number 1 fan 😀
Hi Catherine 👋 I plant hardy mums ( chrysanthemums) in the fall. Most of the time I let them die off then trim short in the spring and I will get them to grow back most of the time. So the ones I have are 2 yrs old and just getting ready to bloom. I live in Southern Ontario Canada and we do get below freezing temperatures and snow.
I do lose a couple but mostly from neglect. 😂
I love it when you just pop some plants in a bucket and it's just so beautiful. Have fun on the tele
Best wishes on the tele show! You’re wonderful. And I understand that the big stars get nervous before a performance. You got this! Love your videos each week.
Trying not to let the nerves get the better of me but it’s the best experience ♥️ thanks so much for watching xx
Another great video, thanks Catherine! I'd like to recommend one of my favourite perennials, for fabulous colour at this time of year....Japanese Anemone. I have two varieties, a very tall (5-6 feet) white one, "Honerine Jobert", and a shorter (2feet) called "September Charm". Both are just starting to bloom in my garden ( mid-Vancouver Island) and will go for months yet. Whenever someone new sees my garden at this time of year, it's the J. Anemone that people go mental over , and of course, I always have a few cheeky plants potted up for sale, which helps pay for next year's garden. They make good cut flowers, and look like butterflies in the garden. Big love from Vancouver Island ❤❤
I just did a wee wall pallet strawberry planter and I got the last of the strawberry plants at my local garden centre, I was so happy 😂 love your channel ❤☺️
Agh I LOVE this!
Your cottage garden will be a true seasonal delight with these late bloomers.
Cannot wait 😍😍😍
Your garden is developping so beautifu lly. It looks more romantic and colourful than last year as you're adding nice details. It's getting more and more a cottage garden.
Thank you so much 😊 I hope you have a great week ahead x
Your garden is such a beautiful, dreamy space. Thanks for welcoming us in. 😊🌻
If the mums are labelled as "hardy" they can usually winter outside as they are perennials. If not labelled as such, they are usually annuals. I live in zone 5b in canada and I have hardy mums in the ground which have been coming back up for quite a number of years now.
I'm in S Ont. How about you? Late bloomers are something I'm just learning about, not to mention late vegetables. I'll be on the lookout for "hardy" mums now.
@@Dingle1234 yes, I'm also in southern Ontario. It's sometimes hard to find "hardy" mums because I find a lot of tags that are too generic. However, keep looking. Mine have been coming back up for more than 5 years now.
Your fall flowers look beautiful love how you arranged them. I’ve watched the gardeners show awhile back and enjoyed it. Thank you for sharing! 🧡😊
So nice of you Sylvia, thanks for watching x
Such beautiful rich fall colors.
It's a botanical garden or the Secret Garden, How 'bout the Hidden Garden. It's the Mystical Garden or Mystical Fairy Garden. It's all about the Garden Grown with Love. Whatever you wanna name it, it's beautiful. Ever thought of writing another book called My Dainty Garden Memoire. Your TH-cam recordings are your memory.
Your garden is looking very colourful it’s very pretty. A girl of many talents
Your flowers look beautiful! You have the cutest garden ever😎❤️❤️
I moved my asilbe from shade to a spot that gets morning sun and afternoon shade. It now blooms nicely. 😊
Aw love to hear this x
Yeah I’ve had to do that I had 3 in different parts of my garden but quite shady and my garden is quite unorganized so I have to remember where everything is and this year I lost 2 a white and a red but I rescued the pink put where it would get some sun and it’s done so well
You must be very proud of your great work! The colors are so pretty. Lot of workin that garden!❤❤❤❤😊
Thanks Ellen x
Beautiful episode today.
Your video brought such joy today, I was definitely lacking of it, thank you! ✨
Aw I’m so glad to hear that 🥹♥️ I hope you enjoy xx
aren't they all beautiful Catherine. Love all those Autumnal colours even in the house. The word 'Purpurea' is just Latin for purple leaved plant, you'll see it a lot on labels, like say with the Acers (maples), Heuchera. You're great you are learning, great that you are taking notes. Verbena bonariensis, love it. It like hovers over the tops of everything and looks like a frothy mist of colour, really pretty, again you can get different varieties of this, some smaller compact type and a very petite one that I have that looks like almost thin black strands of stem with tiny flourescent purple flowers dotted along. You are an inspiration.
I love the name Sneeze Weed! Too funny
haha, isn't it a cute name x
Such a lovely video… thank you Catherine 🪴 I always enjoy watching & listening and even just popping your older videos on again in the background when I’m doing stuff 😘 xO
Your garden looks so lovely, Catherine, so colourful still. I enjoyed seeing plants for autumn as I'd like to update or add to a container. Thanks for sharing 👍
I let my echinacea dry in my garden and the birds just love the seed heads! I bought a mum years ago and planted it my front garden. It kept coming back for 4 years (winters of -15C). Best bargain because it only cost me 50 cents end of season sale. LOL
You astilbe fight IS my fight too. I've moved mine from the shade - no flowers and miserable plants - now they are in full sun - thriving but no flowers - AND i water them every day. Keep us posted!!
What a beautiful selection of flowers 🌼 i spied your metal mannequin in amongst your flowers i hàve the same one . Loved how you arranged the flowers in the wheelbarrow , i have a old one whére i plant flowers so easy to move around. Good luck for the show on Wednesday.
Just a thought Catherine in your dry border add loads of well rotted manure that will help improve the soil structure and retain a bit more moisture, but you prob know that anyway 🤷♀️😁
Such lovely fall color for your garden!!
Best of luck with the Astillbe! Your Astillbe is my Brunnera! I have managed to kill 4 Brunneras in the last 3 years! Not sure what I am doing wrong but clearly I have an issue! Yours are so lovely!
You will do an amazing job on the tv show!! Just be you!
Aw no, sorry to hear about the Brunnera, mine seem to be happy in the shade if it helps x
Hello Catherine, I love you sharing that you needed to do your roots. Your Mom must be so proud of you. You are so real and search a lovely girl! 😇
You are so right about not seeing Dahlias in the garden centers this year. I’m in Charleston, South Carolina, I was looking for Dahlias to put in my garden and I didn’t find any, so next year I will order from a mail order company and start my own. Have a lovely autumn and winter😊
Yeah, we will have to keep an eye out for tubers for next season or maybe do some cuttings x
❤❤We finally got rain 🌧 in my neck of the woods yay. Looking forward to your next video and congrats on your participation on tv have a great week 😊
Aw yay, the plants will be so happy with some rain x
I’ll say it again that Barra wants a lick of pink paint pink it will look a great 😂
Look at those tomatoes! Nice job.
Your autumn garden is very colorful. Nice 😊
Thanks Julie! X
Useful tip : if you want to use sticks with no risk of rooting, pop on the soil upside down 👍 x
I adore your garden. Such inspiration and beauty. Thank you so much. You inspire me.
Thank you so much! x
I love the Heuchera, too! And, that pot that you threw the Heuchera and Echinacea together in, was just beautiful!👏🤩🌸
Aw thank you x
Girl you are the sweetest. Your chanel is my confort place ❤
Your garden looks beautiful lovely colours, Love the green house definitely on my wish list 😍🤩
It’s a dream 😍😍thanks so much xx
Aw ❤❤❤
Your yard is so beautiful. I enjoy your show so much. We finally got rain this weekend 1st time since June. Like a breath of fresh air and it helped with the forest fires around here. Have a peaceful week ahead.
Aw so happy you got some rain, the plants will love it x
Always a pretty yard!! Great job
I have found the RHS site very good for reliable information about plants and their preferred site. Your garden looks so colourful all through the year I am very envious, I garden on a slope in wet Wales, very often very wet!!!
Oh noo well hopefully you get to bring some planting joy indoors through potted plants or perhaps a little herb garden 🥹♥️
Beautiful x
Thank you for your inspiration
Stunning garden ❤
Thank you so much Horrisa 😊
omg look at your apples!!!
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Yet another talent. My goodness Catherine is getting a part on Riverdance I thought... The green hair band made me think😄Seriously, that colour really suits you. Seamless video editing by the way. Have just listened to the podcast you did with Alan, you are funny girl.
haha thank you! That was a cheeky podcast with Alan, glad you got a giggle x
Your garden is so beautiful.
My experience with Astible is they love damp soil. They can take some sun but not too much, morning sun better. Love your channel.
My my your garden is an abundance of colours. Love the plants you have pick for the tele. Go girl your amazing. Keep smiling 😊😊😊😊
So beautiful❤! I have most veggies in the garden , but I wanna introduce more flowers, thanks for the inspiration. ☺
I hope you get to fill your garden with flowers now 😍 but your veggies are delicious I’m sure!
Lots of inspiration 🙏🏻
yay, so happy to hear that x
Stunning mix of flowers
Thank you so much 😊
Great video so therapeutic and interesting lovely lovely flowers Catherine
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You can irrigate the astilbe to make sure its always moist 😊
It’s all an illusion 😂, but what a beautiful one, love the colours, here in the Netherlands everyone who thinks they are very posh, only want everything in one colour, chique but boring to me. I have got all colours too and it makes me very happy when I look outside 💐
Oh colour is needed and good for the soul 😍😍😍 those people don’t know!
Catherine you were fantastic on show You know ur stuff always enjoy
Aww thank you so much ♥️♥️
Your astilbes can take more sun if they stay moist. You are correct 😊
That is so good to know! definitely think it is a watering issue x
🎉 CONGRATULATIONS 🎉 on your television spots!!! I've been a subscriber for years and I'm so PROUD of you!!!❤
Awwww, that means so much! Thank you! X
You can cut these plants in two and have many plants. Lovely.
I caught myself smiling the whole length of your video, Catherine @dainty diaries. Thank you!❤
Aw, thanks gives my heart joy! Thank you x
best wishes on your next tv presentation. Such pretty flowers in your garden today. Laurie
Your garden is very beautiful..Thanks for sharing…Blessings
It’s always a work in progress ♥️ thanks for stopping by xx
pop your osteospermum in the greenhouse overwinter. It's an evergreen perennial and will winter in summer and winter here -- in zone 9. So, you can keep them over for next year. they also propagate easily. :)
That is a great tip! The ones I picked up said they were an annual but I will over Winter them for next season x
Yes I'm with you. Mine come back year after year, very tough and forgiving plants.
@@DaintyDiaries they are an annual in cold climates -- but if you keep them warm inside, they'll k eep going. tough as old boots. :)
Great video beautiful flowers have a wonderfull week looking forward to Thursday video❤.
Aww thanks Rita ♥️♥️
Good luck... Although you've been on the telly box by now. 😊 Garden looks fab
Thank you! 😊
I see you have Cora bells. All in different colors. I had some in my last house. I had shade gardens. They were beautiful. Love your garden.
That sounds stunning Rhonda 😍
I've had some for 3 years and they come back every year without been putting inside
Catherine your garden has burst into colour and fullness.
What about putting in water crystals for those plants that are too dry.
We've had beautiful weather here in Canberra, Australia but then most states got hit by a massive cold front. OMG it's freezing and the mountains have snow again. Too early for some plants for us because of the frost but then the days were hot and are about to be again. Our mango farmers have already said that their crops have been affected, other crops will be too. Won't be as much around as normal. 😢
Beautiful garden.I wonder if you put your tree branches upside down thay wont root .Worth a try .
2021 I emailed Monty Don's pa at the BBC just saying that it would be a good idea to have him visit you. All the work you do in your garden and introducing the subject to a younger audience via you tube. A more youthful approach to gardening was the topic. She emailed back to say she would pass it on? Hope something comes of it. I just had the vision of you opening your front door and collapsing at the site of the Monty himself.
haha, I appreciate the support and for sharing that with him, that is so kind of you x
Beautiful colours in your garden. The RHS is the best & most reliable source for your plant info the books are expensive but worth it as an investment. Good luck with your tv show 😊 Marie did tours of her garden its definitely worth a visit its stunning she is part of the Dublin garden trail such a lovely person well worth a visit the garden trail is a beautiful collection of gardens, check out Ardan garden in Howth they open Saturdays for viewings!
Thanks so much for sharing that with me!
Hi . Try putting your astilbes by a drain pipe (where the rain water drains off your roof). That may solve both your problems.
Catherine were you ever on an episode of the shore house🙏🤗🇮🇪
Yes, I was years ago, think in 2018 x
🙏⚘️ Thought it was you when I seen it. Have you ever tried planting hollyhops in your garden? They would look Beautiful. There is it grow from seed?🇮🇪👍💞
I see bees come in variety species
by comparing California to yours.🐝
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Hi Catherine, lovely video as always! Could you tell me the name of the plant behind you at 16:15 . The very tall one with white, round leaves, it’s beautiful! Thank you!
I wish the tv show would let you share a link to the segment your on😔
Hi, if you head to Ireland Am's TH-cam, they might have the segment up. The episode was August 30th x
Could you mean confirmation bias? Meaning that you find evidence for what you want/is looking for. As for Astilbe, I’ve had luck with them in the shade, in terrible soil. But they needed water, for sure 😊
How is the hedge hog? I haven't seen it in your videos in a while.
I have a bed of hucara my patio garden and they get lovely spikes of flowers for ages I have a pretty pink a soft cream one and one that is quite dark I wish I had written down the names of them the beds are very shady
They sound stunning 😍😍
Echinacea and cone flower are the same
Cheeky question but do you have to pay for all the plants you buy for the tv?and do you get to keep them.
So, yes and no, plants that I keep I buy and others go back, and I also bring plants from my own garden as well x
I had a beautiful show of echinacea until yesterday afternoon when one of the local cats (an extremely large tabby) had a fight with an exceptionally large rat in the middle of them all and destroyed them (the cat killed the rat and kindly left it in the middle of the lawn for me 🥴)
oh wow, Mother Nature causing some drama in the garden lol x
I'm having trouble hearing your videos and I have the volume turned up full.
Hi Janet, I haven't had any other comments about the sound, but there is a two volume buttons, maybe the TH-cam volume at the right hand corner is low? you can push this up and then also push up the volume on your device. Please let me know if this works for you.
How's your magnolia doing as Minehead leaves are going brown any suggestions PLEASE
Thriving, the leaves do turn colour later in the season but mine are still green. Could it be a watering issue? They need a lot of water in their first year x
Thanks Catherine for the advice. I will water it twice a day as its still hot here .
Do you have a garden/plants in the front of your home