10 Remarkable Perennials for Fall Color

Looking for colorful ornamental plants for the fall garden? These 10 perennials will not disappoint in September and October(if you live on the temperate northern half of the globe!). I've featured some of these picks in past videos on perennials, and some are brand new recommendations. Some of these late bloomers could technically be called shrubs (because they're woody to a degree) but in practice I take them down to the ground in spring and grow them as herbaceous perennials. Only one (mirabilis) is tender, and it can be saved by digging the tubers.

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[AprilShowers]

Dahlias & roses still blooming like mad in my zone 8b.

[bradcarby]

For thirty years, I thought it was utterly pointless to grow anything I couldn't eat. Not a bad policy really. Then on a random whim I bought a rose plant. Then I found this clown. Now I have Gallardia growing in between my chillies and dahlias around my tomato plants and a wall of roses down one side of my garden and Lavendar plants scattered throughout. Thanks Jason, thanks a lot. In jest of course.

[sforever]

Never knew St John Wort is lovely! Never seen or heard guara & obidient plant. Thanks for sharing new stuff, they are all gorgeous!!

[emkn]

I absolutely adore caryopteris. Blue is hard to come by and so it’s such a treat. I’ve never seen such a chunky and compact variety. I’ll have to search that one out. We have several different St John’s Wort but they bloom much earlier in the year. They are gorgeous though, absolutely covered in huge showy yellow blooms and bees of all sorts!

[Combatpzman]

Sedum, Autumn Joy or Autumn Fire are great fall bloomers. Some types of Asters only start blooming in late August/Early September.

[faqthefarmer]

I love Heuchera "purple waves"
the orange red purpleish foliage really shines during dark rainy fall weather.

[scallywags]

Love Gaura and so easy to propagate. I also grew hyssop Sangria pink from seed and now they are over 3 feet high. Heliopolis Bleeding hearts grew from seed looks good too. Thanks for the suggestions in the spring for these plants.😊

[SandyKH]

Lots of hardy geraniums are still bringing wonderful color as well as my phloxes. I will have to consider the 4 o'clocks.

[ronaldkleine]

I have good luck with coneflowers and zinnias. zone 7 (Middle Tennessee). Thanks, Jason for your helpful tips

[ankita]

All perennials are so good and healthy, I like Rosy jane very much and other all and bees on the flowers. Very nice Jason.

[aitzaacosta]

Loved all the plants in this video. I had to download it for reference. I have to say that I've never seen a fuchsia shrub. Thanks for the info.

[jasnamaver]

Ceratostigma plumbaginoides is also nice.

[Gnarmarmilla]

Thank you so much, sir. You inspire me to beautify my yard. Please keep it up.

I really love my yellow hardy chrysanthemums, they really amazed me last year and stayed beautiful well into the frosty cold October. Just got some more at Lowe’s

[marydrew]

I love growing Hardy Hibiscus 🌺 for August flowers that are very showy and tropical! I'm zone 8, Oregon's Willamette Valley.

[frankanderson]

ALSTROMERIAS FLOWER FROM SUMMER TO THE FIRST HARD FROST AND COME IN A VARIETY OF COLOURS .THANKS FOR YOUR EDUCATIONALVIDEOS.

[alligator_pie]

Wonderful perennials. I’m always learning something new! Over here in zone 3 the bee balm, hyssop, scabiosa and blue jean baby sage are looking great, and the sedums and asters are just starting to bloom. Frost is surely coming soon.

[rgitzelify]

We have the same fuchsia (in East Van) and my partner was convinced the harsh freeze last winter was its end.

OMG nope. It's huge, it blooms and blooms and blooms, and our resident hummingbirds love it. At the end of September it shows no signs of slowing. :-)

[bluesky]

Saponaria Max Frei starts blooming in July and keeps blooming into late September if deadhead. The same with Scabiosa butterfly blue... starts in June and keeps going with deadheading.

[angiemeyers]

I never knew St. John’s wart was so beautiful. I am going to look into that one

[soulgirlktf]

I love Daphne Eternal Fragrance too, mine flower at least 5 times a year, they flower on new growth, unlike most Daphne's, so if you give them a tiny trim they will re grow and flower again and again for you, I literally trim the flower heads off after flowering and they immediately re flower and they don't need ericaceous compost like most Daphne's do either. How about Japanese Anemones for the movement or the colour garden they would be hardy in your zone I believe and although they look tender delicate things they are in fact tough as anything and would give you pretty pastel colours in the fall and tons of movement. Masterpiece Sempervirens Candytuft is another suggestion I believe it would be hardy in your zone 8 too, pastel pink or white varieties, it flowers continually for at least 9 months of the year for me here in the UK, it is a low grower so ideal at the front of a display, or under roses, grows here in my garden to about 18" high and wide max, kicks out the most vivid white or pale pink tinged tufts and sits there good as gold doesn't need any fussing, all I do is deadhead the very few heads that do go over and it keeps re blooming, I have a lot of it dotted around my garden and it's been flowering all year long, very easy to grow from cuttings or seed too and really is a hard worker. I do take cuttings they root easily, I lost all of them several years ago when we suffered a deep freeze (rare here) so had to re buy it and start again, ever since I take cuttings and grow on in frost free area in winter just in case haha I do love masterpiece don't I !? Your gardens are looking great with all the variety you've added it really is going to be a spectacular area.