Autumn Blooming Flowers

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Autumn has a special effect on all plants in the garden. Annuals and perennials are one part of the whole. Many trees and shrubs will be adding their own special effects in autumn.

In selecting annuals and perennials for the autumn garden, it is necessary to know not only the overall effect your design will have but the color that each individual will contribute, and also know the sequence in which one flower will follow another in the color procession.

When choosing flowers for the autumn garden, follow the lead of Nature. Yellows, reds, purple-reds, scarlets, and bronzes are colors for autumn. These colors have a special value in autumn, even as the distinctive spring colors at the beginning of the growing season.

This list of autumn blooming flowers is aimed at gardens near 40 degrees North latitude (this latitude runs from Toms River, New Jersey, through Philadelphia, through Columbus Ohio, through Boulder, Colorado to Humboldt County in far northern California).

The list pre-supposes that snow has not fallen in autumn where you live. If you live where snow comes in autumn, you will want to look at the list of shrubs and trees for the winter garden. That list features showy bark, berries, and plants notable for their leafless form.

If annuals and perennials grow where you live in autumn, you may find that the plants on this list bloom a bit earlier or later. Gardeners further north will find that their flowers will bloom later, and gardeners to the south will have earlier blooms.

This list includes annuals, bulbs, perennials, and roses.