10 Fall Flowers for Fall Gardening

     

     When autumn falls, everything feels cold, bleak, and dead. However, you can still change the dull atmosphere in your home by creating an autumn garden that will add pulchritude to the autumn blur. There are plants that you can put in your garden in the fall. A wide variety of colorful flowers will brighten your garden and induce life and color. The only thing to do is have the perfect flowers to plant in your fall garden. Below are some top fall flower favorites of garden planters in an autumn garden.

• Michaelmas Daisies: 

     When michaelmas daisies starts to bloom, this tells people that fall is on its way. The name suits the flower since it was named from the Mass of St. Michael or Michaelmas which falls on the 29th of September. This is a type of aster which is also called as the New York aster. Michaelmas daisies are combinations of blues and purples but this pretty autumn flower also comes with whites, mauves, pinks and lavenders. The typical blues and purples is superbly beautiful during low autumnal sun. If you want this lilac-blue flower to cover your ground, better cut this back hardly in early spring or autumn.

• Caryopteris:

     Blue Flowers fans will surely love this kind of plant, which is commonly called Caryopteris Blue Mist Shrub or Bluebeard . This woody perennial with aromatic foliage and blue flowers. This can be a perfect flower garden, it does not need much maintenance. Its feathery flowers are grouped on the foliage . The bluebeard need exposure to full sun or partial shade.

• Chelone:

     The Chelone or the turtlehead is a perennial flower that has a white, purple or, pink flower. Its nickname was coined to its flower that seems to resemble a turtle head. The weather resistant flower blooms from the short terminal of spikes that grows dense in its rounded stem. This fall flower blooms perfectly autumn and hates to have an extreme and dry environment. This means that this sturdy two-lipped flower tolerates boggy areas. It is perfect for damp and moist soil. Also perfect for those who live waterside. 

• Chrysanthemum:

     More commonly known as Hardy garden mums, chrysanthemums are used as beds and borders in gardens and used as cut flowers. Hardy mums' showy flowers comes in varieties of color such as lavender, orange, yellow, red or white. This is a favorite in the garden of fall flowers because it blooms at its peak during the fall season. Mums grow well in the fertile soil of the partial exposure of sun, but grows best in full sun.

• Eupatorium:

     This perennial plant's common name is Joe Pye Weed which is coined from a Native American herbalist. The multiple flowers of Eupatorium are usually mauve or old rose that is composed of five to eight florets and bracts that cluster in the plant. It has been well-liked by hummingbirds because of its tubular corolla of each floret. Joe Pye Weeds grows best in a moist soil with a full sun exposure. Make your garden a mini paradise with the butterflies and birds attracted to your Eupatoriom and your ornamental solar fountain.

• Helenium:

     The Sneezeweed or Helenium is a perennial plant that grows best in August or September. It grows for four to five feet tall with two inch yellow daisy-like flower. Instead of sneezing, this beautiful fall flower will make you smile when you see bunch of autumn yellow flowers sway and beam in your fall garden.

• Helianthus:

     The flashy flowers of this Helianthus makes your garden a paradise by inviting birds in your fall garden. Grows three to six feet tall with bobbing three-inch yellow or white flower, Helianthus grows well in a moderate moisture soil with a full exposure to sun.

• Heliopsis:

     Clumps of Heliopsis that grow in your fall garden would be bliss. This is the most beautiful fraud in your garden, as it looks more like a sunflower, however, smaller. Because of its appearance, Heliopsios sunflower got its nickname false sunflower.
This perennial beauty blooms yellow flowers and grows well in autumn.

• Sedum:

     Another botanical name of Sedum is Autumn Joy. From its name, you can be sure it would be a joy to have this butterfly-attracting pink wonder. The Autumn Joy or commonly called as Stonecrop is a perennial flower that blooms best in fall. Its luscious stem and leaves can withstand rain and drought seasons. It grows broccoli-like like flowers that usually comes in pink but has also a copper variant that is perfect for the autumn feel.

• Golden Fleece:

     The Golden Fleece ends the list but it is not the least. Their showy seed heads that splays densely upwards appears like a bouquet of yellow flowers that attracts butterfliess. Seeds auto Golden Fleece, so if you want to prevent it to prevail in your garden, you should deadhead it. It can grow in partial shade or full sun, even in a moderately fertile soil.

     Now, if you want to have the autumn garden you want, you better have flowers in the list. Even in the autumn season, you can still create a colorful and wonderful garden if you know how to choose the perfect flowers. You do not have to be conscious about the clashing of colors in your garden as fall flowers are usually red, white, purple, orange and yellow. Make yourself delightful with your fall garden's magnificent variants of fall flowers.