Naila Green Garden Design - Late Summer Colour in the Garden

As garden designers, we are often asked for "more colour" for "longer". Of course, regularly deadheading summer flowering herbaceous plants will encourage them to continue flowering. However, careful selection and a good planting plan is the surest method of ensuring colour in the garden well into the autumn months.

On this page are a few of the plants which are flowering at the moment in some of the gardens we have designed (Photos taken 28th August).

Last year (2011), due to the mild weather in the South West, many of of clients have reported even later repeat flowering of many species. Some have continued to flower throughout the winter months.

Astrantias and Penstemons in particular will keep flowering well in to the late Autumn, as long as they are deadheaded and never allowed to dry out.