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Home | Blog | What to Plant Now for Fall Garden Color!

What to Plant Now for Fall Garden Color!

August 20, 2024

The end of summer doesn’t mean the end to color in the garden, on the contrary, you can plan and plant now for a vibrant wave of color, and habitat for our insects and birds, that continues all the way to hard frost!  From native and water-wise perennials and shrubs, to trees (including fruit trees) and grasses, the selection is vast.

Our Fall sale is a great opportunity to extend color and interest well into autumn.

Here is a list of some of our favorite plants for the late-summer and fall garden (while they last, quantities limited):

Gaillardia aristata

Perennials  – Agastache (Hyssop, Hummingbird Mint), Allium tuberosum (Garlic Chives), Asters, Solidago (Goldenrod), Japanese Anemone, Chrysanthemum, Eriogonum ‘Kannah Creek’ Buckwheat, Echinacea (Coneflower), Gaillardia (Blanketflower), Rudbeckia (Black-eyed Susan), Tall Sedum Purple Emperor, Autumn Fire, Autumn Joy, Matrona), Plumbago (Ceratostigma plumbaginoides), Salvia azurea, Sweet Autumn Clematis, and more!

Grasses – Almost all of them! Big and Little Bluestems, Switchgrass, Giant Sacaton, Prairie Dropseed, Indian Grass, Blue Fescue, and more!

Shrubs – Euonymous alatus (Burning Bush), Jamesia americana (Waxflower), Caryopteris
(Bluemist Spirea), Hibicus syriacus (Rose of Sharon), Physocarpus (Ninebark), Prunus besseyi
(Sand Cherry), Ribes sp. (Currants), Sumac, Heptacodium (Seven-son), Aronia (Chokeberry), Rabbitbrush (Ericameria), Barberry, Viburnum, Regent Serviceberry, Mahonia (Oregon Grape-Holly), Spirea, and more!

Serviceberry

Trees – Amelanchier (Service Berry), native Aspen, Honeylocust, Linden, Malus (Crabapple, particularly ‘Dolgo’), Rocky Mt. Maple, Ginnala Maple, Pear (ornamental and fruiting), Redbud, Wild Plum, Chinkapin Oak, ‘Sensation’ Boxelder, Hawthorns, and more!

Categories: Blog, Perennials, Plants, Shrubs, Trees, OLD-Archive, OLD-Blog

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Tuesday-Sunday, 9AM-5PM

 

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303-939-9403 (Retail)
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4795 North 26th St
Boulder, CO 80301

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Our Hours

Seasonally, MARCH to OCTOBER.
MARCH HOURS:
Thursday-Sunday, 9AM-5PM

APRIL-OCTOBER HOURS:
Tuesday-Sunday, 9AM-5PM

JANUARY - FEBRUARY HOURS
Thursday-Saturday, 10AM-4PM

Mondays, CLOSED

The plants we grow are organically grown. All the plants we sell are free of bee-killing neonicotinoid pesticides.