Late Summer - Page 30 of 42 - Fine Gardening

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    Colorful Flowering Sage

    Salvia nemorosa

    This drought-tolerant perennial produces flower spikes in shades of violet, purple, or white to pink, with purple bracts.

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    Ruby grass

    Melinus nerviglumis

    This clumping, blue-green foliaged grass has amethyst-pink flowers that create fluffy, 8- to 12-inch-long plumes throughout the summer.

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    ‘Worcester Gold’ Blue beard

    Caryopteris × clandonensis 'Worcester Gold'

    'Worcester Gold' is an attractive, mounding, woody shrub with warm yellow to chartreuse foliage and lavender-blue flowers in late summer and early autumn.

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    Angelica gigas

    Angelica gigas

    This showstopper produces conspicuous, red-purple leaf sheaths with dense, purple domed flowerheads.

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    ‘Twilight’ coneflower

    Echinacea ‘Twilight’

    This is one of the exceptional Big Sky™ series ( E.

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    ‘Peach Melba’ nasturtium

    Tropaeolum majus ‘Peach Melba’

    This old-fashioned cultivar of the species has a mounding habit and grows 9-12 inches tall and wide.

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    Autumn Joy stonecrop

    Sedum ‘Herbstfreude’

    This plant is as dependable and adaptable as they come.

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    Sourwood

    Oxydendrum arboreum

    Sourwood, the lone species of the genus, is found in woodlands and along streams of eastern North America.

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    ‘Autumn Minaret’ daylily

    Hemerocallis 'Autumn Minaret'

    Daylilies are classic, extremely popular garden plants.

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    Blazing star, gayfeather

    Liatrus spicata

    This hardy herbaceous perennial has grass-like, strappy leaves and 3- to 5-foot-tall spikes of purple-pink flowers in late summer and early fall.