Late Summer - Page 31 of 42 - Fine Gardening

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    Dahlia ‘Pooh’

    Dahlia 'Pooh'

    A charming choice, 'Pooh' has orange-red petals with gold and lemon-colored petal-like sepals.

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    Boer love grass

    Eragrostis chloromelas

    From late spring until fall, Boer love grass puts on a glorious display as inflorescences that emerge silver and dry to gold dance up to 2 feet above the fine-textured clump of…

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    ‘Rocky Top’ Tennessee coneflower

    Echinacea tennesseensis 'Rocky Top'

    The 'Rocky Top' hybrid offers the garden an abundance of pastel pink coneflowers with greenish-black cones on plants 2 to 3 feet tall and 1 foot wide.

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    Sawtooth sunflower

    Helianthus grosse-serratus

    Sawtooth sunflower's abundant yellow daisy flowers bloom from late summer well into fall.

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    Wall germander

    Teucrium chamaedrys

    This evergreen or deciduous subshrub is grown for its attractive, dark green aromatic foliage and its light pink to deep purple flowers, which blossom in summer and early fall.

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    Bicolor pineapple lily

    Eucomis bicolor

    This species boasts maroon-speckled stems and green flowers with maroon margins.

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    New England aster

    Aster novae-angliae

    Strong, almost woody, stems bear large sprays (to 10 inches) of violet-purple flowers.

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    Buddleia davidii

    Buddleia davidii

    This sun-lover comes in hues from pure white to deepest purple.

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    Woolly thyme

    Thymus pseudolanuginosus

    Woolly thyme—the wooliest of all thymes—forms a dense ground-covering mat of tiny, densely hairy leaves.

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    Yellow corydalis

    Corydalis lutea

    This species has bluntly spurred golden yellow flowers from late spring to early fall.