Autumn Flowering Herbaceous Perennials

Helenium "Moerheim Beauty"

• Flowers look like Rudbeckia and are orangey-yellow
• Herbaceous perennial

Anaphalis margaritaceae

• White felty flowers
• Lond dark-ish green leaves that droop downwards
• Soft white hair on stems, like rabbits ears

Euphorbia jolkinii

• Possible extra
• Milky sap is an irritant to skin and eyes (burns)

Aster novae-angliae 'Septemberrubin'

• Glandular and non-glandular hairs on the stem (glandular ones have thicker ends)

Hydrangea paniculata

• Typically pyramidical inflorescence
• Grows 3-4 metres tall
• Best not pruned (for height)
• Can be pruned right back in March/April as it flowers on new wood

Clematis connata

• Small pale yellow bell shaped flowers
• Petioles joined right across stems (this is its distinguishing feature)
• connata means joined (connate)

Sedum "Autumn Joy"

• Tiny crimson flowers in close clusters creating a dense broccoli like flower head
• Great for bees and butterflies
• Likes well drained fertile soil, full sun

Aconitum napellum

• common name "Monks Hood"
• Very poisonous (as with most/or all Aconites)
• Dark green glossy leaves shaped like a native geranium but more deeply lobed

Sedum "Purple Emporer"

• This isn't a fine example, usually more dense growth.
• Lovely deep burgundy coloured fleshy leaves and paler pink flowers.
• Likes full sun

Ceratostigma minus

• Deciduous shrub
• Roughly diamond shaped green leaves turn red in autumn
• Mid-blue flowers

Schizostylis coccinea

• Pretty pink flowers a bit like a taller crocus in habit
• Reliable late flowering bulb
• Doesn't like wet conditions if its also cold
• Red and White flowering cultivars aren't as hardy.

Clematis rehderiana

• Pale yellow/green bell shaped flowers
• Climber

Bupleurum gibraltarium

• Yellow Umbellifera flowers usually seen on things with Parsley shaped leaves, but not this one
• Likes dry sheltered conditions

Clematis tangutica x ? "William MacKenzie"

• Possible extra
• Buttercup yellow flowers with dark stamens turn to whitish hairy seed pods

Cyclamen coum

• Is hardier than Cyclamen hederifolium
• Leaves are not marbled

Cyclamen hederifolium

• Ivy leafed Cyclamen
• Now in Mercinaceae family (not Primulaceae)
• Grows from corms, they are long lasting (come back every year)
• Likes good drainage and acid-ish soils
• Is a mediterranean plant so likes warm summers
• After the white and pink flowers are finished the Cyclamen coum flowers

Tropaeolum speciosum

• "Scottish Flame Flower"
• speciosum means beautiful
• vivid red small flowers have spurs like Nasturtiums
• Sometimes hard to grow, is a bit fussy, but when its happy it can be persistant.
• Not totally deciduous Climber
• Grows from tubers (fat ones)
• Likes acid soil

Nerine bowdinii

• Candy floss Pink flowers in a whirl on long fleshy stems (like amaryllis)
• Foliage not visible?

Salvia involucrata

• Pink fuzzy flowers
• Large long pointed leaves
• maybe extra
  
  

Salvia discolor

• Sticky Stems
• Almost black flowers that smell like sweeties
• felty leaves with a white/silvery underside
  

Salvia corrugata

• Has rust coloured fuzzy stems


• Leaves are bumpy/rough and darker green


• Semi Hardy


• used to be called Salvia rugosa

Salvia leucantha 'Midnight'

• 
  maybe extra
• purple fuzzy flowers
• narrow long bright green leaves
  
  

Fuchsia magellanica

• Fully Hardy

• Flowers on this seasons growth


• Prune hard in spring like most Buddlejah's.