Quentin Stark of Hole Park Gardens was asked to plant a ‘bowl of colour’ in the herbaceous borders of their Centenary Garden. And the colour needed to last thought spring, summer and fall (autumn). Here he picks 18 late season flowering plants which will bloom for months in your garden.
Note on climate zones: Many of these plants will grow across a wide range of zones and climates. I have put their winter hardiness on screen. If your climate is too cold to keep some through the winter, you can usually grow them summer-only as annuals or store them over winter.
00:00 Long flowering plants can extend your summer colour through autumn
00:16 Hole Park Gardens https://www.holepark.com/
01:08 Starting herbaceous borders
02:15 When to tweak your borders to improve them for next summer
03:10 Good plants for the front of borders
04:40 Tulbaghia (Society Garlic)
03:51 Gaura (now Oenethera) ‘Rosy Hardy’
03:58 Diascia (Hole Park has several Diascias both ‘personata’ and ‘classic white’)
04:16 Japanese aster (Kalimeris incisa)
04:36 Sedum (now Hylotelephium ‘Red Cauli’)
04:44 Achillea (yarrow) ‘Salmon’
04:52 Hummingbird plant (Dicliptera suberecta)
05:25 Salvia ‘Amino’
05:35 Agastache ‘Blackadder’
05:50 Cleome spinosa (Pink spiderflower)
06:03 Rambling Rosie – climbing rose
06:22 Rudbeckia ‘Henry Eilers’
06:28 Tagetes ‘Burning Embers’
06:43 Persicaria ‘Blackbird’
06:51 Salvia ‘Nachtlinder’ – note the Greggii and Microphylla salvias flower longest
07:04 Penstemon ‘Garnet’
07:20 Kniphofia ‘Thompsonii’
07:48 Helenium ‘September Fox’
07:52 Tips on planting perennials
11:08 Dealing with pests and diseases
13:20 How to re-vamp or tweak your border
14:47 Video on what to plant in fall/autumn: https://youtu.be/3PLqLsiYS0M
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I have a very tricky space in my front garden due to lighting. The house is oriented north/south, and there are thick woods across the street (west), so plants in the front only get sun once it peeks around the corner of the house, and then the woods block sun later on. Plants that like full, baking sun end up leaning and falling over, trying to get the light, but the area does get blasted with some afternoon sun and stays pretty dry, so other plants do t do well…it’s a hard place to garden. And I have to factor in deer. Just about every plant and tree leans to the south/east, since they don’t get even light from all sides. Have you ever done a video about this sort of thing?
This vlog is such a wonderful resource. I like the make a list the year before planting idea.. Here I need to add relative deer resistance to the list of requirements. I am envious of Hole Park’s walled and gated gardens.
London weather has been great – sun and rain – wonderful, but much of the UK has had a very hard time this year.
Thank you.
Perfect timing . I am about to take weed membrane off a 2m x 40m boarder thats been covered since last year 😊😊 thank you very very much
Thank you for the time stamps with lists of plant names that we can jump to your photos within the video. This is very helpful.
Thank you so much!! What a great tour and discussion!!🌺🌼🌹
Very informative. Thank you so much!
Such good questions!
Are asters grown in the U.K.?
Great timing! I needed this information now! Tfs!
Flawless review. I am going to add Blenheim to my collection. I also appreciate Daniel’s review of the fruitcake!
Excellent video as always! Quick question though – are your on-screen plant info labels always that small or are my eyes going? 🤓
Great tour and information. Thank you for sharing 🙌 💚🌿
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Great information, perfectly timed. 🙂
Thank you Alexandria. I follow you from Alberta Canada – zone 2B. Its amazing what can be done even with our very short warm season. You are dealing with slugs and such, and I am dealing with ravenous rabbits the size of a golden retrievers, and deer looking to score on my crop of flowers and veggies.
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Interesting tour Alexandra, thank you. I think we need more budding entrepreneurs/duck farmers out there to start renting out duck brigades to come in and help us control the slug populations in our gardens. Swoop those duckies in for a few days and voila!
The topiaries are eye candy. Very informative discussion. I 14:55 Chelsea chop autumn joy sedum every year. I like varying heights, so I don’t pinch them all back at once.
Enjoyed this very much, thank you. Did I miss info on the mulch. Did he say what he uses for mulch? It sounded like many tons were brought in from outside. Did you get any idea what he chooses to use?
Beautiful garden – I liked the plants mentioned and the tips given by head gardener. Thank you for the video. The idea of making the bed raised to improve it is a good one. I have that in one area and it does help. I had not thought it would but it did.
I found this particularly helpful. Advice that is easy to follow and helpful in terms of border colour, height and compatibility. Now for the application.
Excellent video! Thank you. I learn so much from you and the experts you interview!
Thank you for the tour. Some ideas of what I can add to our cold winter area. There’s not much going now as the season winds down, but we have a bit of a drought and hotter temps than normal in the upper Midwest, US.
Love the Autumn Joy, roses and dahlias! My new favorite is Vegas Lights Gomphrena!🎉. It can take heat and drought and still keep shining.
Lol, I never cut plants back in fall because the foliage helps protect plants. I may pick it up a bit, but never cut them to the ground. Many plants are new or second year and I’m sure will do better next year—like the penstemon.😊
Definitely have a list of plants to move to meadow this fall because of excessive reseeding—coneflower, butterfly weed and poppies. I love my catalpa tree, but I never remember in my youth ours reseeding like this one is—several in the flowerbed and one in the veg, but it’s open ground and to be expected I guess.
Very helpful, thank you ❤
A splendid walled garden beside a stand of mature trees…what a dream! I like Mr. Stark's philosophy, which runs along the lines of "Don't worry about it too much, do what makes sense, and let nature take it's course." A friend is fairly new to gardening, but spends so much time obsessing about every yellow leaf, she doesn't seem to enjoy it all that much. I love seeing new growth and forgotten plants popping up when I didn't do anything. I ended up with a Holly Fern and a Bird of Paradise plant that grew out of flower pots I'd brought from my old house years ago. Who knows what's lurking in your soil, lol. We had a very, very wet winter/spring here in Southern California, which made certain plants (Roses!!!) go crazy with new growth and flowers, but my Mission olive trees didn't like the wet. Your video interviews/garden visits are great fun, as it feels like we can tag along (from across the world) and enjoy these informative chats. I also appreciate that you include the notes/plant info on screen, as occasionally we may miss something. We are finally having fall weather here after six days of horrible heat; 107F (41.6C!!!) back on Sept 8th. 🙁
Oh i loved this one so much! Lovely shots of the garden and his attitude is just great. What a stunning garden – love his sense of balance between the low and tall plants and how he harmonised the colours. So lovely..🥰
Very useful video Alexandra👍🏻 one of the things I must remember next year will be to get a note book and keep a record of what’s working and what isn’t and ideas of what I’d like to try. Last year I Chelsea Chopped all of my late flowering stuff like Rubeckias, Echinaceas, Asters and Sedums and they were great but this year I was so busy with family stuff that I didn’t get round to it and it’s all got a bit untidy and I’ve had to prop up plants which is very time consuming so better planning is a must for next year!
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Another great video Alexandra. I have Penstemum Garnet in my garden and it is a stunner. It layers itself quite readily in the second year and I have given them away as I just love the long flowering crimson/ hot pink blooms.
It’s always good to hear people as experienced as this man say that he didn’t get it right in the beginning and had to shuffle things around! It makes me feel so much better about my own gardening journey!
I'd love to grow Diascia personata but it's not available here in the states. Another informative video Alexandra. Thank you.
Great video, thanks.
Thank you Alexandra for this inspirational garden while I don't feel like working in my gardens that are dire drought condition 😅. I am across the pond in SE Ohio zone 6a and it has been a heck of a gardening year for sure! 🌻🌸🌼🌷
Are there any rules that you follow? Answer 'no'. This gentleman brings back the relaxation many forget. I love the people you interview and their personalities plus of course their fantastic insight . Thank you once again. I'm going to watch this again now.
That's what I've planned for next year. Concentrate on long flowering plants. Thank you very much for this informative video 🌸🌼🌷
That was a great interview and video and what a glorious garden. I agree with him about Penstemons as mine have been wonderful this year so I’ve taken more cuttings. They are so pretty and robust and look great with grasses and Erysimum Bowles Mauve which flowers all summer too.
Glad to hear that even professional Gardner had a tough time maintaining a nice garden this summer …..was so challenging 😢😂
Great episode, thanks Alexandra.
Some very good suggestions thank you Alexandra. You always ask your guests interesting and relevant questions which really helps..
Oh very interesting. I'm in the US and I think our verb "to mulch" something is the same based on context. But how you defined the composition of mulch isn't the same as what I consider mulch. Interesting!
Love the idea of raising the beds so the flowers are closer to passersby. I also enjoy all the different English accents and characters that you interview. Thank you so much!!
I woukd love to see how these gardeners take notes. Just a notebook? 10 year diary? Notes on the phone? I take photos on my I phone which helps me track bloom times, when I did what, etc.
Lovely to see gauras, spiderflower and bananas growing in these beds. Extremes of delicate vs strong, enormous foliage.
Many thanks for the time stamp list of plants. 🇨🇦
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Great, great, great video with so many tips!
One of my top favourite videos Alexandra, what a great garden and the tips were really helpful.
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Oh I didnt know penstemon was hardy to -40c (my zone 3)! I will for sure be planting some next year.