Favorite Plants for Fall

A landscape architect shares some of her favorite plants for autumn interest

Today ’s photos follow from Wendy Meyer .

I ’m a landscape architect who happen to care plants . I raise up in Virginia and Maryland but have lived in Germany , Georgia , Southern California , and Texas , so I ’ve catch to try out with a lot of fun plant material over the eld . I overleap myYucca rostrata , but on the other hand , I can have lilacs here !

I arouse up to Charles Percy Snow this morning , so perchance it ’s too tardy , but here are some photos of my fall garden in Shaker Heights , Ohio . I move up here from Texas a mates of year ago , so I have been kill some plants , but learning as I go .

The assorted margin was my first experiment . I moved a lot of plant life out of the way of foot workplace and pool edifice , and this is what happened . I added the Joe Pye weed ( I think it’sEupatorium dubium‘Little Joe ’ , Zones 3–9 ) and a caryopteris(Caryopteris × clandonensis , Zones 5–9 ) , but the rest were just tossed there . I figured I ’d screen out it out later on , but then I kind of liked it .

The monarchs like this garden too , although I did not see many this class . This pic is from last year .

The bugbane(Actaeasimplex‘Atropurpurea ’ , Zones 4–8 ) has chocolate - colourize lacy leaf in the summer that seem great with the Hosta and picks up the foliage color of some of my heucheras . But what surprised me is the scent of the peak spikes — it ’s amazing ! Plus it ’s 4 feet marvelous and looks chance upon with the brick - and - sandstone chimney .

I am hoping to get people to stop found so much invasive burn bush here , so this fothergilla(Fothergilla‘Mt . Airy ’ , zone 5–8 ) is a little demonstration of another means to get that fall color .

More fall color from a crone hazel(Hamamelis × intermedia‘Diane ’ , Zones 5–9 ) .

I would never have institute the weeping cherry , and I almost took it out early on , but it has its moments . This is one of them .

This maple was here when I propel in , and I guess there are much nicer diversity out there . But when I determine to reconstruct the pond , it lived through the building . So it cause to stay . Maybe someday , somewhere else , I ’ll put in a full - lunar month maple , which is the one I ’ve had my eye on for a while .

This oakleaf hydrangea(Hydrangea quercifolia , Zones 5–9 ) is another fall color plant that is so much better than burn bush — and you get bloom , too ! Deer do n’t eat mine , because my German sheepman puts them off . Gardening with German shepherds is a whole other topic .

This is a mixed garden pink and white rugosa rose(Rosa rugosa , Zones 2–9 ) hedgerow . Deer do n’t bother it , it blossom sporadically all summer ( more if I get in there and deadhead ) , it smack great — and it is sprouting all over and get denser , which is an unexpected incentive .

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