Add months to your gardening pleasure with fall's glory: Perennial Asters.
OK, OK, Rudbeckias, Echinaceas and Sunflowers are nice too, but if you don't have asters in your perennial garden, you're not ready for fall.
These easy to grow perennial plants take care of themselves all summer long, and then bring you a "Second Spring" when they begin their vigorous bloom, just when everything else is about to collapse. Asters are the surefire way of adding great fall color--for years. The beauty begins even earlier with Aster Frikarti shown in the photo, with the big favorite, Sedum "Autumn Joy" (behind the chair.)
"The weeks that stretch from mid-August to November can be a among the best times to garden, when fall is a wonderful relief to the discouraging heat of summer" - THE GARDEN IN AUTUMN by Alan Lacy.