Hi again it's Jason from Fraser Valley Rose farm and it is trivially easy to find roses and
other shrubs that are in bloom at this time of year but in this video I'm going to focus back
on perennials I want to show you 10 perennials that will not disappoint you in September while
I put them up I'll also give you the botanical name if I don't remember them at the time the
hardiness Zone and sun exposure so come along as we look at the perennials still showing off in my
garden first up let's say that not everyone grows Gaura and that's the masses of butterfly looking
flowers waving around in the wind here actually at the front left you see Japanese Burnet just
throwing a last few blooms that sort of bottle brush pink flower this is a cultivar called
Rosy Jane and it is just continuing to push out tons and tons of flowers in the garden right now
next up number two do you know Bluebeard that's caryopteris this one here with these sort of
circles or whirls of flowers around the stem going up and up and up and you can see the
very popular with the bees also I have to say about this shrub that always blooms later in
the season sort of August September Is Where It initiates that it is virtually pest free I
haven't seen a lot of insect damage and I don't think even deer like to munch on it
so definitely a fantastic choice for people who struggle otherwise with pest problems
and right next door to it is agastache or sometimes people call this root beer plant
or toothpaste plant because if you crush and sniff the leaves you may get one or the other
depending on what your nose tells you this is a yellow variety called Kudos yellow that I've been
growing this year but it comes in a wide range of colors typically around the purples and moves is
the more traditional ones and then there are some others with breeding that make them kind of
in these hotter colors sort of red orange and yellow very nice and I wouldn't say that it
initiates flowers for the first time in the fall but if you deadhead it and bring it back to the
ground throughout the summer you definitely can get a strong showing on it just as you see here
jumping over to the color Garden here it appears to me that I may have only so shown you this
mirabilis or Marvel of Peru when I was putting it into the garden a couple of months ago it
has since of course with warmer temperatures and the late Summer Sun bloomed into this and
four o'clocks are known for having flowers that open up later in the afternoon they're nicely
scented and look at the Splashy colors on these gorgeous this is a mix called Marbles and just
has done a tremendous job of bringing the name of this Garden the color Garden to life very
very quickly now I said this was a video about perennials and these are typically treated as
annuals but the trick here is they're a bit like dalius where you can dig up the tubers store them
and put them back in the garden for next year for a much quicker and boisterous display of colors
well I think I kept on telling you how nice that these flowers from heliopsis or false
sunflower or perennial sunflower is in the garden and what I love and this is still of
course a young plant but I love how dark the foliage is that sort of purpley foliage when
it's in full sun it gets that but then look at these flowers I mean hardly any
yellow in them they're actually for the most part sort of a burnt orange looking flower
very pretty so unlike annual sunflowers of course this is a perennial sunflower so it'll be back
in a larger Clump every year and I'm looking forward to it getting even bigger in the garden
well you wouldn't normally call a fuchsia a hearty perennial in our climate this is the west coast
and as mild as we are fuchsias are generally a little beyond our means however this one is
fuchsia magellanica which is a hearty fuchsia grows up into a fairly big almost shrub like
this sometimes the winter will cut it right back to the ground so to that degree it is a perennial
but look at how many flowers we get on this and how late in the season it just keeps on performing
well here's a Daphne variety and it's the first year that I've really done anything with Daphne's
because I thought they were borderline tender in our area as well but this one is Hardy enough to
make it through my zone 8 winter and in addition to being very pretty with those white flowers
coming late it also is very very fragrant which gives it bonus points and makes it an excellent
choice for the Autumn Garden well I hope it's not considered cheating to put an ornamental grass in
this list but I just love the look of these and again in the movement Garden where they're just
breezing around and this is a variety called redhead which it is an obvious in this scene
but the brand new flowers you see emerging there give off a distinct red tinge to them and that
carries through to the blooms as they age a little bit adding some color into the grasses
here the back of the Rose Garden playing nicely with a rose called walfer dong this is obedient
plant and obedient plant I guess if I'd given it a cut back earlier in the season you would
see a lot fresher color on this but you can see it has this capacity to just keep on blooming up
the stem so the blooms down below of course are spent but it creates new buds all the way across
the top so I've had literally a couple of months of color off of the same flush of blooms you can
see the bees like it as well one thing I will say I'm not sure everybody understands or knows
why they call it obedient plant because it sure doesn't obey in the garden it spreads around a
little bit it comes in white or pink but why it's called obedient plant is because each of the flat
florets there is built on a ball and socket so you could reposition it so you see this one here
can just push it over this way and there it stays and I don't know what practical use that has in
the world except maybe in flower arranging but every one of these is completely repositionable
and finally here I have to give it up for St John's Wort which of course it has those
distinctive flowers that you see in the front there the yellow but what's so interesting about
these florist varieties is that they have the succession of colors in their berries and look
at that how ornamental that is and continues to be in the garden on something that in this case
turns out to be oh say a three foot almost shrub but of course it may be killed back by Frost or
pruned back by me to get fresher blooms for next year but wow look at how that looks in
the garden all right that's it for this tour and if you know of any other plants that you
would like to recommend to other viewers that are great through the September October stretch
go ahead and drop those into the comments below the video I would sure appreciate it