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In Best Hardy Perennials to Plant Now, you’ll find perennial stalwarts that will power through fall with reliable color and performance, like coneflower, rudbeckia and Autumn Joy sedum. Here are a few more perennials to add to your flower beds this fall. Before you select plants, know your hardiness zone and the light conditions in your garden.

Full sun means six to eight hours of sunlight each day, part. So, we don’t recommend reserving them for fall plantings. Before purchasing plants or seeds, check the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone map to know which plants can grow successfully in your geographic region. Zone information for each plant is listed on its seed packet, label, or website if buying online.

Fall is the optimum time to plant balled and burlapped trees and shrubs.

Balled and burlapped plants have ample time to recover from transplanting and proliferate roots before spring growth begins. Remember, however, all bare root plants, including roses and pecan and fruit trees, should be planted in late winter when they are completely dormant. Aug 22, Unfortunately, our midwestern climate is unpredictable, and even the toughest plants may die if fall or early winter weather is severe or erratic.

But if healthy, vigorous plants are chosen, if proper post-planting care is given, and if slow-to-establish species are avoided, fall planting of trees and shrubs can be as successful as spring planting. Planting Shrubs in Fall.

They don't just look pretty.

By Marianne Willburn, gardening expert and author. Butterfly Bush, Hydrangea, Forsythia, Beauty Berry, Viburnum, and more! A shrub by definition is a woody, multi-stemmed plant, either deciduous or evergreen, that can grow from just a few inches high to over ten feet tall. Shrubs offer much for your garden – privacy.

Sep 17, It’s a full-sun perennial that starts blooming in late summer and continues through early fall. It makes a great opening act for an autumn display.

Helenium is a native plant, and Mariachi 'Salsa' is a shorter variety, topping out at 18 to 20 inches. Its blossoms open in traditional fall.