Arrange a Late-Season Bouquet

You don’t have to use up the rest of your garden’s flowers to make a stunning fall arrangement

There ’s no need to undress your twilight garden bare of flowers to make a great autumn arranging . begin with a great vase like an antique pitcher or tin bucket , and then take a leisurely saunter around your garden . Take two or three stems of each interesting thing you see , like blooming ornamental grasses , calamitous - eyed Susans , and hydrangeas . Most fall flowers look good even when they ’re starting to wither so do n’t discriminate . Do n’t forget the foliage , either . A arm from a maple that ’s starting to turn over color , a gargantuan hosta leafage , or a few fern fronds from the Ellen Price Wood add neat mass , color , and texture that highlight any blooms you might shuffle with them . Here is a list of the plant used in this video :

Obedient industrial plant ( Physostegia virginianacv . , USDA Hardiness zone 2 - 8)Variegated miscanthus ( Miscanthus sinensiscv . , Zones 4 - 9)Black - eyed Susan ( Rudbeckia fulgidavar.sullivantii ‘ Goldsturm’,Zones 4 - 9)Purple genus Perilla ( Perilla frutescens‘Atropurpurea ’ , annual)Hydrangea ( Hydrangea arborescens‘Annabelle ’ , zone 4 - 9)Garlic Allium schoenoprasum ( Allium tuberosum , zone 4 - 8)Fountain grass ( Pennisetum alopecuroides , zone 6 - 9)Hay - sweet-scented fern ( Dennstaedtia punctilobula , Zones 3 - 8)Garden phlox ( Phlox paniculatacv . , zone 4 - 8)‘Sum and Substance ’ hosta ( Hosta‘Sum and Substance ’ , Zones 3 - 9 )

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