autumnal (syn. fall)
Refers to the season between summer and winter that, in the northern hemisphere, includes the months of September, October, and December.
Helenium autumnale 'Moerheim Beauty'
Marie Iannotti
Helenium are under used plants, but that's beginning to change.
'Autumnale' fuchsia
Mature size: 12 inches tall by 16 inches wide. Ideal growing conditions: full to part sun, moist, well-drained soil.
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Helenium autumnale
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Branching, leafy stems with yellow, orange or reddish Daisy-like flowers in the Fall ...
Despite The Autumnal Sadness often noted by some poets - "withering leaves," "bleaking and wailing," "bare boughs sighing" - I rejoice in the incredibly vivid colors of October trees.
Jamesoniella Autumnalis
Incarvillea Delavayi
Glochidion Marianum
Eriachne Pallescens
Frullanoides Bahamensis ...
Make or buy an autumnal wreath before the traditional Christmas greens go up on your door. This would be appropriate through the month of October, too.
Fall blooming cherry (Prunus subhirtella 'Autumnalis') - Flowers with pale pinky-lavender cast in fall; sporadic blooms in mild winters
Hellebores (Helleborus) - Wide range of flower colors from green, white and pink to burgundies and two-tones ...
'Autumnalis' is an unusual plant in that it bears long-lasting semi-double white flowers intermittently from fall to spring, depending on the climate. Most Higan cherries are bushy plants that reach 25-30 ft (7.6-9.1 m) tall and are hardy to Zone 5.
Traditionally, mushrooms are autumnal fare; their wild season in the Northeast begins around Labor Day and ends sometime around Thanksgiving (tasty exceptions include king boletes, Boletus edulis, in June and the elusive morel, Morchella esculenta, ...
For a healthier water garden environment you can use oxygenating plants like Autumnal starwort (Callitriche hermaphroditica), Willow Moss (Fontinalis antipyretica), Water violet (H. palustris) and Elodea crispa (Lagarosiphon major).
Helenium autumnale (common sneezeweed): Before plant breeders got into the act, common sneezeweed was strictly a fall-bloomer, flowering from late summer until frost, giving almost 10 weeks of display.
- Sneezeweed ( Helenium autumnale)
- Ox-Eye Daisy ( Leucanthemum vulgare syn. Chrysanthemum leucanthemum)
- Canada Mayflower ( Maianthemum canadense)
- Black-eyed Susan ( Rudbeckia spp.) ...
Find out which plants have the best autumnal shows...ask at the nursery, check plant tags, surf the Internet, and consult reference books or catalogs.
Consider if you want blossoms in the spring, ornamental fruit in the fall, autumnal leaf color, fruit, or pleasing growth habits in the winter. Take into account their eventual dimensions to prevent problems later on.
This back-of-the-border set of perennials (from left: Rudbeckia laciniata, Helenium autumnale and Silphium perfoliatum) features plants with similar color and flower form. Plus, two of plants are roughly the same height.
Prunus x subhirtella ‘Autumnalis' (winter-flowering cherry): Small white or pink flowers in autumn and into winter during mild spells, Autumn colour. Height: 4.5m (15 ft).
Autumn crocus (Colchicum autumnale)
Saffron crocus (Colchicum sativus)
Autumn daffodil (Sternbergia lutea)
Cyclamen (Cyclamen hederifolium) ...
Subdued floral arrangements in autumnal colours (i.e. sunflowers, marigolds, orange gerbera daisies, etc.)
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Photo:John Papamarko ...
in Autumn you`ll be swooning over the divine red-purple-crimson autumnal colours of the foliage which remains on the plant until late in the season ...
The beautiful pinkish-purple autumn crocus (Colchicum autumnale), known as the "meadow saffron," also can be deadly.
In September and October, purple hardy asters, backed with golden sneezeweed (Helenium autumnale) and 'Taiyo' sunflowers, create a dazzling picture.
rosy-purple flowering agrippinum, and speciosum, the showy autumn crocus, that bears tulip-like flowers. Showy crocus blooms are initially cream-colored and gradually darken to a rosy-purple. Many of them have been hybridized with Colchicum autumnale ...
In late autumn and mid winter it produces large sumptuous single white flowers with golden stamens, looking like a fried egg. For autumnal colour all year round Camellia assimilis produces small white flowers that are pendant beneath the crimson ...
 See also: Plant, Flower, Spring, Bloom, Foliage
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