Autumn planting time: these plants must be planted in autumn

Forward-thinking gardeners have a lot to do in autumn: They plant all the plants that should bring magnificent flowers and a full harvest in the next season. First and foremost the perennials and bulbs that bloom very early in the year, and that's what we're talking about now:

Must or can be planted in autumn?

There really aren't any plants that can only be planted (must be planted) in autumn. You can plant any plant that lasts more than one season in the garden, window box or container during the entire period when the ground is not frozen. Almost all the time, the ground must already be warm enough, it shouldn't be stiflingly hot, and the first frost shouldn't be imminent either. However, if you want to see beautiful flowers in a timely manner, you would need early plants for plants in the current season, which costs money, so the clever gardener takes precautions: under the perennials (which also includes bulb plants) and woody plants that are hardy and perennial and can be planted in the fall are plants that are best planted in the fall:

Perennials that are still decorative in the planting season but will soon complete their above-ground growth for the current season. They are placed in nice, warm soil in autumn, in which they can take root well until winter, while the plant needs less and less strength at the top. From next spring, these plants can start growing vigorously at full speed. In addition, all perennials, bulbs and shrubs that bloom particularly early or particularly profusely must be planted in autumn if you want to see profuse flowering next spring:

perennials

1. Spring bloom for the garden bed

All perennials that bloom very early in spring must be planted in autumn so that they show a rich abundance of flowers in the next season. These perennials are fastest in spring:

• Adonis amurensis, Amur Adonis
• Asarum canadense, Canada Hazel
• Asarum europaeum, native hazel root
• Asarum splendens, Chinese hazel needs protection in winter
• Caltha palustris var. alba, white marsh marigold
• Corydalis solida 'GP Baker', Fingered Corydalis
• Cyclamen coum, spring cyclamen
• Draba aizoides, hungry flowers
• Euphorbia characias ssp. wulfenii, Mediterranean Spurge
• Glechoma hederacea, ground ivy, ground ivy
• Hacquetia epipactis, gold plate, umbel
• Helleborus argutifolius, Corsican Hellebore
• Helleborus foetidus, Stinking Hellebore, Palm Leaf Snow Rose
• Helleborus niger, Christmas rose, snow rose
• Helleborus orientalis, Lenten Rose
• Hepatica nobilis, native liverwort
• Hepatica transsilvanica 'Alba', Transylvanian liverwort
• Petasites fragrans, Fragrant Butterbur, Winter Heliotrope
• Primula denticulata, ball primrose
• Primula elatior, celestial key
• Primula rosea 'Gigas', Rose Primrose
• Primula vulgaris, cushion primrose
• Primula vulgaris ssp. sibthorpii, carnival primrose
• Primula x pruhoniciana 'Herzblut', carpet cowslip
• Pulmonaria angustifolia 'Azurea', Lungwort
• Pulmonaria Hybride 'Trevi Fountain', Spotted Lungwort
• Pulmonaria officinalis, Lungwort
• Pulsatilla vulgaris, Pasque Flower, Common Pasque Flower
• Saxifraga x apiculata 'Gregor Mendel', Saxifrage
• Stevia rebaudiana, sweet herb, honey leaf
• Trachystemon orientalis, Rauling
• Viola odorata, sweet violet
• Viola Odorata hybrid 'Mrs. Pinchurst', March violet, large flowers but no odorata (scent)
• Viola sororia 'Smokey Mountains', Whit Violet
• Viola suavis, Parma violet, the real one, for a bluish glow on white laundry and perfume

2. Particularly floriferous perennials and shrubs

In addition, all perennials and shrubs that have been bred for particularly rich flowering must/should be planted in autumn. If they had to root first in the spring, flowering for the current season would be pretty poor.

3. Perennials that bloom in autumn

If you like to have atmospheric fall flowers in the garden in autumn anyway, you can plant perennials that Summer and bloom until October, so you can decorate autumn and plant the flower beds for the next season connect.

bulb flowers

As herbaceous and long-lived plants, onion flowers are perennials, but they occupy a special place in our consciousness. They should, not only because they have a lot to offer, but because you can mess up bulb flowers just planting them sometime during the warm season. Bulb flowers still cope with complex onion training and their daughters, though They are planted in spring instead of autumn, but then there is often not enough time for flowering correct. It is therefore important, especially with the spring-flowering bulbs, that they are planted in the autumn. These onion flowers also appear punctually at the beginning of the autumn season (often unsuitably much earlier if they are more profit-oriented than specialist discounters).

Here is a list of the earliest spring bloomers that you absolutely must pin in the fall:

• Anemone blanda 'Blue Shades', spring anemone with blue flowers, one of the first heralds of spring
• Anemone blanda 'Charmer', spring anemone with bright pink flowers above dark foliage
• Anemone blanda 'White Splendor', spring anemone with pure white, large, radiating flowers
• Anemone nemorosa, Windflower
• Anemone nemorosa 'Bracteata Pleniflora', double anemone
• Anemone ranunculoides, Yellow Anemone
• Anemone x lipsiensis, Leipzig bush anemone
• Chionodoxa forbesii 'Blue Giant', Snowglow in Blue
• Chionodoxa forbesii 'Pink Giant', Pink Snowglow
• Chionodoxa luciliae, Glossy Snow, lavender blue flowers with a white dot in the centre
• Chionodoxa luciliae 'Alba', Snow Gloss in pure white
• Corydalis solida 'GP Baker', Fingered Corydalis, Stunning red flowers
• Corydalis solida ssp. solida 'Mix', fingered larkspur, flower mix in purple, red, pink, white
• Crocus chrysanthus 'Ard Schenk', White Crocus
• Crocus chrysanthus 'Cream Beauty', Balkan crocus, creamy yellow with bronze yellow throat
• Crocus chrysanthus 'Prins Claus', snow crocus, white and purple on the outside
• Crocus korolkowii, Tashkent crocus, golden yellow, bronze colored flower on the outside
• Crocus minimus 'Spring Beauty', tiny crocus with lilac flowers darkly feathered on the outside
• Crocus sieberi ssp. sublimis 'Tricolor' crocus shows flowers in purple, white and yellow
• Crocus tommasinianus, Fairy Crocus with lavender purple flowers
• Crocus tommasinianus 'Roseus', elfin crocus with purple-pink flowers
• Crocus tommasinianus 'Ruby Giant', Fairy Crocus, purple flowers
• Eranthis cilicica, Winterling, golden yellow flowers
• Eranthis hyemalis, Winterling, bright yellow flowers with a great fragrance
• Erythronium dens-canis, dog's tooth, lilac-pink flowers, blue-green marbled leaves
• Galanthus elwesii var. elwesii, large-flowered snowdrop
• Galanthus nalis, Snowdrop
• Galanthus nalis 'Flore Pleno' and 'Hippolyta', double snowdrops
• Iris histrioides 'George', dwarf iris, purplish purple
• Iris histrioides 'Lady Beatrix Stanley', dwarf iris in cobalt blue
• Iris hybrid 'Katharine Hodgkin', dwarf iris, light blue flower with green-yellow tinge
• Leucojum vernum, snowflake, spring snowflake, flowers pure white with green
• Muscari azureum, grape hyacinth, flowers sky blue
• Muscari azureum 'Album', White Grape Hyacinth, flowers pure white
• Narcissus 'Arctic Gold', trumpet daffodil, flowers golden yellow, the classic daffodil
• Narcissus 'February Gold', Cyclamineus daffodil, with golden-orange trumpet
• Narcissus 'Ice Follies', large-crowned daffodil, creamy white, pale yellow crown
• Narcissus 'Manly', double daffodil, pale yellow, golden centre
• Narcissus 'Mount Hood', trumpet daffodil, ivory white
• Ornithogalum balansae, milk star, pure white flower
• Puschkinia scilloides var. libanotica, Puschkinia, flowers white with blue central stripes
• Puschkinia scilloides var. libanotica 'Alba', Puschkinia, pure white flowers
• Scilla bifolia, Two-Leaf Squill, purple-blue
• Scilla bifolia 'Rosea', Two-Leaf Squill, soft pink
• Scilla mischchenkoana, Caucasian squill, pale blue with darker central stripes
• Scilla siberica, Squill, has bright blue flowers
• Scilla siberica 'Alba', Squill, flowers pure white
• Tulipa kaufmanniana 'Early Harvest', water lily tulip, orange-red
• Tulipa kaufmanniana 'Heart's Delight', water lily tulip, pink with yellow centre
• Tulipa kaufmanniana 'Ice Stick', water lily tulip, white, yellow, deep pink
• Tulipa polychroma, white dwarf tulip with a yellow centre
• Tulipa turkestanica, Gnome Tulip, flowers ivory white with a yellow centre

Anything that “only blooms” can be planted earlier if you bought bulbs from a hasty dealer in the middle of summer. However, this usually has a negative effect: the flowers could be smaller, half-finished, and appear at the wrong times next season, but at some point the bulbous growth will level off.

There are bulbous flowers that, in addition to flowers, give a tasty harvest, they should also be planted in the fall:

• Allium fistulosum, winter hedge onion, distinctive green-white flowers, tasty bulbs
• Allium ursinum, wild garlic, delicious green leeks in early spring, a little later the dreamy white carpet of flowers appears
• Allium sativum, garlic, attractive purple, pink, white flowers, freshly enjoyed hardly any odor
• Allium senescens ssp. montanum, distinctive blue-green foliage, pink flowers and small hot onions, both edible
• Allium spec., ornamental onion, beautiful sometimes huge flower balls, flowers and young foliage taste delicious, many varieties
• Camassia quamash, Edible prairie lily, purple flower, the onion tastes good roasted, deep fried or sautéed in butter
• Crocus sativus, saffron crocus, nice purple flower, the pistils used as a spice are currently worth around €5000 per kilo
• Ipheion uniflorum, star flower, white flowers that taste like "garlic chives" like the leaves
• Muscari comosum, tufted grape hyacinth, deep purple flowers, onions taste good fried or pickled in oil

Planting edible bulb flowers at the wrong time will harm the crop. The bulbous plant starts to grow vigorously in the planting season, producing mini leeks, etc., which go into the winter too young and freeze. Bulb flowers that are harvested should develop in the right rhythm, then the harvest tastes good.

Conclusion

In the fall, a forward-thinking gardener has plenty to do, because this is when all long-lived plants grow set, which already show magnificent flowers in the next season or bring in a fully ripe harvest should. Many of these perennials, bulb flowers and small shrubs can also be planted in boxes or tubs on balconies and terraces cultivate, the frost-hardy plants that are native to us or that have been naturalized for a long time are all pleasantly undemanding and easy-care.

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