What summer flowers have been in your borders for colour July August?

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My spring garden was pretty and September revving up now. But I’ve hardly had any flowers in July and August. Any recommendations for pretty border flowers / perennials or anything from seed . Thanks I need to be planning now I think!

Roses? Floribunda roses are repeat flowering and if you dead-head them they carry on for ages. I've known one of mine to still be going at Christmas!

Mine is full of various dahlias. They've been really amazing this year.

Love roses, they have been good all summer and still going now
but don’t need more !

Salvia’s, verbena bonariensis, fleabane, roses, buddleia, evening primrose, thyme, oregano, lavender,

Sanguisorba is quite new to me and has been amazing. Also hydrangea, rudbeckia, scabious.

Perennials: Salvia amistad, verbena bonariensis, dahlias, cannas, crocosmia, eucomis, echinacea

Annuals grown from seed: cleomes, zinnias, morning glories, nicotiana

Cosmos have done well this summer, as long as they are regularly dead headed, also with no maintenance Gaura lindheimeri 'Whirling Butterfly, which is lovely

Annual Asters are amazing this year, bloom after bloom. The Cosmos and tobacco plants are still going strong.

Hydrangea
My roses are better now than they were all summer
phlox (July)
Echinacea
Fuchsia

Zinnias *
Dahlias
Gaura*
Roses
Salvias
Cosmos*
Morning glory*
Clarkia*
Verbena
Sunflowers*
Linaria*
Night scented stock *
Fuchsia
Straw flowers*
Lavender
Jasmine
Mexican Fleabane

stared = grown from seed

I’ll also add echinops - cut them right back after first flowering and they’re flowering again now.