Recommendations for late summer flowering cottage garden perennials

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My garden seems to be over early in the summer.

What do you have that you like and flowers later?

Heleniums are lovely. I adore Japanese anemones 'honorine jobert' but have them in an area where they can't spread too far (surrounded by paths).

Hydrangea
Crocosmia
Some roses flower later

Aster × frikartii 'Mönch'
Hesperantha coccinea will flower into December in my corner of South Wales, my gardener considered them dreadful invasive weeds, but I love their scarlet flowers brightening the garden when all the other flowers have gone dormant.

Rudbeckia and asters.

In my garden I have eryngium, and Russian sage (perovskia). Both are drought-proof, frost-proof perennials and give lovely flowers from late summer onwards. Very easy to look after, too.

I also have Rosa Wild Edric. It starts blooming in May, and still gave me flowers into November.

Sedum 'autumn joy'
Penstemons
Eryngium 'bowles mauve' (seems to flower all year round in my garden)

Sanguisorba
Dahlias
Verbena bonariensis
Nerines (they need to be in a very sunny spot)

My mum gave me a very good tip for getting something interesting in the garden all year round. Go to the garden centre each month and buy the perennial or shrub you like the best then. That way the next year you'll have something you love doing its thing in every month.

Verbena bonarieses (the tall purple one) lasts through to october and makes a beautiful soft impact

I love this advice

Hardy chrysanthemums are late flowering and very easy to grow and propagate