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Planting for late-season colour
A long garden season is less about one perfect month and more about giving the eye something new to notice as the year moves on.
Late summer colour is often more satisfying when it arrives in layers. Seed heads, grasses and repeat-flowering perennials can keep a border active after the first rush of spring has passed.
Plan for the handover
Look at what is fading as much as what is flowering. A good planting plan has small overlaps, so one moment leads naturally into the next instead of leaving a gap to fill later.
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