A Fabulous Fall Border with Anemone, Verbena and Sanguisorba

Winner of the Award of Garden Merit from the Royal Horticultural Society, Verbena bonariensis is a tall and slender-stemmed perennial that displays rich lilac flowers in tight clusters atop long stems that sway gracefully in the summer breeze. They rise well above rosettes of lance-shaped, dark green leaves that hug the ground. A superior nectar plant, hummingbirds and butterflies love it, and so will you!

Highly decorative with its profuse and attractive, fluffy, white flowers, rising on tall willowy stems and bobbing in the air, Sanguisorba tenuifolia 'Alba' is a prized addition to the garden. Commonly known as White Japanese Burnet, this vigorous perennial enjoys an equally beautiful foliage of intricately cut dark green leaves. This very ornamental plant is a 'see-through' plant which may be planted at the front of the border since the tall flower stalks are so airy and delicate that we can see through them to the plants behind.

With very large (3 in. wide or 7 cm), semi-double, silky pink blossoms, award-winner Anemone x hybrida 'Konigin Charlotte' or 'Queen Charlotte' is a luminous and eye-catching Japanese Anemone variety that is perfect to enliven the late summer or fall garden. Dancing and swaying in the breeze, the attractive blossoms, counting up to 10-15 petals, are gracefully carried on wiry stems above mounds of three-lobed, dark green foliage. Low care and well-behaved, this garden beauty is a popular choice. Who could resist?