Your perennial borders will peak by mid-summer just as a wider range of sun loving flowers start to bloom. With a mix now in your garden including leftovers from spring and nearing the end of the summer months, there will also be signs of the later blooming flowers too. Your annuals will also be in full bloom during mid-summer.

Then a third wave of beautiful blooms begin to brighten up your garden once again when the summer flowers start to fade. The colours in your garden now begin to change in the autumn with many perennials now blooming in fabulous shades of yellow, purple and orange. Amongst the autumn flowers are your annuals which continue to provide full flowers until first frost. Later again in the season, flowers such as sedum and black-eyed Susan change into brown and rust coloured seeded heads. They look stunning with the colourful foliage on the surrounding trees. Foliage of late season perennial is attractive just on its own.

Winter is the season which most gardeners will forget about their landscape but the garden can offer colour and a visual interest through its evergreen shrubs and bark, plant form and seeded heads.
The winter landscape would be quite empty without the hardy evergreen trees and shrubs. Garden walls and surrounding fences become even more prominent as foliage that had screened them in the summer disappears completely. So hedges along with walls, make a strong statement in winter.

With careful planning, it is now possible to have a stunning garden year round. Even in the winter months, when everything appears stark and barren.