Plants that Flower in October
The garden is lit up like a torch as as the leaves turn fiery shades, but there are still flowers to be had too. The ornamental grasses are often at their best now, but if you want something a little more exotic, try a nerine.
By type
Facing
How much sun
Special conditions
Multibuy packs
Chelsea 2019
Soil type
Flower colour
Evergreen / deciduous
Fragrance
Attractive to wildlife
Quick growing
Eventual size
Special features
- Architectural silhouettes (6)
- Attractive seedheads (25)
- Autumn foliage colour (4)
- Berries or fruit (22)
- Coloured leaves (10)
- Colourful bark or stems (1)
- Deciduous (2)
- Easy to grow (12)
- Evergreen / semi evergreen (36)
- Flowering (179)
- Long flowering (66)
- Low maintenance (40)
- Makes a good hedge or screen (5)
- Non poisonous (126)
- Plants that show resistance to deer and rabbits (32)
- Plants that will cope with the odd football (3)
- Resistant to diseases (18)
- Stylish in the border (2)
- Sublime umbelliferas (2)
- Suitable for containers (55)
- Suitable for hanging baskets (8)
- Tough plants that are harder to kill (19)
- Winter colour (29)
House plants by room
Bedding planting time
Chelsea plant of year
Sowing month inside or protected
Sowing month outside
Hardy
Leaf colour
Ground cover
Position
Shape
Soil moisture
Used at Chelsea
- 2003 - Tom Stuart-Smith - Laurent-Perrier (2)
- 2006 - Tom Stuart-Smith - Laurent-Perrier (3)
- 2007 - Jinny Blom - Laurent-Perrier (3)
- 2008 - Arabella Lennox-Boyd - Daily Telegraph (1)
- 2009 - Luciano Guibbilei - Laurent-Perrier (1)
- 2009 - Ulf Nordfjell - Daily Telegraph (2)
- 2010 - Andy Sturgeon - Daily Telegraph (2)
- 2011 - Cleve West - Daily Telegraph (4)
- 2012 - Arne Maynard - Laurent-Perrier (1)
- 2012 - Sarah Price - Daily Telegraph (1)
- 2013 - Christopher Bradley-Hole - Daily Telegraph (4)
- 2013 - Ulf Nordfjell - Laurent-Perrier (2)
- 2014 - Luciano Guibbilei - Laurent-Perrier (1)
- 2014 - Tommaso del Buono - Daily Telegraph (3)
- 2015 - Marcus Barnett - Daily Telegraph (1)
- 2016 - Andy Sturgeon - Daily Telegraph (1)
- 2018 Tom Stuart-Smith - Garfield Weston Foundation (2)
- 2019 - Andy Sturgeon - M & G (1)
Seed planting guidelines
Liriope muscari
£11.99
Hebe 'Caledonia'
£14.99
Arbutus unedo
£12.99
Clematis 'Minuet'
£14.99
Heather collection (6 mixed heathers)
£41.94
£20.97
tea plant
£14.99
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