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
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Flower colour
Evergreen / deciduous
Fragrance
Attractive to wildlife
Quick growing
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Special features
- Architectural silhouettes (9)
- Attractive seedheads (33)
- Autumn foliage colour (2)
- Berries or fruit (24)
- Coloured leaves (25)
- Colourful bark or stems (1)
- Deciduous (2)
- Easy to grow (17)
- Evergreen / semi evergreen (51)
- Fast growing (1)
- Flowering (421)
- Long flowering (94)
- Low maintenance (77)
- Makes a good hedge or screen (7)
- Non poisonous (372)
- Plants that show resistance to deer and rabbits (48)
- Plants that will cope with the odd football (12)
- Plants to deter vandals and burglars (9)
- Resistant to diseases (49)
- Stylish in the border (8)
- Sublime umbelliferas (3)
- Suitable for containers (159)
- Suitable for hanging baskets (46)
- Tough plants that are harder to kill (31)
- Winter colour (29)
House plants by room
Bulb type
- Dahlia (Division 1) Single-flowered (6)
- Dahlia (Division 10) Miscellaneous (7)
- Dahlia (Division 11) Fimbriated (5)
- Dahlia (Division 12) Star (3)
- Dahlia (Division 13) Orchid (1)
- Dahlia (Division 14) Paeony-flowered (2)
- Dahlia (Division 2) Anemone-flowered (4)
- Dahlia (Division 3) Collerette (5)
- Dahlia (Division 4) Waterlily (3)
- Dahlia (Division 5) Decorative (34)
- Dahlia (Division 6) Ball (12)
- Dahlia (Division 8) Cactus (3)
- Dahlia (Division 9) Semi cactus (11)
Chelsea plant of year
Sowing month inside or protected
Sowing month outside
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Leaf colour
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Position
Shape
Soil moisture
Used at Chelsea
- 2002 - HRH The Prince of Wales - Laurent-Perrier (1)
- 2003 - Tom Stuart-Smith - Laurent-Perrier (2)
- 2005 - Tom Stuart-Smith - Laurent-Perrier (1)
- 2006 - Tom Stuart-Smith - Laurent-Perrier (4)
- 2007 - Jinny Blom - Laurent-Perrier (3)
- 2008 - Arabella Lennox-Boyd - Daily Telegraph (1)
- 2009 - Luciano Guibbilei - Laurent-Perrier (2)
- 2009 - Ulf Nordfjell - Daily Telegraph (3)
- 2010 - Andy Sturgeon - Daily Telegraph (3)
- 2011 - Cleve West - Daily Telegraph (6)
- 2012 - Arne Maynard - Laurent-Perrier (2)
- 2012 - Sarah Price - Daily Telegraph (1)
- 2013 - Christopher Bradley-Hole - Daily Telegraph (4)
- 2013 - Ulf Nordfjell - Laurent-Perrier (2)
- 2014 - Luciano Guibbilei - Laurent-Perrier (2)
- 2014 - Tommaso del Buono - Daily Telegraph (1)
- 2015 - Dan Pearson - Laurent-Perrier (2)
- 2015 - Marcus Barnett - Daily Telegraph (2)
- 2016 - Andy Sturgeon - Daily Telegraph (1)
- 2018 - Sarah Price - M & G (1)
- 2018 Tom Stuart-Smith - Garfield Weston Foundation (2)
- 2019 - Andy Sturgeon - M & G (1)
Kitchen garden planting guidelines
Anemone × hybrida 'Honorine Jobert'
£11.99
£8.39
Anemone × hybrida 'Königin Charlotte'
£11.99
£8.39
Arbutus unedo
£14.99
Calendula officinalis
£2.49
£1.99
Calendula officinalis 'Snow Princess'
£2.99
£2.39
Cambria 'Lazio'
£24.99
£19.99
Clematis 'Minuet'
£14.99
Clematis flammula
£16.99
Cosmos bipinnatus 'Dazzler'
£2.79
£2.23
Cosmos bipinnatus 'Purity'
£2.79
£2.23
Cosmos bipinnatus 'Rubenza'
£2.99
£2.39
Cosmos bipinnatus 'Xanthos'
£2.99
£2.39
Fatsia japonica
£17.99
Fatsia japonica
£59.99
Fuchsia 'Chilli Red'
£14.99
£11.99
Fuchsia 'Genii'
£14.99
Fuchsia 'Mrs Popple'
£14.99
£11.99
Fuchsia 'Sunray'
£14.99
Hakonechloa macra 'Alboaurea'
£12.99
£10.39
Heather collection (6 mixed heathers)
£24.99
£19.99
Hebe 'Caledonia'
£14.99
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