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.

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Dahlia (Division 14) Paeony-flowered (3)
Dahlia (Division 2) Anemone-flowered (4)
Dahlia (Division 5) Decorative (6)
Dahlia (Division 6) Ball (2)
Dahlia (Division 8) Cactus (2)
Dahlia (Division 9) Semi cactus (4)

Bedding planting time

Autumn & winter planting bedding (3)
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July (3)
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October (11)

Vegetable harvesting month

July (1)
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September (2)
October (1)

Vegetable groups

Legumes (1)
Other cooking vegetables (1)

Multibuy packs

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Multibuy offers (226)
Selected offers (1)

Ready made borders

Ready-made border Autumn colour (7)
Ready-made border Azure and gold border (2)
Ready-made border Bee and Butterfly (3)
Ready-made border Blending purples (1)
Ready-made border Brilliant orange (4)
Ready-made border Budget (5)
Ready-made border Chalky soil (4)
Ready-made border Cool grasses and hot exotics (2)
Ready-made border Cool shade (1)
Ready-made border Cottage garden scheme (2)
Ready-made border Dry Mediterranean (3)
Ready-made border Fiery summer (3)
Ready-made border Flowers for pollinators (2)
Ready-made border Good bedfellows (4)
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Ready-made border Jewel border (1)
Ready-made border Keep it cool (5)
Ready-made border Lady Marmalade (1)
Ready-made border Red summer (4)
Ready-made border Sandy soil (1)
Ready-made border Shades of pink (3)
Ready-made border Smoky (1)
Ready-made border Steamy jungle (1)
Ready-made border Summer savanna (1)
Ready-made border Sun lovers (2)

Planting combinations

Acid shade plant combination (1)
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Agastache and Angelica plant combination (2)
Agastache and Echinops plant combination (1)
Agastache and Helenium plant combination (1)
Cool tones plant combination (2)
Create a praire plant combination (2)
Create a prairie plant combination (2)
Echinops and Salvia plant combination (1)
Edible flower seed combination (1)
Evergreen groundcover plant combination (1)
Featured combinations (1)
Golden prairie plant combination (2)
Green and white plant combination (1)
Henry Agg Dog friendly plants (3)
Inula and Persicaria plant combination (1)
Less is more plant combination (1)
Long flowering plant combination (1)
Low maintenance gems plant combination (3)
Moisture plant combination (1)
Persicaria and Echinacea plant combination (1)
Pink and purple long-flowering plant combination (1)
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Rich tones slug resistant plant combination (1)
Sedum and Aster plant combination (1)
Shady clay plant combination (3)
Spires and spots plant combination (2)
Stars of the show plant combination (1)
Sunny clay plant combination (1)
The Highgrove Kitchen Garden Collection (5)
Vibrant colour for bees plant combination (1)
Vibrant colour seed combination (8)
White flowering seed combination (7)
Year round groundcover plant combination (1)
Yellow and gold plant combination (2)

Hardy

No (129)
Semi (125)
Yes (191)

Leaf colour

Blue (4)
Bronze (8)
Green (386)
Purple (14)
Red (1)
Silver (6)
Variegated (14)
Yellow (4)

Ground cover

No (257)
Yes (59)

Position

Arches & pergolas (3)
Back of border (24)
Bottom of hedges (5)
Conservatories (20)
Covering eyesores (8)
Front of border (182)
Middle of border (157)
Next to a patio (85)
Next to a pond (13)
Next to an entrance (58)
Next to seating areas (93)
Steep banks (29)
Through hedges (11)
Walls & fences (21)

Shape

Ball (2)
Bushy (3)
Columnar (1)
Fountain (7)
Hummock (2)
Lollipop (1)
Spreading (1)

Soil moisture

Damp (17)
Dry/Sandy (110)
Normal (382)
Red (1)

Used at Chelsea

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2009 - Luciano Guibbilei - Laurent-Perrier (1)
2009 - Ulf Nordfjell - Daily Telegraph (2)
2010 - Andy Sturgeon - Daily Telegraph (4)
2010 - Tom Stuart-Smith - Laurent-Perrier (1)
2011 - Cleve West - Daily Telegraph (6)
2012 - Arne Maynard - Laurent-Perrier (4)
2012 - Sarah Price - Daily Telegraph (1)
2013 - Christopher Bradley-Hole - Daily Telegraph (7)
2013 - Ulf Nordfjell - Laurent-Perrier (1)
2014 - Luciano Guibbilei - Laurent-Perrier (1)
2014 - Tommaso del Buono - Daily Telegraph (4)
2015 - Dan Pearson - Laurent-Perrier (1)
2015 - Marcus Barnett - Daily Telegraph (3)
2016 - Andy Sturgeon - Daily Telegraph (1)
2017 - James Basson - M & G (1)
2018 - Sarah Price - M & G (2)
2018 Tom Stuart-Smith - Garfield Weston Foundation (1)
2019 - Andy Sturgeon - M & G (1)
2022 - Andy Sturgeon - Mind Garden / Crocus (4)
2023 - Sarah Price - Nurture Garden (3)
2024 - Tom Stuart-Smith - National Garden Scheme (2)
2024 - Ula Maria - Muscular Dystrophy (1)

Kitchen garden planting guidelines

Propagate in green house (21)
Suitable for compact container gardening (6)
Suitable for grow beds (28)
Suitable for large container gardening (28)
Suitable for window boxes (6)
Use cloche (23)

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Calibrachoa Cabaret Bright Red ('Balcabrite') (PBR) (Cabaret Series)

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bacopa 'Snowflake'

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Petunia Black Velvet ('Balpevac') (PBR)

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Calibrachoa 'Can-can Double OrangeTastic' (Can-can Series)

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Petunia Surfinia Lime ('Keiyeul') (PBR) (Surfinia Series)

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Gazania 'Christopher Lloyd'

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Erigeron karvinskianus

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Calibrachoa 'Can-can Black Cherry' (Can-can Series)

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Petunia Easy Wave Silver ('Pas1016992') (Easy Wave Series)

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Petunia Easy Wave Red Velour ('Pas933560') (Easy Wave Series)

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Calibrachoa 'Can-can Double Apricot' (Can-can Series)

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Delosperma cooperi 'Jewel of Desert Grenade' (PBR) (Jewel of Desert Series)

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Pelargonium 'Torrento'

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Delosperma White Wonder ('Wowdw7') (Wheels of Wonder Series) (PBR)

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Delosperma cooperi Hot Pink Wonder ('Wowdry1') (PBR) (Wheels of Wonder Series)

Delosperma cooperi Hot Pink Wonder ('Wowdry1') (Wheels of Wonder Series) (PBR)

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Pelargonium fragrans

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Pelargonium quercifolium

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Pelargonium 'Lemon Fizz'

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Verbena bonariensis

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