What are your favourite autumn flowers

[pigletwillie]

I find that the autumn flowering plants are the real showgirls of the borders, which are your favourite?

Whilst some of the poll options flower right through the season, all come good in the autumn and give my front garden a real vibrancy to it.

[Flummery]

My best do-ers are usually hardy fuchsias and a gorgeous lavatera 'barnsley' which are both flowering their hearts out at the moment. I also have lovely purple michealmas daisies in both front and back gardens.

[HappyMouffe]

It has to be dahlias - my dad used to show them to national standard in the '70s, so it was probably one of the first words I said. They bring back happy memories and have a very evocative smell.

Mind you, I now let the side down and just grow bedding dahlias from seed, rather than all the giant cacti, medium decs etc that dad used to grow.

[rustylady]

I love Michaelmas daisies (asters), specially the dwarf purple/lilac ones.

[nick the grief]

I grow Chrysanths & Dahlia's Piglet !!! How could I just pick 1

[veg4681]

I like the Autumn flowering bulbs best because I think they're more spectacular, very showy. But I'm thinking of Agapanthus, Nerine, Peruvian Lily, more Lilies, Freesia, Gladioli etc. but I don't know for sure if all of these are autumn flowering bulbs.

[Flummery]

A garden near me has a fantastic display of the autumn crocus (Naked Ladies) - I always think I'd like some but never see any at planting timm.

[momol]

I only have a handfull of flower variety, got chrysanthemun, croccus, tulips, calendula, marigold, cammomile, zinnia and dahlia. I will go for Dahlia ( for now ) and really hoping to enjoy a bit more flowers in the near future.

Momol

[JennieAtkinson]

Sunflower types for me - but they never get a chance to get going. As soon as they are ready to flower, we get the gales and they are blackened!

[moggssue]

Bulbs for me because in my case they seem to be more reliably 'showy'! But I love them all (as a US singer would say!!)

[SueA]

I voted for rudbeckia as I think they really shine out in autumn gardens but I never manage to grow any for one reason or another. Of the ones I have got I like penstemons as they give good value through summer & autumn & are very pretty & dainty looking but really quite tough.

[Two_Sheds]

I'm still picking armfuls of aster, Jerusalem Artichokes, scabious, dahlia, sunflowers and marguerites, but they are slowing down now... still plenty of bees around on the aster, Red Admirals too.