Happy September! It’s almost fall y’all! While this is a crazy busy time in the garden, we’re much anticipating the changes in temps, plants and gardens! It’s been a hot summer and the last two years has brought a lot of fatigue to the world as a whole. We’re hopeful for a brilliant blooming fall and a time to reset a little before our holiday season begins in earnest.

This month, we’re planting over 10,000 “baby plants” in the nursery yard for the gardens, plant sale and the NCHC store. These include violas, pansies, herbs and winter blooming perennials. This is also the one of the last months you’ll get to see most of our summer annuals since the time for mums and violas is soon approaching! The gardens will be in transition over the next few weeks making room for new things. Many of the other gardens have perennials still holding their own as our annuals start to morph into their winter phases.

We’ve got some amazing new flowers in both bulbs and annuals coming soon, but you’ll still get the short burst of signature fall color from chrysanthemums later this month and part of October. Keep an eye on the asters and salvias this time of the year for some really amazing pollinator plants with fall colors! Join us for our Behind the Scenes tour on September 28 to learn more!

Our Fall Plant Sale is October 8& 9 from 9-5, during Garden Lovers weekend, featuring free gardens admission October 8-10.

We’ll have perennials, shrubs, trees, annuals and edible plants! Come early to get your favorites!

In preparation for this sale, we’ll be co-hosting with Craven County Agricultural Center, “Heritage Plants of ENC & Trade Specials” on Saturday, September 18th, at 10:00 AM, in the Cullman Performance Hall at the North Carolina History Center. Jennifer Knight, community gardener, Craven County Master Gardener, and owner of Knightscapes Enterprises, and I will be leading a discussion and sneak peek into some of our favorite plants and what we’ll have at the Fall Sale! Masks are required. Be sure to join us!

We’ve got plenty of work to do in the gardens and we always love more help. Our volunteers are the absolute reason that we are able to accomplish as much as we do. We especially need help mowing, watering and mulching in the gardens. Due to current guidance, we do require all volunteers to be fully vaccinated. We’ve got plenty of work to do in the gardens and we always love more help. If that sounds like your cup of tea, please contact me at hadley.cheris@ncdcr.gov.

We hope to see you soon! Happy Gardening,

Hadley Cheris, Tryon Palace Gardens and Greenhouse Manager

Annuals

• Angelonia ‘Serena Mix’, ‘Serena White’
• Annual Phlox (Phlox drummondii) mix
• Banana ‘Musa’
• Basil, multiple varieties- lavender, white, dark purple
• Cardinal Basil- massive purple flower heads
• Batchelor’s Buttons (Centaurea cyanus) blue
• Begonias Tophat White with Green Leaf’
• California Poppy (Escholzia californica) yellow, white, orange
• Celosia ‘Century Mix’, ‘Sol Gekko Green’
• Cleome ‘Clio Magenta’
• Coleus ‘Kong Mix Empire’, ‘Chocolate Covered Cherry’, ‘Stained Glassworks’
• Cosmos (Cosmos bipinnatus) orange, yellow, pinks
• Cuphea ‘Sriacha Rose’; FloriGlory Diana; Dynamite, ‘Pink Shimmer’
• Dahlia ‘Figaro Mix’
• Dianthus- Super Parfait Raspberry, Zing Rose
• Dusty Miller ‘Silver Dust’
• Flowering Tobacco (Nicotiana sp) various
• Gazania ‘Tiger Mix’, ‘Pink Shades’, ‘Colorado’, ‘Sunny Side Up’, ‘New Magic’, ‘New Day Yellow’, ‘Enorma Mix’
• Gerbera ‘Revolution Mix Select’, ‘Floriline Maxi Mix’
• Geranium ‘Americana White’
• Gomphrena ‘Buddy Purple’, ‘Las Vegas Mix’
• Hibiscus ‘Mahogany Splendor’
• Johnny-jump-up (Viola tricolor) purple and yellow
• Marigolds- yellows, reds, oranges
• Mexican Sunflower (Tithonia)- Orange
• Pennisetum Fireworks- purple blades
• Pentas- Butterfly Mix, Glitterati Purple Star
• Portulaca ‘Happy Hour Mix’
• Salvia farinacea ‘Victoria White’, ‘Victoria Blue’, ‘Evolution Violet Blue’, ‘Sallyfun Deep Ocean’
• Snapdragons (Antirrhinum majus) various
• Sunflowers (Helianthus sp.) various colors of yellow and red
• Sweet Potato Vine (Ipomea) 'Flora Mia Cameo', 'Flora Mia Verdino'
• Sweet William (Dianthus) Telstar Mix; red, white, pink
• Torenia ‘Kauai Rose’
• Vinca- ‘Cora XDR Mix’, ‘Cora XDR White’, ‘Pacifica White’
• Zinnias- multiple varieties

Perennials

• Asters (Aster frickarti & Symphyotrichum sp ) blue, pink
• Balloon Flower (Platycodon grandiflorus) blue, pink, white
• Balloon Milkweed (Asclepias physocarpus)
• Bachelor’s Button (Centaurea montana)
• Barrenwort (Epimedium grandiflorum) yellow
• Bath’s Pink (Dianthus gratianopolitanus) pink
• Bee Balm (Monarda didyma) red
• Spotted Bee Balm (Monarda punctata)
• Betony “Hummelo” purple
• Black-eyed Susans (Rudbeckia hirta) yellow
• Blanket Flower (Gaillardia puchella) red + yellow
• Bleeding Heart (Dicentra eximia) pink/white
• Bluebeard (Caryopteris x clandonensis Gold Crest) Gold foliage, blue blooms
• Bog Sage (Salvia uliginosa) light blue
• Bronze Fennel (Foeniculum vulgare) yellow
• Bugleweed (Ajuga reptans) blue
• Butterfly Weed (Asclepias tuberosa) yellow,orange ***May have Monarch Caterpillars***
• Callirhoe/ Purple Poppy Mallow
• Cape Leadwort (Plumbago capensis) blue
• Carnation (Dianthus sp.) various
• Carolina Phlox (Phlox Carolina ‘Miss Lingard’) white
• Catmint (Nepeta faassenii) blue, pink
• Columbine (Aquilegia canadensis) red/yellow & (Aquilegia vulgare) rose, purple, white spurs
• Comfrey (Symphytum officinale) blue
• Coneflower (Echinacea purpurea) various
• Confederate Rose (Hibiscus mutabilis) white to pink
• Coral Bells (Heuchera sp.) variety of leaf colors, blooms white or pink
• Cup Plant (Silphium) yellow
• Dusty Miller- gray foliage, yellow flowers
• English Daisy (Bellis perennis) white, pink
• Daisy, Ox-Eye (Leucanthemum vulgare); Shasta (Chrysanthemum X superbum) white
• Fleabane (Erigeron sp) white
• Four o’clocks (Mirabilis jalapa) fuschia, yellow, pinks
• Garden Phlox (Phlox paniculata)- ‘David’- white; ‘Eva Cullum’ –pink; Wanda- purple
• Garlic Chives (Allium tuberosum) white
• Gaura (Gaura lindheimeri ‘Whirling Butterflies’ & ‘Sparkle White’) pink, white
• Giant Coneflower (Rudbeckia maxima) yellow
• Green-headed Coneflower (Rudbeckia lacinata) yellow
• Hosta sp. White, lavendar bloom spikes
• Hyssop (Agastache sp.) blue, warm colors
• Indigofera kirilowii purple
• Ironweed (Vernonia noveboracenis) purple, white
• Lantana ‘Dallas Red’, ‘Evita Orange’, ‘Evita Rose’
• Lion’s Ear (Leonotus leonurus) orange
• Liriope sp. blue
• Lisianthus 'Voyage Pink' pink
• Lisianthus 'Voyage Champagne' pale yellow
• Lungwort (Pulmonaria saccharata) blue
• Lithodrora diffusa blue
• Lungwort (Pulmonaria saccharata) blue
• Mexican Hat (Ratibida columnifera) yellow/brown
• Hairy Mountain Mint (Pycnanthemum pilosum)
• Narrow Mountain Mint (Pycnanthemum tenuifolium)
• Patrinia (Patrinia scabiosifolia) yellow
• Rose Campion (Lychnis coronaria) pink or white
• Rue (Ruta graveolens) chartreuse
• Salvia (Salvia microphylla ‘Hot Lips’) red & white & (Salvia greggii) red, pink
• Scented geraniums-small pink, lavender flowers
• Sedum (Sedum X) yellow, pink
• Shasta daisy (Chrysanthemum X superbum) white
• Soapwort (Saponaria ocymoides) pink
• Spotted Dead Nettle (Lanium macultum) variegated foliage
• Stokes’ Aster (Stokesia laevis) blue
• Sweet William (Dianthus barbatus) red, white, pink
• Tatarian Aster (Aster tartaricus) blue
• Texas Star or Rose Mallow (Hibiscus coccineus) red
• Tickseed (Coreopsis lanceolata) yellow
• Tropical Milkweed (Asclepias curassavica) red, yellow, orange
• Valerian (Centranthus ruber) red
• Vervain (Verbena bonariensis) purple
• Virginia Spiderwort (Tradescantia virginiana) blue, purple, pink
• Vinca (Vinca minor) blue
• Viper’s Bugloss (Echium vulgare) blue & Viper’s Bugloss (Echium tuberculatum) pink
• Wild Bergamot (Monarda fistulosa) purple
• Wild Geranium (Geranium pratense) magenta
• Yarrow (Achillea sp.) yellow, white, pastels

Bulbs, Corms and Rhizomes

• Asiatic Lilies (Lilium sp.) reds, yellows, orange, pink
• Blackberry Lily (Iris domestica) orange speckled, with blackberry like seed pods
• Crinum lily-pink, white
• Crocosmia red, orange, yellow
• Daylilies (Hemerocallis sp:): ‘Happy Returns’ yellow; ‘Stella d’ Oro’ yellow-orange; ‘Pardon Me’ wine w/yellow throat; ‘Prairie Blue Eyes’ lavender; variety of reds, yellows, oranges, pinks
• Elephant Ear (Colocasia) ‘Black Coral’, ‘Hawaiian Punch’
• Fall Crocus (Colchicum sp.) Pink
• Formosa lily (Lilium formosum) white
• Ginger Lily (Hedychium coronarium) white, yellow, orange
• Gloriosa Lily (Gloriosa superba) yellow, red
• Iris:

• Bearded Iris “Immortality” white, reblooming

• Variegated Japanese Iris (Iris ensata) variegated green and white foliage

• Naked Ladies or Surprise Lily (Lycoris squamigeria ) pink sans foliage
• Oriental Lily (Lilium oriental ‘Rubrum’)
• Pineapple Lily (Eucomis comosa ‘Sparkling Burgundy’) - burgundy
• Pink Rain Lily (Habranthus robustus) pink
• Rain Lily (Zephyranthes sp.) pink, white
• Solomon’s Seal (Polygonatum biflorum or P. multiflorum) variegated foliage, white blooms
• Tiger Lily (Lilium sp.) orange & black
• Toad Lily (Tricyrtis hirta) pink, purple

Vines

• Coral Honeysuckle (Lonicera sumpervirens) native, red and yellow
• Crossvine (Bignonia capreolata) orange
• Sweet Autumn Clematis (Clematis terniflora) white
• Trumpet Vine (Campsis grandiflora) orange
• Vinca (Vinca minor) blue

Roses