What flowers are in season, in Northwest Wisconsin During Mid-September? ?
Even in mid-September, late summer bloomers are still going strong if you continue to dead-head. Most of my bouquets at this time include sunflowers, cosmos, hybiscus, daisies, zinnia, hydrangea, coneflower, calendula, and many flowering herbs, such as catmint, mints, anise hyssop and even a second harvest of lavender if the plants are feeling cooperative. I also love using shrub roses, because I can often encourage them to bloom straight until frost – much easier to deal with than the more fickle tea roses. And I love some of the drying flowers as well – many varieties of amaranth, statice and strawflower look their best around September. Plus you can cut, dry and have some nice arrangements for fall and winter with these plants. Deadheading is the key, especially for annuals. If you continue to cut flowers for bouquets and deadhead, the flower is forced to continue to try to complete its reproduction cycle. An annual flowers’ goal is to set seed, which it can only do if the flower is
I’ve had marigolds in my garden for two years in a row. I’ve enjoyed the different colors of marigolds plus they lasted until October even at temperatures slightly above 32. The first year, I planted the marigolds from seeds and transplanted them to space them apart. It took about 2 months before it started flowering. There are a lot of flowers from just one plant and continuous too throughout the summer and into fall. It even beat the chrysanthemums I planted. Marigolds need little care too. I just watered them once in a while. The one thing I do is remove the old blooms once it turns brown. The following year, a few Marigolds sprouted from the same area so I just transplanted them to a desired location and surprisingly grew well too.
