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Bring late season appeal to your yard with vines, shrubs, trees, and flowers that retain their good looks through the sweet, golden days of autumn. Nancy J. Ondra and Stephanie Cohen indentify all the key fall-specific players and explain how to combine them with multiseason workhorse plants to create gardens that move gracefully from spring through the riotous days of summer and into the last hurrah of autumn.

Beautiful blooms, rich foliage, and dramatic seed heads all have their roles to play in long-lasting fallscapes. Ondra and Cohen discuss dozens of their favorites in each category and offer extensive advice on how best to integrate them into landscapes that give as much pleasure in October as they do in July.

Practical, plant advice plus ten complete garden plans will have you puttering in the dirt later in the year than you ever thought possible. Here are the vines, tree shrubs and flowers that you'll love to tend through September and even into November - plants that contribute color, texture, and beauty well past summer's peak.

About the Authors Nancy J. Ondra and Stephanie Cohen are the best-selling authors of The Perennial Gardener's Design Primer. A noted garden writer, Ondra's other books include Foliage and Grasses. Cohen is an award recipient of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society and the Perennial Plant Association.