27 Gorgeous Fall Flowers for Your Best Autumn Garden

Highlight the bounty of autumn by packing your garden with a variety of plants, such as sedum, purple cabbage, ornamental peppers, Mexican bush sage, and cosmos. The fiery shades of orange and yellow are balanced by the cooler tones of purple of blue in this vibrant container mix. Add colorful stacked pumpkins to really take your garden to the next level.

Marigolds add a splash of bright orange and yellow to container gardens. Enjoy these hardy blooms throughout summer and early fall.

Russian sage makes a bold statement in any garden—both for its purple-silvery color and for its height, which can reach up to 5 feet, with a spread of 3 feet.

Perennials are plants that not only survive through early fall, but they also thrive. Here, viola, euphorbia, and variegated ivy are merged with pink Lenten rose to create a beautiful home container.

The classic combination of mums and pumpkins will give your front entry a warm welcome this fall.

While perennial sunflowers don't bear the large flowering heads like their annual counterparts, these long-blooming, daisy-like plants are still just as bright. Plant once and enjoy for years to come.

Lantana is a fall-blooming favorite that will reward you handsomely with abundant flowers and plenty of color this season. Thrill, fill, and spill your containers with it, as well as fountain grass and sweet potato vines.

This container garden is both a feast for the eyes and the plate, since it contains leafy lettuce greens and colorful violas and mums.

If you could pick any plant for your garden's grand finale, it should be the official flower of autumn—chrysanthemum. Mix in a little coleus to really make your containers shine.

Plant asters in late summer, and you’ll enjoy a vivid display in a myriad of different shades, including blues, reds, pinks, and purples from mid-September through November.

This is the brilliant result when mums are packed inside pumpkins to add autumnal flair to your entryway.

These red viola-filled containers have serious curb appeal. A display like this deserves to be front and center.

If you haven't already, you'll fall in love with wispy anise hyssop. Not only is it a beautiful flower to plant, but it's also a medicinal herb and scented perennial that attracts bees, hummingbirds, and butterflies.

When you grow tired of smaller-bloom violas, try their floral country cousin—pansies. These eye-catching flowers will liven up your garden through fall.

Bright colors and bold foliage lend themselves to an impressive container garden display.

Galvanized buckets filled with violas and creeping Jenny are true garden gems.

Say hello to this late-season beauty.

Colchicum is a winter-grower with a major wow factor!

For vertical height and tri-color impact, you can't go wrong with velvety heleniums. In addition, they're also a great deer and rabbit repeller.

No fall garden should be without these petite Heirloom violas or, as they're often called, "Johnny Jump-Ups."

Mum's the word.

A late-blooming standout, sedums require very little attention and they’re drought tolerant. You can either plant the creeping, low-growers or tall, vertical sedums. Both types offer tiny, colorful clusters in pink, yellow, red, white, or purple.

Bring a little enchantment and excitement to a rustic planter with mums and foliage.

By far, one of the longest-lasting bloomers and showiest plants that make up the perennial group. You and the butterflies will appreciate the purple coneflower's large, rose flowers and rust-colored central cone.

Move over, mums—there’s another colorful perennial that’s taking center stage in containers. Loosen things up with free-flowing asters. Mix purple ones with ornamental cabbage, Mexican bush sage, purple waffle plant, lamb’s ears, and ‘Purple Prince’ alternanthera to create this moody fall display. Blooming in late summer and early fall, asters can withstand the South’s fickle autumn temperatures.

An evergreen topiary like this ball-form spruce is also a hard worker, going strong through fall and winter. Pair it with ‘Orange Marmalade’ firecracker flower, and it will feel at home on the porch during the changing seasons. Firecracker flower (also called crossandra) is an MVP from late August through early fall as its colorful bloom spikes continue to shine even when most other summer flowers are dying off. If your area gets a final heat wave, firecracker flower will take it in stride as long as you keep it watered.

Marigolds and coneflowers make a magnificent summer-to-fall transition.

Plant variegated sweet flag in the center, surround it with alternating plantings of bright coneflowers and marigolds. Fill in the outer edges with ivy, allowing it to spill over the sides. water regularly, particularly if the sweet flag and ivy are sitting in direct light. The flowers love full sun and will provide color for a long time (even until the first frost) if spent blooms are removed throughout the season.