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Rudbeckia ‘Autumn Colors’ is a perennial that can be grown as an annual. I grow some from seed each year, and quite often they will survive winter or self-seed. The flowers come in gorgeous shades of brown, copper, orange, gold and red. ‘Autumn Colors’ grows 20 to 24 inches tall:
Reaching 21 inches, Daylily ‘October Thirty First’ isn’t very tall, but it still cranks out beautiful, 6-inch blooms. The mahogany flowers have a smokey-red eye and a yellow-green throat. ‘October Thirty First’ blooms in the middle of the daylily season:
Chrysanthemum morifolium ‘Ravalii’ brightens up the tired garden in September and October. This perennial has copper-orange flowers that fade to yellow. ‘Ravalii’ is a perennial that grows 24 inches tall.
