FIVE BORDER STARS TO GIVE YOUR GARDEN AN AUTUMN BOOST

1 ANEMONE ‘HONORINE JOBERT’

A vigorous, clump-forming Japanese anemone that made its debut in 1850, with single white flowers on

4ft stems.

2 ASTER ‘MONCH’

Introduced in 1918 and named after a Swiss mountain, this produces masses of lavender-blue daisies from July into October.

3

Transported to Britain from South Africa in 1899, Guernsey lily produces

NERINE BOWDENII

20in stems topped with vibrant pink flowers in autumn.

4 RUDBECKIA ‘HERBSTSONNE’

The stems of this stately coneflower carry 5in-wide yellow flowers from late summer until mid-autumn.

5 ALSTROEMERIA ‘INDIAN SUMMER’

Often blooming till November, the fiery flowers of this Peruvian lily, right, are held on 2ft stems clothed with bronze leaves.