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Seeds and Bulbs that can be Planted in the Fall

Here is a partial list of the seeds and bulbs of plants and flowers that can or should be planted
in your prepared planting site during the fall months.
Keep in mind that many other species of seeds can be sown indoors during the fall and winter
for planting outdoors in the spring, but these plants are not included here...

Perennial Plant Seeds that are Sown in the Fall

Willy the Garden Gnome
Flowering Onion, Allium
Columbine, Aquilegia
Corydalis, Corydalis
Daphne, Daphne
Cranesbill, Erodium
Sea Holly
, Eryngium
Flowering Cabbage, Brassica     
Heather, Calluna
Trumpet Vine, Allamanda
Bleeding Heart, Dicentra
Burning Bush, Dictamnus
Butterfly Gaura, Gaura
Golden Chain Tree, Allium
Honeysuckle, Lonicera
Shooting Star, Dodecatheon
Gentian, Gentiana
Christmas Rose, Helleborus
Daylilies, Hemerocallis
Iris, Iris
Lavender, Lavandula
Bitter Root, Lewisia
Lilies, Lilium
Cardinal Flowers, Lobelia
Meadow Rue, Thalictrum
Phlox, Phlox
Primroses, Primula
Self Heal, Prunella
Pasque Flower, Pulsatilla
Fingerleaf Rodgersia, Rodgersia
Roses, Rosa
Salal, Gaultheria
Trillium, Trillium
Twinspur, Diascia
Verbena, Verbena
Violets, Viola

Spring Flowering Bulbs to Plant in the Fall

Please see Spring Flowering Bulbs for help and guidelines for planting bulbs. Many bulb type plants can be forced into bloom during the fall and winter months to provide you with an extended gardening season indoors!

Flowering Onion, Allium
Crocus, Crocus
Crown Imperial, Fritillaria
Daffodil, Narcissus
Dragon Lily, Dracunculus
Dutch Iris, Iris reticulata
Freesia (early fall), Freesia      
Grape Hyacinth, Muscari
Japanese Iris, Iris japonica
Lily of the Valley, Convallaria
Montbretia, Crocosmia
Siberian Squill, Scilla siberica
Shamrock, Oxalis
Silver Shamrock, Oxalis


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