11 Perennials You'll REGRET Not Planting in September (Last Chance Before Frost)

🔗 Get a beautiful perennial garden with less watering, fewer costly mistake from Henry’s Garden Blueprint: https://henrysgardensecrets.com/ The perennial you'll pay full price for next May is sitting on a discount bench right now for about half that. And planted this month, it'll be the bigger plant next June. Most people walk straight past it, because September feels like the wrong end of the year to be buying plants. It's the opposite, and it isn't a sales pitch - it's soil temperature. The ground is still warm and the air isn't, so everything a plant does between now and Christmas goes into roots instead of leaves. ⚠️ Also in here: why cheddar pinks planted in May usually die by August, and it isn't the cold. The plant where being early is as bad as being late - its window is open now and closes on its own in a few weeks. Why buying a foxglove in spring costs you a year of flowers. And the one job everybody does at the wrong time: winter mulch. 💬 COMMENT: Go and look at your local garden center's discount bench this week and tell me what's actually on it. Put your state next to it - what gets marked down, and when, is a regional thing and I want to see the pattern. 🔔 SUBSCRIBE - a new one every couple of days. 👍 LIKE if you've ever paid full price in May for something that was half that in September. 📚 SOURCES - every claim in this video: Six weeks before first frost - West Virginia University Extension · University of Illinois Extension Frost heave and mulch timing - Kansas State Research & Extension Peony depth by zone; 3-5 eyes - Clemson HGIC · Iowa State Yard & Garden Hellebore crown depth - NYBG Mertz Library · UW Botanic Gardens Lily depth, Asiatic vs Oriental - Royal Horticultural Society · University of Minnesota Extension Oriental poppy planting window - Colorado State PlantTalk Foxglove: biennial, and toxicity - University of Wisconsin Extension · University of Arkansas Extension Sea holly: taproot, poor soil - Oregon State · UW Botanic Garden