Late bloomers will brighten fall garden

Every summer, right around the middle of August, I begin to hatemy garden.

It's overgrown. The weeds have taken over. Everything needs to bedeadheaded, and even the trees look shaggy and in need of a trim. Ifind that as the blooms disappear, so does my enthusiasm formaintaining the garden.

As I'm forced to walk around and prune, weed and yank, it slowlydawns on me that it's not as bad as I make it out to be. True, it'snot as pretty as it was in the glorious months of May and June, butmany of the perennials are just about to burst into bloom and put ona fall show I can enjoy until the first frost.

There are lots of these fall-blooming perennials available now …