What kinds of flowers and shrubs can be planted in zone 8 in September? Any fragrant varieties that will bloom

Question

this year?

Answer 1

Phlox, Lavender, Catmint, and Pinks are all flowers that will scent when flowering.  Phlox are in bloom right now, some varieties of pinks will re bloom if you dead head the spent flowers.   You have to make sure that when you plant you have at least a month until the first frost to give plants time to get rooted.   As beth said you may want to hold off on any shrubs this year as this is the time of year when they go on sale and when this happens they generally lose their year guarentee.   But if you want you can try the flowers becasuse if they don't get rooted you will have only lost a few dollars instead of up to 100 if you buy a shrub.

Answer 2

nothing that is slightly hardy to your area can suvive the winter if planted in the fall. things like gardenias, some camellias, palms, and jasmine have to wait till spring.

you can plant things like spring bulbs in the fall if dormat and also trees and you may be able to plant jasmine since thats fagrant and hardy to zone 7

Answer 3

You could plant some daffodil bulbs with some hyacinth in your bed then over plant with some annual varieties like nemesia which will stand pretty cool temps.  But even with this you can plant some pansy or viola seeds, and they will come up as plants to fill in and you can leave these throughout the winter, then as the annual plants die out you can replace with more cool weathr plants as they come available. Like kales and cabbages, to be accent plants with your pansies.

You can palant some shrubs in the fall, like daphne which will bloom in late winter/early spring.  

Answer 4

Flowering bulbs like daffodils and iris are planted in the fall.  Zone 8 freezes in the winter, so I'd leave the shrubs til spring.