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Late-season perennials, such as asters, perovskia, chrysanthemums, buddleia, caryopteris, persicaria and Joe Pye weed, all benefit from chopping back now by one-third to one-half to promote a bushier habit that will look neater and avoid the need for staking.

The larger, hedge-framed garden in the front of the property directs you past beds full of perennials still in various stages of growth and seasonal decline, among them cranesbills, coneflowers, Joe Pye weed and persicaria, as well as various grasses.

I dug broad beds to create blousy herbaceous borders filled with shrubs and perennials: viburnum, persicaria, knautia and Cephalaria gigantea.

A parterre filled with echinacea, echinops, persicaria and campanula, inspired by Sissinghurst, was supposed to be all white; I am now rather pleased it is not.

In fall, we find persicaria, cranesbill and, as you’ve never seen them before, chrysanthemums.