Bloom month
Plants that bloom in October
528 garden plants from the BloomsEye library that are typically in flower during October. Plan for reliable color in October and keep your borders from going quiet.
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How this list is made
Derived from each plant's bloom months, as stored in the BloomsEye library, which was written with AI assistance. Of these 528 plants, 310 have been checked against outside sources (27 fully verified); the rest have not been checked yet, and each plant's own page says which. The cards are AI-generated illustrations. Months here are Northern Hemisphere months; in the Southern Hemisphere, shift them by six months.
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The flowers of October
Every plant on this page is in flower in October. These are the ones with the shortest seasons around it, ranked by how much of each plant's flowering falls in September, October and November: a plant that opens and finishes here sits ahead of one that flowers from spring to frost, and ties go to the plants this site's guides name most often.
October bloom by flower color
A plant that comes in more than one color is counted under each. The picks rank the same way as the flowers above, so each color names the plants whose season sits closest to October.
White
83 plants
Orange
101 plants
Red
108 plants
Purple
108 plants
October bloom for shade
70 of these 528 plants will flower in less than a full day of sun.
Full shade
9 plants
October bloom by height
Mature height, in the three bands a border is planted in. Anything over 10 ft is structure rather than a border plant, and a climber is sized by whatever it is growing up, so both sit this out.
Front of the border
under 12 in
50 plants
Middle of the border
12 in to 3 ft
268 plants
Back of the border
3 ft and up
187 plants
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