Here's a list of plants for spectacular color in your garden.
PERENNIALS
Sedum 'Autumn Joy'
S. 'Matrona'
Canadian burnet (Sanguisorba canadensis)
Blue monkshood (Aconitum carmichaelii)
Hardy chrysanthemum 'Venus'
Hardy chrysanthemum 'Sheffield'
Lycoris (Lycoris squamigera)
Boltonia asteroides 'Snowbank'
Black cohosh, snakeroot, or bugbane (Cimicifuga racemosa)
Bugbane 'Hillside Black Beauty'
Aster x frikartii 'Monch'
A. x frikartii 'Wunder von Stafa'
ORNAMENTAL GRASSES
Pennisetum alopecuroides 'Hameln'
Miscanthus sinensis 'Silberfeder'
M. sinensis 'Purpurascens'
M. sinensis 'Morning Light'
M. sinensis 'Zebrinus'
Bouteloua gracilis 'Blue Grama'
Chasmanthium latifolium 'Wild Oats'
VINES
Sweet autumn clematis (Clematis terniflora)
Clematis 'Ville de Lyons'
Clematis 'Henryii'
C. orientalis
Boston ivy (Parthenocissus tricuspidata)
Virginia creeper (P. quinquefolia)
SHRUBS
Enkianthus (Enkianthus campanulatus)
Arrowwood viburnum (Viburnum dentatum)
V. 'Chicago Lustre'
Linden viburnum (V. dilatatum)
Common witch-hazel (Hamamelis virginiana)
Enkianthus (H. mollis)
Virginia sweetspire (Itea virginica) 'Henry's Garnet'
Fothergilla gardenii 'Blue Mist'
Beauty berry (Callicarpa)
C. bodinieri 'Profusion'
C. japonica
Winterberry holly (Ilex verticillata) 'Winter Red'
Winterberry holly (I. verticillata) 'Red Sprite'
Winterberry holly (I. verticillata)
'Winter Gold'
Winterberry holly (I. verticillata) 'Chrysocarpa'
CAMELLIAS
Tea-oil camellia (Camellia oleifera)
C. oleifera 'Winter's Beauty'
C. oleifera 'Winter's Dream'
C. oleifera 'Winter's Sunset'
Grow vegetables that ripen in a frost and can be harvested in snow.
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