Were these mail order sales? I generally don't do mail order and have found area nurseries here don't often have "end of season sales". Our planting season doesn't actually "end"!! I know of a couple that have what they call 'fall sales' but it is fresh stock brought in specifically for that event - mostly broadleaved evergreen shrubs and small conifers.

I have a brand new garden that I need do a lot of planting for but I'm gonna wait for spring when the selection is bigger and I have time to deal with it. Still in the moving process and need to take some time to figure out what I need and want.

when I moved in the landscape was ugly..I bought lots of fall clearance every fall for quite a few years..eventually the lot filled out..I continued to look in the fall but bought less and less..

this fall I’m recovering from an injury and didn’t look..

nice choices..enjoy!..

@gardengal48 They were from Garden Crossings. Shipping was free and I often find prices to be cheaper than local nurseries. Yes, the plants are smaller but I can be patient if it means I can get more plants

nw, how are you feeling? do you think you will be able to garden ”normally” by spring?

I've gotten lots of stuff on fall clearance over the years. I'm in a completely different zone, but for zone 5 where I am I wouldn't plant the heuchera this late in the fall d/t risk of frost heaving, running out of time for good anchoring root growth. The other stuff would be fine, I have great success with fall planting. I'm not familiar with your particular cultivar choices, though.

oursteelers..thanks for asking!..doing ok but not fully recovered..I‘ll be out and doing as much as I can in the spring!..not too bad but weaker and slower..

We have end of season sales every year. Sometimes it's worth it. Sometimes it ends up being material that no one wanted all season for a reason. And in a season that is unusually hot or dry or wet, which seems to be every year now, then I wonder about plants that have been sitting there in a pot all season. But I am planning a project so I did go to at least one local nursery to look at what they had and came home wtih only 2 perennials and one shrub. There was really not a lot left to choose from. There was one more nursery that is somewhere I'd rather buy from but they are about a 45m drive and I didn't find time and we're forecast to have temps of 30F tomorrow morning, so I think I'm just going to wait for spring now. If I had plenty of time, I would usually visit all the local nurseries and see if they had anything. The later you wait the deeper the discount. It's hard to resist 50% off when you actually need plants. Especially with a big ticket item. A lot of my shrubs and trees have been bought at Fall sales @ 50% off. Good luck with your purchases!

NW - With some PT over the winter, plenty of time to gain some strength and stamina. You may be surprised at how much you will be able to do by then.

Our area Lowe's have perennials and shrubs from 50-75% off in fall. One outlet commonly stocks crepe myrtles in late summer (not the best time for planting in zone 6b) and then places them on sale in October. I couldn't resist a 3-gallon pot of "Little Sandra" for $8. It'll go into cold indoor storage until spring along with a half-off "Charles Joly" lilac.

I found just short of a whole flat of Creeping red thyme for half off. Exciting find as I’d like to line a couple paths with it.

I did good this year with my spending overall. I only bought a few sale hostas, monkshood and now the thyme. It was good for my pocket book although not much fun for me….

It is always fun to find sales-especially with how much plants cost now!

I'm almost ready to mark myself safe from end of season sales, I had to travel south last week and considered working on my global warming garden and add some more camellias and crape myrtles, but they weren't as cheap as I wanted and could have been closer to what I was looking for so I reluctantly passed. The rest of the stuff was kinda average and maybe I've got enough of that here. Now I just have to stay strong for the bulb clearances, although it looks like pickings are slim locally and online it might be another sellout year.

nicholsworth- all the best for a continued recovery! Hope you have enough help getting the tender things in this fall.

Oursteelers- love the clearance haul and the hydrangea-fest, that will be fun playing them off against one another and picking a favorite each week. Also the philadelphus sounds interesting. I always have my eyes open for them although I lean more towards the larger forms... but I'm always a sucker for an upright variety!

katob..thank you..I’m trudging along day by day hoping someday I’ll be more like my old self..I didn’t buy very much this summer..I didn’t add to the plants that need overwintering so the job of bringing plants in wasn’t terrible..with my husband’s help we did it!..

Like katob, I think I can mark myself safe from these end of season sales. I used to live for them, and really filled my garden with great stuff over the years, but everything has dwindled, especially since the pandemic. Plus I’ve been so busy and occupied with other stuff - their may be sales but often they happen so quickly: you blink and they are over. Even bulbs - that whole industry has shifted more online; though the big box stores still have the basic stuff.