Four perennials can brighten an uninteresting autumn landscape / Plants work in low-water garden plans From: Colorado Springs Gazette Telegraph | Date: September 30, 1989| Author: | Copyright (null) Colorado Springs Gazette Telegraph. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

If autumn's garden looks uninteresting, as well it might after the recent wild swings in weather, there are four plants that might brighten the landscape next year.

All are perennials with relatively long life spans. They are all available from local sources or mail-order houses. Better yet, all will fit nicely into water-saving garden schemes.

Blue leadwort, or Plumbago larpentiae, is available in catalogs and grows about a foot high with leaves like periwinkle. After sprouting in the spring, it looks like a small, woody plant. In Colorado, along about September, the plant begins ...