I have a Tulip/Hyacinth/Daffidil bed about 20' diameter. I know the bulbs want to stay dry Suumer and Fall. I've planted some daylilies around the edge because I know they are tough and don't need me watering.

But I'm looking for some Fall color there. Any suggestions on a Fall blooming plant that can stand drought most of the Summer? Seriously, its an area I deliberately don't water and Summer in Southern Maryland can get pretty dry. Sometimes the soil just cracks open. Zone 7B

Well I have never gardened in your region, so I am not sure, but what popped into my head is Annual Cosmos! Mine are blooming their heads off right now, I don't hardly water them in summer (we get less rain than you in summer). They start blooming here midsummer. They also reseed themselves. The colors available are mainly white and pink. I don't know how they would do in your summer heat and humidity. Cosmos are slow to get going in the spring, so they would not interfere with your big spring show.
I had 'Rubenza' one year, just loved the dark rosy pink.

http://parkseed.com/cosmos/c/c...

Cosmos would be good.
California poppies take drought.
Siberian wallflower.
Snap dragons too.

You could go with foliage color. Yucca and Sedum. The Sedum you do get color foliage when your other plants are blooming and the flower late summer/fall when your other plants are not blooming in your dry bed,

Sedum would be great for dry no water plants.


Sedum, Spring bulbs and daylily bed.


Daylily with a Sedum Frosty Morn as White and green tall sedum that blooms pink and white August/Sept.


In this bed I have cactus, and daylilies and a Yucca Color guard the Yucca is color all seasons.

Oh the Sedum is a good idea Cinta!
I has tried 'Frosty Morn' twice, it died out both times, just did not seem vigorous enough for my no-water bed or something. But now I have 'Elsie's Gold' and it does great.
Here is a link to a thread about sedums with photos of mine:

The thread "If you only have room for one sedum in your garden" in Perennials forum

I like that one #Pistil. I will look for it to add to my succulent garden.

I have one called Sparkle. The colors soft and compliment the hot color sedum that bloom in the Fall,

I really like the Sedums. I have 3 Autumn Joys that need dividing. I thought of extending them in a line, but moving them between the bulb cages might be a wonderful idea! They don't spread much on their own and the tulip bulb cages are about 3' apart so that might be perfect! Thank you.

And I should mention I am adding 50 each Accent and Monal daffs to the existing beds and 150 Hillstar in the remaining open area of the circle.

I need to mark the tulips and hyacinth areas better next year to know where I can add more daylilies and possibly Fall-blooming Autumn Joy Sedums.

I do not even bother to dig them up to divide. In Spring I just break a couple stems off and stick them in the ground and they are rooted in a week and bloom in the fall.

If you want some cuttings of other color blooms I can send you some if you get them in the next week they will be well rooted buy the time winter gets here.

I have solid white blooms and light pink and white blooms.

I have also done this with a tall sedum (I have not tried it with Elsie, as variegated plants are not as vigorous it might not work, but it sure did with a regular one!). I have had the thought that one could buy a gallon sedum plant in spring, then cut off all the stemns and plant them all as well as the rooted one, and then you could fill in a large area for next to nothing!

Pistil said:I have also done this with a tall sedum (I have not tried it with Elsie, as variegated plants are not as vigorous it might not work, but it sure did with a regular one!). I have had the thought that one could buy a gallon sedum plant in spring, then cut off all the stemns and plant them all as well as the rooted one, and then you could fill in a large area for next to nothing!

I have done it with Frosty Morn and the yellow/green one above. It takes them a little longer so I start in April taking cuttings. I had a bad year this year because the deer, groundhog, and rabbits love them so they ate a lot of the tall sedum in the Spring.

If you take tip cuttings early in the Spring they branch out faster and you have more blooming heads.