Fall Flower garden

DGers, you have come thru every time, thank you from the dirt under my nails and the aches in my body. Now I pose a Fall flower question. I want a flower garden I'll be able to see from my kitchen table at Thanksgiving. When all the family arrives and we're cooking our butts off, we'll be called outside for a break by the beautiful colors in the garden!!! I'm in zone 7b, my soil has been amended with mushroom compost and hardwood fines. I'd prefer white, pink, red and purple colors. If I could cut the flowers for my dining room table arrangement, even better! My Thanksgiving garden space is 16' wide x 8' deep. It faces east and is a protected corner with a brick wall behind it. It will get 6 hours of early sun, then afternoon shade. Is this possible or just pie in the sky dreaming?

hmmm. well, I'm an iris grower. we're right on the 7A/7B border.

check out Tall Bearded (reblooming) Iris Double Shot. for me it reblooms from mid September until frost, and two years ago I put one stalk on our Thanksgiving table. it's a pliccata bloom of stark white and deep blueviolet. to my eye, in our acidic red clay soil that's a bit too acidic for irises, the blueviolet looks bright deep royal purple from a distance.

Double Shot is a Sutton cross, so google for Suttons. they do ship this late, too, but by next week or so they'll cut it off. I could check to see if I had an extra but I know my stock is low. doubtful you'd get rebloom first year, though.

reblooming irises tend to rebloom somewhere from midlate summer to frost, so the trick will be finding some that rebloom late but not so late that they don't bloom for you at all. Double Shot is only one I have that reblooms for more than 2 weeks and reblooms late.

Oh yes, blue would be lovely too! Okay, I'll start my Thanksgiving with a Double Shot!!! ha ha!!(I know a double shot would get the men away from football and into the yard!) Are there any camellias or reblooming azaleas that might bloom the end of November? I think I'll need at least three heights in my deep space.
Thanks bonjon!!!!

there are camellias that bloom in November. I don't know the names per se, but we have several older plantings around town that bloom in November, and many are very very fragrant, like honeysuckle at Thanksgiving. you would have to ask around nurseries to find them, or maybe check with JC Raulston Arboretum (NCSU) to see if some of their curators had data on the names, because I used to be on staff and know that some of the sweetest smelling are on campus! most of these fragrant ones do not have showy blooms.

Thank you bonjon, will do!

Google Camellia Forest Nursery; their website has lots on info on what is blooming when.

Thanks Ardesia, I did go there. From there, I followed a thread to fragrant camellias - exploring Bonjon advice. And now I really want fragrant camellias! Late blooming Iris- for sure.Then I found several lists of fall flowers. I need your insider tips on these flowers. (After I planted 50 dwarf english boxwoods, I was told they smell like cat urine - I paid dearly for this pleasure!!! Yikes! I don't want to do this again!!! ) Sooooo, if anyone wants to comment on the following - PLEASE DO, plus or minus! Which would be great for a Thanksgiving Garden and on our Thanksgiving Table?
Aster
Chelone
Chrysanthemum
Helenium
Helianthus
Sedum
Japanese Anemone
Gladioli
Helichrysum
Shasta Daisy
Coreopsis
Perennial Sage
Monks hood
Bittersweet
Autumn clematis

Deep appreciation for any help you may be able to give, Mighty Thanks

I am not sure where Belmont is but it might be too cool for a lot of flowering plants in late November. Hoepfully someone closer to you will have some ideas. Down here we have a lot of the plants you mentioned still in bloom, especially things like snapdragons and calendulas that come in fall colors but I do not know if anything like that will still be blooming where you live.

Are you close enough to visit Daniel Stowe Botanical Gardens? They probably have a list of what is blooming each month of the year. NC has so many outstanding botanical gardens; you must be close to one of them.

We are 10 minutes from the Stowe Botanical Gardens. We're actually members there. I didn't even think to ask them for a list, right under my nose you know! Thanks for showing me the obvious.

We're headed to Hilton Head with twenty family members. Four of us will split off at the end of the week and go to Charleston. I think I read one of your very old posts on the plantations. At that time, you recommended Middleton, which we are planning to see. Any suggestions for restaurants or other sites?

Middleton and Magnolia are always nice and they are on the same road. There is a restaurant at Middleton and may be one at Magnolia but I am not sure about that. Hopefully some one from the area will chime in on restaurants. It is hard to go wrong with some place like Magnolias or Cypress but I am not sure what you might be looking for.

If you come through Beaufort you might want to stop at Wren, they are my new local favorite.

Thanks!