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It’s time to say goodbye
to one hot dry summer and hello to the fall. And that means its time for
planting fall flowers!
I love the fall…and you
know its here when its time to plant cold hardy flowers that give us
spectacular fall colors – some right up until Thanksgiving!
Ornamental cabbage and
kale – these oldies but goodies provide planters and landscapes wonderful
and unusual foliage textures, and the colder it gets, the more colorful they
get. Creams to pinks to lavenders, ornamental cabbage and kale is one you
can always count on for late fall colors.
Asters – another oldie
but goodie, these cold hardy late bloomers with their star shaped flowers
will brighten any gloomy fall day. They are a perennial, so plan on the
asters coming back again next year.
Pansies – when you plant
pansies in the fall, not only do you get fall color galore, you may get
winter colors as well, and then a resurgence of colors all thru the early
spring. So you can get a 3 season show when planting pansies in the fall.
Montauk daisies – here’s
a perennial that not a lot of gardeners are familiar with. Wonderful glossy
green foliage in the summer, almost succulent like, and then they become
loaded with white daisy like flowers very late in the season. That’s
Montauk daisies.
And of course, you can’t
go thru the fall without planting the number one perennial sold throughout
the United States – the garden mum. This perennial comes in a multitude of
colors, and with proper timing of the flowering, again can provide great
colors for planters or the landscape easily up until Halloween or longer.
Remember these all do
quite well in pots or in the ground, so there’s no reason why you can’t
enjoy these wonderful colors all fall season. |
