Top 5 Picks for Autumn Plantings in Your Garden
Ornamental plants are becoming a popular choice for adding texture, colour, and interest to today's gardens, especially during the autumn season.
Chris Beytes, publisher and editor of GrowerTalks magazine, suggests choosing plants with long-lasting colour for fall gardens. Ornamental peppers, for instance, offer great red, orange, and purple fruit colours that are perfect for fall containers. Grouping garden mums with pumpkins, gourds, and other accents can create a warm effect, while mixing ornamental peppers with different colours in large and small pots can add front porch flair.
Ornamental peppers can be blended with mums or other fall favourites for more harvest interest. Garden mums are recommended for their impact, with tight buds that open into a burst of harvest colour.
Ornamental grasses are another great choice for fall gardens. They are not just summer players anymore, they have height and a range of foliage colours, flowers, fringe, and more that ups the interest as summer's colours fade. Purple fountain grass is a favourite, but there are many annual and perennial grasses with pretty brown or purple foliage. Ornamental grasses can survive and bloom again next spring if heavily mulched.
Ornamental kale, often mistaken for cabbage, offers a variety of leaf shapes and colours, and is particularly hardy in cold weather. It can last well into frosty weather and becomes more colourful with the cold.
Chris Beytes also prefers plants such as asters, chrysanthemums, sedums, ornamental grasses, and hardy pumpkins for fall gardens. Pansies and violas, though underutilized north of the Mason-Dixon line, are recommended for their ability to thrive in fall gardens.
By incorporating these ornamental plants into your garden, you can create a stunning display that will last well into the autumn months. Happy gardening!
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