Best Fall Planter Ideas For Your Garden
Best Fall Planter Ideas For Your Garden
You can spice up your fall garden with these gorgeous container garden ideas. Play with dynamic mixtures of annuals, perennials, and grasses that make great fall container plants by using seasonal favourites like mums, blooming kale, and pansies.
It's time to put up some pretty plants that will add a great splash of autumnal colour and fall curb appeal while being able to withstand the season's falling nighttime temperatures when spring and summer blossoms fizzle out. Which autumn flower is your favorite for pots and planters?
This is rudbeckia, sometimes known as black-eyed Susan. This perennial attracts pollinators and blooms all summer long, extending the flower display well into the fall.
Learn more about rudbeckia in the sections below, and view our collection for additional lovely suggestions for fall planters.
Not just hot apple pie and pumpkin carving are appropriate for fall. As the two major holidays approach, it is time to stock up on fresh decoration items.
However, for most people, it can be quite challenging to construct an autumn container display of plants and planters with golden textures, colourful contrast, and all the lovely fall hues of green, purple, blue, red, and brown that make fall seem warm and cozy!
We've put up some of the best fall planter ideas, so you don't have to waste time searching Pinterest or worrying about where to start. Your front yard will look stunning, and your neighbours will be jealous.
What Is A Fall Planter?
There is still plenty of time in the growing season to get your hands dirty and take advantage of the psychological and physical benefits, even though your summer garden may lose its vibrancy (goodbye, tomatoes and scraggly annuals!).
Perennials and small shrubs can also add a splash of resilient fall colour to containers; they aren't just for flowers.
The best way to ring in the new season is to use a stunning container or window box you made and put it on the front porch, patio, or balcony.
Blending plants from each category may create a long-lasting autumnal display that will dazzle from now until an intense freeze. Just make sure to pick companion plants that prefer similar lighting.
Colour combinations are entirely a matter of taste. Fall colours like deep reds, yellows, and oranges that reflect the season's change are always attractive, but go with whatever you want. Going monochromatic is acceptable if you stick with similar-coloured plants and flowers.
Don't limit yourself to using flowers alone, too. Many plants with colourful foliage, like caladium and heuchera, only add a splash of colour and drama with their leaves. Fill up your planter so it is lush and full when you plant it.
Pack them in there since there won't be more time for the plants to grow before the first frost. Adding long-lasting accessories like beautiful gourds or pumpkins for colour and interest, dried hydrangea flowers you take from surrounding shrubs, colourful twigs, or dried bittersweet.
Best Flowers And Greenery For Fall Planters
The best time to restock containers is when the weather turns crisp and chilly. With the drop in temperature, the summertime plants that love the heat and humidity are dying. We are saying goodbye to them until the summer of next year.
Plants that grow in cooler temperatures and less sunlight while producing dramatic blooms and foliage thrive in the fall. It's time to labour with your hands in the earth and use your green thumbs to create fall container gardens.
1. Coral Bells (Heuchera cultivars)
A long-time favourite for gardens, coral bells are now popular for planting in containers. These perennial plants have a variety of leaf hues and textures, and they are virtually unkillable.
Coral bells is a mounding plant that looks wonderful on their own, in combination with plants that contrast with it or with plants that have different tones of the same colour.
Coral bells can blend nicely with mums, gourds, and decorative grasses. Select a plant with dark, nearly black leaves, such as “Dolce, Licorice,” or one with lighter leaves, like “Dolce, Peach Melba,” for a beautiful fall plant with many fall decorations. Additionally, they complement pumpkin planters beautifully.
2. Verbena (Verbena spp.)
Although the verbena genus contains several species that bloom profusely, the shorter, annual-type variations are most frequently cultivated in containers.
Due to their lengthy bloom time and tolerance to cooler temperatures, they make good fall flowers.
Numerous verbenas can withstand temperatures as low as 15° Fahrenheit and will keep blooming long after the first frost.
Verbenas look excellent planted alone or as a filler plant that spills over the edges of hanging baskets, window boxes, or garden containers. White, dazzling reds, deep dark blue, purple, and pink are available colours.
3. Oxalis Or Shamrock (Oxalis regnellii)
The beautiful and upbeat oxalis is a warm-weather perennial typically planted as an annual plant. It prefers partial to full shade and is incredibly simple to grow.
As a mounding plant with a height range of 12 to 18 inches, oxalis is suitable for fillers in a container.
It is available in various hues, including “Charmed Wine,” a burgundy, and “Charmed Velvet,” a virtually black shade. The ability to bring oxalis indoors to overwinter is another appealing quality.
4. Ornamental Cabbage And Kale (Brassica oleracea)
Kale plants are prickly, but ornamental cabbages are charmingly plump and joyful. But these plants will look great and provide stunning sage greens mixed with pinks and purples long into the fall.
As a bonus, blossoming kale and cabbage only get more colourful as the weather gets cooler, particularly after a frost. In low baskets or rustic garden pots, cabbages look great clustered.
They also enhance mixed container plants with excellent colour and texture. Kale may look fantastic in wacky shallow baskets, window boxes, or contemporary, streamlined metal pots.
Given their audacity, these plants should be planted in unconventional containers or combined with odd species.
5. Sedum (Sedum, Hylotelephium spp.)
Thirty-three species of the enormous Sedum genus recently transferred to the Hylotelephium genus due to the split.
This includes well-known favourites like “Autumn Joy,” also known as “Herbstfreude,” or Hylotelephium. Nevertheless, they are still referred to as sedum and stonecrop.
Many of the Hylotelephium (or Sedum) species bloom in the fall are traditional plants for fall container gardening.
Sedum, which blooms from late summer to early fall, is simple to cultivate in pots and comes in various species and cultivars with multiple heights, textures, and flower styles.
Sedum is an excellent option to overwinter a fall container outside because the dried blossoms can look lovely, especially when coated in snow or frost. Some types are perfect for the middle or back of a container because they can grow pretty tall.
6. Garden Mums (Chrysanthemum morifolium)
Commercial farmers frequently force the potted garden mums, typically sold for fall displays, into a late bloom.
They then wait until early October to display them for sale at nurseries after keeping them strictly clipped until late July.
Except if you pinch off all buds and keep the shoots cut back, potted mums grown from transplants bought in the spring will likely blossom in the middle to end of the summer.
The plants will probably fill out and bloom in September if you stop pruning in early July.
7. Asters (Aster spp.)
Asters' indigo-purple or blue blossoms represent the fall garden and can be used successfully in a fall container garden.
These plants are ideally suited for huge containers because most varieties grow up to 6 feet tall.
They thrive in rich soil and are best grown in containers that are maintained damp but not soggy. Cut the stems after flowering, then store the potted plants in a cold frame or greenhouse.
8. Pansies (Viola × wittrockiana)
Classic examples of cool-season annuals are pansies, which bloom in the garden in the early spring but may also be planted again in the fall once the weather has cooled.
The scorching summer months are not good for pansies. Water them frequently when growing in containers or hanging baskets because they require relatively damp soil.
9. Black-Eyed Susan (Rudbeckia)
Traditional perennial daisy varieties like black-eyed Susan can be grown in gardens and containers.
It may overwinter if the pots are kept in a protected area for the cold months and blooms from mid-summer to late fall.
Black-eyed Susans are relatively simple to grow from seed, unlike many perennials. Use potting soil that drains properly.
10. Coneflower (Echinacea spp.)
The different varieties of perennial coneflower are common fall bloomers in the garden; they bloom in late summer and produce daisy-like flowers that continue through the fall. However, they can also be grown in containers.
The containers may be transported to a protected spot in most climes and successfully overwinter there. Or, you may grow them annually and put new ones in containers every spring.
11. Million Bells (Calibrachoa Group)
This warm-weather plant is often grown annually. This prolific blooming stays up well as the weather cools in the fall and produces flowers that resemble miniature petunias (to which it is related).
The Million Bells plant is more frequently grown in containers than garden soil. Its mounding habit blends well with trailing plants in hanging baskets or big containers.
12. Purple Fountain Grass (Pennisetum setaceum)
Although it doesn't have flowers, this ornamental grass works well as the focal point of sizable mixed containers and looks its best when flanked by plants cascading down.
Late in the summer, the stalks are crowned with lovely bristling seed heads that persist long into the fall.
The plant can reach a height of 5 feet and has an arching, clumping growth style. Due to its rapid seed growth, purple fountain grass, a warm-weather perennial, is sometimes planted as an annual.
Best Fall Planter Designs For A Vibrant Year-Round Garden Display
You can spice up your fall garden with these gorgeous garden ideas. Play with dynamic mixtures of annuals, perennials, and grasses that make great fall container plants using seasonal favourites like mums, blooming kale, and pansies.
1. Add Height With Grasses
To balance the proportions of a large fall planter box, use the height of decorative grasses. We use rich gold, orange, and purple hues to decorate our deck, and they look great next to a farmhouse-style wooden planter.
2. Create A Long-Lasting Display With Peppers And Pansies
Plant a container with an autumnal theme that you can enjoy in winter. The narrow, arching sedge leaves contrast sharply with silver sage's wide, fluffy foliage.
To match your Halloween decorations, almost-black pansies accent long-lasting decorative peppers.
3. Choose A Stylish Container
Choose a planter you adore, then let it motivate your concept for a fall planter. To help give a gloomy winter day some extra energy, think about using a vividly coloured pot.
Choose plants with similar- or contrasting-coloured stems or foliage. Bright red coralbells almost precisely match the colour of the container in this pot, while the other plants offer contrast.
4. Maximize Impact With Lots Of Plants
Each container garden design includes at least one plant with height, one with vivid colours, and one with a striking texture.
There won't be time for plants, so fill the pot to the brim for immediate effect. This container is filled with lush foliage from coralbells, honeysuckle, and leucothoe, while little bluestem provides texture and stands out from the rest.
5. Combine Different Plant Textures
Flowers are transient, so prolong the spectacle by selecting fall container plants with attractive autumn-coloured leaves.
Colourful and textured plants include grasses, kale, Heuchera, and Heucherella. They provide solid anchors for fall pots because they can withstand mild frost.
6. Fill In With Dried Flowers
Combining live and dried plants is one trick to creating outstanding container gardens. This lovely fall planting idea features dried blossoms from oakleaf hydrangeas on top and bigleaf hydrangeas on the bottom, which provide grace and intrigue.
7. Match Foliage With Mum Flowers
In this fall container garden, celebrate the season with bronze and deep purple hues, which appear especially royal when combined with mums' intense, vibrant shades.
8. Accent With Accessories
In this fall container garden, celebrate the season with bronze and deep purple hues, which appear especially royal when combined with mums' intense, vibrant shades.
9. Rely On Mums For Bold Seasonal Colour
Mums and kale are perennial favourites for fall planters. However, nothing prevents you from adding a few other plants to make them pop.
A purple calibrachoa in a galvanized container is beautifully contrasted with a rusty red mum. These plants would also be effective in a hanging basket for the fall.
10. Contrast Colourful Mums With Rustic Metal
Make these easy metal pot covers for your mums to create this charming front entry look for fall.
Add an inch to the height of the pots your mums are in. Cut a corrugated steel roof panel to that height using a circular saw with a metal-cutting blade. Remember to wear safety goggles and gloves.
Ensure the sheet is long enough to wrap around the container fully, leaving 2 inches of excess.
Produce a cylinder out of the metal, and then use a power drill and a ⅛-inch metal/steel drill bit to make pilot holes through the overlapping area every few inches.
Then, to secure the ends, use a rivet gun to put a rivet in each hole. Before measuring and cutting the metal, set your potted mother on top of an empty, upside-down pot to achieve varying heights for an eye-catching collection.
11. Place Potted Mums In Hollowed-Out Pumpkins
To welcome guests to your upcoming autumnal gathering, put potted mums in rows or clusters on ledges and steps for delightful fall decor.
Even better, you could put your painted pumpkin-potted mums in a Halloween-themed arrangement. If the display needs to survive over a few days, go for the imitation DIY pumpkin in this picture.
Conclusion
After the sweltering summer heat, we gardeners move back outside when Fall arrives since the temperature is getting cooler.
Most people have heard the proverb “Fall is for Planting” at some point, and it's true! Fall is a perfect season to plant landscape trees, shrubs, pansies, garden mums, and other perennials.
Contrary to common perception, it can be even better than spring for planting trees and plants.
The key benefit of growing in the fall is that it enables plants to focus their energy on developing a solid root system, eventually resulting in larger, more robust plants.
Additionally, plants grown in the fall have larger spring blooms. Lower temperatures also result in fewer weeds and insects and the need for irrigation.
The gardener also gains because the cool, dry weather makes fall planting much more enjoyable.
There has been an increase in interest in purposefully creating habitats in the backyard garden for bees, birds (including hummingbirds), and other species as gardeners have become more conscious of the value of native plants and supporting our ecosystems.
Native plants can enhance our landscapes and contribute to the creation of a more stable and sustainable environment.
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