Enjoy Identifying Flowers That Will Bring Beautiful Color to Your Fall Landscape
As a gardener, you’ve likely spent the summer weeding, watering, trimming and harvesting and may be ready for a break during the winter season. But once the gloriously colored leaves fall off the trees, looking at a grey landscape can be dreary. So we’ve taken this opportunity to provide you with a list identifying flowers that will add glorious fall color to your landscape for very little effort.
Fall flowers, whether perennials or annuals, will perk up your landscape right up until the first hard frost and, in some cases, even beyond. Here are some of our favorites along with basic planting information.
Mums are popular autumn flowers. The plants grow in zones four through 10 as long as you offer a spot with full sun. These bushy beauties can grow up to five feet tall. If you plant in the ground rather than pots, you’ll want to divide them when they grow bigger and become crowded. Once they’ve finished blooming, cut them down to just eight inches above the ground and cover with mulch or sand.
Hardy True Geranium has a larger bloom with more pansy-like petals than the common geranium grown during the summer. True geraniums grow in zones three through nine and reach one to two feet in height. They like sun but can handle partial shade. Identifying flowers with nameplates is fun when you introduce unusual varieties.
Aster is a daisy-like perennial offering shades of bright blues and pink. They offer cheerful pops of color when the garden gets drab. These flowers do well in just about every grow zone, enjoy full sunlight and grow from one to five feet tall. Snip blooms for a pretty bouquet.
Decorative Kale and Cabbage offers low-growing color and texture. The plants are an attractive vibrant purple or creamy white with frilly leaves. The decorative veggies grow in every zone and frost will only brighten their colors. They prefer sun but can do well in shade and look terrific grown in clusters. They do well and look nice in pots. In the ground be sure to change locations from year to year to avoid disease issues.
Black-eyed Susan does best in zones three through 11 and starts blooming in summer but keeps going strong into fall. The flowers are great for attracting butterflies, bees and even bird life. They enjoy sun but can exist in partial shade.
Tickweed or Coreopsis will reach one to two and a half feet tall and grows in all zones depending upon variety. The blossoms attract bees and butterflies. Pinch dead heads to encourage new blooms or leave seed-heads and birds will come too.
Identifying flowers that are low-care and high impact for fall is like a treasure hunt. Some will do well in your zone and garden area, some not. But since they are treasures, you’ll want to name them and celebrate them. Less common beauties like Sneezeweed, Russian Sage and Japanese Anemone need labels. At Kincaid Plant Markers we offer the sturdy nameplates your garden plants deserve spring, summer and fall!
