Once fall arrives, it is rather sad to see our landscaping disappear under winter protection while there are still leaves on some trees. Why cut perennials at ground level and bring in garden chairs as soon as October arrives?
Here are attractive plants during the fall season and some ideas for plant arrangements that will allow you to brighten up your garden and enjoy it until December!
During the fall period, asters and chrysanthemums are traditionally sold in garden centers and nurseries.
Spectacular autumnal scene composed of the “Wood’s Blue” aster, the “Ginger Ale” heuchera, the “Red Baron” imperata and the “Sirocco” stem.
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There are also annuals that allow you to beautify landscaping until the first snow. Wallflowers, pansies and garden marigolds produce flowers down to -10°C, or until the very end of November, sometimes even into early December.
Some perennials, such as the Pacific chrysanthemum ‘Silver and Gold’, the geranium ‘Rozanne’, the autumn daisy ‘Clara Curtis’ and the wild mallow ‘Zebrina’, flower easily until December.
Kales can also be planted in containers. Paired with fall chrysanthemums, they make superb potted arrangements that remain attractive well into December.
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In flowerbeds or in containers, these plants are among those which flower the latest in our climate. Some years, when the snow is slow to cover the ground, it sometimes happens that they are still in flower at Christmas!
Resist frost
In addition to these annuals and perennials, you can introduce into your autumn arrangements perennial plants whose decorative leaves resist frost, such as bergenias, common ivy, heuchera and stonecrops.
This arrangement draws its dynamism from a bold combination of shapes, textures and colors. The marriage of the “Petra” croton to the “Sirocco” stipe with orange leaves, the “Bronzita” sedge with drooping foliage, as well as the “Southern Comfort” heuchera, a perennial with large copper-colored leaves, produces an effect exuberant and theatrical.
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If these plants are grown in containers, they can be treated like annuals and composted when dismantling the arrangements. It is also possible to transplant them into the ground before the ground freezes so that they can resist the winter well.
You can also use certain grasses, such as hakonechloas, sedges – usually called sedges – and miscathus, or even shrubs with evergreen foliage, such as the various cultivars of autumn heather and Fortune spindle plants as well as wildflower tea. drink.
To accompany and highlight autumn flowers, nothing beats the foliage of heucheras and grasses.
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When the temperature approaches freezing, the leaves of these shrubs take on pretty colors, ranging from orange to purple, pink and red. As for them, autumn heathers, also called callunas, produce white or pink flowers which sometimes bloom until the end of November.
Thanks to their flowers and foliage, autumn heathers embellish flower beds and potted arrangements throughout the autumn period.
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