Fall Garden Flowers

Fall garden flowers should be incorporated in the landscape along with the shrubs and trees that will bear colorful fall leaves. Planting fall garden flowers makes a landscaping enthusiast stand out. He will plant some tender annuals such as marigolds in between some of the other fall flowers to bring color into the garden and landscaping during the fall months.

Planting fall flowers livens up the landscaping that is already being graced by the fall foliage of your shrubs and trees. If your landscaping only has evergreen trees and shrubs you can always add some of the non-living decorations such as carved pumpkins, gourds, scarecrows, or cornstalks. When do you begin fall flower plantings? You really do not want to wait until fall unless you are in a warm climate. Even if you live in the North it may still be too hot to plant in the first part of August. You almost have to play it by ear. Some summers, mid-to-late August will be rainy periods which would be the perfect time to plant your fall flowers. But sometimes August will give you excessive heat so it would be better to plant in early September.

Some cold weather homeowners believe it is better to plant hardy fall flowers so they will survive the first frost of the season. Chrysanthemum flowers, flowering cabbages, ornamental kale, and dusty miller, will provide your landscape with color for quite some time after frosty weather arrives. But you should not be afraid to mix some tender annuals into the garden also. The contribution may be brief but they will still be very beautiful.

Marigolds are an excellent specimen because their blooms are classic fall colors such as yellow, orange, gold, and rust. Two of the most common groups are the African marigold and the French marigold. Some of you may be thinking it is a waste of money to plant marigolds as fall annual flowers because they will be dead in too short a time. You can usually find cheap flowers during the months of July and August. The home and garden centers will try to get rid of the leggy annuals after their 'prime time' by cutting their prices.

The Silver Dust dusty miller with its deep indentations on the edges of its leaves makes a nice contrast adjacent to the red salvia whose leaves have smoother edges. A visual interest is created by the proximity of a relatively small-leafed plant, such as chrysanthemums, with a plant that bears larger leaves, such as flowering cabbages and ornamental kale with the coarse-looking structures. Chrysanthemums have been considered to be the most popular autumn flowers.

Many people have particular colors in mind for a fall color scheme when it comes to their fall flower gardening. The classic color scheme of fall which is usually red-yellow-orange makes a powerful celebration of the harvest. Yellow and orange nasturtiums, reddish-purple celosia and lemon yellow French marigolds can make your fall gardening of flowers on fire with beautiful autumn brilliance. The metallic color scheme is becoming very popular when it comes to fall landscape design. The silvers, golds, and bronzes such as Silver King artemisia, golden African marigolds, and a bronze coleus will work very well together.

A fall garden offers plenty of inspiration for some beautiful bouquets. The fabulous foliage of fall and their colorful berries will add richness to chrysanthemums, asters and goldenrod. The Dogwood has bright red fruit that show up well against the green leaves and will hold on until the foliage turns crimson; the Hawthorn is a small tree that will have golden berries in the fall that will turn bright red in winter; and the Harlequin glory bower blooms in later summer and as its white flowers fade blue berries remain sparkling at the center of red calyxes which are the remaining showy outer segments of the blossoms.

Your fall garden flowers can be mixed with evergreen plants, trees, and shrubs or you can have them mixed in with deciduous plantings that will give you beautiful fall foliage. These are just some of the fall gardening ideas that can be incorporated in your front yard landscaping or in your backyard gardens.