Best Design For Fall

     Get landscaping suggestions to carry the beauty of your garden design into the fall

For most gardeners, those first hints of cool weather after a long, hot summer really are a welcome relief. It’s almost as if Nature is beckoning you to put away your lawnmower and dandelion weeder, kick back in a lounge chair with a decent book, and enjoy the outdoor air-conditioning as colorful leaves flutter down around you. 

1. Contrast Colors:

Recall the color wheel you learned in second-grade art class? Colors opposite one another on the wheel are complementary simply because they work well together. By pairing plants with foliage and blooms of complementary colors, you may create some eye-catching combinations, such as smoke tree (Cotinus coggygria) and Euphorbia.

Bonus Tip:
Most blooms are fleeting. For long-lasting impact, select plants with colored foliage. Turn to variegated plants in particular to provide the creams and yellows that complement well with purple and maroon.

2. Dress yourself in Layers: By positioning plantings based on their height, you can achieve spectacular effects with only a few plants. Don’t be too obvious together with your layers by staging plants in perfect rows. Operate in odd-number groups and pull a plant or three slightly off center. Attempt to mix up textures, and get just a little variety in colors, too.

Bonus Tip: 
For beds that'll be viewed from two sides, put the tallest plants in the center and step recorded on each side. For beds that'll be viewed from all sides, put the tallest plants in the center after which step down and out in a rippling fashion.

3. Accent The growing season:

While the selection of plants readily available for late-season planting continues to grow, fall still depends on decorating accessories to make a splash. Luckily, there’s plenty to select from. Jazz up an entryway with gourds, pumpkins, dried flower bouquets, golden cornstalks, and potted flowers. The easygoing effect may last for months.

Bonus Tip: 
Fall is a superb time to experiment with temporary decorations that may look out of place at another time. Buy old tools and farm items at yard sales and put them in a harvest-theme vignette.

4. Do a yearly Dress-Up:
Many inexpensive annuals may be used to cheer up your fall landscape as deciduous plants, perennials, and summer annuals start to fizzle out. Use reinforcements of mums, pansies, dianthus, flowering kale, along with other cold-tolerant annuals in patio containers, near entrances, round the mailbox, and in other high-traffic areas.

Bonus Tip: 

Get plenty of mums on a tight budget by rooting cuttings in spring. Simply stop 3-inch stems from larger plants, dip in rooting hormone powder, and pot in a moist mix of peat moss and perlite.

5. Clue Into Style:

Allow the style of your home and the surroundings provide clues to elements which will best complement Landscape garden. Tall grasses, easy-care perennials, as well as an unfinished board fence set an absolute rural theme. Replace the grass having a rambling rose and change the board fence having a white picket fence, and you instantly have more of a cottage garden feeling.