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Beautiful plants to freshen up the fall landscape!
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| Order plants from our fall selection and earn money for your favorite non-profit! Simply add your selections to your shopping cart, choose "pick up at fundraiser distribution location" for shipping and pay for your purchase. We will deliver your plants to the location and time specified by your charitable organization where you can pick up your beautiful plants and take them home. |
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Hardy Mums
Hardy mums offer fresh color in the fall. Many people buy mums expecting only a brief burst of color in September and October, but with proper care your perennial mums can continue to bring fall color to your garden for years to come.
Use garden mums in decorative pots or plant them in garden beds. When grown in a container fall mums don’t need additional fertilizer. Just take care that the plant’s given sufficient water and isn’t allowed to wilt, which will shorten the life of the flowers. Check soil daily. If it’s dry, add water until it runs out the drainage in the bottom of the pot. Depending on weather, exposure to wind and sun and also container size, they may require daily watering.
After the flowers in your containers die, mums can be planted into the perennial garden. They don’t like wet, poorly drained soil and they prefer lots of sun. Remove the plant from it's container, loosen the soil around the edges of the root ball and place the plant in a hole just deep enough so that the top of the soil in the container is level with the surrounding soil. Mulch around the base of the plant, but don't bury the crown or your plant might rot during the winter!
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Like other plants, mums growing in the ground won’t need as much water as those kept in a container, but make sure newly planted mums are kept moist for a few weeks after transplanting while they establish a permanent root system. Once established, mums are quite drought tolerant. If you notice the leaves start to look droopy, just water. Feed mums the same way you feed other landscape plants. Use a good all purpose, organic fertilizer and add compost each year to add healthy nutrients and build a nice soil structure.
Once plants go dormant for the winter, leave the dead branches. They provide additional winter protection for the plant and should be removed in spring after new shoots begin growing, usually around the same time ornamental grasses are cut back.
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Asters
Asters grow well in full sun with average soil, but like all plants will reward you with bigger blooms and a healthier plant if you add plenty of compost. Once established, your asters will provde late season color and much needed butterfly nectar for years to come. Regular watering is prefered, but asters will tolerate dry periods. Mulching around your plants will help keep moisture and temperature even throughout the year, and keep weeds down and make a tidy appearance.
In mid to late summer, plants begin to produce flowers that continue until frost. You needn't deadhead unless you want to shape or clean up plants. The asters in our fall fundraiser collection are all dwarf varieties growing only 18" tall and wide, so plants will stay neat and compact without need for maintenance. |
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Scabiosa
Also called pincushion flower, few perennials rival this plant for extended bloom time. Flowers appear in late spring and continue through frosty fall. Both pink and blue varieties compliment the hot reds, oranges and yellows of fall foliage very well. Scabiosa is an important late season nectar source for beautiful butterflies and moths, and is even a larval host to some including the grey pug.
Scabiosa is a low maintenance, hardy perennial that is widely adaptable to sunlight and soil conditions. Plant where a minimum of 3 hours of sunlight can be found in average soil, and plan on plants growing only 12-16" tall with about a 2' spread. |
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Ornamental Grasses
Grasses add drama and texture to containers and garden beds when used with hardy mums, pansies and kale. Choose from blue, red and variegated as well as green foliage in many heights and spreads.
Plant through mid October in full sun (unless noted) in well-drained soil and mulch with 3" of wood chips to protect roots from freezing winter temperatures.
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Allow the dried grass to remain through winter, where snow and ice can show off the dried seed heads in the landscape and provide winter food for birds. Cut back in spring when new foliage begins to emerge.
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Hostas
Big, bold foliage makes wonderful and easy to maintain container plantings for decorative pot combinations. We have hostas in containers that have wintered for years and look great every summer.
Of course they're also indespensible in the perennial shade garden. Choose bright yellow-green foliage, deep, dark blues or crisp green variegated types. Hostas can be found in a wide range of sizes, from gigantic to teeny weeny! Add ornamental kale and pansies for a gorgeous fall harvest bed.
Plant in a shady spot in average soil and keep watered for the first few weeks until plant roots can become better established. Add mulch for weed control and to protect fall plantings from excessive winter cold.
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Ornamental Kale and Cabbage
Few plants offer color during the cold winter months, but ornamental cabbages and kales are very showy, and come in a variety of colors with fancy, ruffled foliage that compliments anything it's planted with. Great in containers, but also useful in beds alone or with evergreens.
Ornamental cabbages and kales don't tolerate summer heat, but are extremely cold tolerant. They can survive winter temperatures as low as 5° F. when they're gradually acclimated.
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Sudden cold snaps can be problematic, but light and moderate frosts will intensify the brilliant coloring of these plants. Plant in sun or shade in average soil. Covering with a light bed sheet to prevent shocking freezes will extend the life of your ornamental greens.
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Pansies
These cool weather annuals add splashy color to bring out the best in fall foliage. Planted in part sun or shade and watered regularly, they aren't picky but will grow best in a loose, rich soil with a slightly acid pH (6.0 - 6.2). Great in containers or garden beds, pansies bloom in a wide variety of colors and flower sizes. Blooms are edible and make gorgeous garnishes for salads and other dishes, and can be candied for desserts. Pansies will tolerate light frost and last well into fall.
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Not part of a fall fundraiser, but loving the plants? No problem! Come on out to the nursery and choose from our wide selection of plants including these fall beauties and more! You can order grasses, scabiosa, hostas, pansies and asters online. Sorry, but we don't ship hardy mums. They're just too breakable.
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