Flowers for Fall

We're all used to purchasing and planting flowers in the spring. It's a tradition, around Memorial Day, to fill our yards and containers with blooms. But more of us are learning that autumn is also a good time to plant.

After this exhaustingly hot summer, the cooler days of fall entice us outdoors again. Beautiful mums and pansies, planted now, will extend the glory of your garden until frost. Pansies will usually survive all winter, blooming during warm spells.

Lavalette Nursery and Garden Center has a large selection of mums and pansies as well as perennials of all types, which can be planted during the fall.

And this is also the time to plant tulip and daffodil bulbs, which will pop up next spring to signal the end of winter. Check out the choices at Lavalette.

More Ideas for Autumn!

Meanwhile, here are some more ideas for fall from the Lavalette article archives, stories that have appeared in earlier issues of our online gardening magazine:

• Accentuating Those FALL COLORS! Lori Bowen noteed how fall is a great time to accentuate our spectacular autumns and to take note of plants that perform well to add fall color to their existing landscape.
• 10 Reasons to Plant Perennials in the Fall. Spring is traditionally the time for planting -- vegetables, flowers, shrubs and trees. After a long, cold winter, we love to be outdoors, improving our gardens and sprucing up the landscape. But spring is not the best time to plant perennials. Autumn is.
• Putting Your Garden to Bed. Autumn chores signal an end to the gardening season, and the beginning of a long winter. But the work you do in the fall is important -- and it can cut down on your chores in the spring.
• What to Plant This Fall? If Spring is the only time you visit a garden center -- and if you think spring is the only time to plant -- you don't know what you're missing. Autumn is actually the best time to plant perennials.
  

By the way, if you'd like to harvest other ideas from our archives, visit our online Search section -- click here.