As the weather gets cooler and the skies get grayer, the fall season has arrived! With a few beautiful decoration ideas for autumn you can bring some color back into the garden and onto the terrace. With pumpkins, candles and beautiful autumn flowers, the ambience outside becomes autumnal and inviting.
The most popular plants for the fall season are the heather herbs – Erica varieties and Calluna vulgaris. The callunas bloom from late summer to the first frost, Erica gracilis from August to October, while the flowering shoots of the winter and snow heath Erica carnea are densely packed from October to May. Here you can get more information about the most important types of heather. The heather can be used individually or combined with other plants in pots. Depending on the style of the vessels, they can look modern, romantic, Scandinavian or country. Wicker baskets, tin buckets, wooden barrels and boxes are perfect for this.
Ornamental cabbage is an attractive eye-catcher not only with its curled leaves, but also with its interesting autumn color. If the temperatures fall below 10 degrees, the leaves begin to change color. For autumn plantings, ornamental cabbage is usually combined with heather, cyclamen and silverleaf.
Pumpkins come in a variety of colors and shapes in the fall, providing colorful pops of color not just on tables but under them tooblooming autumn flowers. Their bright orange tones are particularly effective in combination with purple heather and purple-colored ornamental cabbage.
