Bring an autumnal mood into your home by planting large containers with autumn flowers and grasses! Various herbs and types of lettuce also get along well with flowers. The “container gardening” trend offers a great opportunity to decorate flower pots for autumn. From chrysanthemums and pumpkins to window boxes and hanging baskets, in this article you will find beautiful ideas and examples of fall planting in containers.
This rustic oneseemingly wicker basketserves as a hanging basket and a mini herb garden at the same time. The garden pansies and marigolds shine in beautiful yellow tones and create a great contrast to the herb green. Between the flowers you can still see baby kale Redbor, which adds purple splashes of color. The selected herbs in this basket are coriander (along the handle), lemon thyme (bottom left), and Italian oregano (bottom right). Be aware that hanging baskets can be very heavy when filled with traditional potting soil. It is therefore advisable to fill the space below with empty plastic bottles and only then add potting soil.
Colorful autumn plantings
This planting combines height, texture and color in an amazing arrangement. You need a large ceramic planter, 40 centimeters in diameter, that has good drainage. Fill the bucket with potting soil. Red kale and ornamental kale are robust and colorful varieties that harmonize perfectly with the red and yellow marigolds. Fountain grass adds height to the arrangement while ivy is draped over the pot.
Purple and green for a good mood
Shades of purple and green come together in this beautiful arrangement. The white mini pumpkins and sturdy ornamental and kale varieties make this look stunning. Instead of a bucket, an old dough bowl was used in this example. To prevent the wood from being damaged by potting soil and water, it should first be lined with plastic film.
Place the plants with their pots directly in the bowl. Start with the purple plants first - the pansies, the red leaf mustard 'Red Giant', thatPurpurglöckchen Heuchera'Sugar Plum' and the ornamental cabbage. Then add pennywort, Siberian sedum 'Lemon Ball' and stonecrop 'Ogon' to brighten the dark purple color palette with some green. Fill the gaps with moss to hide the pots and complement with white mini pumpkins.
Alarge fiberglass bucketin a light shade like taupe is ideal for this look. This way the plants can be shown off even better. Virgin rosemary willow (Itea virginica) is combined with ornamental cabbage and Nandina 'Flirt'. The yellow snapdragons and red chrysanthemums serve as a splash of color.
The rosemary willow is a frost-hardy shrub that grows 60 – 100 cm high. The foliage turns bright red to purple in autumn. You can enjoy the creamy white flowers from May to July.
Ceramic containers
These white ceramic containers have a seaside vibe that rather than sustains their bloom. The red bromeliads meet the colorful leaves of crotons and the bizarre structure of the dwarf pitchers (cephalotus). Pennigwort with hanging growth provides a light green accent against the white pots. While bromeliads and crotons are not frost hardy, dwarf pitchers are considered hardy perennials.
Use structural plants
The secret here lies in the beautiful structural plants. The concrete pots impress with a deliberately worn look. The neutral tones match the house facade and allow the colors of the plants to shine. A colorful palm lily (Yucca flamentosa) provides a beautiful backdrop for the other perennials. The bluish-purple echeverias contrast beautifully with the yellow tones of the palm lilies and the green of the sedum plants. A bright red Kalanchoe completes the look. This low-maintenance planting lasts until the first frost because the echeverias and kalanchoes have to be overwintered indoors.
Typical autumn colors
Purple, yellow and orange are a great color combination for fall. The Mexican shrub sage (Salvia leucantha) is a real eye-catcher. The long flower stalks are covered with many purple-violet flowers that can be seen from July to the end of October. The location should be very bright to sunny. A beautiful companion for this heat-loving fragrant plant is the sulfur cosmos, which also comes from sunny Mexico.
A great opportunityPlant flower pots for autumnand quickly, chrysanthemums offer. The robust perennials can also be beautifully combined with boxwood, Mexican sage and ornamental cabbage.
Instead of turning hollowed out pumpkins into Halloween lanterns, you can use them as vases or planters for fall flowers. Chrysanthemums fit perfectly in large pumpkins, while smaller pumpkins can be planted with pansies.
Combine the most beautiful colors of autumn with a vibrant mix of snapdragon 'Snapshot Orange', strap flower (Loropetalum 'Purple Pixie') and yellow mini violets. The striking foliage of Heuchera 'Sparkling Burgundy' completes the overall picture.
Autumn planting in yellow
Pansies and violetsare the easiest way to bring long-lasting blooms to your garden or balcony. This trio of calamus grass 'Ogon', pansies 'Matrix Yellow Blotch' and yellow mini violets fascinates with sunny yellow tones.
The red leaf mustard (Brassica juncea 'Red Giant') is a real eye-catcher in this flower pot. In contrast to its dark foliage are the student flowers 'Bonanza Harmony'. The rock stonecrop 'Angelina' brings everything together in the end.
The dwarf Sugarloaf Spruce Alberta acts as the foundation of this fall planted window box, while the kale, pansies and violets provide fall color and texture. The ivy that grows beyond the box conveys a little romance.
This explosive combination of fountain grass, globe amaranth (Gomphrena “Fireworks”) and lantana (Lantanas “Bandana Red”) immediately creates a good mood. The sweet potato vines create a nice contrast. This fall planting lasts until the first frost.
Chrysanthemums combine perfectly with coleus because both varieties have similar light, soil and water requirements. Depending on the variety, chrysanthemums have different flowering times and growth habits. In total there are over 5,000 different varieties of chrysanthemums. Many of them are hardy and can be overwintered outside.
This beautiful petunia 'Supertunia Citrus' is a real eye-catcher and fascinates with an unexpected color palette of yellow and white. The orange-red foliage of Coleus goes perfectly with petunias.
Add extra height to your containers with coconut fiber hanging baskets. The baskets are attached to a rod. Line the baskets with peat moss and plant them with crème brûlée or coral bells. They have bronze-colored foliage that complements the orange pumpkins perfectly.
This combination of coleus, white-fruited wire bush, spurge, loosestrife and petunias impresses with a magnificent deep purple color. The coleus (Solenostemon Scutellarioides “Trailing Salamander”) harmonizes perfectly with the petunias, which look almost black.
Nothing evokes fall like orange chrysanthemums. This plant combination is perfect for both a balcony raised bed and balcony boxes.
Cyclamen and white tomentose groundsel (Jacobaea maritima) are among themmost popular flowerswhen it comes to planting a flower pot for autumn. You can also combine hardy and evergreen fern varieties. Thanks to its delicate fronds, the rib fern (Blechnum spicant), for example, is particularly attractive.
Have fun replanting!
