Flowers are fleeting so keep the show going all season long by choosing fall container plants with foliage that looks lovely in autumn.
Best container plants for fall and winter.
As container plants they do best when planted in rich soil and kept moist but not soggy.
They re super easy to grow and in moderate climates they bloom year round.
For the best chances that your plants will survive a cold winter choose perennials that are rated two zones colder than your area.
Life in a pot is harsher and the roots aren t as protected as they are in the ground.
Grasses kale heuchera and heucherella are colorful textural and can take a little frost so they re dependable anchors for fall pots.
The blue or indigo purple flowers of aster are a symbol of the fall garden and can work equally well in a fall container garden.
Try growing robust plants like hakonechloa macra hylotelephium spectabile and calamagrostis x acutiflora karl foerster.
Pansies are no doubt the best container flowers.
From spring to fall and even in winters in warm climates you can grow pansies.
For fall containers try some of these cold hardy perennials.
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