Labor Day seems to be everyone’s signal for prepping the garden for the coming fall season.
Summer plants need to be removed as well as yellow leaves and spoilt fruit. Once you have removed the plants and foliage that grows in the summer but dies in the colder weather be sure to turn over your soil. If you have permanent plants in your garden that are frost resistant and can last through the winter leave them in just be sure to clean up around them. If they are plants that will regrow next spring and summer put markers in to make sure that you are leaving them enough room when planting your fall plants.
Here are a few fall plants that will enhance your fall garden:
1) Chrysanthemums, they come in gorgeous fall colors, you can even color coordinate them and plant them in patterns.
2) The Perennial Sunflower, brilliant gold fluffy daisy-like flowers make an instant focal point and attract butterflies and birds.
3) Michaelmas Daisy, shades of pink, purple, blue and white, these delicate daisy-like blossoms start popping open in late August and continue on until frost. Pinching in the early summer turns these Asters into mounds with dozens of flower buds.
4) Aster, daisy-like flowers in pink, rosy-lilac or deep purple, asters are classic fall flowers.
5) Low-growing Marguerite daisy is a delight, and it flowers pretty much nonstop until the first hard freeze.
And there you have it, just a few of our favorite plants for your fall gardening project.
