Warm
and Mellow Tones for Fall.....
October
is a great month to plant or to refresh pots on your patio
or deck.
You don’t even have to ‘be out in the garden’,
to bring the feeling of the garden indoors. View a beautiful
container thru the patio door or pass one near your front door
and you are still ‘in the garden’.
This
month Swansons is featuring an excellent selection of containers,
plants and seasonal accessories for putting together outstanding
planter combinations.
Come
visit our Container Gardening area where our helpful staff
will assist you in selecting great plants for that special
location. We also have a selection of ready to go planters
that are perfect for a housewarming gift or for a special occasion.
Fall
is one of the best times of year to plant new plants in the
garden or to refresh pots and favorite containers with exciting
and different plants for fall and winter.
Click
here for more Container Information.
Here
are some outstanding choices from our perennial department
to enliven your fall gardening experience. Besides those
listed below, we carry an excellent selection of other
superb perennials for fall and winter. Also see our Shrub
and Tree area for some classic as well as unusual evergreen
shrubs to make your containers real conversation pieces.
Our
knowledgeable staff is here to help you put together a composition
for your favorite pot or browse our container selection and
we’ll design a pot perfect for you for any location in
the garden. Enjoy the warm, mellow tones of fall with some
of our favorite staff picks for containers:
Heuchera ‘Peach
Flambe’ (right)
An ever changing evergreen
foliage display of ruby pinks, peaches and
deep apricots. You don’t ever need flowers
to get real satisfaction from this new introduction
from Terra Nova nurseries in Portland.
 Heuchera ‘Crème
Brule’ (left)
Good
enough to eat, the pure apricot and tawny
terracotta shades blend together in perfect
balance. Evergreen thru winter.
 Muehlenbergia
complexa or Wire Vine
This black stemmed
trailing accent from New Zealand with button-shaped,
olive green leaves is the ideal compliment
to broader leafed plants and thin spiky
grasses.
Carex
testacea or Orange Sedge (right)
Not a particularly
new plant, but one that always is on our
list for Fall interest. Olive green foliage
turns a brilliant orange as weather cools,
making a fantastic cascading accent at
the edge of a pot.
If
plums and purples, with chatreuse and gold is more to
your liking, try some of these favorites:
Heuchera ‘Plum
Pudding’
Evergreen plum foliage
overlaid with streaks of iridescent silver.
Ruffled edges add an old fashioned flare.
Heuchera ‘Green
Spice’(lower right)
Evergreen foliage
of minty green striated with dramatic
plum veining that intensifies as weather
cools. The patterning of the plum color
is a great companion and a highlight
to other purple foliage plants.
 Ceanothus ‘Diamond
Heights’
Brilliant
chartreuse evergreen leaves with bold,
dark green markings down their center.
Excellent paired with the forest greens
of shrubby Euonymous, Boxwood or Japanese
Holly or plums and burgundy.
Carex ‘Evergold’ (up-right)
A long standing
performer with spiraling masses of long
gold variegated foliage that shines in
the grey overcast days of winter.
Bergenia ‘Bressingham
Ruby’
We just can’t get enough good
bold foliage plants for winter interest. This winner is green
in summer, turning a luscious burgundy as cooler weather increases.
Nothing like to balance grasses, small leaved shrubs and perennials. |
