If you’re looking for fall container ideas that don’t involve window boxes, you can convert any of these combinations into a standard pot. Use these ideas as a starting point to create the ideal fall display for your unique space, sun or shade preferences, and USDA growing zone.
Build a seasonal box
The structure and height of the dwarf Alberta spruce can act as a foundation plant in your window box with supporting floral elements such as pansies, violas and English ivy vines creating a backdrop. The blanket has the underlying texture and color. Towards the back of the box, pour in the kale for added volume. When the season comes, be sure to remove flowers that are frost-damaged, wilted, or sunburned. Swap out cool-weather flowers in spring to grow your containers for a fresh season.
Please arrange treatment
If you need to set up a window box in a flash, think of it as a living arrangement. Keep flowering elements in their containers and arrange a variety of greens (again, still in their containers) such as ‘Ogon’ sedum, creeping Jenny and ‘sedum plant’ Lemon Ball’ around them. Small white pumpkins can be used to decorate arrangements. When time allows, you can choose to grow plants or remove the window box and use flowers, greenery and vines elsewhere.
Go green
When everything else is bursting with shades of red, orange and yellow, add another pop of color with a window box filled with green. Gardener Tracee Lund of Potted Pleasures in Charleston, South Carolina, created this arrangement with ‘Aaron’ white caladium, ‘White Nancy’ spotted dead nettle, ‘Key Lim Pie nettle ‘, pale pink periwinkle, ivy and holly fern.
Packs a punch of color
The combination of the viola ‘Penny Lavender Shades’ and the double plant ‘Strawberry Sundae’ will bring cold-weather color to your windows throughout the fall, even when grown in a box. Shaded windows. However, don’t try to plant these varieties too early in the season. They need cool weather to thrive, so the ideal time to plant is in the fall when the scorching summer temperatures have officially subsided.
Give it legs
For window placements on porches, consider using rectangular, footed containers to create a window box effect without the hassle of installation. To create a similar display, start with orange fall mums and layer both vines and evergreen elements to create a mix of spills, thrills, and textures. structure.
Make it an attraction
Petunia hybrid ‘Supertunia Vista Bubblegum’ will attract pollinators to keep your garden buzzing in the fall. Plant it toward the front of your window box so it runs along the edges. Use coleus towards the middle of the back to add height. On either side of the box, group upright angelicas and textured geraniums.
