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Planting for Fall Color

By McKenzie Pitts, Lomond View Intern

Summer is beginning to slowly dwindle, meaning school and work will now be in full-swing. The days grow shorter and the nights get longer. Signs of a season coming to close are most evident in nature. Plants begin to fade in color and blossoms, turning to shades of brown. The morning and night begin to grow colder and darker each day. Any vibrant color seems to be lost in the coming fall season. However, fall can be quite colorful if you know your plant palette.

We often do not realize that a landscape can affect our mood. For example, several hospitals and cemeteries usually contain cool colors of blue, soft purples and pinks, and white. The setting is meant to be a tranquil, calming atmosphere. A landscape can enhance the typical mood setting of an area and how it is meant to feel. Another example is an amusement park; energetic with rides, children, and lively activities. Bright, hot colors of red, yellow, and orange would complement the energetic setting.

Provided is a list of plants that contain an ornamental interest lasting into the Fall season.

 

Perennials:

  • Black-eyed Susan – Rudbeckia
    • Bloom: Late summer – Fall
    • Herbaceous perennial
    • Golden or dark orange flowers with a prominent black center
  • -Phlox
  • -Aster
  • -Tickseed
  • -Butterfly Bush
  • -Echinacea
  • -Meadow sage
  • -Anemone
  • -Verbena
  • -Daisy
  • Autumn Joy Stonecrop – Sedum spectabile ‘Autumn Joy’
    • Bloom: Late summer – Fall
    • Herbaceous perennial, cactus/succulent type
    • Pink flower umbel

 

  • Sedum
  • English Ivy
  • Russian Sage – Perovskia atriplicifolia
    • Bloom: Summer – Early Fall
    • Semi-herbaceous perennial
    • Fragrance attracts pollinators

Grasses:

  • Maiden Hairgrass
  • Feather Reed Grass
  • Fountain Grass
  • Little Bluestem
  • Blue Grama Grass – Bouteloua gracilis
    • Herbaceous perennial
    • Bloom: Mid-summer – late Fall or Winter
    • “eyebrow” seed heads can last into the Winter season. They continue to look great in a contrasting light to show off the seed heads and bronze-golden color
  • Switchgrass
  • Blue fescue – Festuca glauca
    • Evergreen herbaceous perennial
    • Bloom: Late summer
    • Silver-blue foliage that retains its color year-round

Evergreens & Shrubs

  • Yew
  • Boxwood (Buxus)
  • Ferns
  • Viburnum
  • Compact Oregon Grape Holly – Mahonia aquifolium ‘Compacta’
    • Evergreen shrub
    • Year-round interest
      • Spring bloomer, small yellow flower clusters
      • Fall foliage color turns dark red-purple color with bright blue berry clusters that have excellent contrast
      •  
        • Arborvitae
        • Roses
        • Juniper
        • Barberry
        • Dwarf Burning Bush – Euonymus alatus ‘Compactus’
          • Bright Red fall color
          • Deciduous shrub

Winter Interest

  • Holly
  • Winterberry
  • Evergreen Trees and Shrubs
  • Red Twig Dogwood – Cornus alba ‘Elegantissima’
    • Green and white variegated leaves
    • Beautiful, bright red stems that create a great contrast with the snow
    • Interest all year

Trees

  • Japanese zelkova
  • Common hackberry
  • Bur oak
  • English oak
  • American linden
  • Crabapple trees
  • Red Maple – Acer rubrum
    • Green foliage spring – summer. Turns bright red in the Fall
    • Moderate – Fast growth
    • 40-50’ tall and 30’-40’ wide

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By McKenzie Pitts, Intern

We love it when our plants begin to blossom; the beautiful colors and fragrance in the air. It’s amazing! Until they stop…now what? Deadheading your plants is the answer to help you get the most out of your flowers throughout the growing season.

For some gardeners, deadheading is a mundane chore. For others, it is well worth the effort. At Lomond View Nursery, we are the “others” that consider deadheading well worth it. Deadheading is a necessary task to help invigorate our flowers keep them healthy, happy, and blooming from our nursery to your home. Many landscapers and nursery growers believe that perennial deadheading is the backbone of gardening.

What’s deadheading?

Cutting off “fleshy” parts of the plant; usually blossoms, that are dead or dying.

Deadheading tricks the plant. Naturally, flowers produce a bloom, go to seed, then die or go dormant until next season. Deadheading tricks the plant into thinking that it needs to produce more flowers so it will have seeds for the next season. This helps keep flowers blooming several times in a season instead of just once or twice.

Benefits of Deadheading:

  • Invigorates growth of stems, leaves, and flowers
  • Focuses energy on beginning new blooms instead of focusing energy on a dying or dead flower
  • Builds the plant cell walls to strengthen the stems
  • Plants look tidy & clean
  • Improved air circulation
  • Redirects plants energy from seed production to root and vegetation production
  • Once bloomed, if pollinated, the plant will begin to grow stronger due to dispersal of pollen

How do you Deadhead Flowers?

 

There are two  different ways to Deadhead. First, you can pinch blooms off with your fingers. This is an effective method for small flowers; especially for annual plants. Pinch below the base of the flower.

 

Second, you can use garden tools. Garden shears or pruners are best, you could even use regular scissors. Remember that plants have particular needs and are all different.

Following are deadheading methods:

Cut back at the stem near the healthiest leaf axil.

(leaf axil is the space between the flower base and the first leaf)

 

 

Cut back clear to the ground.

 

 

Cutting the stem, right above the foliage.

(Gardens, 2017)

 

Ask a Lomond View expert if you have any questions about where to deadhead a certain plant.

  • Annuals: The focus for annuals is to flower as much as possible. An annual’s blooms fall off easily when spent (dead/dry). Some newer varieties of annuals are sterile. Meaning that they do not produce any seeds and will continue to flower all season long until the plant is spent. Therefore, it is not necessary to deadhead since they are a continual bloomer, but you can if want a faster bloom.
  • Perennials: A main reason of deadheading a perennial is not only to produce more blooms, but to help keep down those invasive spreading plants. Some perennials, Peonies for example, do not need any deadheading since they will only bloom once a season. Yarrow, has an aggressive nature to spread and grow quickly. If this is the case with any of your perennials, you will need to prune and deadhead. Pruning removes unwanted parts, dead or alive. Deadheading only removes spent (dead) or close to spent flowers. Ask a Lomond View expert questions on what plants you should and should not deadhead and prune.

When you should not Deadhead:

Not deadheading can have benefits too! Dry flowers could provide an ornamental appeal to them. Dried flowers can provide food for birds and small animals, or compost to the soil for nutrients. For example, coneflower (Echinacea) provides food for birds in the fall season when food is scarce.

The choice to or not to dead head is your personal preference. There is no right or wrong.

Works Cited
Gardens, B. H. (2017). Garden Care. Retrieved from Better Homes & Gardens: http://www.bhg.com/gardening/yard/garden-care/deadheading-flowers-for-extended-bloom/#page=1

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Stopping to smell the roses can mean many things, but literally speaking, it can improve our quality of life. Science is showing more all the time that interaction with nature raises our “happy” hormones such as serotonin and lowers the “stress” hormones such as cortisol.  (1)

The fresh scent of a flower can remind us to be kind to ourselves. Watching a bud change into a bloom can remind us how precious life is. It is easier to remember what inspires us when we are surrounded by nature. At Lomond View, we believe that beauty is inspiring. We are honored to have spent that last 30 years helping residents throughout the Ogden area add a little of that beauty to their lives.

 

 

  1. Hanson, P., & Frank, M. (2016, September 19). The Human Health and Social Benefits of Urban Forests. Retrieved from Dovetail Partners Inc.: www.dovetailinc.org

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