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The weather is beautiful in autumn, and what better place to enjoy it than outdoors in the garden? This week, we offer a few easy suggestions to refresh your fall garden and get ahead for spring!
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Add color with pumpkins
(and beat the squirrels)
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As the last of the flowers sleep for the season, add eye-catching color to your landscape with an easy display of pumpkins and gourds. They're festive, inexpensive, and they won't take up any storage space from year to year- just compost them once the season ends.
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Firm, healthy fruits should last until nighttime temperatures hit the mid to low 20s, which isn't until after Thanksgiving in our area in an average year.
You can put pumpkins practically anywhere! Just keep these tips in mind:
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1. Choose pumpkins and gourds that are heavy for their size, with no wrinkling, nicks or scratches on the skin. See left for an example of what to avoid.
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2. To discourage mold, avoid direct contact with soil, and arrange your display so that water will naturally drain away from it.
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Note the angled placement of the orange pumpkin above, which would otherwise collect water around the stem.
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3. Squirrels are notorious for munching squash, but you can deter them from making a Thanksgiving feast of your pumpkins by spicing them up with hot pepper!
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Sprinkle ground cayenne around them, or rub hot sauce over the pumpkin's surface (wearing gloves, of course!) Remember to re-apply after a rain.
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We have a beautiful selection of unique pumpkins and gourds, as well as mums, strawbales, corn stalks, broom corn and more! For a pop of autumn color, stop by and take home your favorites. Learn more at hoerrnursery.com/fall.
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Double your flowers
with spring blooming bulbs
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Some perennials make fantastic bulb companions, emerging just as the bulbs finish blooming to cover up the receding leaves. Here are the best bulb cover plants, according to a Cornell study. If you've got any of them growing in your garden, consider tucking some bulbs among them this fall for a sweet spring surprise!
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Bluestar
Windflower
Goat's Beard
Aster
Sedges
Turtlehead
Bugbane
Crocosmia
Geranium, Hardy
Daylily
Hosta
Catmint
Penstemon
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Phlox
Black-eyed Susan
Salvia, Perennial
Stonecrop
Goldenrod
Lamb's Ear
Bergenia
Siberian Bugloss
Campanula
Bishop's Hat
Coralbells
Deadnettle
Sedum
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Got a landscaping project you didn't get to? Take measurements and photos of the spot before the snow flies, so you can plan it out at your leisure over winter.
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Better yet, book an appointment with our We Design You Install team, and let us take care of it! Miley and Ben can give you a great landscape plan to work from, tailored for your space. You'll be able to beat the booking rush in spring, and get straight back to gardening!
Here are some other easy tasks to take care of over winter:
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2. Picking out plants? Use the "advanced search" option in our plant finder to select the attributes you're looking for. Have fun with the possibilities!
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Autumn is a beautiful time to be outdoors. Whatever you do in the garden this season, take plenty of time to enjoy it!
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Holiday workshops
are coming!
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Grab your friends and sign up early for our holiday workshops! These fill up fast every year, so reserve your spot at hoerrnursery.com/workshops.
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Sept. 26th-Oct. 10th:
Select Trees on Sale
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Choose from the following varieties:
25% off:
Crimson King Maple
40% off:
Crimson Sunset Maple
Skyline Honeylocust
Exclamation Planetree
Tina Crabapple
Double Weeping Cherry
Pink Snow Showers Weeping Cherry
Snow Fountain Weeping Cherry
Yellowwood
All remaining spring dug trees
60% off:
Allee Elm
Green Mountain Linden
Village Green Zelkova
Green Vase Zelkova
Get them while supplies last!
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