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While most home gardeners are thinking about putting perennials to bed, pruning trees and planting spring bulbs, there are plenty of fall landscaping designs that can still be in effect well into October.

Planting fall foliage trees, plants and flowers during the spring months is an excellent way to make sure you will have a beautiful fall landscaping design to view through September and October. While many homeowners select trees and shrubs based on their landscape design and pattern for the spring and fall months, you may also want to take the time to consider their display in the fall months.

Oak, Birch, Ash and Maple trees are excellent choices for fall landscaping designs, with a wide variety of fall foliage colors from a golden yellow to deep purple. As well, there are a variety of beautiful shrubs and bushes that will have fall foliage turn an array of colors in the fall. Many bushes and shrubs have their best display of berries and delicate flowers in the fall months as well. These include the firebush, red chokeberry bush, burning bush, witch-alder, and the Virginia creeper.

One of the major factors to keep in mind when planning [fall landscaping designs] is to consider how these bright foliage colors will mesh with other landscaped trees and plants in the fall. You may just want to add a splash of color with one or two foliage turning plants or you may want to incorporate all foliage changing trees and bushes, but whatever you decide it is best to try and create some consistency. Otherwise your attempt at creating a beautiful fall landscape design may just look awkward.

Fall landscaping designs can also incorporate cool season annuals and perennials. While you can wait until August or September to plant some cool season annuals, there are quite a few varieties that can be planted in the spring or summer months, trimmed back in the late summer and will create a whole new bouquet of blossoms in the fall.

Excellent choices for cool season annuals include marigolds, geraniums, dianthus, salvia, and petunias. Good choices for late season perennials are chrysanthemums, pansies, asters, and hydrangea. Most cool season perennials will have a round of blooms early to late summer and then can be trimmed to allow for another display of flowers that will usually last into October.

Another wonderful choice for fall landscaping designs that will add color and depth to both your fall and winter landscapes are evergreens. Fall is an excellent time for planting evergreen shrubs and bushes, as they do well with the cool climate. Planting evergreens in the fall gives you an additional display for your fall landscape design and gives the evergreens a chance to take root before the freezing temperatures set in.

One of the best parts about creating fall landscaping designs is being able to enjoy the beautiful design you created. During the hot summer months, it may be difficult to get outside and truly enjoy your landscape design, but the cool weather in the fall months means really enjoy the beauty of the outdoors.

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Planting fall foliage plants and flowers is becoming more popular as home gardeners are looking for ways to continue the beauty of their gardening late into the fall months. During autumn, the leaves in the yard are turning beautiful shades of yellow, red, and purple, so why not consider fall foliage plants and flowers that will also add to the beauty of a fall landscape? Most fall foliage plants and flowers are beautiful throughout every season and can help to establish a low maintenance landscape design as well as add beauty in the fall and winter months in an otherwise dying garden.

Virginia Creeper

A popular groundcover plant used often in North America, it is especially known for the beautiful vibrant red color of foliage it produces in the spring. Keep in mind that while this foliage adds beauty with groundcover in the summer and fall months, it does have a tendency to get out of hand if it isnâ€™t properly cared for and cut back several times throughout the year. The Virginia Creeper also adds beauty in the summer with tiny flowers and in the fall and winter with tiny black berries that can feed nearby birds and wildlife. Remember that although the Virginia Creeper is considered a groundcover fall foliage plant, it will also attach itself to other plants and nearby trees.

Firebush

A wonderful summer and fall foliage plant and flower, the Firebush produces beautiful bright red blossoms in the summer month with dark green foliage and a deep red to purple foliage in the fall months. Depending on the climate zone region, the Firebush plant can be either a perennial or annual. In North America, it is native to Florida and will do well year round in that mild climate, but may not do as well in colder climate zones of North America. In warmer climate zones, the Firebush may never actually turn to [fall foliage] colors, as it will continue to flower and grow year round.

Witch-Alder

A beautiful and dependable fall foliage plant and flower, Witch-Alder is a deciduous shrub that will usually grow between 6 to 10 feet in height and will remain in the shape of a rounded mound. While small white to pink flowers appear in the early spring and summer months, many gardeners plant Witch-Alder for their beautiful fall foliage that can range from red to yellow or golden orange. Keep in mind that often all of these colors can appear on the same shrub, so if you are looking for a particular color pattern for your , you need to be careful about where you place this in your garden. Witch-Alder is usually fairly hardy year round, with dark green foliage, but will need partial shade if planted in a hot weather climate zone.

Red Chokeberry

A beautiful fall foliage plant and flower that is easy to care for and provides a beautiful display throughout all four seasons, the Red chokeberry bush is almost a necessity in any year round landscape. In the spring, the Red Chokeberry offers beautiful green foliage and tiny white flower clusters, in the fall the shrub will produce red berries that last well into the winter months and will also produce beautiful orange to red foliage in the fall months. The Red Chokeberry shrub can be planted almost anywhere in a landscape design because it tolerates shade and poor soil, although it does best with at least partial sunshine in the summer months.

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By early September, some folks develop a slacker attitude about lawn care lawn care.Peter Shumaker, however, knows that right now is a great time to get new grass growing.He's already started reseeding his lawn, spreading a thin layer of Canadian peat over the seed.

Shumaker, a dentist who lives in Grosse Pointe Farms, estimates he puts in "a good 45 minutes" a day on lawn care, often accompanied by his black Lab, Maddie….Read More

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