Is your home ready for a colorful refresh? Our Texas weather has chilled out, making this the ideal time to plant cool season color! Cool season plants have a stronger tolerance to chilly conditions and can last throughout the fall and winter seasons. You can adorn your flowerbeds or containers with fresh color to make a strong visual impact. Enjoy time outdoors and revitalize your landscape with vibrant and beautiful plants.
Unsure of where to start? We are here to help! Check out these fabulous fall options for your cool season garden.
MATRIX® PANSIES
Matrix® Pansies are beautiful fall flowers. They are prized for their large and vibrant blooms that make a strong visual impact. This annual enjoys the shorter days and cooler conditions that this time of year brings. It allows for your blooms to last longer, look better, and have the tightest flowering window. In fact, Matrix® Pansies produce more flowers per plant than any other pansy variety.
Matrix® Pansies are painted in a variety of colors with different “faces”. There are “blotch faces” with dark centers or “clear faces” that are just one color.
These flowers are frost tolerant and will thrive in full sun to partial shade. Also, they are a favorite to many beneficial pollinators like bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds.
CYCLAMEN
Looking for holiday hues? Cyclamen have festive, jewel-toned petals among heart-shaped leaves. They have tall stems which gives them a stately appearance and makes them a beautiful focal point in any cool season garden.
These distinctive features make them a delight for containers and gardens. Looking for a gift? Pick your beautiful Cyclamen and pair with a fun piece of pottery for a great tabletop or desk plant.
Cyclamen does best in partial shade, and it prefers a well-draining soil. Proper watering is essential to maintaining the health of these plants.
ORNAMENTAL CABBAGE & KALE
Ornamental Cabbage and Kale provides attractive fall color while also adding amazing texture and foliage to your landscape. Ornamental Cabbage has fluffy leaves with compact rosettes that come in shades of white, pink, and purple.
Ornamental Kale is a favorite for fall gardens! It grows with dissected leaves and is great for adding rich colors and textures to your sunny flowerbeds and containers. As the weather gets cooler, the leaves of the Ornamental Cabbage and Kale will become more captivating. They can last throughout the winter and can survive temperatures as low as 5 degrees Fahrenheit.
SNAPDRAGONS
Snapdragons are a classic flower with tall sturdy stalks. They are vibrant and provide gorgeous cool season color. Their height can help create a balance with tall background plants and shorter bedding plants in your flowerbeds. The spikes of blooms are lightly scented and popular to our friendly pollinators.
Snapdragons are best grown in full sun with moist soil conditions. They can tolerate the cold and even frost conditions. Planting early in the cooler seasons allows for an abundance of blooms and lasting performance.
ORNAMENTAL PEPPERS
Ornamental Peppers are a striking bedding plant with a tropical appearance. The upright fruits come in luminous shades of orange, red, yellow, and more! They have bushy, glossy foliage and are normally grown for their attractive seasonal colors.
Ornamental Peppers grow at a fast rate, and thrives best in full sunlight. They are ideal for planting in containers, or they can even thrive on a sunny windowsill indoors! This unique variety is easy to care for and will also make a statement in your landscape.
CARE TIPS
Start your plants off with success and use Calloway’s Premium Flowerbed Garden Soil. Our Premium Garden Soil is made from the highest quality ingredients to provide the best conditions for lush color. It contains water-saving ingredients for added moisture control, organic ingredients to promote rapid root growth, enhance nutrient retention, and is designed to balance air and water around the roots for optimal growth.
Give your flowers an extra boost of beauty with Calloway’s Premium Flower Food. Ideal for all blooming annuals like Cyclamen, Matrix® Pansies, Petunias, and more. Our Premium Flower Food is created with high quality ingredients to give your plants rich and healthy blooms.
SHOP WITH EASE
At Calloway’s and Cornelius, we have everything you need to create a fall-tastic cool season garden! Stop by and explore our entire collection of seasonal plants, pottery, garden tools, and more! Shop our neighborhood stores or shop online now!
Have questions? Ask our Texas Certified Nursery Professionals; they are here to help!
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