Fall Combination Planters
It’s a great time to start transforming your warm season annual combo pots into fall combo pots! Whether you are re-working existing containers or starting fresh, here are some tips from the professionals at The Good Earth:
Fall combo pots provide bright color all fall. Consider plant options such as crotons, ornamental peppers, ornamental cabbage/ kale, rudbeckia, celosia and pansies. And if you aren’t familiar with Cool Wave pansies, check them out. Cool Waves trail over container edges for cascading color all winter long!
Keep your crotons! With their colorful orange, red and yellow leaves, crotons fairly shout fall. But they aren’t winter hardy so often times, people let them freeze. There is another way! Pop them out of your combo pots, pot them up and bring them inside when temperatures start dipping under 50 degrees at night. They grow well as houseplants in areas with bright, indirect light.
Use evergreen plant shrubs or perennials, pansies, violas, panolas or Cool Wave pansies to fill in where crotons and other non-winter hardy plant materials have died back to give you color all winter long.
Use drainage rock, Good Earth brand Professional Growing Mix, and Good Earth brand Jump Start at planting. For containers with flowering annuals, use Ferti-Lome Premium Bedding Plant Food.
Don’t forget to water your pots during the winter; plants do not like to freeze dry. The is is especially important to remember for pots placed in covered areas.
Not sure where to start? Bring us pictures and measurements of your pots and we will help you. Also, don’t forget, our Potting Pavilion is open. Bring your pots and plant them up here! For more information about the Potting Pavilion, click here.