Fall Planter Ideas!

Just because fall is coming that does not mean that it is time to throw in the shovel on your outdoor planters. Fall is an amazing time to transform your front porch into a brightly colored, pumpkin filled,   festive display. I personally think fall displays are the best of the year. You have pumpkins, gourds, hay bales, colorful annuals, scarecrows, grasses, & and mums. When you get to October add your Halloween decorations within the planters. Use lights and carved pumpkins to illuminate your design. There are just so many opportunities to be creative and unique. Here are some of my favorite ideas:

The Succulent Pumpkin:

Carve out a real pumpkin or use a pumpkin planter and put succulents inside of it. It is a twist on the usual fall plants and is the perfect centerpiece for a party or a great gift for a friend.

The pumpkin lined garden bed:

Use small pumpkins as the first layer in your garden bed. Add mums or another colorful annual behind it and finish the layers with some annual grasses. It is a beautiful way to line a sidewalk or do a smaller scale version around your mailbox. 

Illuminate:

Add solar light or battery operated lights to your fall planters. Our garden center has ceramic globes in 3 different sizes in beautiful fall colors. These would be perfect to arrange in the front of your planter with mums, zinnias, grasses, and kale. They look amazing in the daylight as well as the nighttime. It is also fun to have pumpkin or seasonal themed lights as well. Work them within your design so the entire planter flows. I like when there is a subtle glow that illuminates the planter. With it getting darker earlier it is always nice to have little glow.

Vertical mums:
Vertical gardening has really taken off this year. Keep it going with a wall of mums. Hang planters on a fence,  from your deck or even your trees. Mums are great because they are relatively cheap, are full, and add fast bright color.

There are so many ways to create a fall paradise. The best part about fall plants is that they are cheap. The season isn't as long as summer but you get beautiful full planters for a fraction of the cost of your summer planters. And really if you start them now, because we all know our summer planters are starting to look a little under the weather, you will have over 2 months to enjoy them before you transition them into your spruce tip pots:)

Beyond the Garden Center

Lynde Greenhouse & Nursery goes well beyond our retail Garden Center. We sell wholesale to businesses, have a landscape design & installation team, as well as design and install on commercial properties.

Our wholesale customers range from small retail owners to big companies. We wholesale plants for every season all around the state.

Our landscape designer Joe Annis was voted "Best Landscape Designer" at the 2015 Best of Maple Grove Awards. From small projects to big he is your go to designer. Our landscape team has designed and installed retaining walls, fire pits, paver patios, flower beds, garden plots, water features, and so much more. Whatever your landscape aspirations we will be there from the initial concept all the way through the final product. We will work with you to design a product that is creative, unique, functional, and personal.

Kelsey Ness heads up our commercial design. Our commercial sites include The Shoppes at Arbor Lakes, Maple Grove Hospital, Excelsior & Grand, Woodbury Lakes, just to name a few. Most of these sites do summer and winter decor and a few do summer, winter, spring, and fall. The spring designs consist mostly of pansies, curly willow, and dogwood. The spring season for flowers is a short one so not many sites choose to do this. The summer planting options are endless. We work with a lot of petunias because they are durable, colorful, and hardy. We use Begonias, Coleus, and Impatiens for shady areas. Grasses and Canna Lilies add height and layers. We like to use blocks of color for impact and visibility. Our hanging baskets are exceptional. We start them early in the season in our greenhouses so they are full and vibrant when it is time to hang them. Fall, like spring is a short season so only a select few locations choose to do it. I personally love fall. From colorful mums, purple kale, to bright zinnias fall planters have so much to offer. The winter season brings out the spruce tips, birch, winter greens, and bling! We also string lights in tress as well as light wreaths and spruce tip pots.

Whether it is our Garden Center, Wholesale Department, Landscape Design, or Commercial Design we take pride in our product and are passionate about what we do.