Exploring Ideas: Designing Outdoor Living Spaces
Fall is just around the corner, and with that will come the beautiful colors of autumn. With the reds and yellows of Fall ready to descend, here are some great fall gardening ideas for your backyard.
Color Your Backyard with Beautiful Fall Season Flowers
Fall is the season of deep reds and yellows in nature. What better way to welcome Fall into your garden than by adding a little color of your own. Here are some beautiful flowers which will make your garden pop.
Coral Bells
Available in orange, red, purple, and green, they will accent the plantings in your backyard and will thrive in partial shade.
Pansies
These are delicately beautiful flowers that will love the cool fall weather. They require partial shade and drained soil to thrive.
Ornamental Cabbage and Kale
As the plants mature and the cool evenings of fall commence, your plants’ will provide bright pink, frosty white, and purple tones.
Ornamental garlic
Unique for your garden; hardy and sun-loving.
Dwarf Ornamental Grasses
Install these in full sun or partial shade for color, texture, and movement in the landscape.
Chrysanthemums, Echinacea and Black-Eyed Susan
If you’re looking for bright color blooms in cool temperatures, consider adding some of these perennials to your garden bed.
Snapdragons
Beautiful trumpet-shaped flowers will bloom in the summer and extend through the fall.
Add Some Functionality to Your Backyard with These Fall Gardening Ideas
Now that you’ve added fashion to your garden, let’s add some functional fall gardening ideas.
Give Your Garden Warmth or a Touch of Cool with LED Lights
Modern LEDs can lend both warmth and cool to your garden. You can add some beautiful warm yellow lights or some blue lights to suit your mood.
Improve Your Garden Drainage
Good soil drainage is important for your garden. It will help your flowers grow healthier and prevent soil from getting waterlogged.
Build Raised Beds
Raised beds can be filled with good quality free draining topsoil. Install plants that thrive in well-drained soil that are compatible with the plant’s light requirements. Understanding the growth habits of the plants installed will help to plan proper spacing.
Add Soil Drainage
Making your soil more permeable can alleviate soil drainage problems. Add organic matter such as pine bark mulch and compost then use a tiller to work it into the soil 8-10 inches deep.
Add Bark Chippings
Bark chippings can absorb a lot of moisture; plus, they limit weed growth. They can even insulate flower beds during cold snaps.
Invest in Some Hardscaping
A well-planned stone walkway, a stone patio, and a couple of retaining walls will add interest and beauty to your garden. These are essential fall garden ideas you shouldn’t ignore.
Add a Stone Patio
A stone patio can benefit both friends and family. It’s a low maintenance investment that can provide an outdoor room for dining, entertaining, and relaxing for years.
Build a Stone Walkway
Stone walkways add wonder and elegance to your garden. They function as access to get closer to the plants for feeding, harvesting, maintaining, and enjoying.
Retaining Walls
Retaining walls can add some structure to your garden. They create flat usable space for you to enjoy your garden and they provide drainage solutions. You can establish boundaries between different flowers or design different themes for your garden based on the divisions.
Make the Outdoors into a Paradise With Campbell and Ferrara Services
With 76 years of landscaping experience, we can safely say that we have the perfect outdoor beautification solutions for you. We’ll turn your garden into a paradise, with great lighting, beautiful design, and functional add-ons.
Invest in the garden of your dreams. Call Campbell Ferrara today!
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