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Celebrate spring with the cheery blooms of red tulips. Pansies offer cheery blooms in fall and spring, when the temps are cooler. Daffodils, also called narcissus, come back year after year.
Colorize Your Yard Paint your landscape with the natural beauty of trees, shrubs and flowers.

Enjoy the gorgeous colors of this final season of gardening. Late-season planting allows trees and shrubs to take root and flourish in the cool days of autumn. Whether you hire a landscaper or head off to the garden center yourself, you can lush up your landscape right now and enjoy a color show in the spring by adding new trees, shrubs and flowering bulbs to your landscape.

LUSH
UP YOUR
LANDSCAPE
Whether you hire a landscaper or head off to the garden center yourself, you can lush up your landscape right now and enjoy a color show in the spring by adding new trees, shrubs and flowering bulbs to your landscape this fall.

BOLD BULBS Welcome visitors to your home next spring with a splash of bulb color throughout your yard. Tulips, daffodils, crocuses and hyacinths start blooming in late winter and carry on through spring. If you plant a succession of blooming bulbs, you can enjoy nearly 100 days of bloom. But you need to plant now because autumn is the only time to plant these sleeping beauties.

  • Early-Bird Bulbs These flowers offer the first color of spring. Some plucky species, such as snowdrops and crocuses, can bloom while there is still snow on the ground. Other early bloomers include pastel-colored anemones and electric-blue scillas.

  • Mid-Season Bulbs Color your landscape with waves of yellow, red and pastel using mid-season bulbs. Tulips and daffodils are the most popular choices, and their flowers are borne on 1- to 2-foot stems. Another spring favorite is the hyacinth, one of the most fragrant bulbs. These spired flowers release a strong perfume throughout the garden.

  • Late-Spring Flowers The amazing allium, a showy member of the onion family, produces long stems topped with large, round, purple flowers that appear as if they are floating above the landscape.

    • TREE AND SHRUB COLOR Choose from a wide variety of species that look simply stunning in autumn. Here are a few things to keep in mind when calling a landscaper:

  • Plant balled-and-burlapped and containerized trees and shrubs in fall or spring. Plant bare-root, dormant stock in spring.
  • Wait until spring to plant slow-growing species such as magnolia, rain tree, tulip tree, black gum, linden, gingko, fir, birch, poplar, bald cypress and any of several oaks (red, scarlet, English, willow and white).
  • Plants like barberry, cotoneaster, highbush cranberry and honeysuckle cap the gardening year with bright displays of berries that stick around through the winter. Add some to your landscape this fall.


    • COLORFUL PLANTINGS
    Try these fall favorites in your yard and garden:

    Burning Reds Trees that change in the fall include red maple, sugar maple and sumac. Fiery flowers are red-hued mums and ‘Autumn Joy' sedum. Burning bush (Euonymus alatus) turns traffic-stopping red in autumn.

    Sunny Yellows Trees that light up a landscape include sugar maple, gingko, aspen and birch. Try flowers in sunny hues such as pansies, goldenrods and mums.

    Bold Blues Perennials that have the blues (and purples!) include asters, ornamental kales and pansies.


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