Native Plants for Fall Interest in the Southeast

Planting annuals during the fall is a sure-shot way to prepare your garden for the coming year. These rugged, resilient plants overwinter through the cold and burst into blooms in spring’s warmth. Here are hardy annuals to plant in the fall for flowers next year!

Fall is here and that means care for your lawn and garden will differ greatly from the spring and summer months. As colder temperatures roll in, it may be time to start prioritizing other gardening tasks and stop others like mowing your lawn.

Jade plant (Crassula ovata) is a subtropical evergreen succulent with rounded, fleshy leaves and all the makings of an excellent houseplant. As the weather dips, it starts heading for dormancy and has different needs for the changing season. We show you how to care for a jade plant in the fall.

WHEN I READ the other day that Native Plant Trust, the nonprofit plant conservation organization in New England, had successfully raised the money to complete the endowment fund needed to save its region’s most imperiled native plants in a seed bank, it was like a silver lining kind of story.

Timing is everything in successful gardening—this includes pruning! As we enter autumn, we share a selection of perennials you should never cut back in the fall if you want them to grow and bloom abundantly in spring and summer!

Isn’t fall when all garden things shed, and plants push out the final blooms before diving into dormancy? Not if you live in a warm climate—which makes autumn perfect for growing the spectacular, summer-blooming cosmos! Let’s explore.

Fall may be the beginning of the resting period for many plant species and gardeners, but it is the best time to plant the following seeds to relish mesmerizing blooms the next year! These varieties prefer to germinate in the cooler autumn soil, producing mighty blossoms as the seasons turn!

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Peace Lilies are stunning tropical plants with glossy green foliage and long-lasting flower stalks that float above. The white bracts turn pale green and linger for at least a month. Blooming freely from spring, these accent houseplants need some care in fall and winter to thrive!

It wouldn’t be autumn without falling leaves. But after so many leaves start to pile up, what should you do with them in your yard? While many experts say you shouldn’t rake your leaves because moths and other beneficial bugs use them for laying eggs, home and garden pests like to call dying plant matter like fallen leaves home. Thus, it might be difficult to determine what exactly you should do with your fallen leaves.

Fall is the peak time to properly evaluate your home, so you know what to fix before winter approaches. From gardening to HVAC and plumbing, it's important to make sure your home is in good condition especially if you're hoping for a stress-free year ahead.

There’s satisfaction in that perfect crisscross of mown lines across flawless green grass, but with the herbicides, pesticides, water, fuel, and effort it demands, the infamous traditional turf lawn is a monetarily and environmentally costly endeavor. It can also be visually dull for the plant enthusiast and nutritionally dull for wildlife, so there are many good reasons to take on establishing a meadow lawn, whether it replaces all or just a few square feet of your yard.