(calm acoustic guitar music) - I'm Eric with landscaped garden centers and today we're going to talk about fall color and some other fall options.

What we're going to discuss is the different options and different color options for your landscape.

There are lots of different options and a couple of them that we're going to go through are the shrubs.

Shrubs are awesome from the standpoint is most shrubs are going to bloom something in the spring, have a nice colored leaf, and then they have a nice even better fall color, such as this viburnum.

There's many different types of viburnums.

They will turn probably the most spectacular colors of all the different shrubs.

And they also will have a fruit that sets on to them, that the birds will like and it will like to eat during the fall and into the winter.

So shrubs are always a really, really good plant to use for anchoring around the foundation or having it as a backdrop.

There's also smaller shrubs.

So this is when, in the fall time, when the leaf becomes the flower.

And so with these shrubs, they will bloom in the spring and then they will have their leaf that sets and that's typically the same consistent color, and then that turns into a different color.

Then we move into the perennials and perennials fall coloring.

These are kind of fun is because they've been kind of on standby.

They haven't quite hit the stage yet, but they're just starting to get ready to really throw their colors out.

And the perennials are nice because everything else has bloomed up to this point and now they're ready to showcase their blooms.

The sedum that I have here, you can see there's a couple of different colors here, which is a couple of different varieties and they will bloom at different times also.

These are basically the tall sedum.

The tall sedum is nice to use, again right behind something that's a little bit lower.

Another great fall color, perennial is an aster.

Asters are great along with mums and that's what I have in front of me right here.

Mums are great and there's hardy mums and then there's mums that are basically a garden mum.

Mums in general are used as kind of a one-time only.

They're a little bit more difficult to grow year after year, not so much as a perennial, but basically to be used as an annual.

A lot of times we'll use mums and put those into our containers to kind of remove the stuff, the other annuals or the tropicals that we had in there before.

The tropicals now have been shocked by some cooler weather, so they kind of either shrivel up or kind of become insignificant.

So then we move into adding a little bit of mums into the action and those are a lot of different colors, white and rust are what I have right now, or bronze.

And then of course your bright, bright yellow is another one that gives it a great pow.

Using the combination between the shrubs and the perennials and having that as far as to help out with color.

That's just something that's great to use and remember when you're planting your landscape.

It's not all about the flowering in the spring.

It's also about what that leaf turns into in the fall.

And also if some of those perennials that you want to use, those perennials turn out to be better bloomers and look more attractive in the fall.

A couple of different options, how to use a mum.

If you're using them in a container, what you're going to do is you're going to remove the things that look the poorest of health.

And you're just going to insert one of these mum's within that area.

And this is where you're going to put a mum along with a pumpkin or a gourd or highlight it with some corn shocks, right, for fall color.

Once again, these will be blooming well into the fall, through the frost and through other colder temps.

The sedums and the perennials, those will be kind of fluctuating along with the temperatures.

If we get really low temps, your perennials and things like that will tend to actually suffer and you'll see them suffer, but the ones that are fall blooming, will actually be able to withstand frosts more than something like a daily leaf, for example.

So they're a little bit tougher.

They're hardier for those cooler temps to allow an opportunity for some flower color in your landscape.

So this would be in the landscape.

These would be in a container and this would also be in a landscape.

I'm Eric with landscaped garden centers.

Keep it growing.