Fall is officially here and it is time to start planting. If you, like most people, enjoy seeing color in your garden, you should take time to look around and decide where you most want to see color in your landscape. You also want to consider the different times of year you would most like to see color in your garden. Many types of plants provide color in the landscape, including trees, shrubs, perennials, annuals, herbs and ground covers. Try to incorporate color into your garden throughout all the seasons of the year.

In the fall, you can have great color from the leaves of shrubs and trees. You can include fall blooming shrubs such as Abelia, Knockout Roses, Encore Azalea, Camilla Sasanqua and Lorapetalum. Nandina, Burning Bush and Azaleas also have colorful leaves in the fall. Annuals to plant for color during the fall include Mums, Pansies, Violas, Snapdragon, ornamental Mustard, Kale, and Cabbage.

For color during the winter months, consider using Daphne, Camellias, Hollies with berries, Beautyberry, Nandina, Winter Creeper, Creeping Raspberry, and Acorus Grass. Mahonia will have yellow blooms and purple berries and Winter Jasmine has yellow blooms during late winter.

In spring, many plants will provide color to the landscape. Some good choices to consider include Dogwoods, Cherries, Red Buds, Japanese Maples, Forsythia, Knockout Roses, Azaleas, Viburnum, Spiraea, Indian Hawthorne, Gardenia, Pieris, and Lorapetalum, many perennials, annuals and ground covers.

Examples of summer color plants include, but are not limited to, Knockout Roses, Crape Myrtle, Vitex, Butterfly Bush, Gardenia, Lorapetalum, most perennials and Japanese Maples.

Adding plants that give color during each season of the year will provide a rich and pleasing experience any time you look at your landscape. Let the garden center professionals show you the great plants selections available now for fall.

Happy Gardening.