bok choy, violas and pansies
eucalyptus, broom corn, cabbage, and kale
bleached sticks, eucalyptus, green and white pumpkins and gourds
chrysanthemums and pansies
striped gourds
white pumpkin with white cabbage in a bushel basket
flame willow
a mix of fall materials
striped pumpkins and squash on grapevine
fall pots with big pumpkins and gourds
burdock seed heads, bleached plastic grass and peacock kale
Rob’s grow-sphere with yellow pumpkins and pansies
rosemary and alyssum
pair of fall pots with variegated basil
fall containers
fall container with broom corn, black eucalyptus, and ornamental kale
The fall season provides an embarrassment of riches in materials great for fall containers. In a pinch, faux materials can provide just what a container needs in form or color. That material may be fake, but I am a real person putting the whole thing together. As for you-plant for fall in a way that expresses your take on the season. I try to exercise a little good sense. If I put the stems of weeds in containers, I try to put every last seed in the trash, first. Dry thistle stems are gorgeous in fall pots, but those seeds will spread a terrible weed that is tough to eradicate. That said, I use the intact seed pods of butterfly weed everywhere I can, in hopes it will seed with abandon. If weed seeds must be part of the display, I will encase them on the stem with floral sealer. I wait until the weather gets good and cool to pile pumpkins and gourds in pots. Set in place too early in the fall, they will rot. Outside of that, I’ll stuff pots with anything that looks good. It makes no sense to exercise restraint at the time of the harvest, does it?
Your work is gorgeous and inspiring. Thank you!
Dear Carlin, many thanks. Every landscape professional and gardener that creates something beautiful inspires me. Best, Deborah
Deborah, your pots r amazing! I love the summer cause you use my product but the fall and Christmas, inspire me so much! I wish one day, I have your eye of inspiration. I really do, u r amazing at what u do! I hope u know that:)
Krystal, you and your family grow incredible plants-I could not begin to work without what you grow. You are an inspired grower and an inspired floral designer. You have a great eye, my friend, all your own! You will go places-of this I am sure. all the best, Deborah
All of them are beautiful!!!!
The flame willow is spectacular! What is the scientific name? I cannot wait to add this beauty to my landscape.
such brilliance in composition and photography
debra
I am amazed with your divine and inspiring designs and containers that you use for displays.
So hard to pick my favorite Deborah, but I think Rob’s Grow-Sphere is awesome! Simple with an architectural twist stealing the show for me! Did I read that correctly, “plastic grass?”
Mike, you did indeed. Plastic grass! The new products are not only incredibly realistic, they can be saved from year to year. Some people find them fun, others are mortified. Everyone just needs to do what suits them. Best, Deborah
If fall offers a bounty of materials, we know you will offer us an equal bounty of ideas and inspiration. Every container so rich with food for thought.
Deborah, your containers are always stunning and so inspiring! Glad to see you aren’t afraid of some artificial elements….Mother Nature doesn’t always give us what our eyes are longing for. Dried Annabelle hydrangeas sprayed lime green and dried goldenrod sprayed sunshine yellow look great in fall planters along with all the other wonderful array of nature’s bounty. Thank you for sharing your beautiful artistry and inspiring others to create beautiful landscapes.
Anne
Anne, like I say, it is a real person putting an arrangement together. That’s enough for me. best, Deborah
Deborah. So lovely and inventive, as usual. Thank you for sharing. Tom in NC.