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Couple Garden Fountain
This lovely fountain, with its acanthus and cabbage leaf design, is topped by a young couple seeking respite from a spring shower, but whose thoughts don't........
$133.25

Lion Wall Fountain
Mount this lionhead fountain on any wall to recreate the ambience and elegance of a Greco-Roman sanctuary. Crafted in stone-finish alabastrite, it holds 5 ........
$106.60

Cherub With Birdbath
An English garden's Victorian cherub birdbath inspired this charming objet d'art. It's crafted in alabastrite with an antiqued stone finish. 6 1/2" x 5........
$10.60

Angel Birdfeeder/Bath
This multi-use angel statue makes a super bird feeder for the garden or a holder for a favorite candle inside your home. 7 1/2" x 5 7/8" x 12 1/8" high........
$10.60

In The Fall Garden

 

 

Its that somewhat untidy time of year when we're itching to get pruning shears in hand and cut things back. But we need to stop for a minute, take a step back and look closely at the garden.

 

There is a kind of stark beauty in the golden stems and black seedpods of coneflowers and black-eyed Susans. The ornamental grasses are in full bloom, and its a matter of time before their green blades turn to gold, and winter's rains and winds will bleach them to a pale straw color. The sedum is in full bloom, but in another month or two its brick red flowers will turn cinnamon colored, then black, then gray as a skeleton.

 

If you grow the right plants, your fall - and winter - garden can be as exciting and colorful as spring and summer. There are scores of perennials that die back gracefully and are as fetching and beautiful in dormant colors as they are in bloom.

 

A few favorite multi-season perennials include:

 

Feather Reed Grass (Calamagrostis acuti-flora stricta):

One of the most graceful grasses we know. Its slim, straight blades sway in the slight­est breeze. Come winter, the dusky purple inflorescences turn golden atop green blades.

 

Yarrow (Achillea): We prefer the tall, clumping sorts like "Coronation Gold." The sunny and golden-yellow flowers hold their color for weeks and then turn a golden yellow color. No matter how much rain beats down on them, they stand up.

 

Jerusalem sage (Phlomis fruticosa):

A woody shrub that sends up tall stems with whorls of yellow flowers. Once the petals fall away, the seed capsules are left Good in dry arrangements.

 

Maiden grass (Miscanthus sinensis gracillimus):

Blades turn a golden yellow in fall. Doesn't need to be cut back until new growth peeks out in January.

 

Cornflower (Echinacea purpurea);

Droop­ing pink petals and spiky orange cones gradu­ally turn brown, then blacken as winter sets in.Striking with ornamental grasses.

 

Black eye-Susan (Rudbeckia):

Stems turn dark brown, seed heads even darker. Great with ornamental grasses.

 

Sedum "Autumn Joy":

A favorite for all-year interest Starts out with green rosettes peeking out of the ground in the spring. Makes
tall clumps of succulent green foliage, then in
autumn produces brick-red flowers that turn
cinnamon color, then blacken, then bleach out to gray by winter's end.

 

 

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