From spring to fall and even in winters in warm climates you can grow pansies.
Best container plants for fall and winter.
They re super easy to grow and in moderate climates they bloom year round.
The blue or indigo purple flowers of aster are a symbol of the fall garden and can work equally well in a fall container garden.
Life in a pot is harsher and the roots aren t as protected as they are in the ground.
Grasses kale heuchera and heucherella are colorful textural and can take a little frost so they re dependable anchors for fall pots.
For fall containers try some of these cold hardy perennials.
Because most types grow rather tall as much as 6 feet these are plants best suited for very large containers.
Try growing robust plants like hakonechloa macra hylotelephium spectabile and calamagrostis x acutiflora karl foerster.
For the best chances that your plants will survive a cold winter choose perennials that are rated two zones colder than your area.
Pansies are no doubt the best container flowers.
Sitting in a frost pocket.
More on winter plants.