Fabulous Fall Planting Combos
Hang Up on Summer. Fall is Calling!
Cooler temperatures signal the perfect time to refresh your garden after summer’s heat or start new landscape projects. While we love the transition to fall, plants enjoy it even more—cool air and warm soil help roots establish quickly. Read on for five inspiring plant combinations to kick-start your next project or refresh your space.
Small Spaces
Full Sun
Create a big impact in your small garden with this full-sun combo. Magnolia ‘Little Gem’ is a narrow tree with two-toned leaves and big, beautiful blooms. Abelia ‘Kaleidoscope’ and Flower Carpet® Rose add layers of blooms from spring to fall, plus contrasting leaf colors for year-round interest. Control soil temperature with Periwinkle ‘Bowles Mauve’—an ideal groundcover because it fills in fast.
Magnolia ‘Little Gem’
Abelia ‘Kaleidoscope’
Flower Carpet® Rose
Periwinkle ‘Bowles Mauve’
Create a big impact in your small garden with this full-sun combo. Magnolia ‘Little Gem’ is a narrow tree with two-toned leaves and big, beautiful blooms. Abelia ‘Kaleidoscope’ and Flower Carpet® Rose add layers of blooms from spring to fall, plus contrasting leaf colors for year-round interest. Control soil temperature with Periwinkle ‘Bowles Mauve’—an ideal groundcover because it fills in fast.
Magnolia ‘Little Gem’
Abelia ‘Kaleidoscope’
Flower Carpet® Rose
Periwinkle ‘Bowles Mauve’
Tropical Waterwise
Full Sun
Create your very own tropical oasis with waterwise plants. Our Tropical Waterwise collection includes vivid blooms and fragrance—the calling cards of the tropics. Crape Myrtles have a long bloom season in a variety of colors. Pineapple Guava and Red Oleander create the mid-layer, accented by the upright form of African Iris.
Pineapple Guava
Crape Myrtle
African Iris
Oleander 'Red'
Create your very own tropical oasis with waterwise plants. Our Tropical Waterwise collection includes vivid blooms and fragrance—the calling cards of the tropics. Crape Myrtles have a long bloom season in a variety of colors. Pineapple Guava and Red Oleander create the mid-layer, accented by the upright form of African Iris.
Pineapple Guava
Crape Myrtle
African Iris
Oleander 'Red'
Low Maintenance
Full Sun or Morning Sun, Afternoon Shade
Our Low Maintenance combo is exactly that—no leaves to rake in fall, no putzing and pruning, just evergreen ease. Dwarf Italian Cypress makes a nice statement with its mature height of 20’. Acacia ‘Cousin Itt’ and Fringe Flower ‘Chang Nian Hong’ are mixed for an intermediate layer of leaf-color variety and firecracker blooms. The grass adds an accent with movement.
Acacia 'Cousin Itt'
Platinum Beauty™ Lomandra
Fringe Flower 'Chang Nian Hong'
Dwarf Italian Cypress
Our Low Maintenance combo is exactly that—no leaves to rake in fall, no putzing and pruning, just evergreen ease. Dwarf Italian Cypress makes a nice statement with its mature height of 20’. Acacia ‘Cousin Itt’ and Fringe Flower ‘Chang Nian Hong’ are mixed for an intermediate layer of leaf-color variety and firecracker blooms. The grass adds an accent with movement.
Acacia 'Cousin Itt'
Platinum Beauty™ Lomandra
Fringe Flower 'Chang Nian Hong'
Dwarf Italian Cypress
Semi-Formal Waterwise
Full Sun or Morning Sun, Afternoon Shade
Foliage over flowers in our Semi-Formal Waterwise mix. The variety of leaf colors create year-round interest with little maintenance. The Bay Laurel is stately, surrounded by the striking colors of Privet and Heavenly Bamboo. Myoporum anchors the combo with tight texture. Create a more formal look by pruning the Privet into topiary or hedge form.
Bay Laurel
Privet 'Sunshine'
Heavenly Bamboo 'Obsession'
Myoporum
Foliage over flowers in our Semi-Formal Waterwise mix. The variety of leaf colors create year-round interest with little maintenance. The Bay Laurel is stately, surrounded by the striking colors of Privet and Heavenly Bamboo. Myoporum anchors the combo with tight texture. Create a more formal look by pruning the Privet into topiary or hedge form.
Bay Laurel
Privet 'Sunshine'
Heavenly Bamboo 'Obsession'
Myoporum
Informal Waterwise
Full sun
The trick to an informal garden is to avoid hedges and refined lines. Allow space for plants to reach their mature sizes. The Oklahoma Redbud is a beacon of spring with bright pink flowers and signals fall with leaf drop. Purple Hopseed and Dwarf Bush Olive create the mid-layers with reliable color all year. Grevillea ‘Coastal Gem’ flowers when most others are fading for the winter.
Oklahoma Redbud
Purple Hopseed
Dwarf Bush Olive
Grevillea 'Coastal Gem'
The trick to an informal garden is to avoid hedges and refined lines. Allow space for plants to reach their mature sizes. The Oklahoma Redbud is a beacon of spring with bright pink flowers and signals fall with leaf drop. Purple Hopseed and Dwarf Bush Olive create the mid-layers with reliable color all year. Grevillea ‘Coastal Gem’ flowers when most others are fading for the winter.
Oklahoma Redbud
Purple Hopseed
Dwarf Bush Olive
Grevillea 'Coastal Gem'
