Fall in Love with Autumn Colour
The season of gorgeous golden leaves, cozy sweaters, fall yard cleanup, and pumpkin-flavoured everything is upon us! Now, we’re not hating on the pumpkin, or the colour orange—we love a good pumpkin spice flavoured beverage as much as the next person. But, there are so many other colours that you can embrace to celebrate the rich jewel tones that look so amazing contrasting with fall leaves.
Here are a few of our favourite colourful plants for fall in Powell River:
- Proven Winners Accents® Rockin’ Golden Delicious Salvia hits those classic golden fall colours with yellow-green foliage that perfectly sets off vibrant crimson red tubular flowers.
- Proven Winners Unplugged® So Blue Salvia is a beautiful brand new option for 2020. Dark green leaves and stems support soft dark purplish-blue flower spikes.
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Proven Winners® Black and Blue Salvia delivers high impact contrast with electric blue flowers on nearly black stems above vibrant green leaves.
- Proven Winners® Coreopsis Full Moon delivers mounds of rich buttery yellow daisy-like flowers with dark orange centers over masses of dark green ferny foliage.
- Proven Winners® Route 66 Coreopsis is bold and striking with flower petals that feature bright red centers that bleed out to a buttery yellow at the edges and a deep orange center over dark green foliage.
- Proven Winners® Cherry Lemonade Coreopsis is a contrast in the other direction, with vibrant cherry red flower petals around a yellow center, above yellowy-green foliage.
- Proven Winners® Salsa Coreopsis has a yellow center with petals that start dark reddish-orange in the center and flip to bright golden yellow halfway out.
- Celosia Century Yellow has creamy golden-yellow flower plumes with large, bright green leaves. Celosia is beautiful in flower beds, containers, or as cut flowers.
- Celosia Century Salmon Pink boasts gorgeous orange-peach-pink flowers above leaves that start green and mature to a deep burgundy purple.
- Celosia Century Rose has pretty dark rose-pink flower plumes and bright green leaves.
- Celosia Century Red has dense true red flower plumes above bright green leaves that mature to a beautiful bronze for fall.
- Celosia Century Pink is a classic bright fuschia pink with large, showy green leaves.
- Heuchera Dolce Creme Brulee features leaves that turn a beautiful ombre mix of pale red, pale custard yellow, and light green, with bright red stems.
- Heuchera Dolce Cinnamon Curls displays dark red leaves that blend to darker cinnamon centers. Heuchera are more commonly known as Coral Bells.
- Heuchera Dolce Key Lime Pie Has striking variegated leaves with patches of bright chartreuse green over an even deeper green.
- Heuchera Primo Back Pearl brings the drama with masses of glossy jet black leaves.
- Heuchera Dolce Brazen Raisin has beautiful leaves that are an attractive ombre of reddish-black and deep forest green.
- Kale Songbird Red features many beautiful muted green outer leaves with vibrant fuschia pink center leaves that have green edges.
- Kale Songbird White has dark muted green outer leaves with many layers of creamy white centre leaves.
- Kale Songbird Pink has many layers of blue-green outer leaves with beautiful dusty rose pink center leaves.
- Pansy Blue Skies reflects those vibrant blueish-purple fall skies.
- Pansy Purple is the classic dark purple pansy, the perfect royal jewel-toned flower.
- Pansy Yellow is the perfect contrast for purple pansies with its bright golden yellow petals.
- Pansy Strawberry Swirl features reddish-purple top petals that blend and fade to creamy off-white lower petals.
If you’re ready to make your containers or flower beds dance with colour this fall, stop by the garden center and stock up on these beautiful cool-season blooms.