Invite your pansies back next spring!
Don’t settle for just one season from your pansies! We’ll let you know how to plant in fall so they’ll come back next spring, too.
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October 2011
Balance an entry
Balance is beautiful! Follow our good-better-best guide to creating your best welcoming entry ever!
Create a gorgeous garden passage
That long, narrow strip of garden along the side of the house just doesn’t seem very inspiring. These spots are often very sunny or completely shaded, and there may be eyesores like air conditioner condensers and window wells to deal with.
Hole composting
No room for a compost pile? Try using a second-hand kitchen blender and hole composting.
Buy the best bulbs
Want to buy the best bulbs this fall? We can help. Start by picking each bulb up. It should feel heavy.
Treacle mustard
The seeds of this annual sprout in fall and are green all winter. By early spring you’ll spot a low rosette of leaves about 6 in. across.
Pineapple sage
What’s an autumn garden without annuals? This sage may be hardy where you live, but for many gardeners it’s an annual.
Hemp nettle
This 1- to 2-ft.-tall branching annual is a member of the mint family so it has square stems. But it’s easy to distinguish from its cultivated relatives by stiff bristly hairs along the stems and on the leaves.
