As the crisp autumn air rolls in and summer blooms begin to fade, your garden doesn’t have to follow suit. While many plants wind down for the season, Wave® Pansies are just getting started! The vigorous, cold tolerant blooms bring rich, vibrant color to containers, beds and borders well into the cooler months. If you’re looking to extend the interest of your garden this fall, these five Wave Pansies are a must.
Top Wave™ Marina boasts striking blue blooms and cream “faces” that are sure to stand out in the fall. While everything else is turning brown and grey, you can plant your Top Wave Pansies and watch them paint your garden sky blue. Top Wave Pansies have the added benefit of being faster to fill in the landscape than standard pansies, which means you can sit back and watch your garden fill in while everyone else is already thinking about plants for next season.
Top Wave Orange is the perfect pansy for a Halloween-themed container or garden bed with its bold orange blooms that will mound and trail out wherever you plant them. Pair these pansies with moody foliage colors like purple or black to make the orange pop that much more. Top Wave pansies have the largest flowers of any spreading pansy series, so these orange blooms are sure to stand out in your late-season planting.
If the cooler temperatures leave you thinking of flannel sweaters, apple cider and crisp leaves, why not try and recreate that autumn feeling in flower form? The vibrant rose petals on Top Wave Rose Blotch join with a darker blotch in the center that is reminiscent of the dark appeals of the fall. A mass planting of these pansies will give a velvety carpet appeal to your late-season garden beds and will be a dramatic inclusion in your cool-weather hanging baskets.
Cool Wave® Blue is sure to stand out in your garden long after the first frost of the fall. Use Cool Wave Pansies as the centerpiece of your late-season garden or container. You can also plant them alongside lighter yellow or white flowers to make the golden center of these pansies pop. The solid blues of these pansies will tolerate the cool temperatures in the fall and will fill your garden for fast fall interest.
If you’re feeling chilly in the fall, look no further than Cool Wave Fire to heat up your garden with its dark red flowers with yellow faces. These pansies have the added interest of being more red in the late winter/early-spring season, while the golden faces show through more in the late summer/ autumn. Heat up your late-season containers with sparks of color from these trailing pansies.
Just because summer is ending doesn’t mean your garden has to go quiet. Wave Pansies are your fall planting MVPs and are an easy way to keep color and life going in your garden well into the cooler months. They’re the perfect solution for refreshing beds, dressing up containers, or giving your landscape a final flourish before the snow arrives. Plant them now and watch your garden glow through the late-growing season.