Planters for Autumn

Ditch your boring Autumn planters this year and step up your pumpkin decoration skills. Unleash your creative flair in your house, garden and at your door. Try planting up your pumpkins with plants of all kinds. Pumpkins can be large or small and integrated with shrubs and perennials for interest. You could use all forms of grasses, mini succulents, or floral arrangements displayed within the pumpkin. Use moss or normal potting compost to support the plants in the hollowed out pumpkin. Your designs can be classic planters that are autumn inspired or have fun with Halloween influences. Ophiopogon nigrescens is a black grass which can be used and contrasts perfectly against the orange skin of the pumpkin to give that spooky effect. Once decorated the Autumn planters can be displayed indoors or outside and should last for the month of October.