AUTUMN ACCENTS

Pumpkins in all sizes
Corn Stalks
Indian Corn
Gourds
Squash
Painted Pumpkins
Hardy Mums
Pansies
Ornamental Kale & Cabbage

Dammann's Homegrown Mums!

Dammann’s takes pride in our plant production of over 15,000 hardy MUMS. Our production crew has done an excellent job providing our three stores with only the highest quality of Belgian and Prophets mums in many varieties and colors. As our mums are transferred to each store, they are greeted by a dedicated staff highly motivated to maintain the plant material. Why? Because they love what they do! Come and see for yourself that Dammann’s strives for only the best…..seeing is believing!

With a little planning, you can extend the beauty of your garden with vivid autumn blooming perennials. When you think of fall-blooming plants, don’t stop at mums - there are many perennials that can add color to your yards at this time of year.

Bold-foliaged sedums provide texture as well as color in a sunny place. Sedum ‘Autumn Joy’ is the most well-known. It has coppery-pink flower heads. Sedums ‘Brilliant’ with soft pink and white flowers respectively are also attractive. For a totally different color combination plant Sedum ‘Vera Jameson’. It has gray/purple foliage with rose pink blooms - this one looks stunning when planted with Blue Fescue, Artemesia Silver Mound, and other silver-foliaged plants. As an added bonus, all the sedums are attractive to butterflies.

Asters are another fall bloomer that butterflies love. These perennials like sun and moist, well-drained soil. There are many colorful Aster varieties in shades of pink, purple, blue and white.

Sunny yellow Goldenrod (Solidago) is another bright addition to the fall garden. Wrongly blamed as the cause of fall allergy problems, Goldenrod has rightly taken its place in the fall garden. It looks particularly effective combined with blue flowering Plumbago, purple Asters and ornamental grasses.

Winter Interest with Ornamental Cabbage and Kale

Looking to add interest to the fall and winter landscape? This year, plant ornamental cabbage and kale for bold textures and vibrant colors. Unlike most annuals and perennials, these plants improve in appearance after a frost or two with more intense and brilliant colors. Identified by a number of names, such as floral kale, decorative kale, ornamental-leaved kale, flowering kale, and flowering cabbage, ornamental cabbage and kale belong to the Brassica oleracca Acephala group. Offering unlimited use in the landscape, these plants have large rosettes of gray-green foliage richly variegated with cream, white, pink, rose, red and purple. Kale leaves are frilly edged and sometimes deeply lobed.

Attractive in borders, grouped in plantings of three, five or more, or planted in containers for the deck or patio, ornamental cabbage and kale growing to 12-16” high and wide. Be sure to plant at least 12” in full sun in a moist, well-drained soil. And, although they are able to withstand light frosts and snowfalls, they will typically not survive hard freezes. They are usually attractive in the garden until Thanksgiving or later. Hint – when the plants smell like cooked cabbage, it is time to pull them out!

To Autumn
by John Keats

“Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness!

Close bosom-friend of the
maturing sun;

Conspiring with him how to load
and bless

With fruit the vines that round
the thatch-eaves run;

To bend with apples the mossed cottage-trees,

And fill all fruit with ripeness to
the core;

To swell the gourd, and plump
the hazel shells

With a sweet kernel; to set
budding more,

And still more, later flowers for
the bees,

Until they think warm days will
never cease,…”