How to keep your garden vibrant this fall

AccuWeather's Emmy Victor presents some of the best ways to maintain a thriving garden during the fall season.

Transcript

00:00 As the year winds down and the days get cooler, your summer garden may begin to fade.

00:05 However, there are many ways to keep your garden vibrant through the fall months.

00:10 In the fall, those rich colors, you think of those lovely amber colors and purples and

00:16 yellows, those deep yellows, those are just the colors you're craving at this time of

00:21 year.

00:22 Jenny Rose Carey is an expert gardener and author from Philadelphia.

00:26 She says to plant annuals, or flowers that survive one growing season, right before the

00:31 end of spring to have them blooming by the end of summer.

00:34 So those are your asters, you know, those wonderful, often purple or pink daisies with

00:40 a yellow center.

00:42 Some of them are white with a yellow center.

00:44 Goldenrods, which can be a bit aggressive in gardens, but there's some new petite ones

00:49 coming along.

00:50 If you live somewhere where the first frost of the season typically happens before Halloween,

00:55 consider planting hardy or cold-tolerant plants.

00:58 Things like Emperor of China, Clara Curtis, Sheffield Pink, they are really hardy plants.

01:06 So the trick is, they will be big plants unless you, up until the 4th of July, nip the tops

01:13 out several times and then that keeps them compact.

01:17 If you don't specifically plant for fall, you can also trim your summer flowers to keep

01:21 them healthy and extend their lifespan.

01:23 The more you do that on a regular basis, the more your plant will continue to bloom through

01:31 to fall.

01:32 These steps should give you a vibrant garden until winter weather arrives.

01:36 For AccuWeather, I'm Emmy Victor.