Planting your moody fall container
The plants I used in the urn include, clockwise from the ornamental purple kale: a ‘Blue Vates’ kale I grew from seed and dug out of one of my raised beds, a pinky-purple chrysanthemum, ajuga that I pulled out of my lawn (it’s spread in one particular patch), a black ornamental pepper and a delightful heuchera with purple on the underside of the leaves. When I took apart this urn to make way for my winter design, I planted the ‘Blue Vates’ kale in one of my raised beds where it came back the next spring. The heuchera is also still thriving in my front garden. That’s the great thing about using perennials in your fall pots. You can tuck them in a garden in the fall to overwinter, depending on where you live.
