More on winter plants.
Best container plants for fall and winter.
Pansies are no doubt the best container flowers.
Flowers are fleeting so keep the show going all season long by choosing fall container plants with foliage that looks lovely in autumn.
Try growing robust plants like hakonechloa macra hylotelephium spectabile and calamagrostis x acutiflora karl foerster.
The blue or indigo purple flowers of aster are a symbol of the fall garden and can work equally well in a fall container garden.
They re super easy to grow and in moderate climates they bloom year round.
Life in a pot is harsher and the roots aren t as protected as they are in the ground.
Sitting in a frost pocket.
Grasses kale heuchera and heucherella are colorful textural and can take a little frost so they re dependable anchors for fall pots.
For the best chances that your plants will survive a cold winter choose perennials that are rated two zones colder than your area.
Because most types grow rather tall as much as 6 feet these are plants best suited for very large containers.
For fall containers try some of these cold hardy perennials.