As summer winds down, your garden doesn’t have to lose its color. Fall is a great time to refresh your Texas landscape with vibrant flowers and foliage.
Texas weather can keep temperatures warm well into fall, giving us plenty of time to enjoy another round of fresh seasonal color. From classic blooms to bold foliage, these five plants can brighten your garden, flower beds, porch, or containers.
🍂 Crotons: Bold Foliage for Fall
Looking for fall color beyond flowers? Crotons bring bold shades of yellow, orange, red, green, and burgundy through their colorful foliage.
They’re perfect for containers and porch displays, especially when paired with pumpkins and other fall décor.
Calloway’s Tip: Make a croton the focal point of your container and surround it with plants in complementary fall shades like bronze, burgundy, and gold.
🌸 Celosia: Texture and Color
Add something unexpected to your fall garden with celosia. Its unique blooms bring texture, height, and vibrant color to flower beds and containers.
Available in shades like red, orange, yellow, and pink, celosia works beautifully in a fall-inspired planting palette.
Calloway’s Tip: Mix celosia with softer blooms and bold foliage to create a container with plenty of texture and dimension.
🦋 Lantana: Long-Lasting Color
For Texas gardeners, lantana is a favorite for a reason. This heat-tolerant flowering plant can provide vibrant color while warm weather lingers into fall.
Its clusters of flowers can also attract pollinators, making it a colorful addition to pollinator-friendly landscapes.
Calloway’s Tip: Plant lantana in sunny areas where it has room to fill out. It works well in both landscape beds and containers.
🌺 Zinnias: Keep the Color Going
Bright, cheerful, and available in a rainbow of colors, zinnias are another great way to extend seasonal color.
Their colorful blooms work beautifully in flower beds and containers, and they also make excellent cut flowers.
Calloway’s Tip: Remove faded blooms regularly to keep plants looking tidy and encourage continued flowering.
Fall Pansies: A Colorful Cool-Season Favorite
Looking for an easy way to add color to your fall garden? Fall pansies are on pre-sale now
through September 20! These cool-season favorites bring cheerful blooms in shades
of yellow, orange, purple, blue, red, white, and more.
Use them to brighten up flower beds, dress up your front porch, or add seasonal color to
containers.
Calloway’s Tip: Pair pansies with ornamental grasses, pumpkins, or other fall foliage
plants for a beautiful seasonal display. Planting them in groups creates a fuller, more
colorful impact.
Pre-sale now through 09/20! Stop by Calloway’s & Cornelius to get your fall pansies
ready for planting.
How to Care for Your Fall Color
A beautiful fall garden starts with the right foundation. Give your seasonal color the support it needs with quality soil, plant food, and mulch.
🌱 Start With the Right Soil
Refresh your flower beds with Calloway’s Premium Flowerbed Garden Soil, specially formulated for flowerbeds.
Made with ingredients like Expanded Shale, Coconut Coir, Earthworm Castings, composted pine bark, and mycorrhizae, it helps support root growth, moisture control, and nutrient uptake. Its slow-release fertilizer also feeds plants for up to six months.
🌸 Feed for Bigger, Bolder Blooms
Keep flowering plants looking their best with Calloway’s Premium Flower Food. Its specialized 12-4-8 formula provides essential nutrients, including nitrogen, phosphate, and Fx Iron®, to promote healthy growth, vibrant blooms, and longer-lasting color.
Apply every 30 days to keep your color thriving!
🍂 Finish With Premium Mulch
Complete your flower bed with high-quality Calloway’s Premium Organic Mulch.
Made from 100% cedar, hardwood or Pine, our clean Mulches helps retain moisture, regulate soil temperature, minimize weeds, and repel certain insects while giving your landscape a polished, finished look.
Apply mulch around the outside root of your plants, keeping it slightly away from the base of the stems.
How to Mix Fall Color Like a Pro
A beautiful fall display is all about color, texture, and height. When designing containers or flower beds, try the thriller, filler, spiller approach.
🌿 Thriller
Choose a taller plant or focal point.
🌸 Filler
Add colorful plants to fill out the middle.
🍂 Spiller
Finish with a plant that adds softness and movement around the edges.
When choosing your plants, think about how their colors work together.
Give Your Garden a Fall Refresh
Bring Fall Color Home
Ready to refresh your garden for the season? Stop by your local Calloway’s and explore our selection of fall color, premium gardening products, and everything you need to create a beautiful Texas garden.
Not sure what to plant? Our Texas Certified Nursery Professionals are here to help you choose plants that fit your space, sunlight, and growing conditions.
Visit Calloway’s today and let’s grow something beautiful this fall!
Frequently Asked Questions
Some of the best plants for adding fall color to a Texas garden include garden mums, lantana, zinnias, and celosia. Crotons are another great option if you want bold fall color from foliage rather than flowers.
The best planting time depends on your location and weather. As summer heat begins to ease, fall is a great time to refresh flower beds, containers, and porch displays with seasonal color.
Yes! Garden mums are a popular choice for adding instant fall color to Texas landscapes and containers. They come in a variety of autumn-inspired colors and are especially easy to use for seasonal porch displays.
Absolutely. Crotons are an excellent fall color plant thanks to their vibrant foliage in shades of red, orange, yellow, green, and burgundy. They make especially striking focal points in containers and porch displays.
They can! Texas’ extended warm season allows lantana and zinnias to continue providing colorful blooms as summer transitions into fall, particularly while temperatures remain warm and growing conditions are favorable.
Start with a quality soil designed specifically for flower beds. Calloway’s Premium Flowerbed Garden Soil contains moisture-control ingredients, mycorrhizae, composted organic materials, and slow-release fertilizer to help create a strong foundation for seasonal color.
Start with the right growing location, quality soil, and proper nutrition. Calloway’s Premium Flower Food provides essential nutrients with a specialized 12-4-8 formula to support vibrant blooms, while Calloway’s Premium Organic Cedar Mulch helps retain moisture, regulate soil temperature, and minimize weeds. Regularly removing spent blooms can also help keep plants looking fresh.