Get inspired with cozy colors and spice tones as you transition your garden style from summer to fall. These fall container plants are a mix of simple plants and decorative elements that will add drama, character, and texture to your fall containers this autumn season.
1. Dried Hydrangeas, Maple Leaves, and Antlers
Here warm copper colored planters are filled with just a handful of simple elements and mostly dried, non-living plants. Decorative antlers, dried hydrangeas, maple leaves, and silver leafed green foliage create a rustic fall display for these front porch containers.
2. Dried FLorals Mixed with Pine and Magnolia leaves
Brown painted urns make perfect vessels for dried flowers and a few artificial florals mixed with orange faux pumpkins. A few strands of ribbon in festive autumn colors add a beautiful finishing touch. Brown magnolia leaf stems and pine stems with pinecones help to mellow out the transition between fall and winter seasons.
3. Dried Autumn leaves, Berry Stems, and Gourds
Here, once again, a mix of dried florals with pine and juniper-like foliage set the backdrop for bold, more colorful accents. Dried maple and oak leaves are tucked in with berry branches in orange and red. Dotted with pumpkins in white and orange, it creates another beautiful fall container that transitions well from fall to winter.
4. Black Eyed Susans and Purple Yarrow
Yellow black-eyed susans are mixed in with hardy purple yarrow for a festive Halloween fall planter with a pumpkin face!
5. Hydrangea, Ornamental Grasses, and Creeping vines
This festive barrel container incorporates a tall ornamental feather reed grass with some hydrangea blooms and low lying creeping vines like english ivy.
6. A Mix of hardy Purple Plants
Here the bold colors of autumn are achieved in purple hues. These simple fall container plants are a colorful mix of purple fountain grass (or napier grass), purple coral bells, and some flowing sweet potato vine. Some ornamental red cabbage is also peeking out to the side.
7. Feathered Grasses and Flower Spikes
This stunning wide copper urn is filled to the brim with colorful flower spikes that resemble deep red and orange gladiolus or fox glove flowers. A tall accent commands attention at the center with long feathered ornamental grasses.
8. Fescue Grasses, Kale, and Creeping VInes
These simple fall container plants are a hardy and reliable cold weather mix of colors and textures. Creeping jenny vines spill out of the bottom while ornamental dinosaur kale leaves poke out off to the left. A mound of thin strand fescue grass acts as the thriller accent flowing up from the center.
9. Boxwood Bushes with accent plants
Here lovely long wintergreen boxwood bushes act as the main focal point while black-eyed susan flowers, english ivy vine, and ornamental cabagges create a beautiful fall border for the bottom of this fall planter.
10. Decorative Birch Logs, Artificial Florals, and Yellow Sweet pea
Here the thrilling focal point for this festive fall container is a bundle of tall birch logs. They are accented with artificial or dried orange blooming branches and framed at the bottom of ornamental cabbage, english ivy vine, and yellow sweet pea. All hardy elements that don’t mind the cold.
11. Chrysanthemums, croton leaves, and vining accents
Beautiful bold orange gourds and pumpkins are nestled in a mixture of creeping wire vine plants and orange yellow chrysanthemums. A burst of yellow green croton plant leaves add another layer of festive fall color off to the upper right corner.
12. Mums, mums, mums
If all else fails, you really can’t go wrong with a singular plant selection for all your pots: mums! Chrysanthemums are cold weather hardy and come in a variety of colors! From deep burgundy red to spicy orange, pink, and yellow. With their rounded mound-like growing habits, they fill any container with elegance and color.
Here they are paired with purple yarrow plants, black-eyed susans, and purple coral bells.
13. Celosias and asters in Pink matching colors
While chrysanthemums do have their famed place in autumn planters, let’s not forget its other cold hardy flowering sister, the aster! Asters are cold tolerant into the fall season and actually tend not bloom and put on their annual show until late August and into September and October. Here purple pink asters are accented with tall pinkish celosia flower spikes up top.
Celosia is another beautiful fall container plant that adds instant drama and color to all your fall containers.
14. Purple Celosia and purple asters
Once more, you can explore the same combination of celosia and aster flowers in a different color. Here purple celosia flower spikes reach up and out of the top while cool purple asters flow out of the right hand side of the pot. Some dried floral accents add character along with cold hardy purple coral bell leaves.
15. Ornamental Millet and creeping vine accents
Festive ornamental millet leaves spill out of the top of this fall planter like a fountain of beautiful purple corn leaves. Purple majesty ornamental millet is among my top favorite on this list of the best fall container plants. It resembles a tall cornstalk but with beautiful bold shades of burgundy wine and deep purple. Dramatic foxtail seedy spikes grow out of the center making it a stunning fall must-have for any autumn porch or garden.
16. Purple Millet, Chinese Lantern Flower, and mums
Fiery pops of red color take center stange with a bold mix of chinese lantern flower stems to the left, tall ornamental millet at the top, and red chrysanthemums blooming off to the right. This dramatic difference of textures, heights, and colors create a sort of organized chaos in the planter that truly delivers the feel of fall.
17. Ornamental Millet and coneflower
A little bed of pinkish orange coneflowers at the bottom help lead the eye up top to a tall blooming purple millet plant that adds beautiful vertical detail to this simple fall container. A few more simple plants like green coral bells and ornamental cabbage act as fillers for the bottom border.
18. Pre-Lit Decor, Black Eyed Susans, and Purple Grass
A rustic scene is styled upwards in this festive fall planter with a mix of blooming coreopsis flowers and black eyed susans. A tall pre-lit decoration acts as the ‘thriller’ or tall element in the planter and is paired with purple ornamental grasses spilling out of the bottom.
The soft glow of the lights and the mix of plants creates a warm and cozy fall planter idea.
19. Colorful cold hardy coral bell mixture
Coral bells are another big favorite of mine on our list of the best fall container plants. Coral bells are resilient, easy care, no fuss, and cold weather hardy.
As if that wasn’t enough, they’re garden perennials that will come back next year, and they’ll even tolerate shade. This makes them among the most versatile fall-friendly plant on this list. Coral bells come in a variety of shades from chartreuse green to deep burgundy wine and purple. They are perfect for tucking in with fall container plants of all kinds.
20. Black Eyed Susan, mini chili pepper plants, coleus Leaf
These festive autumn black eyed susans have a festive fall variegated color mix of brown and yellow. Together with the deep purple leaf coleus plants off to the left, they create a stunning fall display. Little yellow and orange chili pepper plants burst ouf of the right hand side adding another layer of texture.
This festive mix of beautiful autumn plants will keep your fall containers blooming with gorgeous autumn colors throughout the coming season.
Don’t forget about that autumn table, be sure to get inspired at the tabletop with fresh flowers in this festive fall flower arrangement or even these simple fall table centerpiece ideas.
