10 Fall Container Ideas to Celebrate the Season

Window boxes offer another opportunity to bring fall color up close. In this festive design by Garden Stories, a mix of brightly colored perennials, strappy grasses and interesting dried elements looks lovely from both inside and outside the house. Plants and dried ingredients include ‘Indian Summer’ rudbeckia (Rudbeckia hirta ‘Indian Summer’, zones 3 to 7), Japanese forest grass (Hakonechloa macra, zones 5 to 9), ‘Red Rooster’ leatherleaf sedge (Carex buchananii ‘Red Rooster’, zones 6 to 9), ‘Sombrero Hot Coral’ echinacea (Echinacea x hybrida ‘Sombrero Hot Coral’, zones 4 to 9), croton (Codiaeum variegatum, zones 9 to 12), sugar pine cones and miniature lotus pods.

Water requirement: Regular
Light requirement: Full sun