The Garden Bunting Bed

The Garden Bunting Bed about four weeks after planting

Our head grower, Cory, designed Bed 15 behind Greenhouse One for Field Day. This location can be a challenge because it gets strong hot sun all summer long. Squeezed between the building and the concrete wall, the bed wants to behave as one very long planter running along the top.

Cory’s solution turned out to be The Garden Bunting Bed, a fun design that uses only three cultivars, assembles quickly, and delivers rapid results. Buntings are the large patriotic ribbon arches you find on fences that line Independance Day parade routes, tied up by their corners to the fence posts. This garden is our take on that theme so let’s break it down; we’ve shown the start and the middle here—the bed in its full glory is shown at the end.

The same bed two weeks later…about the middle of its growth

A chilling addition to the Halloween landscape

‘Black Pearl’ Ornamental Pepper is a great ingredient for Halloween décor—it’s an incredibly black plant. Used alone in a gothic urn it makes a creepy yet elegant centerpiece. Of course the black foliage is dramatic, and when those shiny pearl-shaped peppers turn blood red we get an extra chilling perk.

Dark, dramatic foliage of ‘Black Pearl’ 

Place pots of ‘Black Pearl’ on porches or decks to welcome trick-or-treaters—or scare them away. That deep inky black can get pretty intense. You can always lighten the mood with some bright chartreuse.

Our scream-inducing ‘Black Pearl’ is available now in the 8-inch pot for all your last-minute Halloween displays.

We like a White that’s crisp, clean, and completely neutral

Aside from Halloween and harvest festivities, fall is a popular season for weddings so white is considered a fall color, too.  We admire pure, clean white flowers and we’ve got them right now in Pansies. A true, clear white is hard to find and it works like a charm when there’s a special project to design, whether it’s a wedding or some other important event. That's why we like these pansies so much. They are completely neutral—not warm, not cool, with no tint of green or yellow to mar the pristine petals.

Our ‘Matrix White’ is available in the 1801 landscape flat. ‘Delta Premium Pure White’ comes in the 6-inch pot.