A red pot like autumn

Sporting the fiery colors that the dead leaves dress in this off-season, here is a pot both flowery and leafy, which catches the light still very present at the end of September.

• Choose an earthenware pot about 30 cm in diameter, in a shade that matches the chosen plants.
• After having favored drainage by placing a bed of clay balls at the bottom, fill it, up to 8 cm from the edge, with geranium soil, then add two handfuls of compost .

• Plant side, opt for 4 buckets chrysanthemums starred in shades apricot, ocher or rust, plant beside a heuchère ‘Caramel.
• Ruffle the composition with a sedge ( C. buchananii ), to be placed in the center, slightly behind.
• Complete with potting soil and tamp down.

• Place this hotpot in the soft sun, water.
• Add water as soon as the earth dries up on the surface.

• Cut the flowers as soon as they wilt.

• When the feet are no longer presentable, replace them for the winter with a persistent fern , violas, primroses or white heather .
• Perennials , heuches and sedges retain their interest.
• In the spring, top up with compost.