Here's How to Make Your Autumn Landscape Beautiful

Your fall yard doesn’t have to play second best to summer’s splendor. There are plenty of inexpensive ideas for improving your landscape come autumn. Along with mums, pumpkins, hay bales, and other outdoor fall decorations, there are also some minor landscaping projects and fall flowers that you can get started with right now. Whether it's adding fall vegetables to your garden or planting evergreens in the yard, these fall landscaping ideas will yield big results for years to come. Plus, now that the cooler weather makes it a joy to be outdoors again, you can tidy up your yard to make it even more welcoming and livable.

If you've been putting off planting, fall is the ideal time to put in new perennials, shrubs, and trees because it's less stressful on the plants. With cooler temperatures and more plentiful rainfall, your new plantings will have time to settle in and establish their roots before the winter weather sets in. Make sure to buy plants that can withstand cold temperatures by checking the hardiness zone in your area and be sure to plant at least six weeks before the ground freezes. As long as you keep everything well-watered (especially if it's a particularly dry autumn), your yard will thrive throughout the fall season.

Here are our favorite easy landscape ideas for your yard and garden.