After a long hot summer your yard and landscape can be worn out. Erik Helland of Landscape Garden Centers, Sioux Falls has some tips on bringing the POP back to your yard and landscape.
“Even though things are looking tired there's a lot of little things you can do to make it pop that little bit of color. Mums are a great way of adding that extra color, because they're going to last, they're going to be able to tolerate the cooler weather. There’re even some other ornamental annuals that you can put in that tolerate that cold weather. Pansies are another one that actually - very interesting - they're looking really tired. Now we're going to get some cool weather. They're going to snap out of that and start blooming again. Grasses are going to start to really start to show their color with this cooler weather.”
Helland says that decorating your yard for the change of season can also give it a boost.
“Some of the other things that people will do for decorating, or trying to give your landscape a little bit of a pop, is to add straw bales, pumpkins, gourds, things like that. So, we're really close to that period where we can keep on decorating. That's always something that really helps highlight the landscape and gives those mums and the pansies and all those things, gives them something else to be around.”
Helland also say Fall is a great time to drive around your neighborhood or town to look at trees. You can see the fall colors and determine what type of tree you would like to add to your yard in the future. If you have questions for Erik Helland, send them to: IntheMoment@sdpb.org. He may answer your question on-the-air during the South Dakota Home Garden segment, Wednesdays on SDPB Radio's "In the Moment."