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READING, Mass. (WBZ NewsRadio) — Keeping flowers alive in the fall can be tricky but not impossible.
Jon Morrison and Ryan Fargo are head growers at Calareso’s Farm Stand & Garden Center in Reading, Mass. Similar to your wardrobe, the flowers in your garden should also get transitioned into frost adherent species, they said.
“Mums are a great option,” Fargo told WBZ NewsRadio. Mums, also known as Chrysanthemums, can withstand the cold and are perennial flowers that comes back during the spring. Other options include Asters and Montauck Daises.
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“Those ones will take a frost, but they will not take a freeze,” Morrison said. He added that those three flower species are the most popular at Calareso’s.
Vegetables, like cabbages and kale, are also a great way to spruce up the garden in the fall.
Fargo said vegetables are great "for an accent plant, and it’s actually [going to] last longer than your mums.”
“We have an arrangement out front that we plant the mums and sometimes we do cabbage," he said. "Come December, we rip the mums out and we keep the cabbage, and it lasts even longer."
WBZ NewsRadio's Shari Small (@ShariSmallNews) reports.
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