What kind of plants can you plant in the fall in the Midwestern United States?

Be sure to specify the month. I would imagine that, whatever plants you may be able to plant, they would all have to be in the soil before the first frost. Am I right?

What kind of plants can you plant in the fall in the Midwestern United States?
For instant color you can plant chrysanthemums. I prefer the Belgian variety for their uniform shape and hardiness. Crocus, hyacinth and tulips are all fall bulbs that can be planted for spring bloom. Be careful with tulips, they can attract burrowing rodents like moles and voles which consider them food, so they wont come back every year. However, daffodils/Narcissus they leave alone and those come back, come a some scented types and multiply thru the years.





Then of course there are the perrinials. You need to check which zone you are in. This is available in any garden book or webiste. Once you know that they sky is the limit on what you can plant for flowers. My suggestion to you is if you plant say a border garden down your driveway to mix in perrinials with easy care annuals for continuous blooms all season. I strongly reccomend Purple Wave Petunias. They are profuse and put on a great show, need no dead heading, and can take a frost in in the spring and keep on ticking. Then there are tall things you can plant like grasses that even in winter if left will give structure and form to a lifeless landscape.





Be careful of bushes. I suggest those be planted in the spring as they need a season to establish sufficient roots to winter over properly. Butterfly bushes attract so many hummingbirds, butterflies and other cool bugs and with a weekly deadheading with clippers will bloom all season.





I could go on but I think that is enough for now.





Bulbs should be planted on average up until end of October, mid November latest. They need to rest.





Perrinials on average are best planted in time to let the roots expand, so I'd do it by end of September latest.





Mums, depending on variety, I'd get in the ground my Labor day.





Also, remember, water the ground, not from overhead for best results.
Reply:turnips, flowers that grow from a Bulb, wheat,


we planted turnips in nov
Reply:These bulbs would be planted in October:


Tulips, Daffodils, Hyacinths, Grape Hyacinths, and some types of lilies.
Reply:i live in upstate ny daffiodills grow well in late winter and early spring so do tulips both are bulbs they usally sprout when theres till snow the flower and then hang around until midsummer
Reply:Mums are a great fall flower. You would plant the bulbs in the spring and they will come up late summer and bloom all throughout fall. You can also just wait until they have them out (fall time) and plant them, they will come back every year. Or, I actually just had mine in pots saved them and will plant them in the spring. They are very low maintenance and very pretty.
Reply:Perennials, shrubs and trees can be planted up to a month before the ground freezes (that is later than first frost). Bulbs can be planted all the way up to the ground getting frozen.





In Delaware, that meant I could still plant in mid-October.