Oh this is has been a week. It’s been potty training week for Baby J, and I am exhausted. But were here. We’ve made it to Friday! And being home all week with a 2 year old gave me enough time to finish my fall outside refresh!

I love refreshing my outdoors for the fall. While some gardens I take out completely and clean up for the upcoming season, I try to do a few fall containers to hold on to some of the beautiful fall color. It’s refreshing to see fall colors outside in my containers to match the pretty leaves that start to fall this time of year.

I went around the outside of our house and snapped pictures of anything I spruced up for the fall season. If I salvaged some of my summer container for the fall, I’m including a picture of what it looked like for the summer, as well. Often times, I find I don’t need to pull everything when many things still look really good into the fall, and can instead just add to them.

The boys (and all of the neighbor kids) have a favorite Halloween decoration. And it’s the spooky, talking skeleton. 🙂

Swapped a few plants from this summer container to make the above fall container!

Summer…

Fall…

The backyard is a mountain of mums. And it just makes me so happy.

I re-pot about half of my mums into the potting soil that I used over the summer in each of these containers. And the other half, I stick them in the container in the same plastic tub they came in. I don’t know if one way works better than another. The only thing that I’ve found to be particularly important about mums is watering consistently. Pretty much every day. And deadheading.

Another container that went from summer to fall. Here’s fall…

And summer…

Sweet potato vine on the far right, hibiscus on the back left, and lantana in the front like hot, hot, hot conditions. So they all came out to make room for fall plants…

The million bells and coleus were all the perfect fall shades.

And then my other little corner, I flipped over to cool fall tones…

Happy beautiful fall days, friends!