Decorate for Fall Naturally!

by Barb Rosen

2 Materials

$20

1 Hour

Easy

How do you decorate for Fall without spending a lot of money? Go natural!

Decorate naturally for Fall!

Find a good farm stand or farmer’s market nearby and purchase just a few select items to mix with your own garden abundance. For each of these window boxes, I only used one large ornamental Kale, one medium-sized pumpkin, four interesting colorful gourds and materials gathered from our garden!

Windowbox materials

Assemble your bought and collected materials in a wheelbarrow for easy assembling of the window boxes. Wheel it right up to where you are working. Here’s a good reason not to cut back your Oakleaf and Limelight Hydrangeas too soon! Use their dried blossoms to soften and fill out lovely Fall window box arrangements!

Second windowbox completed

Just one Ornamental Kale and a few pumpkins and gourds for color made this window box say “Autumn Harvest”. Pine needles, Oakleaf Hydrangea and Limelight Hydrangea filled the arrangement in nicely. The Needlepoint Ivy grows in the box year round and adds some trailing green accents.Put the largest items in off center, then fill in the rest around them!

Fall "Bike Planter"

Our Bike Planter's summer flowers were petered out so, out they came! Dried Hydrangea blooms from the garden and colorful gourds took their place. Who says Fall decor has to be all yellows, oranges and browns? See how to make your own Bike Planter at http://ourfairfieldhomeandgarden.com/diy-project-my-bicycle-planter/ We decorate ours for all the seasons!

Harvest Star

Some Millet and dried Indian Corn looks great tied to a simple wooden star. Repurpose the star for other holidays and feed the corn and millet to the birds and squirrels. This is on our covered front porch right now so the critters don’t dine on it until I’m ready!

I hope you enjoyed my natural decorating which will carry these window boxes right through all of November! Thanks for reading! For more pictures and ideas, click through to my blog article below.

Thanks! Barb Rosen of Our Fairfield Home and Garden