Fall is the best time to plant for permanence
TEMPTING AS IT MAY BE to buy perennials and shrubs in luscious spring bloom, fall is a better time to plant them in the West's mild-winter regions. A plant set out now has summer's peak heat behind it, the probability of soaking rains ahead of it, and still-warm soil to encourage its immediate and deep root growth.
But finding a good selection of trees, shrubs, and perennials in nurseries can be more difficult in fall, and many of the ...