Your house doesn t have to look like a giant haunted castle or be filled with pumpkins, turkeys, orange, black and spider webs, though this is most of what you will see in the traditional fall decoration department. Your house can look festive for the season without looking tacky and it doesn t have to cost a lot of money. Mums are the perfect fall foliage for your home. Inside the house and out, you can spread them everywhere.
Mums are quite inexpensive and come in beautiful fall colors of yellow, crimson, mauve and purple.
We like to put a huge pot by the front door every year. Mums produce a lot of flowers and can get quite bushy. Indian corn and gourds can be festive decorations that fit well from the beginning of September until Thanksgiving. Pick some that are unique in shape and color and gather some in a basket to put on the floor in a corner or on your kitchen table. Gourds come in so many interesting shapes and sizes and last quite awhile.