It may seem like summer’s nearly over, but your yard and garden still have plenty of life left in them.

So why not send up your last hurrah? From now until the frost hits, bring the outdoors in, with flowers, fruits and foliage from your landscape.

Go ahead — play a little: A single fruiting branch can be stunning. Seed pods can be decorative after flowers fade. And who needs flowers when you’ve got colorful or variegated foliage?

Need more ideas? Borrow one of these, courtesy of three local floral designers: Charles Arena from Arena’s Florist at 260 East Ave., Maura Harrison of Sassafras Flowers at 34 Elton St. and Jennifer Ralph of Wisteria Flowers & Gifts at 360 Culver Road.

# Holy coleus! With all the variation from leaf to leaf, coleus by itself makes a delightful bouquet. Or, you can accent with just a touch of varigated hosta and/or hydrangea foliage. (Jennifer Ralph)

# Spike it. A spike of ornamental grass adds height to a full-figured display of hydrangea blooms, hosta leaves and vinca vine. (Jennifer Ralph)

# Homey harvest. Here’s a good one for the kitchen: Aromatic sweet basil, wheat stalks and a poppy seed pod nestled in a Mason jar. (Charles Arena)

# Keep a lid on it. Try the terrarium look by placing a singe hosta leaf atop a bed of gravel in an apothecary-style glass jar. Or, you can use other large leaves such as elephant ear. (Charles Arena)

# Colorful cups. Colored-glass votive cups can do double duty as vases, sporting a sizzling series of zinnias, dusty miller and viburnum berries, for instance. (Maura Harrison)

# Bottled up. A collection of antique bottles and jars lends vintage character to a simple series. Each bottle could sport just one or two sprigs of hosta leaves, ornamental grasses, artemisia or hydrangea, or rose of Sharon blooms.

(Maura Harrison)