Tag Archives: Container Garden

Working with Container Gardens

Container gardens are just as unique and diverse as gardens. There are different styles of container gardens for your patio, porch and even for inside your home.

 
The key to container garden success -- drainage. Make sure you pot or container has a whole in the bottom. If it doesn't, create [...]

Cool Season Edibles Container

Edibles don’t need to be confined to the veggie garden—feature them in a pot! Rosemary, thyme, tricolor sage, purple cabbage and (edible) lavender pansies complete the edible but beautiful theme.

Imagination in a container

Some imagination can lead to unexpected combinations. Here we have foliage stars like Japanese painted fern, Carex ‘Ice Dance’, ‘Tasmanian Tiger’ Euphorbia and red mustard combined with pink snapdragons and white violas for maximum contrast.

Black Plants for Halloween Container Gardens

Attract ghosts and goblins with plants black as the night this Halloween. Haunt up some Halloween magic and scare up some fun. 

Black Mondo Grass is an eerie, dark evergreen groundcover with black foliage and white blooms. Use as a filler for your container gardens.Light: Grow in Sun to part shadeSize [...]

Add a Southwestern touch with this succulent container

This pot transports you to another place—the Southwest. Brightly painted, glazed pots are the perfect choice to hold architectural sedums, hens n’ chicks, and Euphorbia. Use it as a focal point or in a dry corner of the garden.

Matching Plants to Container

Often, the container itself can help determine your planting scheme. Black mondo grass echoes the dark tones of the pot, the red glaze is duplicated by the red pansy and bronze winter tones of the ajuga. A gaultheria shrub is an unusual addition that helps perk things up.

A little bit of Heaven(ly bamboo)

Heavenly bamboo (Nandina) makes an unusual centerpiece encircled by pansies interspersed with lettuces in various colors and leaf shapes.