Designing ContainersCreate gorgeous planters full of flowers, veggies and more
Using containers and planter around the garden presents a great chance to try out with different plant combination and unexpected smorgasbord from twelvemonth to class and season to time of year . When selecting container plant pairings , look at color and texture as adequate dimension , and admit about three to six unlike plants that contrast by color , texture , or tiptop . restrain your container to three to six plants create a fantastic assertion , and expanding the varieties bring home the bacon stimulate textural impact . My client and I also have been sour on being less water hooked and maximize the saturation of color for our container . Here is a selection of planter that have gravid textural impact , while limiting the plant palette .
works show here : Sporobolus heterolepis(prairie dropseed),Kalanchoe thyrsiflora(flapjacks),Thymusxcitriodorus(lemon thyme),Echeveriax ‘ Lola ’ ( ‘ Lola ’ echeveria),Portulacaria afra(miniature nag plant),Crassula muscosa(princess pine tree ) .
A rescued stock trough was repurposed as a container at an organic farm and rural wedding party venue . To stay true to the organic farm , this gutter includes drought - tolerant grasses and succulents that thrive in the deep soil and natural rainwater .
Plants shown here : Strelitzia nicolai(giantbird of paradise),Solenostemon scutellarioides‘Fishnet stocking ’ ( coleus),Ipomoea batatusIllusion ® ‘ Midnight Lace ’ ( sweet potato vine),Helichrysum petiolare‘Lemon Licorice ’ ( lemon licorice industrial plant ) .
For six month of the year my home is covered in Boston ivy , creating a 12 - foot - tall immature paries to act as off the container . select four plants with four distinct leaf shapes and colors allows this container to not be overwhelmed by the massive green bulwark . Here , the black and fine texture of the coleus and the seraphic potato vine add together that pop of texture , and the Paris green of the lemon licorice tally just enough color .
works shown here : Dichondra argentea‘Silver Falls ’ ( silvery ponysfoot),Tradescantia pallida‘Pink Stripe ’ ( dayflower ) , andSansevieria trifasciata(mother - in - police force ’s spit ) .
The combination of the three plant here creates a striping of color . The bottom color stripes come from the trailing silver ponysfoot and spiderwort fills in the base of the container . lastly , mother - in - practice of law ’s tongue rises to almost three foot , create the top band . The big container also blends with the exterior bulwark behind it , which get rid of any ocular competition from the industrial plant .
works shown here : Foliage of ‘ Mystic Spirit ’ hybrid dahlia , Artemisia stellerianaSilver Cascade ® ( ‘ Silver Cascade ’ dusty miller),Tradescantia pallida‘Purple Queen ’ ( purple spiderwort),Centaurea gymnocarpa‘Colchester White ’ ( downy centaurea ) .
My glasshouse is thriving with the spring sunshine radiating through it and the plants are starting to get past their infancy stage — you could now see the leaf material body and colour . This stage allows me to start play with the plant in dissimilar pairings for container combo . true , I favor texture over a cluster of color in my planter , but the outstanding thing about planters is that you are n’t locked into to a long - term design and you may change your mood with the season . This twelvemonth I settle to grow a lot of silver gray and black flora for our post - frost containers — possibly I was influenced by the gray winter sky . gratuitous to say I have very dark intension for my planter this year !
See how Nick uses cut stems toadd high - get to panache to wintertime container .
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