Designing ContainersCreate gorgeous planters full of flowers, veggies and more
Using container and planters around the garden present a slap-up opportunity to try out with different works combinations and unexpected varieties from year to yr and time of year to season . When selecting container plant pairings , look at semblance and grain as equal attributes , and include about three to six unlike plant life that contrast by colour , texture , or height . Limiting your container to three to six plants make a grand statement , and expanding the miscellany provides have textural impact . My client and I also have been working on being less piss dependent and maximizing the saturation of coloration for our container . Here is a excerpt of planters that have bully textural encroachment , while limiting the plant pallet .
Plants exhibit here : Sporobolus heterolepis(prairie dropseed),Kalanchoe thyrsiflora(flapjacks),Thymusxcitriodorus(lemon thyme),Echeveriax ‘ Lola ’ ( ‘ Lola ’ echeveria),Portulacaria afra(miniature loose woman plant),Crassula muscosa(princess true pine ) .
A reclaimed stock trough was repurposed as a container at an organic farm and rural wedding venue . To remain truthful to the constituent farm , this trough includes drouth - tolerant grasses and succulent that flourish in the deep soil and natural rain .
Plants shown here : Strelitzia nicolai(giantbird of paradise),Solenostemon scutellarioides‘Fishnet Stockings ’ ( coleus),Ipomoea batatusIllusion ® ‘ Midnight Lace ’ ( sweet potato vine),Helichrysum petiolare‘Lemon Licorice ’ ( lemon licorice plant ) .
For six months of the year my habitation is covered in Boston ivy , creating a 12 - foot - improbable gullible rampart to represent off the containers . pick out four plants with four distinguishable leafage bod and color allow this container to not be overwhelmed by the massive dark-green wall . Here , the dingy and ok texture of the flame nettle and the sweet potato vine append that pop of texture , and the pea green of the lemon Glycyrrhiza glabra add just enough color .
Plants designate here : Dichondra argentea‘Silver Falls ’ ( silvery ponysfoot),Tradescantia pallida‘Pink Stripe ’ ( spiderwort ) , andSansevieria trifasciata(mother - in - law ’s tongue ) .
The compounding of the three plant here produce a striping of color . The bottom color chevron comes from the dog silver ponysfoot and spiderwort fill in the foot of the container . Finally , mother - in - law ’s tongue rises to almost three feet , create the top stripe . The large container also blends with the exterior wall behind it , which eliminates any optic competition from the plants .
works picture here : Foliage of ‘ Mystic Spirit ’ hybrid dahlia , Artemisia stellerianaSilver Cascade ® ( ‘ Silver Cascade ’ dusty miller),Tradescantia pallida‘Purple Queen ’ ( empurpled spiderwort),Centaurea gymnocarpa‘Colchester White ’ ( downy genus Centaurea ) .
My nursery is thriving with the spring fair weather beam through it and the plant life are starting to get past their infancy stage — you’re able to now see the leaf conformation and color . This degree allows me to commence playing with the plants in different union for container combo . Admittedly , I favor texture over a bunch of vividness in my planters , but the great affair about planter is that you are n’t lock into to a foresighted - term design and you could change your mood with the time of year . This year I decide to grow a heap of silver and blackened flora for our post - frost containers — maybe I was influence by the hoar wintertime sky . Needless to say I have very obscure intensions for my planters this twelvemonth !
See how Nick uses cut stems toadd high - reaching panache to wintertime containers .
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