Category : Small Spaces: Mailboxes and Containers
My summer has been incredibly dry and hot with 3 of the last five days in the triple digits, but this container garden is still going strong with 3-4 waterings per week. This planter garden is packed with bright and refreshing colors, and 5 different types of drought hardy plants that fill in the container quickly, and make your thumb look greener than it may actually be.
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Well, the long weekend is almost over for those of us in the USA. If you are like me you may find yourself in some serious bumper to bumper traffic as you leave the beach, and having a little garden reading can really lighten the travel stress. Here’s what I’m going to be reading today on my way home!
Amy Leigh over at “Growing Plants Indoors” is talking carnivorous plants, and has a list of 10 Indoor Plants That Can Eat Bugs, and break you out of your indoor plant rut.
Fine Gardening has a great article on how to plant 10 Different Plants For Year Round Container garden appeal!
Fern over at Life on the Balcony has tips for the summer gardener, and how to start a late Summer Edible Container Garden.
Virginia over at Planet Green is giving us the dirt on city gardening with The City Girl’s Guide to Country Gardening Lesson #12: Sussing Out Your Soil.
And TipNut has 50 Soothing Home Remedies you can make yourself to treat and relieve your summer sunburn. Talk about timely information!
I’m off to hit the roads, so I wish the rest of you the best of luck in your travels as well! I hope you had a restful Fourth of July Weekend.
This Caladium and Hibiscus garden is great for several reasons, the number one being that this Caladium is sun loving and can thrive in areas that used to burn out a Caladium’s big, bright leaves. Additionally, this combination is the perfect thing for soggy corner areas that seem to promote mold and rot in other plants.
Recipe For This Container Garden:
- 1 Yellow Hibiscus Tree
- 3 Red Flash Caladium
- 3 Rainbow Confetti Lantana
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This peach themed container design works in partial sun and shade, to fully sunny locations, and features a mix of perennial and annual flowers, and shrubs. In cool climates, only the Roses in this container will last from year to year, but in warm climates the Coleus can be perennial as well. Want to recreate this look?
The Ingredients:
- 1 Peach ‘Daybreaker’ Floribunda Rose
- 3 Different Varieties of Coleus
- 3 Peach Superbells
I chose to contrast the peach of the Roses and Superbells with the bright reds and purples of Coleus, and I think it looks lush and bright, just in time for summer!
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I was at the garden center the other day with a friend and saw this adorable container garden filled with a mixture of spring and summer flowers. I think this would make a cheerful display on the deck or front porch, and it’s ingredients are all garden center staples you can find easily at your local big box store.
If you want to create your own reproduction here’s what you need: Dusty Miller, Pansies, Violas, Petunias, and Gaillardia.
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You don’t have to have a green thumb or endless container garden know-how to create an impressive pot of blooms, all you have to know is the right place to look for inspiration! Better Homes and Gardens website is a great place to start looking for ideas when you hit a mental roadblock. They have a rotating slide show of 30 recipes for beautiful container gardens ready for your perusal, with names and labels on each plant to help you. The recipes feature plants that are tried and true, and that work well together in a container garden. The pictures can be printed out and taken with you to the garden center for easy matching, or a rough idea of what textures and heights to mix together.
Next time you need an idea or two check out their site for a little inspiration, I know I do!
Container gardens don’t always have to feature endless rotations of flowers, a bright collage of leafy foliage works just as well!
For this container in partial sun and shade I chose to use a few Caladium, Heuchera, and Lobelia plants, to add light and texture to an open patio corner. Heuchera is gaining in popularity as a container plant, particularly when it is layered into a garden with several different colors. For this container I used ‘Black Beauty,’ and ‘Caramel’ Heuchera to contrast each other. The Caladium colors I used where ‘Pink Beauty’ and ‘White Christmas,’ and over the course of the season they should grow to be very large, and regal, making tall centerpieces in this container.
The light blue flower spilling over the edge of the pot is Lobelia erinus, which is a solid selection for any warm weather container when you need flowers, and a ground cover in one plant.
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Formal container designs look organized and crisp in any setting, but my favorite place to use these is around doorway entrances. This week I chose to flank the front door to a busy office building with two matching formal rose designs that look like this, using a blue and hot pink palette.
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Spring’s on-again, off-again weather fluctuations can cause problems when you are looking for a reliable set of plants that can take the chilly nights and sunny days. The three “P’s” in this cool weather spring themed container are Pansies, Prim Roses and Purple Spider Osteospermum.
The Purple Spider Osteospermum, and Pansies are annuals, and the Prim Roses are perennials and self spreaders. All of these work well in a partially sunny, or fully sunny area, and the Osteospermum will help stretch the flowering of the design until the summer. Once the Pansies drop their flowers and die back, replace them with a summer annual, or your favorite flowering perennial.
For a loose free feel, choose uneven numbers of each variety of plant, and fill the pot to the brim with a variety of colors
Purple Spider Osteospermum, Prim Rose, and Pansy
I was cleaning up the last of the seasonal decor to make way for my winter decorations, and realized that I hadn’t shown off a few of my Fall displays! So while I pull out the outdoor winter decorations, take a look at a few more of the cute arrangements from warmer weather gone by!
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