Specialty Gardening: Preparing for conainer display- help needed., 1 by gemini_sage

gemini_sage wrote:
Lea, I've never grown it, but I do love that Diamond Frost- I don't think it would get enough sun on my deck, but it may tolerate the front porch sun well. The front porch gets hot afternoon/evening sun; I've been considering Geraniums out there, and I bet the Diamond Frost would look great with them. In that pic in the link above, those full pots of Geraniums are gorgeous.

Ann, thanks so much! You've just reminded me, I had considered doing just that last year after seeing some combo pots folks here had posted with Hostas, Heuchera, and some other shade perennials. It is a great way to baby and beef up smaller plants before they go into the garden, and its not like throwing $ away on annuals (although I do intend to purchase Impatiens- too big a pain to raise them in the house).

This is a big plastic pot I painted and filled with yellow callas, red begonias, and wondering Jew. The Callas never bloomed, I didn't put enough begonias in, and the Jew finally filled in nicely by summer's end. I was so disgusted with it I didn't even dig out the callas in fall...it wasn't intentional, but I think I just didn't like looking at it and put it so far out of my mind, I forgot about them, LOL.

How well does Margarita Sweet potato grow in shade? Some bright punches of chartreuse would be great.