Pacific Northwest Gardening: Planning Containers for this summer, 1 by susybell

susybell wrote:
Oh, Tapla has his own cubit! I'll definitely have to check it out.

Thanks for the compliments, everyone! I got kind of lucky with those two (and I think my phormium died this winter.... :( ) Funny, I feel about the same about orange as Katye does, but I've really had fun playing around with it as well.

Mstish, I forgot to mention how much I liked all of your containers as well, and wow, so many! I like the way you've added hanging baskets all along the fenceline, very nice.

Julie, love your colors with the clematis, a cascade of beautiful flowers. I'd love walking up to your doorway.

Katye, your containers are gorgeous, really well done and maintained. Mine end up a bit scruffy, I don't always fertilize as I should. I am going to try your suggestion of lining the coir with landscape fabric when I redo a couple that need new coir this spring. I think that's a great idea.

I've got a container that I've had lilies in for a couple of years and thunbergia did really well climbing up their stalks one year. Made them not nearly as unattractive after they were done blooming.

These aren't in a container right now, but this is a color combination that just sort of happened. (they could be in a container, though, maybe with the silver helichrysum and I don't know what else, a sedge?) I've been wondering if it really worked or not. What does everyone think?