Thanks Wisdom. The porch gets morning sun so I try to plant lighter colored plants in it. Seems every year I choose the OSP vine and go from there.
Show me your containers
LadyG always has the nicest container combos, Here is my coleus pot it is filling in nicely.
Lady, You really do a nice job with containers.
Holly, Your Coleus is looking great!
Thank you Wisdomskr.
Wonderful, a thread for containers and I haven't even got mine planted yet! Arrived home from Maine on Monday night and trying to play catch up yesterday :( A few of the plants that were destined for containers took a hit - friend who was watering for us thought they were okay for water on Sunday and they were fried when we arrived home later in the day on Monday :( I did get the living plants grouped together yesterday and got the soil ready so hopefully I'll get them planted today and will have pics to share tomorrow. This is one of the hanging planters I made up for my daughter while I was in Maine. Planted two to hang on the front porch but she wasn't sure she liked the "look" - thought they looked "messy" hanging from the porch! So I took them down and placed them on the front steps and will let her decide where they eventually live. LOL Kept searching for Begonia 'Bonfire' and finally found it at a small garden center only 5 min away! The poor things needed to be rescued, they were in a house where the plants seriously needed watering! Combined with white New Guinea Impatiens to make the color of the Bonfire blooms pop.
This area of the new landscaping begged for something to be planted here to block the dryer vent, etc. but my daughter didn't want anything actually "planted" there. So we searched for a container she liked, she's so picky!! LOL Found this one but it wasn't the right color so we bought textured spray paint and painted it a color she liked :) Planted some of my favorite plants, Cordyline 'Red Star', which hopefully she will bring inside and save for next year, and Fuchsia magellanica with Euphorbia 'Diamond Frost'. Told her the 'Diamond Frost' will fill the pot and spill over the edges in another month but she's not convinced - yet! On the long drive home I realized we were in such a hurry to get everything done we forgot to drill holes in the bottom of the container :(
RCN, You are home! Been waiting for the pics. Love the containers and can't wait to see what else you did. I'm wondering if your daughter would like railing boxes instead of hanging baskets. Either of those would look great at my parents house.
RCN I see why you were searching for this plant. The hummers will probably be all over it.
Debbie, I saw that fuschia at Kim's last year. Boy is that ever a gorgeous plant.
I like your front porch pot LG!
Yes, I AM home!!! Still trying to play catch up and I've got plenty of photos to share :) Holly, I suggested the railing boxes to my daughter but she didn't like that idea either :( Fussy, fussy, I tell you! She just likes the clean, simple look of her front porch and doesn't want to "mess" it up! LOL
I did manage to get two containers planted yesterday afternoon and as soon as I dig out my camera will take a few photos. I might even get a few more planted today!
Guess, I'll post these on this thread too.
And another:
stormy love the little car planter. Great idea for my son's garden.
Wisdmskr, I originally bought an old wood wagon for this purpose, but it turned out to be such a handy garden utility item, that I replaced it with the red car. The yellow car was to be a gift for a toddler, but was never picked up.
Variegated lantana, geranium and vinca. I like the variegation on the lantana but I am not to crazy about the flower color in this location. It gets full sun most of the day so the color looks washed out.
Pretty pot, Wisdomskr!
I got these for a steal!! They were only twenty a piece on clearance at a garden center. Orange tree on the pot with the word orangerie written underneath. I love them.
Hope it's not too late!!!!
Just figuring out how to do this so hope it works - will be my second photo ever posted. But am learning all over again!
This is actually a whiskey barrel pond on my deck with a couple of irises and a lovely waterlily - 'patio joe'
yvgfjayne, your whiskey barrel is lovely!
Chris, your combos are really eye catchers.
Stormy, love the cars, the truck I wanted to plant and put out for the kids is below, I was thinking touchy feelies, and aromatics would be great where the grand-kids play and somewhat whimsical. Holly said, I should get real! LOL Ric
wisdomskr--your comment bout dak foliage against a light pot made me think. I recently potted up a dark Canna, a silver Plctranthus and then dark red alternanthera ( maybe) in a tan pot- but realized it would really show better in a cream color pot I just got. O just transferred the whole works the other day and it is nicer. Didn't tak a picture though! For th last few years, I've really enjoyed playing with arranging succulents in terra cotta on my steps. Some grow for the summer and gget big to come in for winter, others I'll just save small pieces to carry over.
Ric I think you lost your planter for sure!!
neat succulents Sally!
yvgfjayne, great creation with the whiskey barrel and the frog is great too.
sally I like how you arranged all your succulents in terra cotta very pretty.
Holly cute grand kids!!
Sally love your succulent garden, I have been playing with them, too. When are we getting together to make those planters?
Onewish, That is an old pic of the "Blue Beast" that is JR in the back he is 6 now and the truck doesn't run anymore. After seeing the cute pics of Stormy's car, my DIL (mother of JR) is going to take it and make it a planter in her yard near JR's play area.
Here is a new pic of the succulent wreath, it is growing in well. I added 2 new semps the Black Prince and Lola ( the blueish one or the right). Sally I picked up both of these and a Cobweb at the local Lowes for a couple of $$ each.
Thanks Wisdomskr, Only the little boy in the back is mine and that is an old pic, but he is a cutie.
Here is an update on the hosta wreath. Still calling it a hosta wreath even though you will be hard pressed to find both of them. LOL
The pots of Caladiums are filling out very nicely, too. This one sits by the front walkway.
Here is what it looks like, I need to get out there and whack back the trumpet vine a bit.
Glad you like my containers, Ric. I like teaming up calibrachoa and coleus, then OSP vine depending on a light or dark combo. I did not have access to any ornamental millet for height this year. I have seeds but didn't try to start any and the garden center where I shop did not get any in this year.
These living wreaths are looking really good now. Nice job! And it is so nice that you can put those pots of Caladiums out front like that, mine would be wisked off to parts unknow , I have to make my pots either to heavy to lift or tie them down. The fancy pot with the frogs on it is secured with an electrical tie wrap to the park bench and the bench is changed to a bolt cemented into the porch floor.
Thanks for the comments on my succulents. I find them so interesting to contrast form etc, and of course a tough choice for pesky dry-too-fast containers. And on the deck steps a nice small scale thing for close viewing. I've picked up some nice ones as Lowes clearance--Even they can'ttotally kill them, they just get tired of them and cycle them out for fresh ones. 50 cents!
What a pretty little pond! And Sally your pots of succulents are luscious. That's an adorable photo of the kids in the little car.
Holly, be sure to check out the photos of the monster hens and chicks I found at the Webers sale yesterday in the Webers sale thread. They were only $2.50 a pot.
Your picture and pots look great Jane,
Holly, love your living wreaths. You should offer them for sale!! I also put my callas in pots but I dug them into my garden bed. Maybe I won't forget to take them out and store them in the garage (if there's room) this winter.
Lovely combos in your pots Lady.
Hart, I share your fondness for ice plants and have a whole large Park's Plant Starter dome full of them right now. I have some growing in one of my rock gardens but I need more faster than they can be split. If I am successful with my seedlings, I probably will have lots more to swap. Holly and others got what I could spare this year.
I bought this stacker pot from one of our co-ops. It seemed to tall to me so I split them stacked in 3's instead of 6. Then I put scooped out all kinds of annual seeds that I had under lights and got this profusion.
I put one on either side of my side door to take the attention away from the utilities meters and generator box that exists in that area.
What a cool pot! I don't know if you'd like the flower color - kind of peach - but both Lowes and Walmart had ice plants on clearance this week.
RRR, I have a ton of plants this year that will need to be dug up this fall. Begonias, Callas, Caladiums, Cannas, Dahlias and Tuberose just couldn't help myself. Not just at my house but both my parents house and Josh's, some are in pots but some aren't.
The ice plants are very happy in my wall, thank you very much. Although your rock walls are beautiful.
Sally, I can never seem to find those 50 cent plants. LOL I did think I got a bargain on some $6 bushes, but I could be wrong Ric is the bargain shopper around here.
The planters are the porch are filling in nicely, too.
Oh RRR I forgot to say how pretty your stacking pots look.
ooohhh Holly or Ric... I love the wreaths!!! and your trumpet vine is breath taking!!!... love the impatiens & the vinca.. what a nice combo!
RRR... your stacking pots look great!
Holly,
LOVE that trumpet vine!
I had a trumpet vine several years ago on my split-rail fence surrounding my YUK bed...
It bloomed only one Summer....so, after enough of that!--I cut it back and for then, for several years thereafter, tried to kill the darn thing. It just kept sprouting all over the bed and at the base where it was....
I know they are very invasive. How do you deal with it? I have heard the roots can go under your house and come up on the other side...
Just yesterday--I was (finally!) putting the rabbit fence around my YUK bed--and there it was--another sprouting trumpet vine! Yanked it up--but I know that is not the end of it.
I hope you have room and patience to deal with it...
Gita
Finally getting back to this thread with photos! But first, wanted to comment on everyone else's!
Stormy, love the cars :)
Wisdomskr, I've never seen the variegated Lantana - it's lovely!
ygvfjayne, very nice barrel planter. We've got a pond planter on the deck but I'd be embarassed to post a pic. It's lovely in the spring when the Bog Bean is blooming but then the tall fill in and it's boring :(
Sally, your succulent pots look great - we've still got a collection which need to be potted up with a few that look like yours, can't wait to be them planted!
Holly, your wreaths are really filling in and love the planters on the porch! The trumpet vine is spectacular, gets better every year!
RRR, love the combinations in your stacked planter!
My collection of containers on the front deck look a little pathetic this year compared to last year's. I'm way behind on getting everything potted up, like two months late!, and some of the plants really suffered from lack of water while we were away. Regardless, I potted them up anyway, fortunately just before I got sick! This is the left side of the front door. I lost the Japanese Maple over the winter that was planted in the tan square pot in the stand and just gave up and planted a variegated Plectranthus in it this year. The Begonia on the bottom is the one I picked up while in Maine. Trying another Japanese Maple in a taller container this year and added few other plants including a really nice Coleus (Lancelot) I picked up at the Lewis Ginter sale, way back in May! Also bumped up the Norfolk Pine to a larger container - when we returned home the smaller pot had blown over and almost snapped two years of growth!
A closer look at the two in the stand so you can see the Rex Begonia better - I love it!
Just below those, I basically threw the combo together in the center pot to use up the rest of the annuals I had - a couple of Plectranthus, Coleus, variegated potato vine, another green sweet potato vine I had never seen before, etc. In the background, I bumped up the Australian Tree Fern this year and decided to plant Rita's Gold Fern at its base instead of keeping them in separate pots. One less container to bring inside this winter!
Brain dead right now and can't remember what either of these plants are but they were both basically suffering in their pots, so divided them and combined them in this container.
This is one of two of my "Ice" combos - theme is purple and silver plants. Holly, this is where I used the Tradescantia like the one in the center of one of your wreaths :) The purple Oxalis was one of the plants that really suffered while we were gone and lost its deep purple hue. Hoping it will recover and spring back to life!
