My Master Gardner group plants the barrells in our small city. We range from full sun to full shade. These are planted in whiskey barrells. I would love to see your plantings to get an idea on what to do next year. Thank you in advance for your pics and suggestions. We have a limited amount of money to use like everyone else.
Pls post pics of garden whiskey barrell size flower garden
After making sure the barrels drain properly, your most important decision will be soil composition. This decision will determine how much root space the barrels will provide, therefore how many and what type of plants you can put in, how best to feed them, how well they'll do --AND for how many seasons you can go before replacing the soil.
Read the stickies (and look at any and all tapla posts).
I planted all my annuals last year and this, in large containers.
I mixed zennias,petunias,salvia,foxglove,coleaus,dusty miller,and sweet potato vines,and marigolds together, like a mini cottage garden. I liked the results. I had to water and liquid fertlize every couple of weeks. They all spilled over the sides of containers.
Vickie
Thank you JPlunket, we have been planting in the barrells for several years and have good success. I was just hoping for some pics of what other people had done with success.
DG seems to have some very creative people and I thought it might be a way to get some new ideas.
and although this isn't in a barrel, you could do something like this:
garden phlox katherine in the center
pink zinnias
midnight blue lobelia
and pink millionbells
this container gets sun from about 11 am til about 6 pm in the evening.
the barrels get sun from early morning until about 5 pm.
kathymac
This message was edited Aug 2, 2009 8:28 PM
Oh, I love all those pots. Never thought about putting garden phlox in the barrell, love the white. It seems to really catch your attention.
I tried silver fog at home and didn't have much luck for some reason. May have just been something quirky going on. I hate to discount a plant based on a one time thing.
bronze cordyline is very stunning. I planted that this year at home with angle wing begonia and I should of added some white after looking at your pots. Really like the bronze it stands up so nice and tall.
thank you for taking the time to post.
I have a number of huge mix planted half barrels but it has been raining for the last week and forecasted to continue until Saturday. I will take some pictures when the flower perk up and the sun is shining.
One of the most simplistic ways to plant a very large floral container is buy a 10" hanging basket in early spring as soon as they are available. Plant the entire basket (don't separate individual plants) into your 1/2 barrel. Be sure to add a good slow release fertilizer and soil mix. The plant material will really take off and you will have a huge display of flowers from get go. This is a very economical way of doing it as well, since you will never be able to buy the individual plant that size for the price of a 10" hanging basket already planted. When these 10" basket become available in the spring, they should be repotted into the barrels ASAP since they are pretty much at the capacity for their root system in the small 10" pot.
Other plants that fill as a single plant and do well in the barrels are Dinner Plate Dahlias, Roses, Canna Lilies, Tidal Wave petunias
What a great suggestion. You know around here they will always run those hanging basket at a discounted rate to get you in the store. Wow what a great idea.
I love dahlias, in fact I cut 3 tonight that are the cactus type bloom.
Thank you so much for your suggestion.
Can't wait to see the pics.
This is nothing fancy, but is doing well. Calitunia 'Purple' and Black & Blue Salvia (which is not blooming much right now)
edited to make sense!
This message was edited Aug 13, 2009 6:16 AM
Here's one of 2 identical large pots I grew this summer. I see now that it's hard to get a good photo of it, because it looks better in real life.
Heavenly blue morning glory (growing up obelisk, but you can't see it)
heliotrope marine
sweet potato vine
gomphrena
lobelia crystal palace
dusty miller
coleus chocolate mint
The goal was to keep in the blue/purple/lime green color scheme
This message was edited Aug 14, 2009 10:48 PM
Maybe this photo is better. These were both taken almost 2 weeks ago. Now the morning glories are blooming, I'll try to get a better pic tomorrow.
That is very pretty. We could do an oblesk out of bamboo or something.
My Mom had one of these and we filled it with Rescue plants from Lowe's. Most of the plants were 57 cents.
First is right after it was planted.
This was about 3 weeks later.
Janet
Better view from the top
This one wasn't a whiskey barrel, but an old enamel wash tub that was about the same size.
First planted
About 3 weeks later
I feel I should mention that this was in Virginia, not Texas.
I was rather proud of how well they turned out.
Janet
Those turned out great! Love the yellow, orange, and purple, it really makes them pop. We are going to start planning in a month because we have to order plants from the brokers way in advance so I am printing off the pics so we can have some ideas. Thank you so much for posting.
This year we planted coleus, black millet, and something white but can't remember right now. Coleus is doing great, black millet is looking bad because it has gone to seed and on the downhill side already, and the white is doing good. With the millet dying now the tall center plant is what draws your eye which isn't good....
Excuse the lighting in the pictures...should of waited until later in the day
Here's a mix of Ruby regis Lavatera, Citronella Geranium, Strawberry Petunias and some ivies
mix of petunias & geraniums, ivies
For the shade, cypress, begonias, fushia, ivies
Geranium, snapdragons, bacopa
Marigolds, Coral Explorer Petunia, Coral Rose Diascia, Sapphire Lobelia, Bacopa
Petunias, Million Bells, Bacopa, Verbena, Geranium
one dinner plate white dahlia
Not a barrel, but is about the same size. Chocolate Salpiglossis, Chocolate Cosmos, Osteospermum, Black Shamrock, Babyduck Petunia, Dracaena
Group of big and small pots. Some pots have one rose or one plant type
Another mix of different pots
joanna, amazing plantings. So beautiful. Love the shade one, can you grow the cypress in the pot all winter?
Thank you for posting and have given me lots of ideas. I will be so happy to show everyone in my group all the arrangements everyone has done. So many creative ideas.
I would like to talk the group into letting us have some friendly competition and have each MG pick a barrel and make their own arrangements then in June and September take pics and have a vote with a small trophy for the winners. I personally don't know why the barrels have to be the same (boring).....LOL We are meeting in september I think to decide what we are going to do next year.
Again thank you all for posting and keep the pictures coming.
This isn't a barrel, but the garden club in my town plants this planter around the flagpole every year. This year was particularly colorful, and I think that's what you want for a public planting, something very cheery.
And here's one more of my favorites, from a restaurant a couple years ago:
Last one, took this on Nantucket a couple years ago. I've seen similar monochrome plantings done in white, and I copied this idea to do my windowbox in pink last year.
cindyeo,
Those are GORGEOUS
Yes, they are beautiful. You are right I guess any kind of planting would work as long as it is big enough.
Here is one one of my large pots on my deck, has full sun until 11:00 am then shade. The purple plant in the center is a hollyhock from seed, bred to grow low for pots. It is Queenie, this is my second year to use it does very well in pots. Guess the picture is still in the camera.. Will try again
Donna
LOL... I was thinking I needed to clean my glasses. I was thinking..where where is the photo??... Me can't see it.
JPlunket
Also...a very BELATED thanks for making me THINK about soil break down. I grow a lot of things in average sized pots (which I replace the soil in often - like window boxes etc), but for some silly reason I had not really thought about the same soil break down needs in barrel halves due to their size.
I enjoyed reading the info you directed us to. Thanks...VERY EDUCATIONAL!
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This message was edited Aug 30, 2009 9:44 AM
It was still in the camera, will try to send along now. Picture of large pot with seed grown Queenie Hollyhock and purchased impatiens. Donna
