why aren't flowers in containers a big part of this forum???

I check back every once in a while to get ideas for container gardening.......or post one.........it sits there day after day.....where are the people who really enjoy container gardening in and of itself?????

I don't understand your question?

Probably waiting for it to warm up so they can finish planting their container gardens! LOL

Mine are still pretty immature, but here's one.

I have a lot of things in containers...glad to share ideas with you:)

We're on other forums and threads talking about "nothing-in-particular"! Proven Winners has a great website for putting together container combos and of course using their plants. I found it gives you some ideas even if you don't use their plants and you can use different color combinations. It gives you growing info on the plants and shows pictures so you can see how they look.

Another container.

I used the website Proven winners to design my containers before I went shopping. I didn't stick to their designs exactly and did some substituting.

And sometimes when I got to the nursery I found combintaions I liked even more like the ones in this container!! So Proven Winners helped me plan my conatiners but my trip to the nursery usually resulted in me buying even more than I had planned$$$$

Yeah!!!!! This is exactly what I was asking about!!!! When I visit container gardening (personally) I love to see pictures of what people are planting.
Thanks so much.....I see you have used petunias with the tri colored sweet potato vine which is so pretty together....
It is too late for petunias in our heat but fun to see yours.

I love to use million bells in my containers and I took so some close up shots of some of the unusal colors I got this year. My camera isn't great on closeup shots!

Two different colors in this container.

Another with two different colors. The varigated is called tequilla sunrise!!

Don't you love that new one called tequilla sunrise??

WOW - I went to the Proven Winners website and boy - do they have the ideas! Can't wait to go shopping with the MidSouth group tomorrow - gots some idears......

Marcia

I agree with you, gessiegail. Love to see the pictures.

I grew callies last year, and am growing them again this year. Here's a photo of one of last year's, Callie Cream With Eye

I'm growing these Super Bells Cherry Red this year. Last year I had other flowers in with them, dwarf yellow snaps with the cream callies, and Diamond Frost euphorbia with purple callies. But this year I have two window boxes with just cherry red callies and one box with cherry red plus Strawberry Drop coleus. We'll see how it goes. I just love the callies!

thanks for the 'goodies' to see and admire!!

revclaus - I love the cream with eye. I'm going to look for that one and if I find it I'm sure I can make room for one more container!! I'ts beautiful!!!

I loved it too, but it was too light a color with only the sky as a background, so this year it's a deeper color! Good luck!

Here is a container that I am very pleased with so far. The coleus, I grew from seed in my basement this winter.

ladygardener1, I LOVE your choices of color.......really impressed that you grew coleus from seed!!
gail

ladygardener1, such a striking combination!

Thanks! I find coleus to be a great filler for containers, if your flowers give out you still have color and now there are so many different coleus you can't go wrong!

I think you have a good idea there.

Here's my first attempt... Happy long weekend to all!

Aelana

Nice containers ladygardener and aelana. Wish I had room to grow plants from seed. This supertunia is called Raspberry Blast. grammy

Black-eyed-Susan vine. I probably planted too many in the container. There are two each of yellow, orange, and a rose colored. Hope it doesn't get too crowded.

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Rose colored BESV

Yellow colored BESV.

Orange colored BESV.

keep your pretty pictures coming...fun......aalena, show your picture about 2 months from now and the pot will be full and tumbling over!!

Gee, you are in zone 5.....wow!!

This is my first year to do any container gardening. I've really enjoyed collecting a nice variety of coleus to "play with".

Since this thread is about flowers in containers, I'll post one I did a month or so ago first. I don't remember what the flowers are but those are baby crotons with them.

Here's a closer shot of the same container

Here are some others that I've planted.

I bought a couple of 6 packs of coleus to begin my containers. Then my sister and I went on a trip and I needed a place to park them so they'd get more water than in those little 6 pack containers. So I parked them in this container. They've all been moved since then. I thought it was quite pretty like this, but that wasn't the container I wanted to start with.

Got a great deal on these waybigo pots.

Here's another one

I found this waybigo pot on the side of the road. Not a thing wrong with it, but for the hideous looking mother-in-law tongues.

I removed them and parked my orchid tree in the center of it. Then put coleus and bluebonnets around it. I've added a couple of springs of portulaca since this photo was taken.

Closer shot of the plants.