I found a great pot that will be a focal point near the iron gate to my backyard. it's a pretty good size(20 inches) or so across and glazed red. I would something to put in it that will be evergreen and lend some struture to that part of the garden.I can't decide between a shrub, masses of different plants,or a trellis with a vine of some sort... It gets morning sun and lots of reflected light from the wall across the path so it would need to be at least tolerant of sunny conditions.If it helps there is a great red rose (4 ft high)across the path from it that the red pot will kind of pick up the color from.Ideas anyone?nancy
Ideas for new pot
Maybe Rosemary, with a bit of color around the foot of it.
Would a mandevilla work there?
I also, first thought of rosemary. I have some in a pot with candytuft (grown from seed) at the base.
Other ideas
Mexican Bush Sage---can suffer with cold snaps
dwarf pomegranate
Rosemary would work if I could keep it trimmed up nice. Is it hard to maintain the topiary look?And are there better varieties than others to try this on? I've always admired them in the nurseries. The ones I have in the ground get sprawley (is that a word??) after a few years. I've never had a mandevilla. I'll have to research that one. How big does the dwarf pomegranite get and does it stay evergreen north of the Houston area? I had one in Austin and it lost its leaves in winter, but I find that College Station is so much more like Houston that what I'm used to.These are great ideas...Keep them coming!!
There is a pomegranite in our neighborhood that's on my morning walk route and it's evergreen here. As to the rosemary, there are several different types. One is the upright growth type used as Christmas topiaries and the other is uaually labelled as prostrate rosemary. It has a weeping or trailing form. They used to have a ton of the prostrate type planted along the riverwalk in San Antionio in some of the raised stone planters. It trailed over the sides of the planters and was beautiful when in bloom. It smelled good all the time, even when not in bloom. Your pot is probably big enough to put some of the trailing kind in the front and something spiky in back, maybe a phormium for contrast of color and form??? If you want blooms and long bloom time, try a dwarf canna. Some of the newer varieties have gorgeous leaf colors. If you don't like the rosemary, the sweet potato vines also offer trailing form and a variety of colors and would work at the base of a more upright plant. Blackie is a very dark maroon, almost black, tri-color is pale sage green with cream edging and purplish new growth, marguiritte is lime green and all do well here, except for being a snail dinner favorite.