Hi, I have quite a few sweet pea vines that I winter sowed. I wondered about putting them in a container and letting then flow down the side. I have a tree stump in one of my flower beds that has been leveled so I can put a plant on it. It's about 2 ft. high. Would that work and would I need something in the center to give it height, or will it be big enoug. Never planted sweet peas before.
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Help with sweet pea in container
I know there's a thread on here for planting a tree stump. I'll try and find it for you.
I'd definitely plant something in the center.
Couldn't find the thread but I do have the photo, by fly_girl, of the pages from (I think) Garden Gate magazine on planting a tree stump and it seems fairly easy even without being able to read the details.
Thanks, fly_girl!
Caladiums maybe.? I have some bulbs that are supposed to take sun. Liatris?
I'd also consider planting another trailing plant in there too as well as something in the middle, that way when the sweet peas fade from the summer heat you'll have something else colorful to brighten up the tree stump.
Liatris blooms and is then gone. You'd get a week out of it. See what annuals, like zonal geraniums, your local stores are selling.
Geraniums won't tough out the sun/heat here either. They will do up to a point and then go down the tube.
You are planning on keeping these plants in the pot? Why don't you fix a couple of different pots. Then when one fades, you will have a different combination ready to put in place.
What if I used foliage, hosta or something?
Pod, I like the 2 containers . I had to do that last year and it worked. Finally I just put a spider plant up there and forgot about it.
lol.
I love geraniums and they do well here, so that would be pretty too. Too many choices.
Geraniums have always burned out by the heat of summer for me. A pretty trailer I picked up last year was Lysimachia ~ creeping jenny. It is pretty in a pot and I am seeing that it survived the winter, now seeing new growth.
If the zonal geraniums can't take the sun I wouldn't hold out much hope for the hostas. Your local county extension agent should be able to suggest plants that would be suitable for the conditions.
The creeping Jenny is already up here, too.
Yerp, creeping jenny is extremely hardy as well as pretty, and there are differently pigmented varieties (is that the word I want)? Lamium has many different types besides just creeping jenny, any of which might work for you.
But I'm worried about Sweet peas in TX - they might not have time to bloom before they die of heat exhaustion. Be sure to put them in shade. I don't know if they'll trail DOWN instead of UP - I was wondering the same thing! xx, Carrie
Glad you told me about the shade. I was gonna put them in full sun!! I'll probably make 1 container, but guess I shouldn't put them on lattice in the sun!!
I keep hearing everyone talking about the hosta. I have so many of them and I can't kill them. I can kill most things with kindness, but these suckers just keep comin up, I keep seperating them and they keep goin. There's about 20 coming up now.
Did I maybe for once do something right and just get them in the right place. Now ya'll have me scared. I've been just watering them and forgetting it, now I'll be standing over them
Oh, I have one coming up under a tree that I didn't put there. Only thing I can figure is that when I separated some I must have dropped something.
I am growing sweet peas in several containers and in the ground. They will bloom in a few weeks and be gone by mid to late May in this climate. I sow the seeds on Christmas Day each year. They can take the full sun at this time of year; by the time it gets intense they will be compost.
If your stump is in the sun, how about some of the more interesting sedums or other hardy succulents.
Yeah, I'll have to do something else. I thought about petunias or something. Then like Pod said, have another container ready to go when they start looking bad.
I used wave petunias on a bed in full sun in the parking lot at church last summer, they took the heat without a whimper. We hit the high 90s for a long time, plus the heat transfer from the blacktop. I'll bet they will take TX heat if they have enough water.