Show us your best containers!

I am always looking for new combinations.
Thanks,
Teresa

Gladly!
This one is Bbq Rosemary, cherry blossom million bells, varigated oregano and varigated lemon thyme:

Another angle:

Citronella geranium, purple spike, purple million bells w/ a yellow/oragne throat, yellow million bells w/ a purplish throat (sorry, I tossed their tags) and coreopsis:

Petunias and golden pineapple sage w/ a cream millions bells w/ a reddish eye: (although the petunias are trying to eat the sage, I like the colours..)

And my DBF picked this one..it's a bit chaotic, but ultimately, I like it..It's a 'Big Chief' cloeus, noid geranium from a plant sale and a couple of while splash plants:

Very nice, I have never mixed herbs with flowering plants.

That IS a good idea.

Thanks!
I like sticking herbs a little bit of everywhere...there are some lovely 'ornamental' (vs. culinary) cultivars out there. I have a silver thyme tucked in with silver wave petunias in our front island, a golden oregano tucked into a bed with some assorted perennials, and I have put golden and purple sage in planters with flowers in the past.

Of course, I also have poppies in with my peppers...which might have been a bit TOO far! lol

Giving this one to MIL for birthday

I have planted 354 containers this year (which is only a SLIGHT exageration.) I'll post a couple of them now and come back and add a few more later.

Toffee Twist Carex
Babylon Red Verbena
Orange Symphony Osteospermum
Crimson Dianthus
Terra Cotta Calibrachoa
Scarlet Coleus
Sweet Potato Vine
Sedum (dug up from my garden...no idea what type)

Toffee Twist Carex
Sunsatia Lemon Nemesia
Terra Cotta Calabrachoa
Scaevola
Purple and Yellow Viola
Persion Shield
Compact Purple Osteospermum

LMAO!

Like your chair basket Lala, with the cherub watching over.

I need to find some big baskets, those are really pretty!

Thank you. :)

Lala, you must spend a fortune on annuals! How do you think up your combinations? Beautiful work!

Haha Carrie thank you but I have a trade secret. My favorite nursery marks all their annuals down to 1/2 price by the middle of June. Double bonus: I didn't pay for them anyway. I made up a bunch of containers for myself (from my own seedlings and cuttings) which were admired by a few folks so they commissioned me to make up some combo baskets for them too. I had a blast running around the nursery matching this plant with that one especially knowing that I could spend, spend, spend and someone else was footing the bill. Of course by the time I arrived home with 4 flats of flowers I had no idea what I had originally intended to put together and had to start all over again. I have to say they really got some beauts for a pittance of what the local hoity-toity nursery would get for the same containers.

Bluegrassmom the baskets were inexpensive also as I bought them at the 2nd hand store for $1.99 each. I just lined them with some gardner's cloth to help retain moisture, and voila.....much cheaper than a pot and (I think) just as pretty.

I made these 2 baskets early in the season and took their pictures before they had a chance to fill out much. I wonder what they look like now, LOL.

The first one has NG impatiens, lobelia, Christmas Candy coleus, purple heart, and ivy. The 2nd one is rather simple with a geranium, persian shield, asparagus fern and sedum.

I can post more if you're interested, but I don't want to run over top BGM's thread.

Great job Lala! Very creative thinking on your part. I'm bound to have a basket or two around here. What is this gardener's cloth you are talking about?

Hey Janet, thanks. You may know gardener's cloth as weed cloth. It's that black "fabric" that is used as a weed barrier. I have used regular plastic bags on tighter woven containers (like the coco fiber) but the black cloth works better for these.

(And yes the baskets came from GW, LOL! A few I even picked up for a quarter!)

Well duh! Slapping my forehead. Of course. We call it landscape fabric. I've got plenty of that already. So you use the 3 year kind or the 12 year kind? I have both. HAHAHAHA

Any suggestion for filling in under a brug? The blooms hang down so low, but the trunks aren't very pretty, I have used alyssum but it is to short. It looks nice spilling over the pot.
Teresa

This is a small improvised contianer, but it is one of my favorites. All of the plants came from the Mid-South RU in May.

What about petunias Bluegrassmom? Or some Caldium or coleus? There are so many beautiful pink & bright green combinations.

Here is one from the past, too many plants to name>

What is the "tree" in front of the house?

Papaya, I have a mango on the left, avocado and peaches on the right.

The warm is just starting..April May & june were very cold & wet.

Some more

Barrels

more barrels in shade

Herbs

Moss Baskets

Window box

Bud are just forming, but this is White Popcorn Rose with Creeping Jenny (Yellow)

Red & White

Hot Cocoa Rose

Wow, joanna, your containers look fantastic. Very nice... great variety too.

I like this one. It was a happy accident. Purple baron millet, some purple petunias and some free sp vines (throw outs at garden center..were raggedy in spring). This barrel is in my driveway.

I like that combo..millet, petunia and sp vine..I might steal that one for next year!!