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Lavender4ever... THAT is one of my FAVORITES of everything I have seen so far! I love it! I really need to get some sp because I ALWAYS like it in arrangments.. thank you for sharing your beautiful container.

You are welcome. I like that one out of all my others so far too. In the spring, be sure to check with your nurseries on throw away policies. I got an entire flat of raggedy sp vines for free and lots of free licorice vines, red rubin basil and coleus. All were raggedy and thrived with some warm temps and tlc!

Are those periennels? or how did you winter them? I don't want any indoor plants and I don't have a GH.

nope all annuals for spring planting. You can overwinter the tubers of your sp vines and start new plants from them. I will be saving the tubers and the seeds from my millet for starts.

I got spv by trading with a DG member in FL!

that works great too lol! Some of my containers along my pond base.

More various container plants including my large confederate jasmine.

Gorgeous - I need to get more vertical lines in mine.

joannabanana- would love to see another pic of your popcorn and jenny when in bloom-do you leave that in the pot over winter?

I placed a small cutting of this coleus in each corner of this container, placed a tri sister in the middle which I expected to dominate the container. But look what happened. The tri sister is still there and it is growing but the coleus went nuts. I am starting to wonder how big it will get. It is one of my favorites because it is not the look I expected. shirleyt

what the heck is a tri sister?

shirley, that looks beautiful. How much sun is it getting?

That's lush! What a lovely sight it is.

Hey pirl nice to see a post from you. dp72 It is a Hawaian Ti Plant. Good Luck plant Red sister cordyline frutiosa. I guess you can choose what to call it. Ti plant sounds good to me...lol. Fantastic colorization. It makes me smile to just look at it. check out plant files for it it is on page 4. I can't get the link to post. shirleyt edited to tell you it is in full sun.

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Ah, ti plant! I remember hearing years ago that a good way to propogate that is to cut a stem into lengths of a few inches and put them sideways on top of potting soil. Have you ever done that?

I have not done that. I was looking to see how to propagate it because that is what I enjoy doing. I try to make new plants from everything. Most of the time I am successful. I will try your method and let you know if it works. shirleyt

I hope I don't bore anyone, but this is COPIED from a website and describes propagating ti plants.
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Propagation:
Propagation is simple and easy.
Cut of anywhere from an 8 inch piece to a 2 foot piece of the Ti stalk and either put it in a glass of water till the roots develop, stick it in the ground or in a pot with potting soil (make sure the leaf nodes are pointed upwards or it will not grow) or just lay it on the ground or in a shallow container.
It is hard not to get it to root (unless you never water or over water it).
If planting outdoors, plant in a sunny location.
Ti plants growing in a container require watering every 2 to 3 days and the container should be placed in an area that has lots of sunlight.

Fertilize every 3-4 weeks.

That's not boring, it's great information! Now I just need a cutting ; )

They can stay dry for a long time and still sprout. You can buy a piece of stem from vendors. Have you tried a Google search or eBay? People bring them from Hawaii all the time.

I am going to look in the marketplace later tonight. If none there, I will try Ebay

Out of curiosity, I looked on eBay and there is a good list. You know about checking out a seller's feedback record, I suppose?

We had a threat of hail, so I moved a few under the tramp.

Beautiful container plants! I've enjoyed looking at every one and got lots of neat ideas. ;)
Lin

So far, this is the only container planting in my garden that I like. If I'm lucky, the other two will start shaping up by late August, lol. Abutilon and Torenia

My 2-cents contribution:

Red Caladiums and white petunias:

Another two-cent contribution: :o)

Lavender double-flowered petunias with deep-purple petunias on top of the porch of our grandchild's playhouse!

Great shot of the petunias on the playhouse!

Here's my best one this year - an authentic clam basket planted with my favorite colors:

Pirl, what a beauty! Is that Peter(s) Wonder?

beautiful

It's Plum Frost (coleus), dp. Peter Wonder is in the courtyard but it's too hot to go out to take a photo!

Thanks, Allison.

I don't know what a clam basket is... but I like it

:)

It's one of the authentic ones from the Frank M. Flower oyster and clam company of Oyster Bay, Long Island. When they go out to harvest the clams they put them in the clam basket - simple as that.

One of the three rose trees in the courtyard with the actual rose garden to the right.

Undine returns!

Strawberry Jar.

Oh, everyone's containers look so lush and lovely! Mine look good as a crowd but there's no single container that looks good enough to take a picture of yet, this year. It's very hot here too.

I dont do much in the way of containers they are usually just filled with dark rose or purple geraniums but I decided to get a bit creative this year ( because I wanted to enter them in the Container class in the garden cojpetition) and called on the expertease of another gardner last fall for planning. Here are the containers on the back steps. Thecolor scheme was lime green and orange. Plants are Uncinia rubra,
Geranium 'Indian Dunes', Calibrochoa 'Crackling Fire" and Tequila Sunrise' and a white Bacopa. The location is a bit shady for these plants but sometimes I give them a few days down on the sunny patio!

Here's a close up. Each container is the same except some are reversed.

fancy, that is really pretty!