How do the containers look now.
Mine are escaping their edges and migrating into their neighbors and rooting in smaller pots underneath.
This is about the last of the great containers for 2008.
Show us your August Containers
these are some of the better combos.
love this one
couldn't leave this out
and Giant Mahogony coleus with Glory and Green olives, full of drama.
white imps. and a coral neuguini cant be seen. Guess I will save on impatiens next year and just plant big coleus
Oh boy!
I will have to take some pics tomorrow! I have been deconstructing some of mine already!
yeah I will have to go get some shots too... been an exhausting couple of days... been watering my place and a neighbors that is away.... I am popped out
I am having friends for the last "deck lunch" for the season.
I will invite the friends who can over winter plants, to take coleus cuttings.
Our nights are getting in to the lower 40's ,who knows how long befor a frost makes spinach of everything.
Thom! what do you do with the deconstructed plants?
I hate to see mine go into the compost just yet. There are a few containers with perennials in them.
lol...
I toss them in the composter. Either that, or I just make a "pile" and use it again for some of the larger pots next year. I guess I'm "sort of" composting doing it that method...meaning...I dump a few pots, soil, plants and all, and just let the mound sit. Usually, after I get through a few tangle of roots, I have some pretty nice soil. It seems (not sure about other soil mixes) that ProMix doesn't really "break down." There is a pile that I can still get great potting soil from that's been in the same mound for about 3 years now!
I'm going to go take some pics today...I want to do some comparisons.
Thanks Thom, wish we had a place to compost like that. I will just put mine in our black box and spread the soil on areas where the soil os thin over the tree roots in places.
Ok...here goes, I hope they upload.
Ok...the first pic is to the right of the front door.
This pic is the container to the left of the front door.
This is the "WOWZER" container.
In it: Banana Canna (do not grow this unless you plan on giving it a lot of room...it's almost 10' high...lol!), regular 'ole EE, and growing up the Banana Canna is Tie Dyed Morning Glory.
This thing keeps sending out leaves...
Next is the "not quite sure ID" banana that I bought. I think it's 'Rojo' but there is another banana that looks very much like this one. The undersides of the leaf are a maroonish/reddish color, and the upper/top part of the leaf is green with the same maroonish/reddish stripes!
this one is my fav.
WOW Thom those containers on either side of the door are fantastic. I love the inclusion of the "hairy" plant.
A canna question. What makes the leaves turn brown like that?
Mine are just awful.
In regard to the canna leaves, I really haven't a clue. The only thing I can possibly even think of, is not enough water, or, the leaves have been blown by the wind into something, and then they tear.
I learned a quick little container planting lesson a few years back, especially in regard to EE's and Cannas, which simply comes down to this: If you think you watered long and hard enough, you can still probably water some more. When Paul and I went on our vacation to D.C. I told my neighbors, who were nice enough to water every day, that even if it rained, to please water the pots with the cannas and the EE's.
The Banana Canna has a very thin maroon stripe going around the outer leaf, and it matches the color of the stalk of the plant too!
The ornamental grass is called that...lol...'Hairy'. I don't have the ID tag on hand to let you know what the G. sp. is, but when I find it, I will!
Thanks Thom
I suspect lack of water is the problem also we have had winds last week, its also the end of the season.
My coleus that I got from Allison at Kassia's RU.
view of 1 side
Other side
Oh gosh! Some gorgeous containers!
Here is one of mine.
beyond the container
at night
What is the yellow flower?
Black eyed susan vine, minus the black eye on this one.
Its fantastic, so many flowers. I'll put it on my list for nwxt year.
looking good Jen!
Found in my yard they do much better in a container.
this is Parilla and double impatients
Here is another good one Just roses
Thanks Helene they are fantastic.
I never tried roses in a container.
Which variety do you use?
The white one in the back is in the ground and it is beautiful "Pope John" the minis in containers were offered at the super market for mothers day. Any Rose will grow as long as it has large enough container. Last year I had hibiscus in containers on the patio, magnificent. I grow them from seed and don't care if they don't overwinter.
campanula compacta and lobelia
climbing nasters grown up to the deck and married with licorice plant.
little friend hanging around,finally landed
You all have inspired me for next season for sure.
How pretty everything is!