My 2009 container gardening starts !

Hi DaleTheGardener,long time no see.

pgt, Wow,what a fantastic containers you've made ! I love your way to display containers.

>What cultivar digitalis is that? And what are the white flowers that you have planted with your lobelia?

The Digitalis is Digitalis purpurea`Alba',and the white flower in the blue Lobelia is Impatiens.
I planted only one plant on the top of the basket.

Thank you,Aguane,for your info.
I'll surely try a topiary using wire plants.

virginbred,
Sorry to have kept you waiting LOL.
I'm so happy to have a person like you.

# 14 Gaillardia pulchella`Red Plume' , Digitalis thapsi and Lobelia Mix
They are all grown from seeds.
This is fresh out of my garden

Tomtom

TomTom, thanks for all your great info. I'm making my seed list for this winter based on your containers. They are wonderful. Thanks for sharing the photos and for the names and varieties of the plants. Just gorgeous!

It's my punk rocker frog - I love it's expression

Hello TomTom, nice work.

Whenever I get a free moment, I come back to this thread to look at your dreamy pictures.

I have another question about your lobelia. When you sow your seeds, do you sow one seed per cell, or do you allow a few seeds to grow in a little clump?

The lobelia is beautiful, especially the cobalt blue ones. What are your favorite lobelia cultivars?

That #6 arrangement blows me away. What *is* that combination? Are those dusty millers in the back? I'd love to know what the others are -- I love those colors and textures together.

pgt,sorry not to reply quickly.
I always sow the Lobelia seeds in a little container and transplant little seedlings to the seedling case in a little clump. Early spring I transplant one seedling into one planstic pot (7.5cm) again.
When you buy Lobelia plants you might be better choose the plants not to bloom at that time.

GardenQuilts, thank you for your kindly comment. I specially love blue Lobelia , ' Midnigt Moon' and ' Mrs Clibran'.


Thank you peony8,for your comment.

#6 : yes dusty miller is in the back. The yellow flower in the front is Calceolaria and purple flower in the back is Collinsia heterophylla( seed from the trade at Dave's G !!)

# 15 My favorite Campanulas and Impatiens .

#16 Snapdragon . This image is the next step of #1 image.

#17 Penstemon smallii

All of you have beautiful container plantings :) I just love #6! Gorgeous! Thank you for sharing.

ants

Your snapdragons are just beautiful! Mine are just starting to bloom. But, they are short. Yours are so lush and tall. What's the variety? I need to get some of those seeds!

Thank you,antsinmypants ,for your comment.
pgt,
I love snapdragon for its color and scent.
Mine is Antirrhinum 'Pink Champagne' bought at Plant of Distinction.
They have many strains of Snapdragon.
http://www.plantsofdistinction.co.uk/cgi-bin/sh000001.pl?REFPAGE=http%3a%2f%2fwww%2eplantsofdistinction%2eco%2euk%2facatalog%2findex%2ehtml&WD=antirrhinum&SHOP=%20&PN=A%2dZ_of_Flowers_ANTIRRHINUM%2ehtml%23a1080B#a1080B

Tomtom

#18 Gathering Containers(except Roses)

#18 is placed in front of the arch.

Tomtom

Beautiful pictures everyone.

Beautiful as usual TomTom. The snaps and dels are a knockout. Are the snaps the perennial kind? Do you grow them from seed?

joannabanana,snowtop

Thank you for your compliments.

snowtop,

All varieties of snapdragon are short living perenial in my zone.
Yes , I sowed them last autume.
Here is the pic when they were young.lol

Tomtom

Beautiful as usual TomTom. Looking at your flowers always makes me feel so good. You have a talent from God.

These are beautiful container gardens here are some of mine.

Petunias(wave) sweetpotato vine sunflower(birds planted ) thought it added some character.

Begonias

Impatience,colius,sweetpotato vine(always blooms for me)does anyone elses the people I talk to look at me really strange when I tell them my does ..

Impatience,petunias and colius

New Guinea impatience in Froggy..

I'm back
took spring off to garden
Containers are doing well here.
Some coleus were disapointing but we have had cold nights until last week.

.I make collages of everything in the garden
It takes up less posting room.
Hard to see the thumnails though

.Swiss sunshine and caladiums.

Tomtom,

I live in Phoenix Arizona where the temperature today was 112 degrees. Hotter than you can imagine and most of my blooming plants are not blooming much right now. Seeing your beautiful containers was wonderful! Your talent is extraordinary!

Thanks everyone else for sharing yours. We don't find color like this in Phoenix right now so it was eye candy for a gal weary of the heat! Come on fall!!!!

(Mexican Sunflower and Saphire Showers Duranta)

In spite of the cool summer I am ready for less humidity.
August is when my garden winds down.
I have taken coleus cuttings fo parent plants for this winters harvest.

Hi every one,thanks for sharing your beautifl containers.
I'm so happy to be able to look Amarican containers at Dave's in Japan.

It's the muggiest season now in Japan and my plants all surfering .

Today's containers

Tomtom

Not bad for poor weather containers TomtOM

this is whats happinen here

.electric lime

.Fiesta

.lancelot moca

.trailing chocolate doing its thing

Very nice!

These are my "deckwalk" containers.
I moved them and didnt keep strictly to my combo plans so now I have to re word the files.
Does anyone know if the reeeeaaaly big coleus in the top left pic is Envy?

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Hi ge1836,
so sorry for not replying sooner.
How beutiful and challenging your containers are !!

Here the autumn flowers are biginning to bloom.
My containers have finally been lookable.
Just have a look at them ,will you ?

Tomtom

#20 Euphorbia `Diamond Frost ' and Trenia