Plan Now! Annual Flower Containers
Snow in your neck of the woods got ya down? Chilled to the bone? I'm dreaming of warmer days, and looking back on some of my garden photos of container plantings. It's a nice break from winter doldrums, and not too soon to browse photos, catalogs or magazines for ideas of your own! My blog link suggests some tried-and-true ideas for full-sun containers (I'm zone 7a), and tips for successful container planting (hint: it involves a lot of water).
Red twig dogwood (overwintered), potato vine, pentas
Geraniums, vinca
Lantana
Dracaena, geraniums, diamond frost
Dracaena, diamond frost, lobelia, geraniums
Spring starters: heliotrope, purple fountain grass, potato vine
Mid summer: heliotrope, purple fountain grass, potato vine
Late summer: heliotrope, purple fountain grass, potato vine
Heliotrope, diamond frost euphorbia
Spring starters: Dracaena, pentas, potato vine
Summer: Dracaena, pentas, potato vine
Getting started: nursery plants, potting mix, clean containers, water!
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Elaine if you soak the ground thoroughly before digging it's a lot easier
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Elaine, I lived in Arkansas, many yrs ago and the soil is CLAY, HARD CLAY, even if I soaked it..but my azalea's and the flowers I could plant there were gorgeous..I live in CO and I am from here originally so my roses are beautiful, I only have 5 now..about 30 yrs ago, I had ordered a variety of special roses for family members, here and those who had passed on, 35 total but J&P messed up my order and send me 350 bare root roses at the beginning of May..Most of them were a rose hedge, and I gave a few away.. (I called them and told them of their mistake, they told me to keep them) have you ever had enough containers of water to keep bare roots alive for 3 wks before planting? My ex hsb was so mad, because he had to help me, and get the post hole digger out..My special garden for our family came out so beautiful, and so did the pink hedge roses...IT was hard to keep them up but I did it for 13 yrs..Now, I only have 5...and I can barely keep up with them, but I love them..I also lived in FL and no one told me I shouldn't grow roses there, I tried (I was a very young wife and mother and it was my first try at roses) but because of all the rain, I learned real fast about mold and it was a bugger trying to keep them alive..I learn as I age...lol
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@VictoriaC what a great mess up by J&P! But gardens do fade, even with care every year. I am in the process of purging and transplanting many 12 year plants right now. Tiring!
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