Bold, Beautiful Containers

      You can provide eye candy to your landscape with bold, beautiful containers that showcase plants with attractive flowers and foliage.

Hot pot!

     Use the guideline “thrillers, spillers, and fillers” when choosing plants.  With thrillers, don’t be afraid to go wild with color. Incorporate bright flowering plants or the large, colorful foliage of plants like coleus or crotons.  Ornamental grasses can also work well.

      Spillers are plants that fall gracefully over the sides of the containers such as brightly colored sweet potato vines.

       And for fillers, consider plants with rounded forms or interesting textures such as caladiums or celosia.

     Select containers to complement the plants, and keep in mind how the containers will be viewed.  Use a high-quality potting media, and match plants with similar moisture, soil, and light requirements. And of course, always leave room for the plants to grow to their full size!