Choosing Plants for Your Container Garden
Container gardens offer the advantage of changing your garden with every season. The choice of plant material is limited only by your climate and your imagination. If you have a tropical or temperate climate, you may not need to change your container gardens at all, but you still might choose to.
When choosing plants for container gardens, keep in mind the scale of the container and how aggressively the plant grows. While you want your container garden to look full, fast growers will quickly outgrow their pots.
The following choices should get you thinking.
Spring
Bulbs (Pre-chilled or planted the prior fall)
Early Flowering Shrubs: Rhododendron, Azalea and Lilac (won’t grow to full height)
Spring Bloomers: Primrose, Fritillaries, Ferns, Kalanchoe, Pansies
Cool Season Vegetables: Lettuce and Greens
Summer
Annuals: Abutilon, Bacopa, Callibrachoa-Million Bells, Coleus, Convolvulus, Dahlia, Fuchsia, Geranium, Herbs, Impatiens, Larkspur, Lobelia, Marigolds, Nasturtiums, Oxalis, Petunias, Scabiosa, Wave Petunias
Ornamental grasses, Herbs, Miniature Roses
Warm Season Vegetables: Tomatoes, Squash, Edible Flowers
Or try a water garden
Fall
Summer Annuals in Rebloom: Begonias, Fuchsias, Impatiens
Fall Bloomers: Asters, Cyclamen, Gentian, Heather, Heuchera, Marguerite Daisies, Mums, Osteospermum
Berries: Cotoneasters, Pyracanthas,
Winter
Evergreens: Boxwood, Privet, Juniper, Wintergreen
To Add Height
Canna, Colocasia (Elephant Ear), Brugmansia (Angels Trumpet), Phormium, Salvia, Pennisetum setaceum ‘Rubrum’ (Fountain grass)
Fillers
Artemisia, Creeping Jenny, Helichrysum, Houttuynia, Ivy, Moss, Plectranthus, Sedum, Spider Plants, Sweet Potato Vines, Transcantia, Wandering Jew
Use Ground Covers as Mulch
Container gardens offer the advantage of changing your garden with every season. The choice of plant material is limited only by your climate and your imagination. If you have a tropical or temperate climate, you may not need to change your container gardens at all, but you still might choose to.
When choosing plants for container gardens, keep in mind the scale of the container and how aggressively the plant grows. While you want your container garden to look full, fast growers will quickly outgrow their pots.
The following choices should get you thinking.
Spring
Bulbs (Pre-chilled or planted the prior fall)
Early Flowering Shrubs: Rhododendron, Azalea and Lilac (won’t grow to full height)
Spring Bloomers: Primrose, Fritillaries, Ferns, Kalanchoe, Pansies
Cool Season Vegetables: Lettuce and Greens
Summer
Annuals: Abutilon, Bacopa, Callibrachoa-Million Bells, Coleus, Convolvulus, Dahlia, Fuchsia, Geranium, Herbs, Impatiens, Larkspur, Lobelia, Marigolds, Nasturtiums, Oxalis, Petunias, Scabiosa, Wave Petunias
Ornamental grasses, Herbs, Miniature Roses
Warm Season Vegetables: Tomatoes, Squash, Edible Flowers
Or try a water garden
Fall
Summer Annuals in Rebloom: Begonias, Fuchsias, Impatiens
Fall Bloomers: Asters, Cyclamen, Gentian, Heather, Heuchera, Marguerite Daisies, Mums, Osteospermum
Berries: Cotoneasters, Pyracanthas,
Winter
Evergreens: Boxwood, Privet, Juniper, Wintergreen
To Add Height
Canna, Colocasia (Elephant Ear), Brugmansia (Angels Trumpet), Phormium, Salvia, Pennisetum setaceum ‘Rubrum’ (Fountain grass)
Fillers
Artemisia, Creeping Jenny, Helichrysum, Houttuynia, Ivy, Moss, Plectranthus, Sedum, Spider Plants, Sweet Potato Vines, Transcantia, Wandering Jew
Use Ground Covers as Mulch
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