Apr 29, 2013

Some of my Favorite Plants for Containers



Papyrus 'King Tut'


 
FULL SHADE TO PART SUN:  (Morning sun best, afternoon shade)
  • Trailing English Ivy
  • Bird’s Nest Fern – beautiful coarse, stiff foliage
  • Trailing Golden Creeping Jenny
  • Ferns (Boston, Asparagus, etc.)
  • Spider Plant
  • Double Flowering Impatients
  • Purple Leaf Coral Bells (Heuchera) (Perennial)
  • Foam Flower (Tiarella cv.) (perennial)
  • Cordyline (Red spike)
  • Hostas (Perennial)
  • Begonia (Dragon Wings)
  • Vinca Vine ‘Wojo’s Jem’-Trailer
  • Lime Cyperus (Evergreen)
  • Cedars (Evergreen)
  • Coleus ‘Versa Lime’
  • False Spirea ‘Sem’ (Shrub)
  • Sedum makinoi ‘ogon’ – trailer
  • Kennilworth Ivy
Bird's Nest Fern, Heuchera
 and Gold Creeping Jenny
Emerald Cedar
with Dragon Wings Begonia
















 




SUNNY, HOT & DRY CONTAINTERS: (All day sun)

Canna Lily 'Paseon' Versa Lime Coleus
 and Scaveola
  •  Succulent cvs.
    • Echeveria
    • Flapjacks
    • Baby Jade
    • Blue Chalk Fingers ‘Serpents
    • ‘Zwartkop’ aeonium
  • Sempervivum (Hen & Chicks) Perennial
  • Purple Fountain Grass (Pennisetum setaceum cvs.)
    • Rubrum – red plumes
    • Green fine blades
    • Red Prince – very large wide strap-like leaves
    • Princess Molly – full, wide blades
  • *Potatoe Vine - Trailing
    • Marguerite – lime green
    • Ace of Spades – black
  • Cordyline (Red Spike)
  • Stonecrops (Sedum cvs.) - perennial
    • ‘Purple Emperor’
    • ‘Xenox’
  • Trailing sedums cvs.
    • Sedum cauticola
    • Sedum ‘Angelina’
    • Sedum ‘Dragon’s Blood’
    • Sedum ‘Cape Blanco’
  • Pony Tail Palm (tropical plant)
  • Canna cvs. (also a pond plant) - wide leaf (green, burgundy or striped)
  • Million Bells (Calibrachoa) – different colours
  • Trailers:
  • Dracena, Euphoria 'Helena and
     Dichondra 'Silver Falls
    • Woolly Thyme
    • Dichondra argentea ‘Silver Falls’
    • Licorice Plant ‘Moes Silver’
    • Scaveola
  • Euphorbia ‘Diamond Frost’ – light and airy (filler)
  • Cyperus ‘King Tut’ and ‘Baby Tut’ (also a pond plant)
  • Vinca ‘Wojo’s Jem’ – trailer
  • Geranium cvs.
  • Brown Eyed Susan (Rudbeckia cvs)

 

 
Succulent container