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