Container Gardening Complete

Job:06-700309 Title: CPS - Container Gardening Complete

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Job:06-700309 Title: CPS - Container Gardening Complete
Job:06-700309 Title: CPS - Container Gardening Complete

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Recipe:

1 purple plectranthus (Plectranthus ‘Mona

Lavender’)

2 Purple Charmed® Wine shamrocks

(Oxalis hybrid ‘Charmed Wine’)

1 creeping wire vine (Muehlenbeckia axillaris)

1 pink cuphea (Cuphea ramosissima

‘Cuphoric Pink’)

Design tip: To keep the plants in any container

design in proper proportion with the container itself,

be prepared to do some trimming and pinching

throughout the season.

Recipe:

1 Japanese spotted laurel (Aucuba japonica

‘Gold Dust’)

3 caladiums (Caladium cultivars)

3 Rex begonias (Begonia rex cultivars)

Design tip: This design would also look nice with

an added spiller plant. If you’d like to include a few

plants to cascade over the edge of the container,

consider using silver falls, creeping Jenny (Lysimachia

nummularia), or white or pale pink bacopa

(Sutera cordata).

I love the soft, rustic blue of this container partnered

with the pink, tropical-looking caladiums and the

striking variegation of the begonia. The top-tier plant

has interesting speckled foliage, too, helping give this

container design an extra punch.

This cute pot is an excellent example of a thriller-

filler-spiller design. The purple stems of the thriller

plant, plectranthus, are highlighted by the purple

leaves of the shamrock plant, and the balance and

simplicity of the design are quite nice.

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Recipe:

1 swamp milkweed (Asclepias

incarnata)

3 pink pentas (Pentas

lanceolata)

3 ornamental oreganos

(Origanum rotundifolium

‘Kent Beauty’)

3 artemisia (Artemisia stelleriana

‘Silver Brocade’)

Design tip: Using butterfly larval

host plants in your container

garden is an excellent idea. Other

good caterpillar plants to include

in your container garden are dill,

violets, lupine, borage,

and fennel.

This combination of plants was

put together specifically to attract

butterflies. The soft colors of the

plants in this container are a bit

dierent from the bright color

combos typically seen in butterfly

gardens. The monarch’s sole larval

food source, milkweed, serves

as the central thriller plant. It’s

surrounded by another butterfly

host plant, Artemisia, which is

a larval host for American lady

butterfly caterpillars. These are

layered with two other plants

selected for their nectar quality

as well as for their beauty.

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