For greater visual impact, group smaller pots together and showcase them in varying heights to highlight individual plantings. Designer: Linda Ernst.
Brightly colored ceramic pots and garden art dress up the kitchen garden of Linda Ernst in Portland, Oregon.
Color echoes of blush pink unify the plantings and ceramic pot for a sophisticated look. Plants include coral bells (Heuchera), sweet potato vine, ‘Bonfire’ begonia and ‘Silver Falls’ dichondra. Designer: Suzinn Weiss.
Portland, Oregon gardener Linda Ernst planted hardy sedums in a vintage stone urn for year-round interest and classic elegance.
This backyard patio becomes an extension of the woodland garden at Vina Winters’ home in West Linn, Oregon. Mophead hydrangeas offer a colorful backdrop to pots brimming with impatiens, coleus nicotiana, cordyline, begonias and lobelia.
For Portland, Oregon gardener Peggy Evans, choosing containers is as important as plant selection. Neutral colored containers allow plants to be the stars of the show. Annual begonias, coleus, million bells, sweet potato vine and salvia thrive in this semi-shaded spot.
Bright orange containers light up a deeply shaded spot, while hues of chartreuse and black add a pop of contrast. Sweet potato vine, creeping Jenny, coleus, ‘Bonfire’ begonias and hosta create a layered tapestry of varying colors, textures and shapes. Designer: JJ De Sousa, Digs Inside and Out.
If you’re looking to break away from the traditional fall color palette, this moody combination is for you.
Recipe:
Proven Accents® Silver Bullet® wormwood
Soprano® Purple osteospermum
Graceful Grasses® Vertigo® purple fountain grass
Supertunia® Bordeaux™ petunia
Dolce® 'Silver Gumdrop' coral bells
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This grouping of containers in a garden in San Rafael, California is bursting with succulents and other sculptural plants.
See more of this garden: Davis Dalbok's Northern California Bungalow Garden.
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Custom fabricated for a garden in Patagonia, Arizona, these carbon steel containers will last forever under their skin of rust.
See more of this garden: Dry Wit: Margaret Joplin's Southwest Hacienda Garden
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A single, graceful bamboo muhly grass (Muhlenbergia dumosa) in an oversize container (Mars Pot by Vestrivas) makes a dramatic solo performance at Cheekwood Botanical Garden & Museum of Art in Nashville, Tennessee.
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A lively mix of tall, mop-topped papyrus, sedges and a basketgrass (Oplismenus hirtellus) trails over the edge of a bean pot by Gladding, McBean. Here Carex buchananii ‘Red Rooster’ is a vertical spray of amber tones, C. testacea, or orange New Zealand sedge, forms a fine-textured mound of auburn and green, and C. phyllocephala ‘Sparkler’ hugs the container lip with short, wide, variegated leaves.
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An unexpected pairing of modern silver-colored zinc pots (from Living Green) with the informal texture of a native grass (Panicum virgatum ‘Northwind’) forms a dramatic scene against a limestone wall.
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Tall, bamboolike Arundo donax var. versicolor strikes a pose in this Gladding, McBean container, courtesy of Living Green, fronted by Iris ensata ‘Variegata’. Around the edges are fountain grass (Pennisetum alopecuroides ‘Desert Plains’), sedges Carex ciliato-marginata ‘Treasure Island’ and C. albula ‘Frosty Curls’, and shrubby rosemary and Chamaecyparis obtusa ‘Snowkist’.
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Delicate variegated river oats, Chasmanthium latifolium ‘River Mist’ seems well suited to this Japanese Garden setting in the Small Giulia Planter by Campania.
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Want a little “pow”? Try a big cobalt-blue container like the Obsit Square Planter by Campania with a richly colored mix of chartreuse Hakone grass (Hakonechloa macra ‘All Gold’), Rustic Orange™ coleus, Arcelia ‘Purple’ angelonia and eggplant-colored elephant’s-ear (Colocasia esculenta ‘Black Magic’).
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Here, the dainty pinkish flowers of Panicum virgatum ‘Shenandoah’ are a perfect fit with the hand-made terra-cotta Messina Vase by Seibert & Rice.
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On the left, Miscanthus sinensis ‘Morning Light’ is encircled by lotus flower, Carex ciliato-marginata ‘Treasure Island’ and some striking succulents: ‘Mr. Goodbud’ sedum, Red Tide™ echeveria and Aloe humilis ‘Hedgehog’. The pot on the right is crowned with a single Carex morrowii ‘Silver Sceptre’. Pots from Eye of the Day.
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This festive ribbed orange Olivia Planter from Campania seems to be sprouting a hairdo of Carex testacea ‘Indian Summer’.
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Sansevierias make ideal container plants, and here the contrast between gold-edged ‘Futura Simplex’ and almost-black ‘Nelsoni’ makes for good patio companions. Though the thick rhizomes have been known to break pots, sturdy examples like the Low Tahoe Planters from Campania International should be up to the challenge.
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Marble trough filled with a collection of succulents.
See more of this garden: Hoerr Schaudt Garden in Chicago's Lincoln Park.
A large copper container of bromedliads.
See more of this garden: Hoerr Schaudt Garden in Chicago's Lincoln Park.
At the Rudd Oakville Estate winery in Napa Valley, an iron pot from a salvage yard in San Francisco is palnted with tree ferns.
See more of this garden: Rudd Oakville Estate in Napa Valley.
Two large ribbed containers are planted with tall greenery in this Alys Beach courtyard on Florida's northwest coast.
See more of this garden: Homecoming.
Potted herbs grow in a grouping of containers at Alys Beach.
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A group of glazed ceramic containers in varying shapes and heights sets of a framed vertical garden on the wall.
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A Spindel hourglass container is planted with Kalanchoe beharensis.
This Greenform Spindel Container ($467) is available from Spruce Eco-Studio.
See more of this garden: Perfect Union: Chahan Minassian and Judy Kameon's Beverly Hills Collaboration.
The 2nd place winner at the 2011 Planters: On & Off the Ground competition held at LongHouse Reserve.
The 3rd place winner at the 2011 Planters: On & Off the Ground competition held at LongHouse Reserve.
An entry at the 2011 Planters: On & Off the Ground competition held at LongHouse Reserve.
Terra cotta pots filled with white blooming plants and flowering bulbs, such as Gladiolus callianthus ‘Murielae’ (far right), are staged on a vintage metal table.
See more of this garden: Q&A: Deborah Needleman.
Succulents tucked into each tier of an old fountain provide year-round structure and a wide range of colors.
See more of this garden: My Garden: Winter in Petaluma, California.
Vintage orchid pots from Hawaii hold the echeveria plants on the table and the larger bonsai tree is a Georgia Petite Indian hawthorn.
See more of this garden: Great Designs: Scott Shrader.
Halogen spot lights highlight neatly shaped potted olive trees underplanted with mounding grasses.
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Lovely, light tone pedestals become the basis for planted pots that flank the entry to this patio, positioned without symmetry for more dynamic arrangements.
See more of this garden: My Garden: Small Garden, Big Interest.
