Flower Container Gardening Ideas and Tips
Flower container gardening is one of the many pleasures that come with Summer.
Nurseries and retailers are a great place to discover flower container ideas for visually appealing combinations, as well as combinations that work together for similar light and moisture needs. I hope these offer inspiration as you plan your own flower containers.
Container Gardening Tips
Think not just of color, but also texture and leaf sizes. Many non-flowering plants add contrast, texture and visual movement.
Sprengeri fern offers a lacy textured leaf that creates lightweight airy space
Dusty Miller creates color contrast with a fuzzy green-gray leaf
Spiky Dracena adds height and drama to pull the eye upward and outward
Place containers that have scented plants near sitting areas so they can be enjoyed. Cintronella plant (scented geranium) has a wonderful lemony scent.
Don’t skimp on plants – nice full containers will be more appealing.
Consider mixing edibles and annuals in one pot. Herbs or ornamental peppers combined with annual flowers create container gardens that are beautiful and functional.
Add accents such as willow branches, an obelisk or trellis for a vine, or your plastic squirrel if you want.
Have fun with your selections and choose what appeals to you. There is no right or wrong – this is your chance to create your own work of art!
- V. Kale Storm Mix – leafy greens mixed at base
- Juncus Blue Mohawk – tall grass at back
- Osteospermum Bright Lights – light pink daisy on right
- Linaria Fantasista Blue – light and dark purple on left
- Pansy – orange on right
- Erysimum Sugar Yellow – tall at back right
- Poppy Champagne Bubbles – tall orange at center
- Snapdragon Snaptini Sunglow – tall red with yellow throats at back left
- Fern Sprengeri – light green lacy foliage at back left
- Viola mix – yellow and red throughout mid center
- Ivy English Green – cascading vine at front
- Ivy English Green – vine cascading down left side
- Pansy / Viola mix – purple and yellow
- Branches are Dogwood
- Dracena Green – tall spikey leaves at center
- Vinca Vine Variegated – light green and white vine on right side
- Erysimum Sugar Rush Purple Bicolor – tall at back right dark green leaf
- Diascia Deep Salmon – peach colored at lower left front
- Fern Sprengeri – light green lacy foliage at back left
- Herb Sage Berggarten – broad green leaf
- Herb Parsley Curled – light green at left
- Herb Rosemary Barbecue – ferny looking dark green stem at left front
- Viola – purple
- Bacopa Megacopa Versa White – front/left low growing
- Osteospermum Bright Lights White – daisy like at back right
- Dusty Miller Cirrus – fuzzy greyish leaf at back
- Poppy Champagne Bubbles – tall yellow in center
- Pansy mix – purples
- Branches are Dogwood
- Calendula Caleo Yellow – soft yellow daisy-like on left
- Erysimum Sugar Rush Orange – tall at back with thin leaves
- Euphorbia Glacier Blue – grey at center
- Calibrachoa Diva Orange – red with yellow throat
- Sweet Alyssum – white on right side
- Fern Sprengeri – light green lacy foliage on right
- Snapdragon Snaptini Sunglow – red with yellow throat at back
- Pansy – orange
- Branches are Curly Willow