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Jewell2009
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| Posted: Sun Apr 05, 2009 3:58 pm Post subject: What are your favorite container plants? |
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I am redoing several container planters. What are your favorite plants/plant combinations for containers?
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Geraniums, trailing lobelia, petunias, ivy to name but a few. Maybe you could show us piccies of the containers you want to plant up as it would help us to suggest suitable plants for them. 
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Geraniums, petunias, daylilies ... all of mine were container plants. Had a container garden last year but won't be having one again (  ). I think you can put just about anything in a container.
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Geraniums, geraniums and more geraniums. You can't have too many geraniums!!! 
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| Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2009 4:13 am Post subject: |
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Geraniums most definitely. This year I have 8 containers of red ones with a couple more to find pots for. I also like putting Iris's in containers, placing them around the yard then I can hide them while the leaves turn brown. The pots then go in an out of the way place when the bulbs go dormant.
It is hard to put many plants in containers here since it is sometimes hard to keep them watered enough thru out hot and extremely dry summers.
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My two favorites are hot pink geraniums or a small rosebush with white allyssum growing underneath. But I also have sedum growing in pots right now and that's kind of nice because they are interesting through the Fall. And can take the heat here in Summer.
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Geraniums are great for a container plant. They can be brought in the house to over winter. And the red ones especially (that I know of) you can take seeds from and make a new plant.
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I like Geraniums too, Calibrachoa, Wave Petunia's, Bacopa, Sweet Potato Vines, Ivy and Trailing Lobelia.
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I got a six pack of petunias, and used it with some of my grasses, and lambs-ears. I had forgotten about how beautiful trailing lobelia looks over the edges of a pot and am on the look-out for some to add.
A little cold to put out geraniums here but will have to keep my eyes open for just the right ones. I emptied out two large pots that had a huge azalea, and another that had a spruce tree (they got places in the garden) so have a lot of planting pots to do.
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Geraniums are wonderful but I'm partial to sweet potato vine and licorice for foliage and wave petunias for color. A dracena spike is always nice for height and trailing lobelia -- especially the ultramarine blue -- is nice too.
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I use an assortment of red-white-and-blues to start with, and finish off with flowering cale. I think those cale are lovely in autumn, and so easy to mind too.
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I like my bulbs in pots or containers.. Calla looked awesome, as well as lilys..
Good luck 
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There are a ton of great ideas here. I had not thought of putting a calla lily in a pot. The big leaves would be striking.
I pulled up an old rose (has to be about 50 years old) and potted it (again). It is a really sticky thing and haven't been able to find the perfect place for it yet (I won't say how many times I have moved it  ). Am still debating what might be the best thing to plant around its base.
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Container plants are very useful as they occupy less space
In vegetables we use to grow
1.Chard Ruby or Lucullus in April
2.Courgette Ambassador,Early Gem from Late April to mid-May
3.Cucumber Bush crop, Burpless Tasty Green from Late April to mid-May
4.Leek King Richard from March to July(in succession)
5.Onion any variety from March to April
In flowers we take care of following plants
Bergamot, Candytuft, Chives, Honesty, Pot Marigold
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Anything herbal for me. But I think this year i will be branching out to a few different kinds of flowers. I just don't know what, so the lists above are helping me also.
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