What's in your pot?
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Posted: May/07/2008 11:46 AM PST
I just love container gardening. Just about everything I grow is in a pot. From Tibos to hydrangeas to irises and caladiums, brugs, hibsicus, pink jasmine, passionflowers and so on. What's in your pot? 
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Posted: May/08/2008 3:52 AM PST
I don't have a lot in pots, mostly I have flower beds.. but in the midwest when spring is just teasing us I always do a few pots to get some color going. Just a mix a annuals most generally or annuals around an elephant ear or hibiscus. Always with petunias.. nowdays the wave petunias are a staple for me. What is your favorite plant combo in your pot? |
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Posted: May/08/2008 5:34 AM PST
I end up changing it up every year - this year I"m going to put in Veronica, hosta, canna (with some drapey annuals like calibrachoa, sweet potato vine etc), acidanthera - I never seem to like how I group my containers together though - I know with perennial beds there are guidelines for layering, texture and color - but now you have to add in the height and color of the pots...anyone have ideas?? Or pictures of their groupings? |
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Posted: May/08/2008 6:37 AM PST
Right now I only have one outside container, and it's full of the mint I relocated from a different part of the yard. With my hot summers. container plants never do well for me, no matter how often I water  . I got tired of killing plants But I do have lots of houseplants outside on my one porch 
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Posted: May/08/2008 11:04 AM PST
well were just startin fer the year so yea right now we have 1 pot with pinerapple sage an 1 pot with some jalapas an there are 2 pots left not counting the one holdion the broken pots (last year was it?? no like 2 years ago i think i had some pots--2 total tho was 1 at time-- on patio table well wind knocked over an the clay didnt survive BUT my chocolate mint came back the next year i nipped it before it went too nuts an have watched it sence fer signs of more mint there) i HOPE we can get tymes basils borage "mints" (lemon balm bee balm an catnip) an outher things tho if my moms gonna stick with her 1 plant-pot thing then were gonna need ALOT more pots (so i can make up fer al the variety im missin out on with my big pot an its 10 plants) oh some ;lemon verabena too among outher things |
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Posted: May/08/2008 12:29 PM PST
verbena, ivy, begonia, fuschia, peppers, tomatoes, rose campion,african blue basil and canteloupe --most in seperate containers, of course. oh yeah, and parsley, and pinks, and chives and hen and chicks. |
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Posted: May/08/2008 2:12 PM PST
Fairygarden you are a pot growing gal. I bet they are beautiful right now. I have two or three pots, marigolds, petunias, sweet potato vine. Even put a pink ice plant in with some petunias to see what it would do. |
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Posted: May/09/2008 6:28 AM PST
On my back patio I have the three strawberry jars in graduating sizes. Two have just hens and chicks. The third I just fixed the other day with ice plant and topped two of them with my own collected chives seeds. So far no sign of life from them. |
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Posted: May/10/2008 11:03 AM PST
Everything I grow is in a pot Quote: Originally posted by fairygarden verbena, ivy, begonia, fuschia, peppers, tomatoes, rose campion,african blue basil and canteloupe --most in seperate containers, of course. oh yeah, and parsley, and pinks, and chives and hen and chicks.Fairygarden, what size pot do you use for your cantaloupe? |
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Posted: May/10/2008 12:33 PM PST
I have this really pretty sedum in a pot on The Patio Garden. I don't know what the heck it's really called. I never could find anything that looked quite like it. We just call it "Aunt Winnie's Moss." I'll have to post it in the ID section and maybe someone can tell my family what it is. Everyone has some and we're a BIG family. Attachments:  |
