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I usually plant many of the same things in my containers because I have had success with them. Please share some of your favorite combos of containers.
Cordyline Red spike, with Boston Fern and a Bonfire Begonia. I may toss in some Diamond Frost or a Blackie Sweet Potato vine.
I'll just have herbs this year instead of vegetables....
thyme, chives, rosemary, dill, basil, maybe cilantro, mint, tarragon if I can find it.
Potted hibiscus/orange blooms, potted perennial ferns, then likely some annuals, whatever looks good at the garden shop. Hope to find 2nd year
digitalis (foxglove) and lamb's ear but hard to locate...
If I get antsy for vegetables might pot up a cherry tomato plant.
When I go back to Florida in the Autumn, I will be planting lettuce, and arugula in shallow planters. In deep planters I plan to grow tomatoes, avocados, lemon, and fig.
I plan on using inexpensive red pumice stone at the bottom of my pots to provide good drainage and to keep my containers light. Does anyone consider this inadvisable?
When I go back to Florida in the Autumn, I will be planting lettuce, and arugula in shallow planters. In deep planters I plan to grow tomatoes, avocados, lemon, and fig.
I plan on using inexpensive red pumice stone at the bottom of my pots to provide good drainage and to keep my containers light. Does anyone consider this inadvisable?
No...good idea. You could also add vermiculite or perlite to soil to keep pots lighter.
I live down in the Phoenix area and my plants have to survive long hot and dry summers. Elephant food, which comes from Africa and is really eaten by elephants there, is a huge favorite of mine. It looks remarkably like Jade plant. In some pots I add Purple Heart, and they do very well together. My pots are kept year-to-year and the plants keep getting bigger. They get "haircuts" in the Spring and I give those cuttings to friends or root them in the ground.
Front yard: red geraniums, white cascading petunias, variegated ivy.
Back yard: Artemisia, red cascading petunias, gerbera daisies, basil and tarragon.
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