Took pictures of some of my containers, I especially liked the shady one with salmon impatiens, caladium, ivy and the strawberry begonia.
As of today I had to cut back the sunny combination of blue salvia, yellow petunias, African daisies, and million bells. I always enjoy the container flowers. They are presently my annual gardens, adding bright color which I move around according to my whims. If only the rest of life were so easily constructed;)
i love having an ever-changing garden of containers. you can add and subtract as the
blooming ebbs and flows. its like putting on a new outfit, or in my case, dressing up at all %]
my corner beside the kitchen steps is my moveable feast for the eyes. right now
i have “black’n blue giant salvia, a pot of mixed basils- thai, giant leaf genovese, and deep red-
all blooming pale pink and white, a huge tall plumbago, white and the sky-blue in the same pot,
some rosy impatients, a planter-box of dark purple beans, and a bright-blue ceramic pot of
“society garlic” an allium that resembles liriope, blooming a very nice pinky-purple.
for the fall, i started some green zinnia and golden marigolds, to plug in as summer
blooms finish, and i eat the handsome beans…..
it it really like mixing paints on a pallette [sp?] spring/summer flowers mostly pinks
blues and purples, with the autumn turning to oranges and golds. the whites
provide such a nice note throughout the blooming season, and i wish i had more
of them….next year i am going to plant white cleome, which will bloom with the
white plumbago most of the summer.
if i had pictures, i would not write so many words…
LOVE the words, and your containers sounds lovely. Cleome was a grandmother’s favorite-I like the way it looks but don’t care for the scent. In a container that wouldn’t matter-just move it away from where you can smell it!