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Summer Containers in Bloom

14.08.09 | Ilona Erwin | 2 Comments

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;)


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  1. johanna says

    August 14, 2009 at 12:26 pm

    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…

  2. Ilona says

    August 14, 2009 at 4:53 pm

    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!

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