full sun
height: 24"
Graceful flower spikes of salmon coral and white blooms until frost.
Euphorbia 'Breathless Blush'
Chamaesyce x hybrida
full sun
height: 8" - 12"
spacing: 10"
This elegant and durable new series includes the only red-flushed leaf form on the market plus a White with terrific branching and denser flowering. Heat tolerant Breathless fills in fast, makes stocky and mounded plants, and displays a showy mass of self-cleaning flowers all Summer across a wide range of conditions. The long lasting, free-flowering plants are well-suited to solo and mixed containers. From BallHort.com
I will definitely use this plant again. I loved the blooms! These plants bloomed all summer long - (even through mild neglect) and who doesn't love self-cleaning flowers. It's nice to know that some plants live up to expectations.
full sun
height: 8" - 12"
spacing: 10"
This elegant and durable new series includes the only red-flushed leaf form on the market plus a White with terrific branching and denser flowering. Heat tolerant Breathless fills in fast, makes stocky and mounded plants, and displays a showy mass of self-cleaning flowers all Summer across a wide range of conditions. The long lasting, free-flowering plants are well-suited to solo and mixed containers. From BallHort.com
I will definitely use this plant again. I loved the blooms! These plants bloomed all summer long - (even through mild neglect) and who doesn't love self-cleaning flowers. It's nice to know that some plants live up to expectations.
Chocolate Mint
Mentha x piperita
full sun
height: 24"
spacing" 18"
I planted this in spring 2009 in my herb container for fun. I had hoped to harvest enough to dry it for peppermint tea, but I think I had too many plants in the container because (amazingly, for a mint) it just didn't take off this summer. This container got the best care of them all because it was on the deck just outside the kitchen door.
I have only planted herbs for the past couple of summers. Since I have no sense of smell I don't really remember to think about using them. I'm trying to be more proactive in this area. A. did like the scent once I led her to the whole "mint, mint & ...., choc-o-late...."
full sun
height: 24"
spacing" 18"
I planted this in spring 2009 in my herb container for fun. I had hoped to harvest enough to dry it for peppermint tea, but I think I had too many plants in the container because (amazingly, for a mint) it just didn't take off this summer. This container got the best care of them all because it was on the deck just outside the kitchen door.
I have only planted herbs for the past couple of summers. Since I have no sense of smell I don't really remember to think about using them. I'm trying to be more proactive in this area. A. did like the scent once I led her to the whole "mint, mint & ...., choc-o-late...."
Ansidontea 'Very Cranberry'
Cape Mallow
Proven Winners
full sun
height: 24" - 36"
Since this plant (according to the Proven Winners website) prefers cooler temperatures it really did well this summer. If I'd bothered to fertilize the containers regularly I think it would have been really spectacular. I will definitely be looking for this plant again next summer.
Proven Winners
full sun
height: 24" - 36"
heat tolerant, drought tolerant, deadheading not necessary
Since this plant (according to the Proven Winners website) prefers cooler temperatures it really did well this summer. If I'd bothered to fertilize the containers regularly I think it would have been really spectacular. I will definitely be looking for this plant again next summer.
Here it is with Cordyline 'Red Sensation' and Coleus 'Tiny Toes'.
Excuse the focus, I'm still learning how to use my camera and ended up focusing on the Cordyline instead of the flower.
Snapdragon
height 18" - 22"
space 9"
Best in fertile, well-drained soil kept evenly moist.
Dead-head frequently or plants WILL stop flowering.
2009 was a very good summer for growing snapdragons; cooler temperatures, lots of rain.
I grew them in two different containers (between the patio bed and the lawn - partial sun, and in front of the garage - full sun) and they kept growing strong throughout the whole summer.
I was hoping to be able to use them in Emily's wedding bouquet, but it didn't work out.
space 9"
Best in fertile, well-drained soil kept evenly moist.
Dead-head frequently or plants WILL stop flowering.
2009 was a very good summer for growing snapdragons; cooler temperatures, lots of rain.
I grew them in two different containers (between the patio bed and the lawn - partial sun, and in front of the garage - full sun) and they kept growing strong throughout the whole summer.
I was hoping to be able to use them in Emily's wedding bouquet, but it didn't work out.
Ipomoea 'Blackie'
Ipomoea batatas
Sweet Potato Vine
by Proven Winners
sun to partial sun
height: 6" - 12"
spacing: 18"
trailing habit
foliage color: black / purple
Growing Tips from Proven Winners. In fall before first frost, dig, dry and store tubers in dry medium (vermiculite or peat) in a cool dry corner of the basement. When tubers sprout in spring, cut them into sections (at least one eye per section and plant the sections outdoors after last frost date. Tubers can also be sunk 1/2 way into a large-mouthed glass jar of water in early spring to generate sprouts that can be removed and planted. Container plants and or rooted cuttings taken in late summer may be overwintered indoors in bright sunny locations.
Look! I actually got flowers on the sweet potato vine!
Easy Wave White Petunia
Wave Rave
sun
height: 6" - 12"
spacing: 10"
mounded, spreading habit
I put a couple of these in the containers with the roses and also with the black Sweet Potato Vine. Our summer was just a little too cool and too rainy for the petunias to really take off. I was also inconsistent with watering and fertilizing, due to our odd travel schedule and the odd weather so the flowers didn't really grow as well as I expected them to.
I did like the flowers and will use them again.
sun
height: 6" - 12"
spacing: 10"
mounded, spreading habit
I put a couple of these in the containers with the roses and also with the black Sweet Potato Vine. Our summer was just a little too cool and too rainy for the petunias to really take off. I was also inconsistent with watering and fertilizing, due to our odd travel schedule and the odd weather so the flowers didn't really grow as well as I expected them to.
I did like the flowers and will use them again.
Senecio 'talinoids Blue'
Senecio talinoids mandris
by Proven Winners
full to part sun
height: 8" - 12"
spacing: 6"
habit: mounded
Noted for its striking blue-green cigar shaped leaves which works well with other succulents. Intermingles well with other plants as a filler in the middle ground of a combination.
by Proven Winners
full to part sun
height: 8" - 12"
spacing: 6"
habit: mounded
Noted for its striking blue-green cigar shaped leaves which works well with other succulents. Intermingles well with other plants as a filler in the middle ground of a combination.
Alternanthera 'Royal Tapestry'
sun to part shade
height: 16" - 24" trailing habit
space: 20"
Multi-hued trailing foliage with deep burgundy stems (foliage color is darkest in sun).
Can pinch foliage to maintain tidiness.
height: 16" - 24" trailing habit
space: 20"
Multi-hued trailing foliage with deep burgundy stems (foliage color is darkest in sun).
Can pinch foliage to maintain tidiness.
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