
A quote I take into consideration when making a container planting or designing a flower pot backyard.
“You simply can’t plant exotics within the countryside. They simply jar. However on the town, the place the aren’t any factors of reference, you will get away with all types”
The entire idea of level of reference is fascinating to me. Connecting the container planting, a superficial backyard, to the general environment simply is sensible to me. I really like extracting cues from the larger panorama and bringing it up shut – in a means, magnifying it – into the container the place it could mirror nature and alter.
The essence of seasonality is one thing I attempt for whether or not working with vegetation or lower flowers. It brings a way of richness and honesty to the composition. – Roanne

Flower Pot Design for Fall
This autumnal container planting takes inspiration from the New England panorama and options crunchy veggies and perennials in a forged concrete vessel.
Container Backyard Plant Palette Recipe:
- Swiss chard – An edible with giant leaves and colourful ribs. Plant this across the edges of the pot.
- Waldsteinia – (Barren Appalachian Strawberry) – A low creeping groundcover with yellow flowers. Plant it the place it could spill over the sides of the container.
- Amsonia – With blue flowers and finely textured leaves, this may add top and flowers to the composition.
- Lysmachia – One other creeping plant that may spill over the sides, lysmachia has brightly coloured chartreuse leaves.
- Carex – Select from an enormous number of grasses, however select for top and shade within the fall.
- Panicum – One other grass, in the event you select a strictly upright carex, take into account a panicum with blades that arch – or vice versa. The distinction in texture is what’s going to make the association extra fascinating
- Boltonia – Sometimes called false aster, the flowers of boltonia strongly resemble native asters. Use it in the place the grasses and different vegetation can cover it’s uninteresting foliage and the flowers may be highlighted towards the backdrop of different vegetation.
Roanne Robbins is the Writer of The Steady Container Backyard.
Photographs: John Gruen/ Steady Container Gardens
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