Here, discover the best types to add tohanging containersor make your container garden complete.
The most familiar is a soft blue-gray, but there are pretty variegated varieties, too.
As afoliage plant, it will require negligible care from you while still looking good all season.
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Alyssum doesn’t really trail as much as it gently flows over the top of your container.
It’s a very tidy plant with a wonderful, honey-like scent.
Bidens (Bidens ferulifolia)
Bidens are in theaster family.
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They will drape over the sides of your container and are extremely heat and drought tolerant.
It adapts to all kinds of growing conditions.
Although it blooms repeatedly, you will get more flowers if yougive it a shearingin mid-season.
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it’s possible for you to do this in stages so that you are never totally without flowers.
And the lacy green foliage of swan river daisy is just as nice as its flowers.
As the plant gets top-heavy with flowers, it will spill over the sides of your container.
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It has a lovely trailing habit.
The bracts create the saucer that the cup-shaped flowers sit on.
It is covered in yellow flowers the entire summer.
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In the confinement of containers, it blooms its heart out while covering the base of the vessel.
It may overwinter if you plant it in your garden at the end of the season.
The leaves can be heart-shaped or almost oak-like.
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The choice of colors expands every year, from chartreuse to near black.
Ivy Geranium (Perlargonium peltatum)
Perlagoniumgeraniums are classic container plants.
The ivy form has smaller flowers but blooms just as abundantly as the upright form.
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Ivy geranium will spill over the edges of your container.
And, like its upright relative, it can handle the heat and short periods of drought well.
Unfortunately, this lobelia has a habit of not blooming when the weather heats up.
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The common name refers to the unusual look of the flowers.
Parrot’s beak takes hot weather in stride.
Both the foliage and the flowers stay fresh and attractive.
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Although they prefer the cooler seasons, if kept watered, they should bloom all season.
Silver Spurflower (Plectranthus argentatus)
Plectranthusis grown for its silver-gray leaves.
It grows upright until it topples over from its own weight.
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Some varieties will flower, most notably “Mona Lavender,” with spiky sprays oflavender blooms.
Their light purple color blends well with most other plants.
They will bloom in their first year, in fact quite profusely.
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Although they are perennial, they tend to be short-lived, because they expend so much energy on flowering.
They are also very heat tolerant.
Wave Petunias (Petunia x hybrida)
Wavepetunias just keep getting better.
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Wave petunias spread out and down and flower without any effort from you, all season long.
Narrowleaf Zinnia (Zinnia angustifolia)
you’re able to’t beatzinniasfor heat tolerance and bold colors.
The “Crystal” cultivar series of narrowleaf zinnias are slow spreaders and profuse bloomers.
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you’re able to expect goodpowdery mildewresistance, too, as they pour out of your container.
Fuschia (Fushcia)
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Hummingbirds and gardeners alike love the brilliant and dramaticFushchiaplant.
A thriller, filler, and spiller add interest and color to a container.
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Fillers should cover the soil that is around the thriller, so these will be planted throughout the pot.
The spiller will then be planted around the edges so that they will, quite literally, spill out.
A good thriller plant has height and color, likecanna lilly,perennial sunflower,hydrangea, andtall phlox.
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