Best Patio Container Plants

This mounding plant can be planted on its own or with a spiller plant like creeping jenny or sutera.

Best patio container plants.

Evergreen clematis is often sold tied to an upright stake but its trailing habit makes it perfect for the edge of a container. It is hardy in zones 4 8. Tall and wide is perfect for patio pots. Plants like constant moisture and fare better in partial sun than strong afternoon sun which can bleach the leaves.

Plant them in hanging baskets or in pots on tall plant stands to showcase their beauty. Although it can be a fast spreading menace when grown in the ground bamboo is a dramatic specimen plant when grown in a large container where it can t escape. Like most heavy flowering plants cinerama should be deadheaded and fertilized regularly. This tropical sunrise calibrachoa makes for a perfect container plant.

But some plants are born to shine just a bit brighter. To a gardener all plants are stars. 10 plants for pots and containers clematis some clematisare suitable for growing in containers. Its compact habit maturing at 3 4 ft.

Partner with spring bulbs for a dash of colour. It makes a perfect fast growing screen for privacy. Well baby cakes is a dwarf blackberry without thorns. New ever bearing strawberry varieties sport little jewels of berries that sparkle on mounds of greenery.

Plus keeping them up high protects them from your garden s resident chipmunks and other rodents. Baby cakes offers up large tasty blackberries in summer and may produce an encore crop later in the season in some climates. If you are growing cineraria in a container choose a large pot with plenty of good moisture retaining potting soil and locate the pot in partial shade. These are the best container plants.

Maybe they have plentiful flowers colorful foliage or graceful trailing stems.